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The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the NAS of RA participates in the European Archeology Days. An open lecture will be presented in that context. Dr. Viktorya Vasilyan, the head of the scientific organizational group at the institute, will give the first lecture.

Content: The lecture is devoted to the application of artificial intelligence in the fields of popularization of archaeological material, creation of virtual cultural space, transformation of museums, as well as its educational and touristic importance. 3D technologies and their role in the comprehensive digital archiving of artifacts and historic sites will be addressed.

Dear Colleagues,

The Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of NAS RA invites you to participate in the international interdisciplinary conference entitled "Syunik: Culture & Nature", which will take place on April 26-28, 2022, in Yerevan.
The papers to be presented at the conference are related to human-nature relations and interactions, mainly from the point of view of humanities.
The selection of papers will be published in the collection of articles of the same name.

Applications for participation in the conference (it is required to fill in the contact details of the speaker, the title, the authors' names and the summary of the presentation) are accepted only online, with this link, by December 1, 2021.

Conference organizers:

Roman Hovsepyan (roman.hovsepyan@iae.am),

Arsen Bobokhyan (arsenbobokhyan@yahoo.com).

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.

International conference, 17-19 November 2023, YSU and IAE

�� Yerevan State University and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (IAE), with assistance of the All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies and in cooperation with the nationwide organization ''Terre et culture'', are convening an international conference dedicated to the historical and cultural heritage of the region of Arevik in Syunik province (nowadays Meghri region). The conference will take into examination various aspects of intercultural relations that the region of Arevik has developed with the neighboring countries during its history.

�� We welcome analytical papers representing scholarly novelty and related to the following academic disciplines:

�� tangible cultural heritage (archaeology, epigraphy, museology);

�� intangible cultural heritage (ethnography, cultural anthropology, folklore studies, linguistics, dialectology);

�� art history (architecture, miniature painting, frescoes, manuscripts);

�� historical disciplines (historiography, source studies, topography, cartography).

♟ The conference will be held in Yerevan and Meghri.

✅ For the participation, please send your abstract, indicating the name of the author(s), title, position, place of work and mobile phone number to meghri.conference@gmail.com by 22 September. The participants selected by the organizing committee will be notified by 10 October. The preliminary program of the conference will be sent to the participants by 30 October.

�� The articles written on the basis of the reports will be included in the collection Arevik: Essays on Historical and Cultural Heritage, which will be published in 2024.

�� The working languages of the conference are Armenian, English, French, and Russian.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Ph.D. (Rector of YSU)

Arsen Bobokhyan, Ph.D. (Director of IAE NAS RA)

Davit Davtyan (Chairman of the Yerevan branch of the Organization ''Terre et culture'')

Hamo Sukiasyan, Ph.D. (IH NAS RA)

Arsen Harutyunyan, Ph.D. (IAM/IAE)

Tork Dalalyan, Ph.D. (Deputy Director of IAE NAS RA)

The Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of the Republic of Armenia is organizing a conference on October 18–20, 2023, on the topic "Globalization and Contemporary Socio-Cultural Processes in Armenia: Problems and Perspectives". The goal of the conference is to address Armenia's current socio-economic and ethno-demographic challenges, including issues with emigration and refugees, social stratification and poverty, marriages, changes in family and intra-family relationships, new manifestations of traditional and modern Armenian festive and professional culture, language, religious behavior and identity, and diaspora-related issues and potential returns in relation to the advancement of Armenia's intellectual and scientific capabilities.

The conference will be held both in person and remotely.

To participate in the conference, please email your abstracts to iae.ethnosociology@gmail.com by September 25, 2023. Applicants will be informed about accepted applications by October 10. The abstracts will be published online before the conference, and the reports will be published as articles in a separate collection by April 1, 2024.

Criteria for Abstracts. The abstract must include 250-300 words in three languages: Armenian, English, and Russian. Times New Roman for English and Russian; Sylfaen for Armenian. 6-8 key words. Margins: 2.5 cm on all sides. Font size: 12. Line spacing: 1.5.

The title of the report must be written in capital letters at the beginning of the abstract in the center of the page, followed by key words. The name and surname of the author, academic degree and title, affiliation, position, email address, and the form of participation (in person or remotely) must be indicated below in the right.

For more information, please email Lusine Angelush at iae.ethnosociology@gmail.com, lusineangelush@gmail.com or call +37498913314.

The Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia is organizing a conference on the epigraphic cultural heritage of the Armenian Highlands and settlements, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the founding of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. The main goal of the conference is to present the perception of writing in the context of human thought and culture based on the tradition of epigraphy, emphasizing the values of source study of the stone chronicle.

The application for participation in the conference and the abstract (200-300 words) should express the scientific novelty of the report and relate to the following topics:

• Petroglyphs (the simplest forms of information transfer),

• Epigraphy of Pre-Mashtotsian scripts (cuneiform, hieroglyphic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, etc.)

• Epigraphy of Mashtotsian scripts (carved, embossed, painted),

• Epigraphy in other languages (Georgian, Albanian, Persian, Arabic, Assyrian, etc.),

• Content, language and art of epigraphic inscriptions,

• Unofficial epigraphy - graffiti.

Please, send the abstracts of the reports in Armenian or English by October 1 to the following email address: ars.vimagraget@gmail.com. Applications selected by the organizing committee will be announced till October 15. The conference will take part on November 10-11, 2023. The selected reports will be published in the special collection of articles till April 1, 2024.

Contacts: ars.vimagraget@gmail.com, +374 94 73 00 27