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Four scholars from the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles will discuss their research on Western Armenian during a panel discussion entitled “Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6 in the Alice Peters Auditorium at the University Business Center.
The discussion is part of the Armenian Studies Program Fall 2019 Lecture Series and is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation. Armenian Studies Program Director professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian will moderate.
The panelists include:
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Dr. Shushan Karapetian, deputy director of the Institute of Armenian Studies at USC. She received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages & Cultures from UCLA in 2014, where she taught Armenian Studies courses for the past nine years. Her dissertation, “‘How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?’: A Study of Eastern Armenian Heritage Language Speakers in Los Angeles,” received the Society for Armenian Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2015.
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Jesse Siragan Arlen is a Ph.D. candidate of Armenian Studies in the Near Eastern Languages & Cultures department at UCLA. He has taught Western Armenian at a Sunday School since 2016, and his creative prose and poetry in Western Armenian has appeared in literary journals such as "Inknagir" and "Pakine."
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Elizabeth Mkhitarian graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English and Armenian Studies in 2018. She is a published writer of prose and poetry in English and Armenian. Her first book of poetry in Armenian is forthcoming.
- Dr. Hagop Gulludjian received his Ph.D. with highest distinction from the Jesuit University of Buenos Aires. He has taught modern Western Armenian at UCLA for many years. His area of research is in poststructural rereading of medieval mystical poetry and in languages without a country: language vitality programs and their replicability.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in Lot P6 or P5 near the University Business Center (parking permits are not required on Friday evenings).
For more information, visit the Armenian Studies Program website, call 559.278.2669, or visit the program on Facebook @ArmenianStudiesFresnoState.
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