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"KARABAGH: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE"
By MassisPost
http://massispost.com/archives/9913
Updated: October 31, 2013
FRESNO - Dr. Arsen Saparov (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and Dr.
Ara Sanjian (University of Michigan-Dearborn), will speak on Karabagh
at 7:30 PM on Friday, November 15, 2013, in the University Business
Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State campus.
Dr. Saparov will speak on "Drawing Borders in the Caucasus the Early
1920's" and Dr. Sanjian will speak on the topic of "Irredentism at
the Crossroads of Nationalism, Communism and Diverging Interpretations
of the Soviet Experience: The Armenian Diasporan Press on Mountainous
Karabagh, 1923-1985"
The lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program Fall Lecture
Series and is co-sponsored by the Armenian Students Organization at
Fresno State and is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
The Soviet leadership often stands accused of deliberately drawing
internal frontiers in the Caucasus as to create leverage against union
republics. Violent conflicts that broke out in the 1990s in Abkhazia,
Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia seem to prove this perception. In
his presentation, Dr. Saparov will discuss the logic of the Bolshevik
boundary-making in the South Caucasus. Dr. Saparov was educated at
Central European University in Budapest and received his Ph.D in
International Relations from the London School of Economics.
The formation of the Mountainous Karabagh Autonomous Region within the
territory of Soviet Azerbaijan in 1923 coincided with the emergence
of the post-genocide Armenian Diaspora. The vast majority of political
organizations and political-minded activists in the Diaspora envisaged
a future Armenian state, which would encompass within its borders
not only Western Armenia but also the Armenian-inhabited regions
of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan, and Akhalkalak, which had become
recently part of Soviet Azerbaijan and Soviet Georgia. In this
latter case, the political realities exacted that the demand should
be focused on their immediate annexation to Soviet Armenia.
However, because there was a sharp divergence among the Diasporans
in the attitude toward Communism as an ideology and in evaluating
the Soviet experience in Armenia, the demands for the annexation of
Mountainous Karabagh to Soviet Armenia raised in different Diasporan
periodicals were pursued at varying degrees of frequency and intensity,
and the arguments put forward by these periodicals were at times
different.
Dr. Sanjian, Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn, will discuss the differing approaches of the
news media to the Karabagh issue.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Free parking is available after 7:00PM in Lots A and J, near the
University Business Center. For more information on the lecture please
contact the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669.
By MassisPost
http://massispost.com/archives/9913
Updated: October 31, 2013
FRESNO - Dr. Arsen Saparov (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and Dr.
Ara Sanjian (University of Michigan-Dearborn), will speak on Karabagh
at 7:30 PM on Friday, November 15, 2013, in the University Business
Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State campus.
Dr. Saparov will speak on "Drawing Borders in the Caucasus the Early
1920's" and Dr. Sanjian will speak on the topic of "Irredentism at
the Crossroads of Nationalism, Communism and Diverging Interpretations
of the Soviet Experience: The Armenian Diasporan Press on Mountainous
Karabagh, 1923-1985"
The lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program Fall Lecture
Series and is co-sponsored by the Armenian Students Organization at
Fresno State and is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
The Soviet leadership often stands accused of deliberately drawing
internal frontiers in the Caucasus as to create leverage against union
republics. Violent conflicts that broke out in the 1990s in Abkhazia,
Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia seem to prove this perception. In
his presentation, Dr. Saparov will discuss the logic of the Bolshevik
boundary-making in the South Caucasus. Dr. Saparov was educated at
Central European University in Budapest and received his Ph.D in
International Relations from the London School of Economics.
The formation of the Mountainous Karabagh Autonomous Region within the
territory of Soviet Azerbaijan in 1923 coincided with the emergence
of the post-genocide Armenian Diaspora. The vast majority of political
organizations and political-minded activists in the Diaspora envisaged
a future Armenian state, which would encompass within its borders
not only Western Armenia but also the Armenian-inhabited regions
of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan, and Akhalkalak, which had become
recently part of Soviet Azerbaijan and Soviet Georgia. In this
latter case, the political realities exacted that the demand should
be focused on their immediate annexation to Soviet Armenia.
However, because there was a sharp divergence among the Diasporans
in the attitude toward Communism as an ideology and in evaluating
the Soviet experience in Armenia, the demands for the annexation of
Mountainous Karabagh to Soviet Armenia raised in different Diasporan
periodicals were pursued at varying degrees of frequency and intensity,
and the arguments put forward by these periodicals were at times
different.
Dr. Sanjian, Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn, will discuss the differing approaches of the
news media to the Karabagh issue.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Free parking is available after 7:00PM in Lots A and J, near the
University Business Center. For more information on the lecture please
contact the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669.