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Courses on the "Origins of Armenian Art" to be offered at Columbia University
14:56 24.07.2014
Dr. Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine
Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been appointed the Nikit
and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor in the Department of Middle
Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University for
the Fall of 2014. She will be teaching a seminar style course entitled
Origins of Armenian Art: Creating An Identity beginning September 5,
according to the Armenian Reporter.
The course, which will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on
Fridays from 11:00 am to 12:50 pm, will use the objects in the
collections of the Metropolitan Museum's Medieval Department to
explore how the Armenian people, at the levels of elite and popular
culture, used architecture, manuscript illumination, coins, stone
carvings, ceramics, textiles and other media to identify and position
themselves in relation to neighboring or dominating cultures. Focusing
on how to arrive at a definition of Armenian art and how to relate
Armenia to the larger cultural context of early and medieval periods
and later revivals, the course will also examine the reasons for
scholarly interest in a definition of Armenian art over the last
century.
The Visiting Professorship program, part of the Armenian Studies
Program in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African
Studies at Columbia, is made possible by an endowment established by
the late Dr. Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian in 1998. Previous Ordjanian
Visiting Professors have included Levon Abrahamian, Vardan Azatyan,
Peter Balakian, Melissa Bilal, George Bournoutian, Seta Dadoyan,
Roberta Ervine, Helen Evans, Rachel Goshgarian, Arman Grigoryan,
Robert Hewsen, Armen Marsoobian, Ara Sarafian and Khachig Tololyan.
The Ordjanian Visiting Professorship is one of several programs of the
Armenian Center at Columbia, the organization that raised the initial
funds to establish a Chair of Armenian Studies at Columbia in 1979 and
which continues to provide funds for scholarships, library
acquisitions, academic publications, lectures, conferences and
symposia.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/07/24/courses-on-the-origins-of-armenian-art-to-be-offered-at-columbia-university/
14:56 24.07.2014
Dr. Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine
Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been appointed the Nikit
and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor in the Department of Middle
Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University for
the Fall of 2014. She will be teaching a seminar style course entitled
Origins of Armenian Art: Creating An Identity beginning September 5,
according to the Armenian Reporter.
The course, which will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on
Fridays from 11:00 am to 12:50 pm, will use the objects in the
collections of the Metropolitan Museum's Medieval Department to
explore how the Armenian people, at the levels of elite and popular
culture, used architecture, manuscript illumination, coins, stone
carvings, ceramics, textiles and other media to identify and position
themselves in relation to neighboring or dominating cultures. Focusing
on how to arrive at a definition of Armenian art and how to relate
Armenia to the larger cultural context of early and medieval periods
and later revivals, the course will also examine the reasons for
scholarly interest in a definition of Armenian art over the last
century.
The Visiting Professorship program, part of the Armenian Studies
Program in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African
Studies at Columbia, is made possible by an endowment established by
the late Dr. Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian in 1998. Previous Ordjanian
Visiting Professors have included Levon Abrahamian, Vardan Azatyan,
Peter Balakian, Melissa Bilal, George Bournoutian, Seta Dadoyan,
Roberta Ervine, Helen Evans, Rachel Goshgarian, Arman Grigoryan,
Robert Hewsen, Armen Marsoobian, Ara Sarafian and Khachig Tololyan.
The Ordjanian Visiting Professorship is one of several programs of the
Armenian Center at Columbia, the organization that raised the initial
funds to establish a Chair of Armenian Studies at Columbia in 1979 and
which continues to provide funds for scholarships, library
acquisitions, academic publications, lectures, conferences and
symposia.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/07/24/courses-on-the-origins-of-armenian-art-to-be-offered-at-columbia-university/