Lectures and Seminars: Week 8, Hilary Term, 10-14 March‏ Oxford Armenian Studies (armenianstudies@orinst.ox.ac.uk)

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Oxford Armenian Studies - Lectures and Seminars

Week 8 -  Hilary Term, 10-14 March

Classical and Medieval Armenian Culture: The Language of Frik and the Hayrens

- Prof Theo van Lint

Mon. 10 March, 3-4pm, Pembroke College, The Henderson Building, Henderson Seminar Room

An Introduction to Ancient Armenian Linguistics

- Dr Irene Tinti

Mon. 10 March, 4-5pm, Pembroke College, The Henderson Building, Henderson Seminar Room

The purpose of the course is to introduce the audience to linguistic research on Ancient Armenian; the lectures are ideally aimed at students, and do not require any prior knowledge of the language. The fourth and last lecture will draw on themes and issues discussed in previous talks and exemplify them through case studies.

Church, Religion and Politics in the Armenian Diaspora

- Dr Hratch Tchilingirian

Tues. 11 March, 6:30-8:00pm, Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute

The lecture will continue the discussion of the last session on the "Church Crisis" in the 1950s and how Armenian and internationla politics exacerbated multiplicity of conflicts in the Diaspora during the Cold War era and continuing in contemporary times.  It will then, by way of conclusion to this lecture series, highlight the contemporary crossroads where religion, society and politics intersect in Armenia and the Diaspora.

Kurdish Studies Seminar (convened by Dr Özlem Galip and Prof. Theo van Lint)

Wed. 12 March, 5:00-7:00pm, Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute

- Professor Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam)

"The origins of Kurdology: Early Russian and Armenian studies of the Kurds" 

The importance of the early modern Russian empire for the development of Kurdish studies, and by extension for a modern Kurdish national identity, can hardly be overestimated. In this talk, I will explore some relatively underinvestigated studies, including two of the earliest comparative vocabularies of Kurdish and Khatchatur Abovian's ethnographical writings on the Kurds, and discuss some of the more general implications of these works. It will emerge that in the course of the nineteenth century, the crucial role of native Kurdish scholars (most importantly, Mela Mahmudê Bayazîdî) was systematically downplayed as part of what may be called the 'folkorization' of the Kurds: a project to depict them as basically an illiterate and tribal nation with an exclusively oral national folkloric tradition.

Introduction to Armenian Literature and Culture (II)

- Dr Emilio Bonfiglio

Thu. 13 March, 2:00-3:00pm, Pembroke College, Henderson Building, Andrew Pitt Seminar Room

The transmission of Armenian literary culture: rudiments of Armenian epigraphy, codicology, and palaeography.

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

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