23rd Annual Graduate Colloquium in Armenian Studied
23rd Annual
Graduate Colloquium
in Armenian Studies
Saturdays
Zoom
10 am-12pm
PST
RSVP
Schedule of Events
Zoom Abstracts
Saturdays via Zoom from 10am – 12pm pst
Ovsanna Khachatryan
Michael Blomquist
Medieval art and
scribal praxis
Sahika Karatepe
Mete Ulatas
Irina Badalyan
Cassandre Lejosne
Margarita Khakhanova
Jonathan Hollis
Alexia Hatun
Armenuhi Muradyan
Diana Ghazaryan
Ani Kojoyan
Armenian activities
in the ottoman and
russian empires in
the 19 and early 20
centuries
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prehistoric
archaeology of the
armenian plateau
ethnonational
imaginary and
culture
armenian media in a
modern and
contemporary
timeframe
March 14th
March 7th
February 21st
Nora Bairamian Opening Remarks
Dr. S. Peter Cowe
Mariam Saribekyan
Artyom Ananyan
Medieval Art and Scribal Praxis
Saturday, February 21
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, 2026
Armenian Activities in the ottoman
and russian empires in the 19 and
early 20 centuries
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Nora Bairamian
Co-Director of the 2026 Graduate
Student Colloquium in Armenian
Studies Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures, UCLA
Dr. S. Peter Cowe
Narekatsi Professor of Armenian
Studies
Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures, UCLA
Hosted by Martin Adamian, UCLA
Ovsanna Khachatryan Mashtots Matenadaran Inst. of Manuscripts
“Cryptographic Traditions in Medieval Manuscripts: Cultural Secrecy and
Intercultural Comparisons”
Michael Blomquist East Illinois University
“The Iconography of Armenian Art and its Relationship with Increased
Figural Representation in Two Islamic Traditions”
Moderatored by Nora Bairamian, UCLA
Sahika Karatepe Binghamton University SUNY
“Extractivism and Rural Labor in Bardizag: Charcoal Production and the
Armenian Peasantry (1790-1890s)”
OPening Remarks
Moderatored by Lori Pirinjian, UCLA
Mete Ulatas Pennsylvania State University
“Spaces of Confinement, States of Becoming: Armenian Political
Prisoners in the Late Ottoman Empire”
Irina Badalyan Yerevan State University
“Tiflis in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Armenological Perspectives
and Urban Self-Governance Institutions in the Context of Imperial and
National Projects”
RZoSoVmP Abstracts
Prehistoric Archaeology of the
Armenian Plateau
Saturday, March 7
th
, 2026
Ethnonational Imaginary and
Culture
Hosted by Martin Adamian, UCLA
Mariam Saribekyan Armenian Academy of Sciences
“Beliefs and Lifestyle of Early Bronze Age People in Armenia Based on
Clay Figurines”
Artyom Ananyan Yerevan State University
“Modelling the Bronze and Iron Age Archaeological Landscape of the
Tavush Region through GIS Analysis”
Moderatored by Aram Ghoogasian, UCLA
Cassandre Lejosne University of Lausanne
“Copying Zvart‘noc‘: Architectural Models between Medieval Memory
and Modern Heritage”
Moderator To be Determined
Margarita Khakhanova Masaryk University
“Hidden Soviet Ideology: The Construction of the Armenian Capital”
Jonathan Hollis East Illinois University
“Listening to Armenian Baku: History and Memory in Digital Diaspora”
RZoSoVmP Abstracts
Armenian Media in aModern and
Contemporary Timeframe
Saturday, March 14th
, 2026
Hosted by Martin Adamian, UCLA
Armenuhi Muradyan University of Halle-Wittenberg
“Armenian Women Between Empires: the Earliest Contributions to Print
Media”
Diana Ghazaryan Pázmeny Peter Catholic University
“Mediating in the Empire(s): The Krikorian Studio and Armenian Social
Agency through Visual Culture in Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem”
Ani Kojoyan Yerevan State University
“Language, Power, and Gendered Disinformation in Contemporary
Armenian Public Discourse”
Moderatored by Alexia Hatun, UCLA
Thank you to Our co-Sponsors
UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures
UCLA Promise Armenian Institute
Society for Armenian Studies
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
(NAASR)
RZoSoVmP Abstracts
