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DAY 1 - MAY 29, 2026

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Sebouh D. Aslanian and Sona Tajiryan

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Framing Address

Sebouh D. Aslanian
Through the Eye of a Needle: Global Microhistory and Armenian Early Modernity

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | PANEL 1: THE MAGICAL WORLD OF ARMENIAN PRINT

Discussant: Dr. Sona Tajiryan

Aram Ghoogasian (UCLA)
The Uses and Misuses of Early Modern Books, 1512–1800

Anush Apresyan (Matenadaran-Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute)
The Mekhitarists’ Contribution to Early Modernity: Abbot Mekhitar in Armenian Old Printed Books

Hratch Kestenian (Orient-Institut Beirut)
Making Medicine Legible: Mik‘ayēl Rēstēn Tēr-Petrosean and Early Modern Armenian Medical Print

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK

02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | PANEL II: OBJECTS IN MOTION: MATERIALITY, POWER, AND PATRONAGE

Discussant: Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian (UCLA)

Ani Margaryan (Soochow University)
Patronage, Materiality, and Identity: A Microhistorical Inquiry into Armenian Mercantile Networks through Objets d’Art

Emma Harutyunyan (Harvard)
Liturgical Objects and the Construction of Patronal Identity

Sona Tajiryan (Independent Researcher)
A Merchant’s Extraordinary Gem Portfolio: An Early Modern Phenomenon?

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM | PANEL III: MOBILITY AND MEMORY IN PERIPHERAL AND URBAN SPACES AND LIVED EXPERIENCE

Discussant: Dr. S. Peter Cowe (UCLA)

Naira Poghosyan (Yerevan State University)
Armenians in the Ottoman Province: A Microhistorical Reading of Hakop Divrikts‘i’s Chronicle (1759–1783)

Başak Yağmur Karaca (USC)
Diaspora in Built Form: Armenian Mobility and Commercial Buildings in Eighteenth-Century Intra-Muros Istanbul

Haykuhi Muradyan (Yerevan State University)
A Microhistory of the Armenian Church of Dhaka (1781): Diaspora, Mobility, and Memory

07:30 PM - 10:00 PM | DINNER (BY INVITATION ONLY)

At Professor Aslanian's home

DAY 2 - MAY 30, 2026

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | PANEL IV: HISTORIES OR STORIES? WORDS AND LITERATURE AS WITNESSES TO INTERACTION, MIGRATION, AND IMAGINATION

Discussant: Dr. Maran Momdjian (UCLA)

Suman Pal (University of Calcutta)
Grigor Harutiunian in Eighteenth-Century Bengal: Diaspora and Historical Imagination

Kristine Baghdasaryan (Pázmány Péter Catholic University/Free University of Berlin)
Armenian Words and Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Dede Qorqud Epic, c. 1512–1789

Vera Sahakyan (Matenadaran-Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute)
Surviving Memory: Shah Abbas’s Deportations and the Transmission of Environmental Toponyms

12:00 PM - 01:30 PM | LUNCH BREAK

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM | PANEL V: CONFESSIONALISM BETWEEN TEXT AND TRIBUNAL: VERNACULAR CULTURE, IMPOSTURE, AND THE LAW

Discussant: Dr. Hagop Gulludjian (UCLA)

Anna Ohanjanyan (Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts)
Confessional Mobility and Imposture: A Microhistory of an Armenian “False Priest” in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World

Sebouh D. Aslanian (UCLA)
Inquisitorial Ashkharhabar: A Microhistory of Zaccaria Ter Martirosean and the Vernacular Turn in Manila, c. 1740–1760

Yavuz Aykan (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
From the Subject of Desire to the Subject of Law: Towards a Microhistory of Metropolitan Toros in Ottoman Trabzon, 1723

03:30 PM | Closing & Farewell

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