Day 1: February 18, 2023 10:00 AM Pacific Time

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Hazal Ozdemir (Northwestern University)
Bureacratic Violence and Border-Building in the Ottoman Empire

Sarine Agopian (American University of Beirut)
Urban Modernization of Late Ottoman Kadıköy Istanbul, through Memoirs of Hovhannes Kalfa Stepanian

Yağmur Karaca (University of Southern California)
The Diuzian Family and Transformation of the Amiras in the Nineteenth-Century

PANEL II: ALEXANDER ROMANCE
Panel Chair: Nora Bairamian

Rob Kuntner (University of Würzburg, Germany) 
Alexander Romance: Some Remarks on the Origin of the Armenian Version

Day 2: February 25, 2023 10:00 AM Pacific Time

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PANEL I: EARLY SOVIET HISTORY
Panel Chair: Lori Pirinjian

Oğul Tuna (University of California, Irvine) 
Nationalism and Socialism Between Revolutions: Nariman Narimanov and Armenians

Arpine Haroyan (London School of Economics) 
Soviet-Armenian Women's Magazine "Hayastani Ashkhatavoruhi" (Female Worker of Armenia) and Gender Construction in the Early 1920s

PANEL II: LANGUAGE
Panel Chair: Alexia Hatun

Annika Topelian (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) 
Knowledge of morphological case and null-overt subjects in heritage Western Armenian

Emma Santelmann (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 
Examining the Maintenance of Dialect Features in Regional Urban Armenian Speech via Sociolinguistic Analysis of Vowels in Gavar, Armenia