SYNOPSIS OF THE PANEL "ARMENIANS AND ISLAM" AT THE 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA, OCTOBER 8-11, 2009
On October 10, 2009, Mushegh Asatryan and Khachik Gevorgyan, the founding members of the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD) took part in the panel "Armenians and Islam", organized by them, which was part at the Central Eurasian Studies Society's 10th annual Conference at the University of Toronto, Canada. In late January a call for papers was distributed by Mushegh Asatryan to invite all interested parties to participate in the panel. From more than 15 applications 8 were accepted to constitute 2 different panels on "Armenians and Islam", one on the medieval, and the other on the modern periods. The organizers of the conference accepted the panel on modern issues concerning the Armenians and Islam. After negotiations with the organizers the panels were merged and 3 participants registered for the mentioned panel.
On October 10 in the room N 023 at the Munk centre for international studies at the University of Toronto the panel on "Armenians and Islam" started.
The organizer of panel Mr. Mushegh Asatryan introduced to participants of the panel the idea and the reason of organizing such a panel. Since Armenian history and culture are viewed as part of the Christian heritage, Armenian studies is traditionally viewed as part of the study of the Christian Middle East, with little attention to the Islamic milieu in which Armenians have always lived. A second point worth mentioning is the popular view among Armenians of the Islamic world at best as "foreign", and at worst as an "enemy". This view is sometimes shared by Armenian academics working on Armenian history, which makes them view the history of Armenian interactions with the Muslim world as a series of battles and massacres (due to some historical events, such as the Genocide), completely ignoring the rich cultural interaction between the Armenians and the Muslim world. Thus, this panel is a symbolic step in urging future historians to view Armenian history in a more complex manner.
As a discussant of the panel Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan mainly focused on the following:
So far the discipline of Armenian Studies has been introduced either via separate conferences devoted only to Armenian Studies, or this discipline was introduced as a panel at international conferences mainly devoted to Middle Eastern Studies, Christian Studies, Bible Studies, etc.
He mentioned that one of the main ideas of this panel within this conference is to introduce the Armenian Studies in a broader concept of Eurasian Studies, which, of course, in some cases do overlap with the Middle Eastern Studies. But still taking into consideration the modern socio-political realities as well as the historical events through centuries it is important to view Armenian realities in the context of Eurasian Studies and more specifically in the context of Central Asian and Caucasian studies, which in their turn are main geographical areas to be studied within the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Thus this society and this conference were chosen by the organizers of this panel the Armenian Studies to be introduced in a new perspective.
As the programs of many conferences on Armenian Studies show, the main bulk of participants are from different countries but not Armenia. Dr. Gevorgyan mentioned that this situation has been changed by the active involvement of the Armenian Studies program at Michigan, Ann Arbor, which strives to always have representatives of Armenian academic circles during the events organized on Armenian Studies at Ann Arbor. From this point, Dr. Gevorgyan particularly mentioned that the importance of this panel can be viewed also from the perspective that it is organized by those who have their academic background from the Republic of Armenia and are bearers of Armenian Academic culture.
Then Dr. Gevorgyan discussed two papers presented at the panel by Alyson Wharton (SOAS, University of London), "The Rise and Eventual Fall of the Balyan Family: The Phenomenon of a Family of Armenian-Ottoman Architects in 19th Century Istanbul" and Roubina Shnorhokian (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada), "A Medieval Trans-imperial Chronicle: Preliminary Remarks on the Examples of Het'um of Korykos and Rashid al-Din". Sona Tajiryan from the Republic of Armenia who was to present a paper was unable to attend this conference.
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