Presented By: Center for Armenian Studies
Armenian History as World History—Approaches to Teaching & Methods
This workshop explores ways to integrate the teaching of Armenian history within the wider context of World History. Workshop participants will think together about how to teach Armenian history and make it relevant to larger audiences of students coming from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. What methods and approaches can help break the insularity of teaching Armenian History? How can we benefit from new approaches used by global historians to engage students in a rewriting of Armenian history?
The current state of teaching Armenian history survey courses remains largely confined to the traditional paradigm of kingdom / nation state and remains spatially focused on the territory of historical Armenia. Even though a new generation of scholars move beyond the traditional framing of Armenian history there is a visible lack of textbooks that treat Armenian history within the wider context of world history or incorporate the latest conceptual turns in the field of history.
The workshop will explore the possibilities of widening the frames of teaching Armenian history. Armenian history presents a significant space to investigate the interconnectedness of world history – long established literary tradition, mercantile connections stretching far beyond the immediate socio-spatial milieu traditionally associated with Armenia and Armenians. The location of Armenia / Armenians at the crossroads of a multitude of different empires encompassing Armenia all present possibilities of placing Armenian history within the context of world history. In fact given its reach and continuous recorded history it is surprising how little Armenian history has entered the field of world history.
The workshop brings together scholars working in three different periods of Armenian history stretching from medieval to the early modern and into the contemporary world in an attempt to discuss discrete approaches to world history within each era.
Organizer: Arsene Saparov, lecturer in history, U-M
Workshop Participants:
Gerard Libaridian
Sergio La Porte
Sebouh Aslanian
The current state of teaching Armenian history survey courses remains largely confined to the traditional paradigm of kingdom / nation state and remains spatially focused on the territory of historical Armenia. Even though a new generation of scholars move beyond the traditional framing of Armenian history there is a visible lack of textbooks that treat Armenian history within the wider context of world history or incorporate the latest conceptual turns in the field of history.
The workshop will explore the possibilities of widening the frames of teaching Armenian history. Armenian history presents a significant space to investigate the interconnectedness of world history – long established literary tradition, mercantile connections stretching far beyond the immediate socio-spatial milieu traditionally associated with Armenia and Armenians. The location of Armenia / Armenians at the crossroads of a multitude of different empires encompassing Armenia all present possibilities of placing Armenian history within the context of world history. In fact given its reach and continuous recorded history it is surprising how little Armenian history has entered the field of world history.
The workshop brings together scholars working in three different periods of Armenian history stretching from medieval to the early modern and into the contemporary world in an attempt to discuss discrete approaches to world history within each era.
Organizer: Arsene Saparov, lecturer in history, U-M
Workshop Participants:
Gerard Libaridian
Sergio La Porte
Sebouh Aslanian
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