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Armenian Studies Program and Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
1080 S. University Ave., St. 3633
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1106
Contact: Zana Kwaiser
Tel: 734-763-0622
fax: 734-763-4765
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://ii.umich.edu/asp/
The Ever-Wandering Stranger: Community Formation and Cosmopolitan
Poetics in Middle Armenian Literature
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Wednesday, October 15, 4-5:30 PM
1636 International Institute, 1080 S. University Ave.
The trope of the wandering stranger, the outcast with secret prestige,
can be found in premodern literatures around the world, from the
Odyssey of Homer to the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. East of
Europe, while Dante Alighieri was busy composing his famous lines on
exile, a remarkable number of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Armenian
speakers were also writing poetry about a restless outcast of their
own: the gharib. This stranger traversed not only geographic
frontiers, but also linguistic and literary ones, moving beyond the
orbit of Arabic and Persian and going native in Turkish and Armenian
poetry by the 14th century.... [Full Abstract]
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**
ASP Lecture. "The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922."
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Speaker: Richard G. Hovannisian, professor emeritus of history,
University of California, Los Angeles.
11/03/2014; 12:00PM
1644 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
ASP Lecture. `The Legacy of Time, The Time of Bequest: Armenian
Afterlives in a Kurdish Diyarbakir.'
(http://umich.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e502f12d340492a45ccfa7d13&id=6255bb9b22&e= bbfbb04f12)
Speaker: Serap Ruken Sengul, Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral
Fellow, U-M.
11/19/2014; 4:00PM
1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Armenian Studies Program
1080 S. University Avenue, 3633
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
ph: 734.763.0622
e: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Copyright © 2012 The Regents of the University of Michigan
Armenian Studies Program and Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
1080 S. University Ave., St. 3633
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1106
Contact: Zana Kwaiser
Tel: 734-763-0622
fax: 734-763-4765
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://ii.umich.edu/asp/
The Ever-Wandering Stranger: Community Formation and Cosmopolitan
Poetics in Middle Armenian Literature
(http://umich.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e502f12d340492a45ccfa7d13&id=715f8935f8&e= bbfbb04f12)
Wednesday, October 15, 4-5:30 PM
1636 International Institute, 1080 S. University Ave.
The trope of the wandering stranger, the outcast with secret prestige,
can be found in premodern literatures around the world, from the
Odyssey of Homer to the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson. East of
Europe, while Dante Alighieri was busy composing his famous lines on
exile, a remarkable number of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Armenian
speakers were also writing poetry about a restless outcast of their
own: the gharib. This stranger traversed not only geographic
frontiers, but also linguistic and literary ones, moving beyond the
orbit of Arabic and Persian and going native in Turkish and Armenian
poetry by the 14th century.... [Full Abstract]
(http://umich.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e502f12d340492a45ccfa7d13&id=59befbf13c&e= bbfbb04f12)
**
ASP Lecture. "The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922."
(http://umich.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e502f12d340492a45ccfa7d13&id=b249932a74&e= bbfbb04f12)
Speaker: Richard G. Hovannisian, professor emeritus of history,
University of California, Los Angeles.
11/03/2014; 12:00PM
1644 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
ASP Lecture. `The Legacy of Time, The Time of Bequest: Armenian
Afterlives in a Kurdish Diyarbakir.'
(http://umich.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e502f12d340492a45ccfa7d13&id=6255bb9b22&e= bbfbb04f12)
Speaker: Serap Ruken Sengul, Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral
Fellow, U-M.
11/19/2014; 4:00PM
1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Armenian Studies Program
1080 S. University Avenue, 3633
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
ph: 734.763.0622
e: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Copyright © 2012 The Regents of the University of Michigan