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EBB AND FLOW OF THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITIES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
UCLA Asia Institute, CA
March 13 2007
March 17, 2007-Saturday Morning (9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
Introduction-Ebb and Flow. Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life
Chair and Discussant: Engseng Ho, Harvard University
Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia. Margaret Sarkissian,
Smith College
>>From Dispersion to Nation: Armenian Diasporic Speculations in
18th-Century India.
SATURDAY, March 17 (9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
Morning Session: 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Introduction-Ebb and Flow Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
"Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life" Chair and Discussant:
Engseng Ho, Harvard University
Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia Margaret Sarkissian,
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts >>From Dispersion to Nation:
Armenian Diasporic Speculations in 18th-Century India Khachig Tololyan,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut The Indian Interlude in
the Development of Modern Armenian Drama Peter Cowe, UCLA INTERMISSION
"Azdarar" and Other Armenian Periodicals of India Osheen Keshishian,
Glendale Community College Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in
Calcutta Mana Kia, Harvard University General Discussion LUNCH RECESS
Afternoon Session: 2:00-:5:30 p.m.
"Indo-Armenian History and Relations" Chair and Discussant: Houri
Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa 1610
Michael Fisher, Oberlin College Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18th-Century
Armenian General of the Bengal Army Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University
of Leiden Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul
Chater) Richard Hovannisian, UCLA INTERMISSION Armenian-American
GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World War II Gregory
Aftandilian, Harvard University The Present State of the Indo-Armenian
Community Armen Baibourtian, Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to
India General Discussion
SUNDAY, March 18 (2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
"Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean" Chair
and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA
French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century
Asia Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Long Distance Merchants and the Role
of Julfan "Networks of Trust" Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.
Tatiana Seijas, Yale University General Discussion
Concluding Remarks
Khachig Tololyan, Wesleyan University
The Indian Interlude in the Development of Modern Armenian Drama.
Peter Cowe, UCLA
Refreshments
"Azdarar" and Other Armenian Periodicals of India. Osheen Keshishian,
Glendale Community College
Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in Calcutta . Mana Kia,
Harvard University
General Discussion
Lunch Recess: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Saturday Afternoon: (2:00-5:30 p.m.)
Indo-Armenian History and Relations
Chair and Discussant: Houri Berberian (California State University,
Long Beach)
Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa
1610. Michael Fisher, Oberlin College
Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18th-Century Armenian General of the Bengal
Army. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University of Leiden
Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul Chater).
Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Refreshments
Armenian-American GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World
War II. Gregory Aftandilian, Harvard University
The Present State of the Indo-Armenian Community. Armen Baibourtian,
Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to India
General Discussion
Sunday March 18: (2:00-5:30 p.m.)
Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean
Chair and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA
French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century
Asia. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
Long Distance Merchants and the Role of Julfan "Networks of Trust".
Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.
Tatiana Seijas, Yale University
General Discussion
Concluding Remarks
Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht, Davis
Date: Sunday, March 18, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Court of Sciences 50 (Young Hall) UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Open to the Public at No Charge
Special Instructions Parking: Structure 2 ($8.00), UCLA Entrance,
Hilgard and Westholme Avenues.
For more information please contact Richard Hovanissian
Posted by: Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA
International Institute, Center for India and South Asia, Department
of History, Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian
History, G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/showev ent.asp?eventid=5382
UCLA Asia Institute, CA
March 13 2007
March 17, 2007-Saturday Morning (9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
Introduction-Ebb and Flow. Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life
Chair and Discussant: Engseng Ho, Harvard University
Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia. Margaret Sarkissian,
Smith College
>>From Dispersion to Nation: Armenian Diasporic Speculations in
18th-Century India.
SATURDAY, March 17 (9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
Morning Session: 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Introduction-Ebb and Flow Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
"Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life" Chair and Discussant:
Engseng Ho, Harvard University
Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia Margaret Sarkissian,
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts >>From Dispersion to Nation:
Armenian Diasporic Speculations in 18th-Century India Khachig Tololyan,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut The Indian Interlude in
the Development of Modern Armenian Drama Peter Cowe, UCLA INTERMISSION
"Azdarar" and Other Armenian Periodicals of India Osheen Keshishian,
Glendale Community College Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in
Calcutta Mana Kia, Harvard University General Discussion LUNCH RECESS
Afternoon Session: 2:00-:5:30 p.m.
"Indo-Armenian History and Relations" Chair and Discussant: Houri
Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa 1610
Michael Fisher, Oberlin College Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18th-Century
Armenian General of the Bengal Army Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University
of Leiden Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul
Chater) Richard Hovannisian, UCLA INTERMISSION Armenian-American
GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World War II Gregory
Aftandilian, Harvard University The Present State of the Indo-Armenian
Community Armen Baibourtian, Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to
India General Discussion
SUNDAY, March 18 (2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
"Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean" Chair
and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA
French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century
Asia Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Long Distance Merchants and the Role
of Julfan "Networks of Trust" Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.
Tatiana Seijas, Yale University General Discussion
Concluding Remarks
Khachig Tololyan, Wesleyan University
The Indian Interlude in the Development of Modern Armenian Drama.
Peter Cowe, UCLA
Refreshments
"Azdarar" and Other Armenian Periodicals of India. Osheen Keshishian,
Glendale Community College
Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in Calcutta . Mana Kia,
Harvard University
General Discussion
Lunch Recess: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Saturday Afternoon: (2:00-5:30 p.m.)
Indo-Armenian History and Relations
Chair and Discussant: Houri Berberian (California State University,
Long Beach)
Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa
1610. Michael Fisher, Oberlin College
Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18th-Century Armenian General of the Bengal
Army. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University of Leiden
Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul Chater).
Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Refreshments
Armenian-American GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World
War II. Gregory Aftandilian, Harvard University
The Present State of the Indo-Armenian Community. Armen Baibourtian,
Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to India
General Discussion
Sunday March 18: (2:00-5:30 p.m.)
Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean
Chair and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA
French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century
Asia. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
Long Distance Merchants and the Role of Julfan "Networks of Trust".
Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.
Tatiana Seijas, Yale University
General Discussion
Concluding Remarks
Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht, Davis
Date: Sunday, March 18, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Court of Sciences 50 (Young Hall) UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Open to the Public at No Charge
Special Instructions Parking: Structure 2 ($8.00), UCLA Entrance,
Hilgard and Westholme Avenues.
For more information please contact Richard Hovanissian
Posted by: Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA
International Institute, Center for India and South Asia, Department
of History, Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian
History, G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/showev ent.asp?eventid=5382