"Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements" Workshop Program
2023 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
8:30–9:00 Continental Breakfast (for participants)
Levis Faculty Center, 2nd floor
9:00–12:15 Panel 2
Staging Armenian Subjectivities: Sounding Struggle, Choreographing
Conflict
Chair: Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
Professor, Department of Dance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:00–9:45 Socialist Verismo and the Pastoral Idyll of the Armenian Kolkhoz
Knar Abrahamyan (To be delivered remotely)
Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Race
Columbia University
9:45–10:30 The Taron Underground: Performing Exile and Resistance in Post-Genocide
Soviet Armenia
Armen Adamian
PhD student, Ethnomusicology
University of California at Los Angeles
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45–11:30 The Journey: Commemorative Choreographies of Bulgarian Armenian Trauma,
Testimony, and Transcendence
Donna A. Buchanan
Professor of Musicology, Anthropology, and Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:30–12:15 Choreographing Armenian Goyamart: Dancing Yarkhushta during Wartime
Protest
Natalie Kamajian
PhD student, Culture and Performance
University of California at Los Angeles
Director of Dance, Lernazang Ensemble, Los Angeles
12:15–1:30 Lunch (for participants)
Levis Faculty Center, 2nd floor
1:30–4:00 Panel 3
Showcasing Armenianness: Homelands, Hostlands, and Entangled
Transcultural Heritages
Chair: Helaine Silverman
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy
Trustee, World Heritage USA-US/ICOMOS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1:30–2:15 Entangled Assemblage: Armenian Material Culture in an Occasional Collection
Maureen E. Marshall
Associate Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
President, American Research Institute of the South Caucasus
2:15–3:00 The Flavors of Cultural Preservation: Armenians Cooking in Diaspora
Mari Firkatian
Professor of History
University of Hartford
3:00–3:45 Heritage in the Hostland: Armenian-American Engagement at the 2018
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Sabrina Papazian
Research Associate, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
User Experience Researcher
3:45–4:15 Break
4:15–6:00 Closing Keynote Lecture and Discussion
Revisiting Armennianness: Memorials, State and Folk Rituals in Post-Soviet
Armenia
Levon Abrahamian (To be delivered remotely)
Professor and Chair, Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences
Yerevan, Armenia
Introduced by: Serouj Aprahamian
Assistant Professor
Department of Dance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6:00–6:30 Concluding Plenary Discussion
Moderators: Donna A. Buchanan and Maureen E. Marshall
7:00 Dinner (for participants)
Silver Creek restaurant, Urbana
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