81. Page3.htm World Conference in Contemporary armenian literature UCLA April 78, 2001 WorldConference in Contemporary armenian literature Saturday, April 7, 2001. http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/sas_newsletter/Spring2001/page3.htm

World Conference in Contemporary Armenian Literature UCLA April 7-8, 2001 The Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA organized a conference devoted to contemporary Armenian literature held on campus at the Rolfe Hall auditorium on the weekend of April 7-8. The two-day conference examined different aspects of the literature composed over the last ten to fifteen years in the course of six panels. The first of these, commenced on Saturday morning at 9:30, dealt with the broad topic of defining the period and highlighting the major trends, which have characterized it. Tumultuous events have shaped it such as the rise of the Karabagh Movement and the subsequent war to protect the region’s independence, the earthquake in the north of Armenia, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the declaration of Armenia as a sovereign republic, the hardships caused by the Azerbaijani and Turkish blockades, the struggles of the transition to a market economy, the impact of all these developments on the communities of the Diaspora, and the introduction of a new era in Armenia-Diaspora co-operation and interchange. This last decade of unprecedented pride, joy, challenge, and striving to respond to a new set of circumstances has inevitably evoked a range of reactions from Armenian writers, especially after the lifting of Soviet censorship in the republic. After the opening by Prof. S. Peter Cowe of UCLA, these general trends were explored in detail by Prof. Azat Eghiazaryan, director of the Institute of Literature affiliated with the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He was then followed by Dr. Seyran Grigoryan, Dr. Grigor Hakobyan, and Dr. Aleksandr Topchyan, who reviewed in turn the current state of the three main literary genres of poetry, prose writing (novel and short story), and drama. Setting the pattern for the other panels, these initial presentations were succeeded first by a series of select readings from contemporary literary works illustrating the topic of the panel and then by a round table discussion featuring a number of notable writers and critics. In all about fifteen representatives came from the Armenian Republic and around the same number from various centers in the Diaspora - Middle East, Europe and North America.

82. Fall1999page1.htm 10301230 AM The Construction of Ethnic Identity in Modern armenian literature.Chair Dickran Kouymjian, California State University, Fresno. http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/sas_newsletter/Fall1999/

SAS Newsletter Vol. XXIII, No. 3 (54) Fall 1999 MESA 1999 Middle East Studies Association 33rd Annual Meeting November 19-22 Washington, D.C. Marriot Wardman Park Hotel • Friday, November 19 Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 8:00-9:00 PM Executive Board Meeting Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Linai 156 Room 9:00-11:00 PM Annual Meeting Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Harding Room 16th Annual Film Fest Enemy of the People Wall of Silence Panels and activities during the MESA Conference November 19-22, 1999 Friday, November 19 11 AM Tour of Library of Congress. If you are unable to make this, please e-mail Dr. Levon Avdoyan (lavd@loc.gov) for alternate tour information or assistance if you would like to use the collection during the conference. 2-4 PM Working Seminar on Armenian-Kurdish historic and contemporary relations at the Library of Congress. Those who are involved in Armenian Studies are invited to attend. For more information, contact Dr. Levon Avdoyan (lavd@loc.gov) • Saturday, November 20 1:30-3:30 PM Saudi Arabia: History, Identity and Foreign Policy

83. Matenadaran - The Heritage In the 10th century a great break took place in the armenian literature. Readmore on OLD armenian literature Article by Poghos Khachatryan. http://www.matenadaran.am/en/heritage/literature.html

The Heritage Literature The first Armenian historical works are at the same time monuments of literature. They have preserved specimens of the pagan Armenian poetry and legends (Haik, Aram, Tork Angegh, Ara Geghetsik and Shamiram, Vahagn Vishapakagh, etc.). Later, parallel with the consolidation of the Christian ideology they gave way to the ecclesiastical literature. The foundation of the Armenian religious poetry is connected with the name of Mesrop Mashtots. A number of his hymns (sharakans) have survived. They include poems, devoted to the church holidays, saints, historical events, etc. In the 10th century a great break took place in the Armenian literature. A new type of poetry was formed. The first representative of this trend was Grigor Narekatsi (951 - 1003). His delightful hymns and the poem 'Book of Lamentation', by their supreme mastery of language and expression of the most sensitive human emotions are one of the masterpieces of world literature. For the first time, Narekatsi brings love, female beauty, nature and work to the Armenian poetry. Narekatsi is also a great language - builder. Together with grabar (the ancient Armenian language), he uses spoken words, creates new words with the help of word combinations. After Narekatsi the medieval armenian poetry became more mundane in the poetry of Hovhannes Sarkavag. The poem 'A word of wisdom' (in 118 lines), devoted to a starling is a novelty with its form and content in the medieval art of poetry and its theory. Sarkavag considers poetry to be the imitation of the nature and not a divine gift.

84. The History Of Art And Culture language) as the language of literature. The movement fought its way tovictory, and laid the foundations of Modern armenian literature. http://www.armenianheritage.com/ethistor.htm

THE HISTORY OF ART AND CULTURE The Arts, especially architecture had their due place in the culture of the ancient Armenians. What has remained from the famous old-Armenian architecture bears witness to the high degree of perfection it had attained. It is in this field that the deeply Indo-European character of the Armenian genius manifests itself. Joseph Strzygowski of Vienna, the famous historian of art and the best authority on Armenian architecture calls the Armenians "carriers of Indo-European architectural thought" and their country "a focus of Indo-European architecture- an excessively rich open air museum of Indo-European building art". The art of statuary and carving in Armenia was closely connected with architecture. But artistic creation in ancient Armenia has expressed itself in many other ways, particularly in the field of miniature painting. Its countless works are scattered in old Armenian manuscripts. The change in political conditions in 1801 brought to Armenians certain opportunities for intellectual and cultural activity. Moscow, then Tiflis and Erevan in the Ararat plain, became centers of cultural life. Etchmiadzin, the old seat of the Armenian Church, also took part in giving it form and substance. Thus, the political division of Armenia between Russia and Turkey had as a result that separated cultural development of the two halves of the Armenian people. In the first part of the 19

85. Untitled The lecture, entitled The Role of the Epic in armenian literature, covered a multiplicityof topics in Armenian history, literature, folklore, religion, and http://www.commercemarketplace.com/home/naasr/russell-release1.htm

JAMES RUSSELL OF HARVARD DISCUSSES ARMENIAN EPICS IN LECTURE AT NAASR The role and importance of Armenian epics was the subject of a well-attended and enthusiastically received talk Prof. James R. Russell, Mesrob Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, on Thursday evening, April 19, at the Center and Headquarters of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont, Mass. The lecture, entitled "The Role of the Epic in Armenian Literature," covered a multiplicity of topics in Armenian history, literature, folklore, religion, and art. Prof. Russell has written and lectured widely on the Armenian epic Sasuntsi Davit (David of Sasun) and other works of epic literature, both Armenian and non-Armenian, in addition to teaching courses on the Armenian epic, Armenian history, and Classical and Modern Armenian at Harvard. He is the author of Zoroastrianism in Armenia (co-published by NAASR and the Harvard Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) and Hovhannes Tlkurantsi and the Medieval Armenian Lyric Tradition . His most recent work is An Armenian Epic: The Heroes of Kasht , a translation and commentary on a largely unknown but important work.

86. Usanogh - Home Includes the following sections armenian culture, literature, association news, reviews and genocide. Issues are available online. http://www.usanogh.com/

home bulletin board radio chat ... About New Feature on Usanogh.com Upload your pictures. Usanogh Radio Listen to Usanogh Radio Want to be a DJ? Request songs via AIM. Screenname: usanoghradio Or join Usanogh Chat on AIM. Usanogh Chat fol AOL users. Video UCLA ASA Film Bill Lockyer talk organized by UCLA AGSA Adam Schiff talk at USC organized by USC ASA CSUN ASA Promotional Film Do U Know? Which of the following identifies you with Armenian. Culture Religion Traditions History Language Homeland Genocide Food Results Polls Comments: Poll Answer During elections in Armenia, presidential candidate Robert Kocharyan received 67% of the votes and became re-elected as the President of Armenia, while his counter-candidate received 30% of the votes. We hope that regardless of who is in charge, that Armenia will grow to become a successful country and a true paternal home for all Armenians through out the world. Mayor Manoukian Wins Re-Election Bid Contributed by Jenny Kiljian on Wednesday April 2, 2003 05:38PM Glendale Mayor Rafi Manoukian soundly defeated opponent Richard E. Dinger Tuesday in the race for Glendale City Council. Manoukian garnered 8,813 votes, while Dinger received only 3,653 votes with all 49 precincts reporting.

87. Armenian Poetry Literature Poésie Littérature Arménienne Ñ³Û µ³Ý³ëï� armenian poetry poems poets literature poésie poèmes poètes arméniens littérature arménienne Ñ³Û µ³Ý³ëï»ÕÍáõÇõÝ µ³Ý³ëï»ÕÍáõÛáõÝ µ³Ý³ëï»ÕÍÝ»ñ ·ñ³Ï³ÝáõÇõÝ ·ñ³Ï³ÝáõÛáõÝ http://www.geocities.com/armenia2003

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88. ARMENIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE armenian LANGUAGE AND literature http://38.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AR/ARMENIAN_LANGUAGE_AND_LITERATURE.htm

document.write(""); ARMENIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. The Armetn language belongs to the group called Indo-European, which the Iranic and Indic tongues formed one Language. anch, and Greek, Albanian, Italian, Celtic, Germanic •eady present in Armenian as early as AD. 400 mirror the rlier political and social life of Armenia. Thus many of their igs and nobles had Persian names; Persian also were most d army, with dress, trade and coinage, calendar, weights and w lasures, with court and political institutions, with music, Af ~dicine, school, education, literature and the arts. Many eryday words were of the same origin, e.g. the words for village, m’ sert, building and build, need, rich or liberal, arm (of body), an cI or goad, face, opposite, wicked, unfriendly, discontented, se: ftlcult, daughter, eulogy, a youth, wary, enjoy, unhappy, tn lition, voluntary, unwilling, blind, cautious, blood-kin, coquet fo: th, slumber, humble, mad, grace or favOur, memory or atten- th in, grandfather, old woman, prepared, duty, necessary, end, th dless, superior, confident, mistake, warmth, heat, glory. The ag ~guage of their old religion was mainly Persian, but in the cli h century they derived numerous ecciesiological words from the -rians, frOm whom by way of Edessa and Nisibis Christianity wi netrated eastern Armenia. The language of the garden and ch e names of plants were also Persian. They had their own su merals, but the words for one thousand and for ten thousand TI e Persian, ‘ ‘ th Yet more indicative of the extent of the Persian influence is the al~ option of the adjectival ending -akan and -Ian, added to purely to ~menian words; also of’ the preposition ham, answering to con Lf “conjoin,” “conspire,” added to purely Armenian words, as re hambarnam, I take away, and hamboir, a kiss, a word which, fo~ range to say, the Iberians in turn borrowed from the Armenians. C

89. Armenian International Magazine A new digital library is helping to preserve great works of Armenianliterature and make them available to the general public. http://www.armeniaweek.com/june2002/connection4.htm

Byte-Sized Books Centuries of Cultural Gems Stored on a Single CD TEXT By Zara Chatinian A new "digital library" is helping to preserve great works of Armenian literature and make them available to the general public. More than 150 books, poems, and translations dating from the Fifth to the 18th Centuries are collected on a single CD-rom. It also contains biographical details of the authors and a sophisticated search system for examining the texts. The use of information technology not only safeguards priceless works for future generations to enjoy but also makes them available to anyone with a computer. As a result, it will greatly facilitate the study of and research into Armenian language and literature. The project is the culmination of three years' work by Hovhannes Kizoghian and Meruzhan Karapetian, executives of the Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature. They brought together a team of 30 professionals in history, literature, linguistics and computing to compile the disc. Karapetian, a history professor, selected the most significant pieces from 13 centuries of Armenian classical literature for inclusion in the digital library. The undertaking was made possible thanks by a $250,000 donation from 95-year-old Alice Ohanasian, who lives in Massachusetts. Haroutune Armenian, president of the American University of Armenia, contacted Ohanasian and presented the proposal to her.

90. ALMISBAH: Languages And Literatures: Language And Literature Of Armenia: Armenia ALMISBAH Languages and literatures Language and literature of Armenia Armenianliterature General Resources (WWW), 1. Abril Books. Source Type, Booksellers. http://ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vlib/ssgfi/subject/almisbah_ssg04070301_on

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91. ARMENIAN CULTURE - The Armenian Youth Federation Of Greece Website Copies of most of these classical works whether translations or original Armenianliterature - are preserved today in the National Repository of Manuscripts http://virtuals.compulink.gr/armen-yth/pages/lituk.htm

MUSIC ARCHITECTURE STONE CARVING PAINTING ... CERAMICS Language and Literature L inguists enjoy studying the Armenian language because it contains clues to the parent Proto-Indo-European language from which almost all European and Indian languages probably developed. Although Armenian forms a branch of the Indo-European language family, curiously it does not closely resemble them. It has the grammatical structure of an Indo-European language, yet a large part of its vocabulary has been borrowed from Armenia's many neighbors and its lexicon includes many non- Indo-European words. Not until the 5th century A.D., when the Armenian alphabet was introduced, have we any conclusive record of the language’s development and structure. Before the advent of written Armenian, evidence points to the existence of a popular oral tradition with songs, poems, fables, legends and epics that were passed by memory from generation to generation. Consequently, little of it has survived. With the national conversion to Christianity in the 4th century, it became necessary to reach the people through religious services conducted in Armenian, and to translate the Bible and scriptures from the Greek. At first Armenians tried to adapt foreign alphabets to fit their language. But Armenian phonetics structure made that difficult. The task of devising an alphabet was given to a learned clergyman named Mesrob Mashtotz, who, after research abroad, returned in A.D. 406 with his task completed. The 36 phonetic letters which he devised account beautifully for the sounds in the language. It is the same alphabet used today. Two more letters were added in medieval times to accommodate new sounds which entered the language through loan words.

92. CSUN Armenian Studies Program - Hermine Mahseredjian A course designed to introduce the student to the highest of Armenianliterature from the 19th century to modern times. 360 (396W). http://www.csun.edu/~hfm45353/courses.html

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Armenian Courses at CSUN Spring 2002 Schedule Info Minor Degree in Armenian Liberal Studies Concentration ... Etchmiadzin ALL ARMENIAN COURSES OFFERED AT CSUN 101. Elementary Armenian I (3 units) A study of the fundamentals of Armenian: alphabet and additional sounds, grammatical structure, reading, writing and practice in the spoken language. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies.) 102. Elementary Armenian II (3 units) Prerequisite: Completion of Armenian 101 or equivalent. Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of Armenian. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies.) 201. Intermediate Armenian I (3 units) Prerequisite: Completion of Armenian 102 or equivalent. Intensive practice and pronunciation, conversation and writing. Brief review of grammar and study of more advanced grammatical concepts. Introduction to reading of literature and study of Armenian culture. (Available for General Education, Comparative Cultural Studies.) 202. Intermediate Armenian II (3 units)

93. Arts And Culture Short biographies of the poets were also included. “The Anthology of armenianLiterature” prepared by Dr.Birsen Karaca of the armenian Language and http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/newspot/2001/sept-oct/n16.htm

ARTS AND CULTURE Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Founding Chairman of the Turkish Institute of the History of Science, has been elected chairman of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS). The election was held during the First International History of Science Congress in Mexico City. Prof. Ihsanoglu was presented the "Golden Success Award" by the American Institute of Biographies. The "Apiryon", one of Israel’s prominent literature magazines devoted space to modern Turkish poetry in its summer edition. Poems of Nazim Hikmet, Melih Cevdet Anday, Gülten Akýn, Behcet Necatigil, Cahit Külebi, Necati Cumalý, Turgay Fiþekçi and Avram Ventura were published in the magazine. Short biographies of the poets were also included. “The Anthology of Armenian Literature” prepared by Dr.Birsen Karaca of the Armenian Language and Literature Department of the Language, History and Geography Faculty of Ankara University has been published by the Ministry of Culture. In the introduction of the book, Culture Minister Istemihan Talay wrote: “The Anthology of Armenian Literature, a part of the studies carried out by the Ministry of Culture in order to introduce Turkish readers to world literature, describes the general aspects of the history of Armenian literature and offers important information on Armenian culture”.

94. Ñòðàíà Ìàøòîöà - Ìèð àðìÿíñêîé ëèòåðàòóðû The summary for this Russian page contains characters that cannot be correctly displayed in this language/character set. http://karabakh.narod.ru/

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