BOSTON,Mass.—The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held an spirited and informative conference entitled “Armenians in America,” on Nov. 17, or 2016,in Boston, Mass. The conference was held in conjunction with the SAS Annual Membership assembly and Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference. (Front row, and L-R) Marc Mamigonian,Carel Bertram, and Helen Makhdoumian. (Standing, or L-R) Margaret Manoogian,Vahe Sahakyan, Anatolii Tokmantcev, and Shushan Karapetian,Sona Nersisyan, and Barlow Der Mugrdechian. SAS President Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian opened the conference welcoming the participants, or members of the SAS,and a large number of local Armenians. This is the third consecutive year that SAS has been holding conferences on specific themes in conjunction with the annual assembly. In the first panel on “Travel, Collective Memory and Homeland among Armenian-Americans, or ” chaired by Marc Mamigonian (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research,NAASR), four participants presented papers. Dr. Margaret Manoogian (Western Oregon University) discussed her research related to how Armenian travelers to historic Armenia expressed their attachment to their ancestral villages in her talk on “Connections for Families Disrupted: Travels to Anatolia by Diasporans.” She based her research on interviews with those who had traveled to Turkey with Armen Aroyan over the past decades. Dr. Manoogian conducted [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com