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UCLA CONFERENCE TO MARK 500 YEARS OF ARMENIAN PRINTING
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
An old Armenian printed manuscript
LOS ANGELES-From Nov. 10-11, the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in
Modern Armenian History at UCLA will host an international conference
titled "Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian
Print" in honor of Prof. Richard Hovannisian.
>From its origins in Venice in 1512, the history of early modern
(1500-1800) Armenian print culture was closely entangled with that of
port cities, initially in Europe and subsequently in Asia. In fact,
virtually every Armenian printing press before 1800 was established
either in or close to port cities, and the few that were not, owed
their existence to ongoing relations with port locations. Yet, despite
the obvious relationship between ports and printers, their synergetic
relationship has thus far largely eluded scholarly attention. Convened
on the quincentenary of the printing of the first Armenian book, this
conference explores the intimate relationship between port cities
and printers in the rich history of global Armenian print culture.
The conference will be convened by Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian, the holder
of the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History
at UCLA, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, the
UCLA G. E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Center for 17th-
and 18th-Century Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies
and Research (NAASR), and is made possible by a generous grant by Mark
Chenian. The conference will kick off with a keynote address on the
topic of the history of books and reading in the early modern Atlantic
world, not directly related to Armenian print history, at Royce Hall
314 on Friday evening at 5 p.m. Starting on Saturday morning at 9:15
a.m. scholars of Armenian print and book history will hold back-to-back
panels on various aspects of Armenian book history ranging from the
question of the crucial shift from Manuscript to Print culture in
the early decades of the 1500s to the relationship between merchants,
ports, and printers, as well as the social and cultural role of print
technology in shaping the arc of Armenian history. The Saturday and
Sunday panels will be held at Rolfe Hall 1200 on the UCLA campus from
9:15 AM to 6:00 PM. The conference is free and open to the public.
http://asbarez.com/105917/ucla-conference-to-mark-500-years-of-armenian-printing/
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
An old Armenian printed manuscript
LOS ANGELES-From Nov. 10-11, the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in
Modern Armenian History at UCLA will host an international conference
titled "Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian
Print" in honor of Prof. Richard Hovannisian.
>From its origins in Venice in 1512, the history of early modern
(1500-1800) Armenian print culture was closely entangled with that of
port cities, initially in Europe and subsequently in Asia. In fact,
virtually every Armenian printing press before 1800 was established
either in or close to port cities, and the few that were not, owed
their existence to ongoing relations with port locations. Yet, despite
the obvious relationship between ports and printers, their synergetic
relationship has thus far largely eluded scholarly attention. Convened
on the quincentenary of the printing of the first Armenian book, this
conference explores the intimate relationship between port cities
and printers in the rich history of global Armenian print culture.
The conference will be convened by Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian, the holder
of the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History
at UCLA, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, the
UCLA G. E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Center for 17th-
and 18th-Century Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies
and Research (NAASR), and is made possible by a generous grant by Mark
Chenian. The conference will kick off with a keynote address on the
topic of the history of books and reading in the early modern Atlantic
world, not directly related to Armenian print history, at Royce Hall
314 on Friday evening at 5 p.m. Starting on Saturday morning at 9:15
a.m. scholars of Armenian print and book history will hold back-to-back
panels on various aspects of Armenian book history ranging from the
question of the crucial shift from Manuscript to Print culture in
the early decades of the 1500s to the relationship between merchants,
ports, and printers, as well as the social and cultural role of print
technology in shaping the arc of Armenian history. The Saturday and
Sunday panels will be held at Rolfe Hall 1200 on the UCLA campus from
9:15 AM to 6:00 PM. The conference is free and open to the public.