Celebrating Ethnicity: Finding Common Ground
A one-day conference devoted to an exploration of Arab, Armenian, Iranian, Israeli, and Turkish public festivals in Los Angeles.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sequoia Room
UCLA Faculty Center
A conference held in honor of Jonathan Friedlander, organizer, who is retiring after thirty years of service to the Center for Near Eastern Studies
Introduction and Panel One
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Chair: Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
Amy Malek, UCLA
Negotiating Iranian-American Identity in Diaspora: The Mehregan Festival of Autumn
Joanne Nucho, UCI
Performing Memory: Analysis of an Armenian Commemoration Event
Jaynie Aydin, YASAR University, Turkey
Belly Dance Celebrations in Two Different Contexts: Los Angeles Cairo Carnival and First Day of Spring in Izmir, Turkey
Panel Two
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Chair: Megan Rancier, UCLA
Münir Nurettin Beken, UCLA Ethnomusicology
Music, Culture, and History in Gates to New Turkiye [sic]: 2009 Los Angeles Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival
Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA CNES
Israel Festival - Jewish Festival?
Reception at 4:00pm in the Downstairs Lounge
Cost: Free and open to the public
For more information please contact
Amy Bruinooge, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1181
cnes@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA International Institute
