Colloquium on Genocide & Literature: Israeli and Armenian Comparative Perspectives

Armenian and Israeli colleagues will have all-day panel discussions on the topic of genocide in literature: Jewish and Armenian perspectives. This event is part of a two-day public colloquium with colleagues from Israel, organized by AUA visiting Professor Yair Auron.
Schedule: 9:00-11:00 – Panel 1 – Moderator – Catherine Buon
Arto Vaun – Standing in the Doorway: The Poet Between Languages, Between Worlds
Yael Ben-Zvi Morad – Autobiographie de personne: Perceptions of Human Identity in Autobiographies by Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
Khachik Gasparyan – Psychotraumatic Elements of Armenian Identity: Loss and
Recovery
Roy Greenwald – The Transmissibility of Violence: The Pogrom Stories of Lamed Shapiro
11:30-13:00 – Panel 2 – Moderator – Greg Areshian
Haim Weis – The Bar Kosibah revolt and the Rewriting of National Tragedy
Dr. Ashot Voskanyan – Two ways to speak about the Armenian Genocide: Is the genocide trauma insurmountable?
Dr. Peter Sh. Lehnardt – “God, Do Not Be Silent Over My Blood’ – Narrative and Poetic Responses to the Persecution of Jewish communities during the First Crusade
14:30-16:00 – Panel 3 – Moderator – Tom Samuelian
Dr. Siranush Dvoyan -The Crisis of Identity in Diaspora-Armenian Literature.
Dr. Amos Goldberg – Three Forms of Post-Genocidal Violence in Beni Wircberg’s Memoir
Dr. Vahram Danielyan – Kars as a Novel Space According the Novels of Orhan Pamuk and Yeghishe Charents
16:30-18:00 – Presentation by Ora Ahimeir, From Aleppo to Jerusalem – a quest for refuge and
rest – the writer’s view
18:00 – Closing Remarks
Biography of Israeli speakers:
Amos Goldberg is a senior lecturer in Holocaust studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His major fields of research are cultural history of the Jews in the Holocaust, Holocaust historiography, and Holocaust memory in a global world. His book on diary writing during the Holocaust came out by Heksherin in 2012, and he is currently writing a book on post-Holocaust Jewish memoirs.
Dr. Yael Ben-Zvi Morad is a researcher of Israeli and Palestinian Cinema and Literature. She teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and is the author of the books Patricide: Gender and Nationalism in Palestinian Cinema and Wedding in the Snow.
Dr. Peter Sh. Lehnardt, senior lecturer of Hebrew Medieval Literature with research focuses on Hebrew liturgical poetry and secular genres common to majority cultures of the Christian hemisphere around the Mediterranean.
Dr. Haim Weiss is a senior lecturer at the department of Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main field of research is Rabbinic literature and currently he is writing a book on the image of Simon Bar-Kosibah (better known as Bar Kochva) in Jewish history and culture.
Roy Greenwald teaches Modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He work currently on the literary presentations of the Pogroms in Yiddish and Hebrew Literature of the late 19th and the early 20th century.
Ora Ahimeir is a novelist and editor, founder and former director of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Her new Hebrew novel on the Armenian genocide is due in October 2016.
Participants from Armenia: Dr. Siranush Dvoyan Lecturer, Yerevan State University, American University of Armenia Dr. Vahram Danielyan Lecturer, Yerevan State University, American University of Armenia Dr. Khachatur Gasparyan Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care Project, Armenian Association of Child Psychiatrists and Psychologists; Lecturer, American University of Armenia Dr. Ashot Voskanyan Lecturer, American University of Armenia, Adviser, RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Asia-Pacific and Africa Department Sr. Lect. Arto Vaun Senior Lecturer, American University of Armenia, Editor, Locomotive literary journal. Dr. Gregory Areshyan Prof., History & Archeology, American University of Armenia Dr. Catherine Buon Assoc. Dean, General Education, American University of Armenia Dr. Harutyun Marutyan Academy of Sciences, Sr. Researcher, Department of Ethnography and Archaeology, Visiting Prof. Yerevan State University Dr. Thomas Samuelian CHSS Dean, American University of Armenia
Organizer: AUA College of Humanities and Social Sciences