RE-CONSTRUCTING LATE ANTIQUE ARMENIA (2ND–8TH CENTURIES CE): HISTORIOGRAPHY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND IMMATERIAL HERITAGE

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00125809" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00125809 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.earlymedievalstudies.com/news%20html/2022/event_22.02.20.html" target="_blank" >https://www.earlymedievalstudies.com/news%20html/2022/event_22.02.20.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

RE-CONSTRUCTING LATE ANTIQUE ARMENIA (2ND–8TH CENTURIES CE): HISTORIOGRAPHY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND IMMATERIAL HERITAGE

Original language description

What is the place of Armenian arts and culture within the Late Antique Mediterranean space? Since the eighteenth century, scholars have attempted to provide answers to this thorny question. In doing so, researchers from Western Europe and Russia have often approached Armenia from a colonial or orientalist perspective, marginalizing or neglecting elements of its material and literary cultures. Armenia was thus presented, amongst others, as a bridge between the “Persian East” and the “Byzantine West”. Conversely, Armenian scholars have defended the uniqueness and originality of what became their “national” heritage. Both perspectives, ultimately, contributed to the isolation of Armenian arts and culture. Recent investigations, however, highlight the necessity of re-considering Armenian material and literary cultures within the broader Mediterranean area and emphasize the Late Antique cultural exchanges and interactions rather than specific cultures. Furthermore, the continuous contacts with other cultures of Western Asia cannot be neglected either. The present conference aims to tackle these issues in two distinctive ways: on the one hand, by recontextualizing of the historiographical frameworks from the nineteenth to the twentieth century; on the other hand, by introducing new perspectives that examine the place of Armenia within the Late Antique world through the analysis of its material, visual, literary, and immaterial heritage. Our aim is to bring together scholars from different fields of studies, including, but not limited to, art history, history, archaeology, religious studies, as well as philology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GF21-01706L" target="_blank" >GF21-01706L: Cultural Interactions in the Medieval Subcaucasian Region: Historiographical and Art-Historical Perspectives</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Brno

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

14

Foreign attendee count

10

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce