Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies (EVENT POSTPONED)

Humanities at Large

This March 27-28 conference has been postponed. Please visit the Infidelities registration page for the latest information, including updates on the new date. 

March 27, 2020 (Friday)—March 28, 2020 (Saturday)

Slought, 4017 Walnut St

Infidelities: New Directions in Armenian Studies (EVENT POSTPONED)

"Infidelities" is an international two-day conference about new directions in the study of Armenian history, memory, culture and displacement across West Asia and the Middle East to the Americas and back presented in partnership with scholars and programs at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and University of California, Los Angeles.

The field of Armenian Studies is on the verge of a sea change. In the last ten years, scholars and artists have made a bid to shift the field's focus to a broader range of new, interdisciplinary and transnational topics through the lenses of critical theory, feminist theory, queer studies, and postcolonial studies. In collaboration with scholars and programs at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and San Francisco State University, "Infidelities" both marks and shapes this auspicious moment with international scholars, curators, filmmakers, visual artists, physical theatre performers and a sound performer, all of whom work either directly in, or tangentially to, Armenian Studies, to flesh out new visions for the field and for the understanding of Armenianness. The aim is to center critical, queer-feminist, postcolonial and performative approaches to the study of Armenian history, diaspora, memory, language, culture and displacement within and beyond the Middle East, wider West Asia, and the Americas.

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Participating Scholars

Hakem al-Rustom
Shushan Avagyan
Kathryn Babayan
Houri Berberian
Rachel Goshgarian
Karen Jallatyan
Joanne Randa Nucho
Ayşe Parla
Nelli Sargsyan
Gayane Shagoyan
Tamar Shirinian
Anoush Suni
Ania Loomba
Suvir Kaul

Artists
Arpi Adamyan (Armenia/USA)
Aikaterini Gegisian (Greece)
Marianna Hovhannissian (Armenia/USA)
Rüya Kılınçkini (Turkey)
Lara Sarkissian (USA)
lucine talalyan (Armenia)
Méliné Ter Minassian (France)

March 27, 2020

9am-7pm

Panel I: Land, Memory & Trauma (Revisited)

Panel II: Feminist & Postcolonial Contestations

Artist Talk and Exhibition

Panel III: Building Community in Displacement*

Film Screening 1: Urban Place-Making*

* Events will take place at the ICA

 

March 28, 2020

9:30am-11pm

Panel IV: Embodiment & Its Discontents

Live Physical Theatre Performance

Panel V: Re-Imagining Archives

Film Screening 2: Queering Culture

Roundtable: New Directions?

Final Reception and Sound Performance

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Conference organized by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, David Kazanjian, and Veronika Zablotsky.

This program is made possible through generous support from the Society for Armenian Studies, and, at the University of Pennsylvania, the following sponsors: Middle East Center (MEC); Department of English; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Cinema & Media Studies; Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES); Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS); Jewish Studies; Department of the History of Art; Annenberg Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC); Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory; Lauder Institute; Wolf Humanities Center; Ann Matter; SASgov; and the University Research Foundation Award.

Image design by Arpi Adamyan.

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Conference organized by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, David Kazanjian, and Veronika Zablotsky.

This program is made possible through generous support from the Society for Armenian Studies, and, at the University of Pennsylvania, the following sponsors: Middle East Center (MEC); Department of English; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Cinema & Media Studies; Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES); Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS); Jewish Studies; Department of the History of Art; Annenberg Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC); Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory; Lauder Institute; Wolf Humanities Center; Ann Matter; SASgov; and the University Research Foundation Award.