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Full-day conference that brings together a diverse group of experts to delve into the rich Armenian cultural heritage of the South Caucasus and Eastern Turkey.

Saturday, February 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 7:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium
Los Angeles, CA 90024

The event will feature discussions on the current state of these heritage sites, their preservation efforts, and initiatives to monitor, document, and protect them amidst a challenging geopolitical landscape. Experts will also explore the future of cultural heritage studies, offering valuable insights and strategies for safeguarding this vital legacy.

This event is cohosted by the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Agenda
08:00AM - 09:00AM Coffee and Registration
09:00AM - 09:30AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ann Karagozian, Director, UCLA Promise Armenian Institute
Amy Landau, Director of Education and Interpretation, UCLA Fowler Museum
09:30AM - 10:15AM Keynote Address
Ann Karagozian, Director, UCLA Promise Armenian Institute — Introduction
Lori Khatchadourian, Associate Professor, Cornell University; co-founder and co-director, Caucasus Heritage Watch Cornell University — Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
10:15AM - 11:15AM Session 1: Cultural Heritage Destruction and Documentation in the South Caucasus
Kristine Martirosyan Olshansky, Director of the Research Program in Armenian Archaeology and Ethnography, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology — Moderator
Hamlet Petrosyan, Head of Department of Cultural Studies, Yerevan State University; Head of Artsakh Cultural Heritage Research Group, Head of Dvin Archaeological Expedition; Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of Armenia — Issues of Cultural Heritage Protection in the Context of Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: The Experience of www.monumentwatch.org Academic Platform
Nzhdeh Yeranyan, Deputy Scientific Director, History Museum of Armenia; Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies, Yerevan State University — Shattered Heritage: Museums, Memories, and the Cultural Loss in Artsakh
11:15AM - 12:00PM Keynote Address
Hannah Garry, Executive Director of The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law — Introduction
Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Representative on International Legal Matters of Republic of Armenia
12:00PM - 12:25PM Musical Offering in collaboration with the UCLA Armenian Music Program
Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture; Director of Armenian Music Program; Assistant Professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music — Introduction
Antranig Kzirian, UCLA Armenian Music Program Mentor for the Oud
12:25PM - 01:30PM Lunch
01:30PM - 02:50PM
Session 2: Cultural Heritage Destruction and Documentation in Historic Western Armenia/Present day Turkey
Anna Aleksanyan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Armenian Genocide Research Program at UCLA PAI — Moderator
Delal Dink, Vice President, Hrant Dink Foundation — Unraveling the “True Treasure”: Exploring Cultural Heritage Through Stories
Heghnar Watenpaugh, Professor of Art History, UC Davis — Ani, A UNESCO World Heritage Site between Armenian Memory and Turkish Patrimony
Ara Sarafian, Executive Director, Gomidas Institute (London) — Rational Assessment, Forthright Engagement: Projecting a Diasporan Armenian Presence in Turkey Today
02:50PM - 04:30PM Session 3: Practical Solutions for Cultural Heritage Protection/Preservation
Peter Cowe, Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies, UCLA — Moderator
Simon Maghakyan, Research Associate/Gulbenkian Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford — From Urfa to Djulfa: Victim Agency in Extrastatal Dignity Restoration
Taner Akcam, Director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program at Promise Armenian Institute, UCLA — The Armenian Genocide Reparation Movement and the Looted Cultural Objects
Ruzanna Tsaturyan, Researcher, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia; Lecturer, Faculty of History, Yerevan State University
Marc Mamigonian, Director of Academic Affairs, NAASR — More Questions Than Answers? Provenance Research as a Side Gig
04:30PM - 05:50PM Session 4: Roundtable Discussion on The Future of Armenian Heritage Studies
Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture; Director of Armenian Music Program; Assistant Professor, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music — Moderator
Nelli Sargsyan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerson College
Tamar Shirinian, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Anoush Suni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA
05:40PM - 06:10PM Armenian Traditional Storytelling
Sona Tatoyan, Actor, Writer, Producer — Resurrection of Ottoman Armenian Cultural Heritage via Karagöz Shadow Puppets