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    ARMENIAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
    Contact: Prof. Michael E. Stone ([email protected])
    Dr. Sergio La Porta <[email protected]>
    Web: http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia


    Hebrew University Armenian Faculty Attend International Conference

    Jerusalem - From 7-9 September, over 60 scholars of Armenian Studies
    gathered in Vitoria, Spain for the Tenth General Conference of the
    Association Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes (AIEA). AIEA, which
    was founded in 1980 by Professor Michael Stone of the Hebrew University
    and Professor J.J.S. Weitenberg of Leiden University in Holland, is an
    organization of scholars of Armenian Studies, with its centre in
    Europe. The suggestion to found the organization was made by Dr. Nira
    Stone. Professor Michael Stone is Honourary Life President of AIEA.

    The meeting was attended by scholars from all over Europe, America,
    Armenia and the Middle East. From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
    Dr. Sergio La Porta, Professor Michael Stone and doctoral student
    Mikayel Arakelian all presented lectures, while Dr. Nira Stone also
    participated. They met there Hebrew University Armenian Studies PhD
    graduate, Professor Peter Cowe of UCLA, and former Armenian Studies
    student Pablo Trojiano who teaches at the Compultensian University in
    Madrid. Former visiting researcher Prof. Theo van Lint, Gulbenkian
    Professor of Armenian at Oxford University also joined in the Hebrew
    University reunion.

    All the Armenian Studies faculty from the Hebrew University of
    Jerusalem's Armenian Studies program were there and they all brought
    home new and stimulating ideas. They were able to discuss matters with
    colleagues, and as a result new directions of cooperative work are
    emerging and will soon be announced. The lectures of the Hebrew
    University team were enthusiastically received and garnered very
    positive reactions.

    Professor Stone devoted his lecture to his recently completed
    translation of the medieval Armenian epic poem about Adam and Eve,
    written by Arakel of Siunik at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
    The poem, a complex composition of quite startling beauty, contains
    over 5,500 lines of poetry, which Professor Stone translated into
    English poetry. It is presently being considered for publication.

    Quite different, but equally stimulating, Dr. Sergio La Porta presented
    a paper on `The Earliest Armenian Scholia on the Works Attributed to
    Dionysius the Areopagite.' Dr. La Porta reported on his most recent
    progress in the preparation of an edition and translation of the
    Armenian commentary on this highly influential work. He proposed a new
    date for the composition of the comments as well as challenging their
    modern attributions. In addition to providing a linguistic analysis of
    the scholia, Dr. La Porta posited the locus of their production and the
    context in which they were composed.

    Mikayel Arakelian described in detail the catalogue he has prepared of
    illuminated late medieval Armenian manuscripts in Germany. This very
    thorough work will make known several hundred unknown or little known
    manuscripts, describing their character, context and particularly their
    artistic character. Mikayel is writing his doctoral thesis on the
    Armenian art of New Julfa.

    ______________________________
    The Armenian Studies program at the Hebrew University was established
    in 1966. It offers BA, MA and PhD degrees. For further information
    contact Prof. Michael E. Stone ([email protected]) or Dr. Sergio
    La Porta ([email protected]). The Jerusalem Armenian StudiesWeb Site
    is: http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~armenia
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