"Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements" Workshop Program
2023 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
12:00–1:15 Lunch (for participants)
Levis Faculty Center, 2nd floor
1:15–1:30 Welcoming Remarks
John Randolph, Associate Professor, History, and Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian
Center
Maureen E. Marshall and Donna A. Buchanan
1:30–3:00 Opening Keynote Lecture and Discussion
“Making a Homeland: Exploring ‘Roots’ Mobility and Armenian Diasporic Engagement”
Tsypylma Darieva(To be delivered remotely)
Senior Researcher
Centre for East European and International Studies, ZOiS, Berlin
3:00–3:30 Break
3:30–6:00 Panel 1
Diasporic Engagements: Homelands, Disjunctures, Dialogues
Chair: Ani Yazedjian
Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost University Professor
Illinois State University
3:30–4:15 “Armenian Music” and its Discontents
Sylvia Alajaji
Associate Professor of Music
Franklin & Marshall College
4:15–5:00 Diasporic Multiculturalism
Daniel Fittante
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Södertörn University, Stockholm
5:00–5:45 “Bamboo Reeds Bought in Chinatown”: Armenian Music, Racialization, and Inter-Ethnic
Histories in 20th-Century California
Alyssa Mathias
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Knox College
6:00–8:00 Reception
South Lobby, School of Music 1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana
Music by Dimitri Glaros, sophomore, BA Music Composition, UIUC
Forum Program: "Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements" Workshop Program | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at Illinois
Presenters and Abstracts: Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at Illinois
