Armenian Review

01/03/2018

We’re excited to announce our involvement in co-sponsoring the upcoming First Republic of Armenia Centennial Conference in New York, May 11-12, 2018.

The ARF Eastern U.S. recently released additional details for its upcoming conference devoted to the First Republic of Armenia (Graphic: ARF Eastern U.S.) WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Eastern U.S. recently released additional details for its upcoming conferen...

08/16/2017

ASBED KOTCHIKIAN
Editor-in-Chief: 2008 - Present

Prof. Asbed Kotchikian is a senior lecturer at the Global Studies Department at Bentley University where he teaches courses on the Middle East and former Soviet Union. During the last two decades, Dr. Kotchikian has traveled extensively and lived in the Middle East and former Soviet Union. He has written, lectured, presented, and organized conferences on foreign policies of small and weak states, questions of identity and transformation of transnational (Diasporic) groups, national identity, and regional developments in the Middle East and Eurasia. Other than his academic work, Dr. Kotchikian is also a consultant with various European and international organizations on issues such as judicial and electoral reforms as well as combating violent extremism.

08/09/2017

TALAR CHAHINIAN
Assistant Editor: 2013 - Present

Talar Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Department of Comparative World Literature at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests include transnational studies, Western Armenian language and literature, francophone literature, politics and aesthetics, and translation. She contributes regularly to the online journal, Critics’ Forum, and is the co-editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.

08/01/2017

We are very happy to announce the launch of our new logo as part of the ongoing evolution of The Armenian Review!

The new logo will be used on our website, social media, email, stationery and other promotional materials.

Thanks to our many subscribers for their support throughout our design process. We look forward to unveiling our newly revamped website in the near future, which will include FREE access to a large portion of our digital archive!

07/02/2017

Our latest issue V.55 #3-4 Spring-Summer 2017 is available now! Renew your subscription today to enjoy!

05/03/2017

Please enjoy our "Letter From The Editor" for our upcoming issue V.55 #3-4 (Spring-Summer 2017)

04/24/2017

In honor of the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, please read the editorial "Lest We Forget" from our archival issue V.18 No.2 Summer 1965

09/22/2016

Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Armenian Review
Q***ring Armenian Studies
Guest editors: Dr. Tamar Shirinian and Dr. Carina Karapetian Giorgi.

What would it mean to examine Armenian culture q***rly? To study or historicize Armenia through a q***r lens? What would it mean to find a political aesthetics of a q***r Armenia - through art, literature, performance or performativity? Or to analytically q***r the experience of Armenianess? This special issue of the Armenian Review proposes to bring together scholars of Armenia and Armenianness from multiple disciplines - or interdisciplinary sites that include creative praxis like poetry and visual media - to think about how examining Armenia through a q***r lens might be a fruitful endeavor that inventively recontextualizes the depth of Armenian studies within contemporary q***r thought. Q***rness, or “q***r,” has been understood variably. Referring to practical, affective and subjective realms through oppositional relations to power (Cohen 1997), non-fixity, movement, a form of cruising (Munoz 2009), futurity, non-futurity (Edelman 2004), “feeling backward” (Love 2009), the embrace of negativity (Halberstam 2011, Edelman 2004), a promiscuity of promiscuity (Dean 2009), a form of animcy (Chen 2012), that which remains productively in/visible (Gopinath 2005, Stella 2012), the making of ethical worlds (Dave 2012) and so on – q***r has become a kind of method through which to understand/read/experience the excesses of everyday life and feeling. How does this recontextualizing add to Armenian studies and what potential does it bring to q***r studies? How might Armenian studies, in other words, add dimensions to understanding q***r that may not have arisen or could not arise from other sites of inquiry? And what might be discovered about Armenianness or Armenia as a spatiotemporal configuration through this methodology?

We call for scholarly articles that take up topics such as, but not limited to:

• The impact of q***r or feminist inquiry on investigation of domestic violence outside of a liberal framework
• The impact of the Diaspora on the homeland, especially but not only the recent Syrian migration into the Republic and its impacts on emerging notions of nation – how the multiplicity of nation, in other words, q***rs our understandings of a singular Armenia
• Globalization of gay (or LGBT identity) and its impacts on Armenia in the hayrenik (fatherland) and in the Diaspora
• Closetedness – its potentials and downfalls – of sexual or other forms of being and practice
• The q***rness of diaspora and deterritorialization of nation
• Intimacy and kinship
• “Foreigness” (odarism) as it penetrates national boundaries
• Q***r politics emerging in Armenia that may or may not have ties to gender and sexual ‘injury’
• Futurity, temporality, pastness, present(less)ness, and the potentials of q***ring the national within history
• The eternal return of affects, tensions and anxieties pertaining to Genocide, catastrophe and ethnocide
• Critiques of liberalism as they inform or do not inform Armenian politics
• Other, or q***r, narratives of liberalism within Armenia
• National propriety and its slippages into moral corruption or perversion
• Postsocialism’s postcolonial legacies and the q***r mergings of new forms of (q***r) resistance through the excesses of empire
• Q***r methodological interventions into practices of reading, translation, aesthetics, and history-making

Articles that make use of ethnographic, archival, literary and otherwise empirical depth and probing analytic approaches will be considered. We also call for poetry, short story, prose, essay, and visual art that give these questions aesthetic urgency and respond in other ways. Submissions should be clear about what they mean by q***r, methodological and theoretical approaches, and be relevant to currently existing Armenian studies.

Deadline for all full submissions is March 12, 2017 with a possible publication date of Fall 2017 or Spring 2018. Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format (preferably in Microsoft Word) as an email attachment to both Tamar Shirinian ([email protected]) and Carina Karapetian Giorgi ([email protected]). All manuscripts submitted to the Armenian Review should be original, unpublished works and should not be under consideration for publication in any other journal at the time of submission.

For inquiries regarding non-article submissions, please write to Tamar Shirinian or Carina Karapetian Giorgi at the addresses above.

All Article submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two referees; therefore, authors are asked to prepare a separate cover page including their name, mailing/contact address, telephone number, e-mail address, and a 75 word biographical statement of the author(s). Each submission should also include a summary/abstract of the article, not to exceed 100 words. After the reviews are submitted by the referees, the Editor will notify the authors of the acceptance, rejection, or need for revision of the submission.

Manuscripts should be on 8½ by 11" paper with 1" margins on all sides. The text should be double-spaced and use a size 12 font for the main text and size 10 for references. The submissions should have the following setup: title page and author(s)' information; main text; endnotes; bibliography. Submissions should not exceed 40 pages (including the endnotes and the bibliography).

Citations should be endnotes (not footnotes) and should adhere to the guidelines found in The Chicago Manual of Style, latest edition. Accuracy of endnotes and tables is the responsibility of the author(s) and the editors reserve the right to turn down an article if it does not adhere to this style. The “footnotes” function of the word-processing software should be used to create the endnotes rather than using the in-text author citation method.

04/18/2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Armenian Review Publishes 55th Issue!

WATERTOWN, Mass. April 18, 2016 — The newest issue of the Armenian Review was recently published in March 2016. Articles appearing in this issue range from the examination of the Armenian Diaspora through the eyes of Michael Arlen’s literature, to the infamous trial of Misak Torlakian for his role in the assassination of former Minister of International Affairs to the then-independent republic of Azerbaijan. Also included are two articles dealing with Armenian-Turkish relations and diplomacy. George Aghjayan took our cover photo on April 24, 2015 during a demonstration in Taksim Square, Istanbul.

The 86-page issue includes:
- “Debating the Nation in Court: The Torlakian Trial (Istanbul, 1921)” by Eyal Ginio (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- “Armenian-Turkish Diplomacy: Track I Failures and Track II Prospects” by Rouben Shougarian (Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
- “Turkey-Armenia Convergences and Divergences on Opening the Borders (1991-2013)” by Afsaneh Shirani (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia)
- “Michael Arlen’s Time” by Lusine K. Hambardzumyan-Mueller (Yerevan State University)

The current issue of the Review also includes several book reviews and a prominent review essay by Nora Lesserohn, who provides an in-depth analysis of Seta Dadoyan’s The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Paradigms of Interaction. Book reviews include Levon A. Saryan’s review of Khodorchur: Lost Paradise, Memories of a Land and its People by Fr. Harutiun Hulunian and Fr. Madtéos Hajian; Nazenik Sargsyan’s review of Grikor Suni, Choral songs, Armenian Folk Song Arrangements by Robert Atayan; and Tara L. Andrews’ review of Ara E. Dostourian, Armenia and the Crusades, 10th and 12th Centuries: The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, second edition.

To find out more about the current, past and upcoming issues, please visit the Armenian Review website at www.armenianreview.org. As our digitization efforts near completion, we hope to provide our readers an opportunity not only to read our current issues, but also to have access to previous issues and the wealth of history they represent.

Annual subscription rates are $30 for individuals and $60 for institutions at U.S. addresses. For addresses outside the United States, subscription rates are $35 for individuals and $70 for institutions. Payments can be made by check or online using a credit card via the PayPal link on our website. All subscriptions, orders and renewal inquiries should be addressed to the publisher at [email protected] or by calling 617-926-4037.

03/09/2016

PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Research Center
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128-2406
Contacts: Ara Sanjian and/or Gerald E. Ottenbreit, Jr.
Tel: 313-593-5181
Fax: 313-593-5219
Email: [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Web: http://umdearborn.edu/673901

CONFERENCE ON THE “ARMENIANS AND THE COLD WAR” AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORN

DEARBORN, MI, March 2, 2016 (Armenian Research Center Press Release) – The Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn will host an unprecedented, multi-disciplinary, international academic conference on the “Armenians and the Cold War,” which will be held on the university’s campus on April 1-3, 2016. Thirty scholars from North and South America, Europe, and Armenia will participate in the conference.

On the international arena, the Cold War extended from the end of the Second Word War in 1945 to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Armenians around the world, however, had become divided between pro- and anti-Soviet factions as soon as Communists had gotten hold of Eastern Armenia in late 1920. The first panel of the conference (speakers: Garabet K. Moumdjian, Vahe Sahakyan, and Hazel Antaramian Hofman) will focus on the period from the 1920s to 1947, attempting to explain the political dynamics among Armenians, especially in the Diaspora, before the rest of the world formally entered the Cold War era. Discussions during this panel will constitute an important step toward finding out what exactly changed in the Armenian Diaspora and in the relations between the Soviet Armenian homeland and the Diaspora with the onset of the global Cold War in the mid-1940s.

The Cold War inevitably affected the Armenians, not only in Soviet Armenia, but also in the many Armenian communities scattered across the world. This time period will be discussed at the conference through a series of regional panels. Levon Chorbajian, Gregory Aftandilian, and Benjamin F. Alexander will focus on North America. Jirair Jolakian and Astrig Atamian will present papers on conditions among the Armenians in France. Developments in South America will be covered through presentations by Vartan Matiossian, Heitor Loureiro, and Khatchik DerGhougassian. Furthermore, there will be five separate papers on the Armenian communities in the Middle East by Hratch Tchilingirian, James Stocker, Khatchig Mouradian, Eldad Ben-Aharon, and Emre Can Dağlıoğlu. These panels are structured in such a way so as to generate discussion on comparing the specifics of the Cold War fault-lines in various Armenian-inhabited localities and determining the differences in Cold-War-era, intra-Armenian conflict and rivalry from one continent to another. There will also be a separate panel on relations between Soviet Armenia and the Diaspora during this period (speakers: Nélida Boulgourdjian and Gevorg Petrosyan). A roundtable discussion comparing the chronologies of global Cold War and the Armenian “Cold War” will cap the political history debate at the conference.

The last two panels deal with case studies of the impact of the Cold War on Armenian historiography (speakers: Samvel Grigoryan and Anush Hovhannisyan), arts (Neery Melkonian), and popular culture (Tigran Matosyan). Thereafter, the conference will conclude with a second roundtable discussion, which will tackle the legacy of the Cold War on Armenians today and make recommendations for future research in this domain.

Panel chairs and discussants also include Cam Amin, Kevork Bardakjian, Tamar Boyadjian, Richard G. Hovannisian, Asbed Kotchikian, Simon Payaslian, Pam Pennock, Ara Sanjian, and Sally Howell.

The goal of the conference organizers is to shed light and encourage further research on a pivotal period in modern Armenian history, the study of which is still in its infancy. By approaching the topic from various angles and disciplines, they hope that this gathering will encourage others to delve into the details of Armenian history in the Cold War era. Moreover, themes like the impact of the Cold War on Armenian literature, migration to and from Soviet Armenia, or the involvement of individual Armenians in espionage on both sides of the international political divide of the Cold War era should also be tackled in depth in the near future. These topics were among those listed in the conference’s call for papers, but the organizers did not receive any proposals.

The conference, which is open to the public, is being supported by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, while the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is providing assistance to participants from Armenia. The Armenian Review will devote a special issue to academic articles based on papers to be delivered at this conference.

The Armenian Research Center was established by Dr. Dennis R. Papazian in 1985, with financial support from the Knights of Vartan organization and particularly from the late Edward and Helen Mardigian. It remains devoted to documentation, research, and publications in the field of Armenian Studies.

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APPENDIX: FULL PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016

5:00-6:30 pm
Meet & Greet with the Participants of the Conference

6:30-7:00 pm
Words of Welcome
University of Michigan-Dearborn administration

Asbed Kotchikian, The Armenian Review

Gregory Aftandilian, National Association for Armenian Studies & Research

7:00-7:30 pm
Conference Introduction
Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn, ‘Why This Conference?’

7:30-9:30 pm
PANEL I: An Armenian “Cold War” before the Global Cold War?
Chair: Cam Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn
1. Garabet K. Moumdjian, Independent historian, Pasadena, CA, “ARF Collusion in the Kurdish Rebellions of the 1920s and 1930s in Republican Turkey: In Search of the Origins of Islamized Armenians in Turkey”
2. Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Negotiating Politics in a Time of Crisis: The Changing Course of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation During WWII and its Aftermath (1941-1947)”
3. Hazel Antaramian-Hofman, Fresno Community College, “Missing Ethnographic Opportunities: Post-WWII American-Armenian Repatriation to Soviet Armenia, 1947-1956”
Discussant: Astrig Atamian, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016

10:00 am-12:00 pm
PANEL II: Armenian-Americans in the 1950s
Chair: Pam Pennock, University of Michigan-Dearborn
1. Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, “Roily Exchanges: Newspaper Wars at the Hairenik Weekly and the Armenian Mirror-Spectator in 1951”
2. Gregory Aftandilian, American University, Washington, DC, “The Cold War Writings of Reuben Darbinian in The Armenian Review”
3. Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), “The Cold Wars of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation”
Discussant: Khatchik DerGhougassian, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina

12:00-12:15 pm
Coffee Break

12:15-1:30 pm
PANEL III: The Armenian “Cold War” in France
Chair: Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and Adjunct Professor of History, University of Southern California
1. Jirair Jolakian, Nor Haratch, Paris, “The Cold War in the Pages of the Newspaper Haratch”
2. Astrig Atamian, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, “Between Soviet Armenia and the French Communist Party, the ‘Garmir’ Movement in France”
Discussant: Asbed Kotchikian, Bentley University

1:30-3:00
Lunch

3:00-5:00 pm
PANEL IV: The Armenian “Cold War” in South America
Chair: Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. Vartan Matiossian, Armenian National Education Committee, New York, “Fighting for History: An Unknown Polemics in the Beginnings of the Cold War”
2. Heitor Loureiro, São Paulo State University (UNESP), “Communism in the Armenian Community in São Paulo and Repression by the Political Police”
3. Khatchik DerGhougassian, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, “The Diffusion of the Cold War in the (Southern) Periphery of the Armenian Diaspora: The Pro/Against Soviet Divide in the Argentine-Armenian Community 1947-1987”
Discussant: Simon Payaslian, Boston University

5:00-5:15 pm
Coffee Break

5:15-6:30 pm
PANEL V: Armenians: Between a Soviet Homeland and the Diaspora
Chair: Anush Hovhannisyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
1. Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina, “Background of Soviet Policy Toward the Armenian Diaspora in the Early Cold War: The Case of the Armenian Diaspora in France and Argentina (1930-1950)”
2. Gevorg Petrosyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “The Impact of the Cold War and Turkish-Soviet Relations on Armenians in Turkey and Their Relations with Soviet Armenia (1945-1964)”
Discussant: Eldad Ben-Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London

6:30-9:00 pm
Reception to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Armenian Research Center

SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2016

10:00 am-12:00 pm
PANEL VI: The Armenian “Cold War” in the Arab World from 1945 to 1970
Chair: Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
1. Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford, “The Armenian Church During the Cold War Era and the Chasm Between Ejmiatsin and Antelias”
2. James Stocker, Trinity Washington University, “An Opportunity to Strike a Blow? The United States and the Struggle in the Armenian Apostolic Church, 1956-1963”
3. Khatchig Mouradian, Rutgers University, “The Cold War of Genocide: April 24 Editorials in the Lebanese-Armenian Party Political Press, 1945-1970”
Discussant: Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

12:00-12:15 pm
Coffee Break

12:15-1:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION I: The Chronologies of Global Cold War and the Armenian “Cold War” Compared
Opening remarks: Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1:00-2:30 pm
Lunch

2:30-3:45 pm
PANEL VII: The Middle East in the 1970s and ’80s: The Era of ASALA and JCAG
Chair: Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
1. Eldad Ben Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London, “The Cold War and Mid-East Political Violence: An Israeli-American-Turkish Alliance?”
2. Emre Can Dağlıoğlu, Clark University, “Re-Shaped Identity of Armenians in Turkey Under the Conditions of the Cold War”
Discussant: Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3:45-4:00 pm
Coffee Break

4:00-5:15
PANEL VIII: Soviet Armenian Historiography and the Cold War
Chair: Tamar Boyadjian, Michigan State University
1. Samvel Grigoryan, Independent historian, Moscow, “T‘agawor, Korol‘ or Czar: The Impact of Soviet-Western Relations on the Historiography of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia”
2. Anush Hovhannisyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “Remembering the Genocide in Soviet Armenia During the Cold War Era: ‘Private Stories’”
Discussant: Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and Adjunct Professor of History, University of Southern California

5:15-5:30
Coffee Break

5:30-6:45
PANEL IX: Arts and Popular Culture during the Armenian “Cold War”
Panel chair: Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn
1. Neery Melkonian, Independent researcher, critic and curator, New York City, “A Third Space: Armenian Diaspora Artists and the Cold War”
2. Tigran Matosyan, American University of Armenia, “Sheepskin Vests in Yerevan: The Story of Soviet Armenian Hippies”
Discussant: Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

6:45-7:00
Coffee Break

7:00-8:00
ROUNDTABLE II: The Legacy of the Armenian “Cold War” Today; Recommendations for Future Research
Opening remarks: Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford

For details contact Gerald E. Ottenbreit, Jr. at (313) 593-5181 or e-mail: [email protected]

The Armenian Research Center at The University of Michigan-Dearborn is the only Armenian Research Center attached to an American university, and thus it has traditionally exhibited a leadership role in the field.

03/07/2016

We are very excited to announce that The Armenian Review will co-sponsor the University of Michigan - Dearborn International Academic Conference: Armenians & The Cold War, taking place April 1-3, 2016 in Dearborn, MI. Please see flyer for details:

10/02/2015

Celebrate the first official day of autumn with a look back 60 years!
The Armenian Review - Autumn 1955 Volume 8, Number 3