Confession, Community and Digital Heritage
Final Conference of the British Library Endangered Archives Programme
Project EAP1723
Organized by:
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
UCLA Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, Los Angeles
Co-organized by:
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest;
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Cluj-Napoca
Under the patronage of:
The Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Romania, Alba Iulia
Venue:
Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology,
Str. Iuliu Maniu nr. 5, RO-400095 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
09:00–09:30 Opening
Dr. Gergely Kovács, Archbishop of Alba Iulia
Dr. Szabolcs András, Vice-Dean, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
Rev. Attila Küsmődi, Vicar General of the Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Romania
09:30–10:00 Keynote Lecture
Bálint Kovács (Budapest / Leipzig):
Reading a Diaspora through Its Books: Confessional, National, and Modern Layers in the Armenian Manuscript and Print Heritage of Gherla/Armenopolis
10:00–10:20 Distinguished Lecture
Peter Cowe (Los Angeles):
Armenian Confraternities of Transylvania Contextualized
10:20–11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Karen Jallatyan
11:00–11:20
Kornél Nagy (Budapest):
“Cardinalis et Armeni Transylvaniae”: A Pro-Viennese Hungarian Cardinal and the Armenians in Transylvania
11:20–11:40
Karola Kovács (Cluj-Napoca):
Armenian Catholic Initiatives in the Documents of Bárány Lukács
11:40–12:00
Emese Pál (Cluj-Napoca):
Special Pieces in the Collection of the Armenian Catholic Church in Dumbrăveni
12:00–12:30 Discussion
12:30–14:30 Lunch Break
Chair: András Szabolcs
14:30–14:50
Virgil Pop (Cluj-Napoca):
The Construction of Armenopolis and the Baroque Castles in the Someș Valley
14:50–15:10
Karen Jallatyan (Leipzig):
Enriching the Future while Looking into the Past: Photographic Legacies of the Transylvanian Armenian Community of Gherla/Armenopolis
15:10–15:30
Ágnes Gombocz (Cluj-Napoca):
Armenian Church Music in Transylvania: Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed
15:30–16:00 Discussion
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Peter Cowe
16:30–16:50
Alina Zaripova (Vienna):
Uses of the Past in the Hungarian-Armenian Community at the End of the 19th Century
16:50–17:10
András Szabolcs (Cluj-Napoca):
Armenians in Romania in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
17:10–17:30
Zsanett Vákár (Cluj-Napoca):
Reflection of Migration after the Armenian Genocide in the Romanian and Hungarian Press
17:30–18:00 Discussion
09:00–09:30 British Library Project Presentation
Inessa Arustamyan (Budapest) and Lilit Mnatsakanyan (Budapest / Leipzig):
Digitizing Armenian Manuscripts and Archival Materials in Gherla (Armenopolis), Transylvania: Preservation, Description, and Cultural Significance
Chair: Bálint Kovács
09:30–09:50
George Antabi (Budapest):
About India in the Armenian Book Collection in Gherla: A Study Based on Poghos Petros Lazarovich’s Description of the City of Calcutta
09:50–10:10
Laura Bazyan (Budapest):
The Mekhitarist Congregation in Trieste (1773–1810) and their Books in the Armenian Library in Gherla
10:10–10:30
Dianna Mlhamyan (Budapest):
From Gherla to Vienna and Back: The French-Armenian Epistolary Guide and Mekhitarist Cultural Mediation
10:30–11:00 Discussion
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Emese Pál
11:30–11:50
Damján Pál Anca (Budapest):
The Shaping of Myths and the Construction of Historical Narratives: A Nineteenth-Century Hungarian-Language Manuscript on Armenian History in the Armenian Library of Gherla
11:50–12:10
Kincső Felszegi (Cluj Napoca):
About a 19th-century scrapbook. An analysis of the manuscript collection of Gábor Görög
12:10–12:30
Inessa Arustamyan (Budapest):
Manuscript Dictionaries and Linguistic Memory: Armenian-Latin Lexicography among Transylvanian Armenians
12:30–12:50
Lilit Mnatsakanyan (Budapest / Leipzig):
Functional Hierarchies of Space: Eastern Europe in Armenian Cartographic and Geographic Projects: The Geographies of Stepanos Agonts
12:50–13:20 Discussion
13:20–14:00 Final Discussion and Closing Remarks