Announcements

Diasporas are often understood and studied in relation to homelands, specific localities and exiled or migrant communities. ##

The main objective of this one day conference is to critically engage with the notion of diaspora as bounded place – with a particular agenda to unpack the diversity of its meanings for the people living in diasporic settings. As increasingly more migrant communities “demand” the diaspora title (and the number of diasporas proliferate), the conference will aim at discussing what the two terms “diaspora” and the “diasporic” share in common, and whether they constitute alternatives to each other. In doing so, however, the conference does not seek redefinitions. Instead, the papers engage with what the “diaspora does” at an everyday level by going beyond renaming “what it is.”

There will be two sessions in the conference. All papers will be presented in English. Each session will be followed by 30 mins discussion.

Session I on Armenian diaspora(s)

Session II on non-Armenian diasporic contexts.

The conference is organized by Aykut Ozturk in collaboration with the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of NAS RA, Hrant Dink Foundation and Gyumri Youth Initiative Centre within the the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme, which is implemented with the support of the UK Government's Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the academic conference “Funeral Rite from Ancient Times to Present (Armenian Highlands and South Caucasus)” organized by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan, Armenia, on the 14th-16th May 2018.

Please prepare the title and the abstract of your presentation (maximum 2000 characters) and fill out the online application form before the 10th of April 2018.

We highly encourage presentations based on analytical studies; presentations containing only descriptive data will not be considered.

Selected authors will be invited to submit full articles to be included in the conference proceedings.

Fill out and submit the application form

Web-page of the conference

Organizational committee of the conference (Email: funeral-conf@iae.am)

Wed, 11/08/2017 - 10:00 to Fri, 11/10/2017 - 18:00##

CALL FOR PAPERS 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY, FOLKLORISTICS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES National Academy of Sciences, RA Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography 15th International Conference of Young Scientists 8-10 November, 2017, Yerevan.

Young Scientists Council of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography invites students and young scholars to take part in the 15th International Conference of Young Scientists.

The conference is interdisciplinary including

• Archaeology
• Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology
• Folkloristics

The applicants are required to submit:

1. Abstracts in Armenian or English not more than 300 words (Word doc, Sylfaen or Times New Roman font). The abstract should include the first and last names of the presenter, the presentation title and up to 10 key-words. The abstract should contain brief content of research, main research problem as well as methodological and theoretical approaches
2. Application form.

Deadline for the abstracts submissions is June 16, 2017. Please, the send application form and abstract to ysc@iae.am cc: ysc.iae.arm@gmail.com

The authors of the selected abstracts will be contacted via e-mail by July 16, 2017.

Draft version of papers (approx. 3000 words) submission deadline is October 25, 2017.

The languages of the conference are Armenian, English and Russian. Online presentations are also welcomed. Duration of the presentation will be 15 minutes.

Selected papers will be published as articles after being approved by the editorial board.
For international participants, the institute may cover the accommodation costs.
For more information email to ysc.iae.arm@gmail.com
The Annual Conference is organized by YSC of IAE NAS RA

Address: 15 Charents Str., 0025, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia

Tel. (+374) 10 55 68 96

The Department of Diaspora Studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA & The Armenian Diaspora Research Center at Haigazian University are Pleased to Invite You to Participate in the International Conference the Armenian Family in the Context of Contemporary Challenges 28-29 October 2017 Yerevan, Armenia.##

Conference Overview

Nowadays the family as a social institution has undergone fundamental changes that are having an impact on various aspects of the socal life. In this context, the changes taking place in the Armenian family are deeper because the conditions for existence of the representatives of Armenian nation are quite varied in different environments and generate a lot of challenges in reproduction of traditions and ethnicity. Historically, assuming the functions of other institutions, Armenian family acquired a key role in contributing to the preservation of national identity and ethno-cultural values.

In the context of current challenges, the International Conference on the contemporary issues of the Armenian family would give an opportunity: to gather new studies of the Armenian family within different disciplines; to identify trends and changes in the family both in homeland and Diaspora; to examine the role of the family in preserving ethnic identity; to compare traditional and modern models of the family and its functions.

Possible Topics

• Interdisciplinary approaches to the family study: research framework and issues, family models (traditional and modern)
• Methodology of the family study: implementing of methods and tools
• Family and ethnicity: concepts and problems
• Peculiarities of the family study in the own and foreign environment
• Root principals of the family issues in Armenia and in Diaspora:
• Interethnic and intra-ethnic marriages (between representatives of different communities in Diaspora and between representatives of homeland and of Diaspora)
• Family and ethno-cultural identity (intergenerational transmission, education, language, religion, etc.)
• Family and migration
• Family enterprise

Abstract Guidelines

The following criteria will be used to evaluate and select the submitted abstracts:

1. Subject: relevance to one of the mentioned above topics;
2. Language: Armenian (Western or Eastern), Russian or English;
3. Size: should not exceed 250 words;
4. Structure: brief introduction, research question, purpose, research objectives, theoretical framework and methodology to be applied in the paper.

Applicants should send e-mail (info.diasporastudies@gmail.com) presentation abstract and their short curriculum vitae (1 page) by June 30, 2017.

Participation

Researchers, scholars, and PhD students in social-humanitarian and historical sciences, representatives of NGO and policy makers from Armenia, Artsakh, and abroad are welcome to apply for the conference.

Participants will be selected based on paper abstract and CV. Selected participants will be invited to present their papers (20-minute time limit for presentations). Selected papers will be published after the conference.

Timeline

Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2017
Reply by 20 July 2017
Pre-final version of selected paper. 20 September 2017
Conference program and agenda. 10 October 2017
Full paper submission deadline. 30 November 2017

Conference Languages

The conference will be conducted in Armenian. Simultaneous translation will be available during the presentations in English and Russian.

Fees and Costs

There is no participation fee and the conference participants will be provided with meals on the days of the conference. The participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation.

Organizing Committee and Editorial Board

The organizing committee of the conference is the group of researchers of the Department of Diaspora Studies at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography NAS RA. Editorial board of the conference papers is the group of researchers of the Department of Diaspora Studies and the Armenian Diaspora Research Center at Haigazian University in Beirut.

The lecture will present some results of the joint Georgian-Italian archaeological project of Ca' Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum in the Shida Kartli province of Georgia, focusing on their relevance for the integration of the pre-classical cultures of the Southern Caucasus into the general framework of Near Eastern archaeology. In particular, recent excavations at Aradetis Orgora, one of the main sites of the region, yielded a continuous occupational sequence able to highlight the development of local societies from the Early to the Middle and to the Late Bronze Age and, together with data from the neighbouring site of Khashuri Natsargora, contribute to the ongoing debate about the Kura-Araxes culture.

Elena Rova is associate professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests concentrate on the study of the first urban civilizations of the Near East, with a special focus on the archaeology of Upper Mesopotamia and its connections with the Southern Caucasus during the Late Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age (4th-2rd millennia BC). She has been doing field research in Northern Iraq (Tell Karrana 3) in Syria (Tell Leilan, Tell Beydar) and, since 2009, she is director of the "Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project" of Ca' Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum of Tbilisi (excavations of Natsargora, Okherakhevi and Aradetis Orgora). Among her main research topics are: the comparative chronology of the first urban civilizations, the interconnections between Mesopotamia and the neighbouring areas, the chronological and geographical distribution of ceramic styles, seals and iconographies (both with traditional methodologies, and with the help of mathematic-statistical analysis methods). She is the author (or co-author) of 6 monographs and of more than 100 articles and reviews in scientific journals, conference proceedings and miscellaneous volumes, and the editor (or co-editor) of 4 volumes of conference proceedings and miscellaneous studies.