Seminar: Armenian Schools in the Middle East

Oxford Armenian Studies 
The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford


Michaelmas Term 2012

CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN CULTURE, SOCIETY, POLITICS SEMINAR 
Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, Associate Faculty, Middle East and Armenian Studies 


6:30 - 8:00 PM, Oriental Institute, Lecture Room 1

Tuesday, 30 October (Week 4)

ARMENIAN SCHOOLS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE CASE OF LEBANON
An overview of Armenian schools in the Middle East with a particular focus on the schools in Lebanon, one of the largest and significant communities in the region. The seminar will highlight some of the internal and external problems facing the schools and "Armenian education" in the Middle East in general.



Friday, 16 November (Week 6)

CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION IN THE DIASPORA: 
METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
In addition to language, preservation of culture is a significant component in the discourse of hayapahpanum [‘preservation of Armenianness’ ] in the Diaspora. The seminar will raise some methodological and conceptual questions for further exploration and discussion.


Hilary Term 2013

CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION IN THE DIASPORA II: 
WHAT IS "ARMENIAN" ABOUT ARMENIAN CULTURE?
The session will build on the key points of the last seminar in the Michaelmas Term and expand the discussion particularly on the "Armenian" aspect of "culture". 


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For further details about the seminar please contact Dr Hratch Tchilingirian: hratch.tchilingirian@orinst.ox.ac.uk
or Prof. Theo van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies: theo.vanlint@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Hilary term

Hilary Term is the second academic term of the Universities ofOxford^[1][2] and Dublin^[3] academic year. It runs from January to March and is so named because the feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, 14 January, falls during this term. All terms are dated from this day in the following way:^{[citation needed]}

• Michaelmas term — 13 Sundays before to 5 Sundays before the feast day of St Hilary
• Hilary term — 1 Sunday to 9 Sundays after the feast day of St Hilary
• Trinity term — 15 Sundays to 21 Sundays after the feast day of St Hilary

The term originated in the legal system. The Courts of England and Wales divide the legal year into four terms: Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas.

At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made by Council on 8 May 2002, Hilary Term begins on and includes 7 January and ends on and includes 25 March or the Saturday before Palm Sunday, whichever is the earlier.^[2] In Hilary Term, as in Michaelmas Term and in Trinity Term, there is a period of eight weeks known as Full Term, beginning on a Sunday, within which lectures and other instruction prescribed by statute or regulation are given.^[2] The dates on which each Full Term will begin and end in the next academic year but one are published by the Registrar in the University Gazette during Hilary Term.^[2]