Sunday | MARCH 25, 2018 | 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Symposium:

Photography in the Ottoman Middle East & Beyond

Dr. Armen T. Marsoobian, Co-Curator of Continuity and Rupture: An Armenian Family Odyssey, moderates as informative day of richly illustrated presentations by leading scholars of historical photography. The symposium explores the importance Armenians played in the rapid expansion of photography across the Ottoman Empire and beyond.

10:30 AM | Armenian Photography Across Generations

Dr. Joseph E. Malikian, Independent Researcher, New York

11:15 AM | Beyond Orientalism: The Vernacular Dimension of Ottoman Photography

Dr. Edhem Eldem, Professor of History, Bogazici University, Istanbul & the International Chair Turkish and Ottoman History, College de France, Paris

12:00 PM | Lunch Break

12:45 PM | Curator Tour of Continuity and Rupture: An Armenian Family Odyssey

Dr. Armen T. Marsoobian, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven

1:30 PM | Photographs as Research Tools at the Getty Research Institute

Dr. Frances Terpak, Curator, Photographs, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

2:15 PM | The Archival Turn in Art History and Art Practice

Hande Sever, California Institute of the Arts & the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

3:00 PM | Photography between Borders: Armenian Photographers in Qajar Iran & the Ottoman Empire

Dr. Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, Art Department, California State University, Stanislaus

Welcoming Remarks:

Dr. Sebouh Arslanian, Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, UCLA

Symposium moderated by:

Dr. Armen T. Marsoobian

The symposium is presented under the auspices of the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with additional support from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).