Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. ASP Lecture | Christology and Culture: Armenian Theological and Historical Sources as Social Theory (January 17, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46691 46691-10581047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This lecture articulates a mode of using Armenian theological categories as a mode for thinking about broader problems in the social sciences: community development, political belonging, and hermeneutics as method, and semiotic debates about language and representation. Dr. Sheklian will work through two case studies, what we call “comparative analysis of embedded cultural concepts.” First, he will develop Armenian Miaphysite Christology as a semiotic mode, emphasizing reflection on Jesus Christ as “the Word” and drawing connections to exegetical practices within the Armenian Christian tradition. Secondly, he will compare the Armenian concepts of derutyun (“dominion”) and ishkhanutyun (“authority”) to ideas about sovereignty and the sovereign state. Through these examples, the lecture will present and develop the possibility for deploying concepts internal to the Armenian textual tradition themselves as part of a robust social theory and mode of theorizing the (Armenian) present.

Christopher Sheklian studies secularism, minority rights, contemporary urban politics, and the connections between theology and social theory. His work deploys theological categories and liturgical practice in order to explore modes of belonging and forms of attachment available to religious minority populations in urban centers. He received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 2017. In his dissertation, "Theology and the Community: The Armenian Minority, Tradition, and Secularism in Turkey," he argues that a liturgical subject immersed in the music and temporality of the Armenian Church can be attuned to the city of Istanbul in a way that highlights both the possibilities and limits for minority inclusion in Turkey today.

Sponsors: Armenian Studies Program and Department of Anthropology.

Image: Ruins of Sis | Credit: Christopher Sheklian

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:22:28 -0500 2018-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Christopher Sheklian, 2017-18 Manoogian Post-doctoral Fellow
ASP Lecture | Modern Armenian Historiography: Suggestions for Periodization (February 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46854 46854-10656089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Dr. Sanjian will analyze the development of Armenian historiography, i.e. the study of the methods of Armenian historians from the Middle Ages to the present, together with the changing interpretations of key events in the Armenian past recorded in the works of their predecessors. He will suggest a tentative periodization, emphasizing the medieval period (5th-18th cc. C.E.) and the successive periods of the influence of Father Mikayel Chamchian in the late early modern era (late 18th-mid-19th cc.), historism (late 19th c.-1920), and Soviet Marxism (1920-1991), culminating in the present era of post-Soviet independence (from 1991).

Dr. Ara Sanjian is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He received his master’s degree in history from Yerevan State University (1991) and his PhD from the University of London (1996). From 1996 to 2005 he taught at Haigazian University in Beirut and was the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at California State University, Fresno in 2003. His research interests focus on the post-World War I history of Armenia, Turkey and the Arab states of Western Asia.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:01:11 -0500 2018-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ara Sanjian
ASP Film Screening | Singing in Exile (March 16, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46857 46857-10656092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Aram and Virginia, an Armenian couple from the diaspora, transmit an ancestral tradition of chant which is in danger of disappearing to a troupe of European actors. During the process of creating a new play, the couple takes the company on a trip to Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor, bounded by the Black Sea to the north, South Caucasus and Iran to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara to the west) where the Armenian civilization has been destroyed. Along the way, the questioning of the actors brings to the forefront the wealth of this culture: the chant becomes a language of creation and sharing, the breath of life. It is a journey where the sounds, the music, the words, the bodies and the cries impart a memory and a future.

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Film Screening Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:04:18 -0500 2018-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening Singing in Exile Poster
Ninth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | Armenian Childhood(s): Histories and Theories of Childhood and Youth in Armenian Studies (April 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47789 47789-11012557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

For complete workshop program, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2018--armenian-childhood-s---histories-a.html

In recent years, the study of childhood and youth has gained increasing attention that has resulted in innovative interdisciplinary scholarship. The field of Childhood Studies of the last decade has concentrated on modern childhood(s) and youth, and has questioned the meanings that adults and governmental bodies attribute to children. For example, universal characteristics, such as “innocence,” “incompetence,” and “vulnerability,” defining children and youth have been examined and challenged by scholars from a variety of fields, who insist that “childhood”, like ethnicity, gender, and class, is a constructed social category. Pushing methodological boundaries to explore political, historical, cultural, economic, and social formations, structures and contexts across time and place, scholars have begun to consider children and youth as agents in their political and social environment rather than passive members of society.

This workshop will initiate an inter-disciplinary conversation about Armenian childhood, children, and youth. The goal is to consider new perspectives, methodologies, and cross-disciplinary frameworks that will put Armenian Studies in conversation with Childhood Studies. We aim to bring together theoretical and methodological approaches along with empirical studies across disciplines that use childhood as a category of analysis and/or concentrate on children’s agencies and experiences in Armenian history, politics, society, economy, and culture. We see both childhood and youth as fluid categories and concepts that are subject to flexible interpretations and definitions.

Photo caption: Miss Harnack with a group of (Armenian) orphans
Credit: Der Christliche Orient (Vol.15, 1914)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:19:35 -0400 2018-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-20T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Armenian Childhood
Ninth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | Armenian Childhood(s): Histories and Theories of Childhood and Youth in Armenian Studies (April 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47789 47789-11012558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

For complete workshop program, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2018--armenian-childhood-s---histories-a.html

In recent years, the study of childhood and youth has gained increasing attention that has resulted in innovative interdisciplinary scholarship. The field of Childhood Studies of the last decade has concentrated on modern childhood(s) and youth, and has questioned the meanings that adults and governmental bodies attribute to children. For example, universal characteristics, such as “innocence,” “incompetence,” and “vulnerability,” defining children and youth have been examined and challenged by scholars from a variety of fields, who insist that “childhood”, like ethnicity, gender, and class, is a constructed social category. Pushing methodological boundaries to explore political, historical, cultural, economic, and social formations, structures and contexts across time and place, scholars have begun to consider children and youth as agents in their political and social environment rather than passive members of society.

This workshop will initiate an inter-disciplinary conversation about Armenian childhood, children, and youth. The goal is to consider new perspectives, methodologies, and cross-disciplinary frameworks that will put Armenian Studies in conversation with Childhood Studies. We aim to bring together theoretical and methodological approaches along with empirical studies across disciplines that use childhood as a category of analysis and/or concentrate on children’s agencies and experiences in Armenian history, politics, society, economy, and culture. We see both childhood and youth as fluid categories and concepts that are subject to flexible interpretations and definitions.

Photo caption: Miss Harnack with a group of (Armenian) orphans
Credit: Der Christliche Orient (Vol.15, 1914)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:19:35 -0400 2018-04-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-04-21T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Armenian Childhood