2000_05 Hye Sharzhoom Newspaper May 2000

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Hye Sharzhoom
May 2000
California State University, Fresno
Armenian Studies Program
Fall 2000 Schedule of Courses
Course     Units    Time
Day      Instructor
General Education
Division 9-Other Cultures
(Social Sciences Area D3, for students using 2000/2001 Catalog)
• Arm S 10 Intro to Arm Studies .3       0930-1045        TTh       Staff
• Arm S 10 Intro to Arm Studies '3       1000-1050       MWF    B. Der Mugrdechian
Division 7-Languages
• Arm 1A Elementary Armenian4       1100-1150       MTWF B. Der Mugrdechian
Arts & Humanities, Area CI for students using 2000/2001 Catalog
• Arm S 20 Arts of Armenia       3       1100-1215        TTH      D. Kouymjian
Upper Division Courses
• Arm S 105 Arm. Genocide
1500-1800
M
Kazan Visiting Prof.
R. Hovannisian
• Arm S 108A Arm History I       3       0900-0950       MWF    B. Der Mugrdechian
For more information call the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669
or visit our offices in the Peters Business Building, Room 384.
Bertha & John Garabedian Foundation Grant Renewed
For the fifth consecutive year,
the Bertha and John
Garabedian Charitable
Foundation has awarded Prof.
Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program a grant for
on-going projects. Thanks to previous grants, Armenian Studies has
Peters Business Building, which
houses the Center for Armenian
Studies and the Program offices.
Thanks to the Garabedian
grants, dozens of students have benefited over the years from special
research grants to work on the Index of Armenian Art, an ongoing
Benefactor John Garabedian
been able to engage students skilled
in computer technology to develop
a special site on the World Wide
Web: http://csufresno.edu/
ArmenianStudies/. The work was
started by former student Joseph
Krajekian, then mounted on the
web by Ara Mekhitarian, who was
webmaster until last fall, when
Dikran Chekian assumed the role.
John Garabedian (1909-1992)
was a generous patron ofthe Armenian Studies Program back in the
1980s. Dr. Kouymjian, Director of
the Program, visited him on his
farm several times, and Mr.
Garabedian returned the visits to
the campus. During the fund drive
for the Haig and Isabel Berberian
Endowed Chair in Armenian Studies, John Garabedian pledged
$ 100,000, half of which he contributed before his death. The Armenian Studies offices are named in
his honor and a special plaque commemorating the gift can be viewed
on the third floor of the Leon S.
project whose purpose is to collect
all examples of medieval Armenian art from both published and
unpublished sources. Part I of the
IAA, Armenian Manuscript Illumination, has been in progress since
the early 1970s. Originally the
completed set from all Armenian
manuscripts to the year 1000 was
issued in a booklet in 1977 and
those ofthe 11th century were published in tabular form in 1979. With
the aid of a previous Garabedian
Foundation grant, the miniatures
from the 9th through the 11th century were put on an interactive CD
ROM disk. But the advent of the
web quickly made this technology
less useful than mounting the information and pictures on a website.
Also thanks to a Garabedian
Foundation grant, Prof.
Kouymjian's entire book, The Arts
of Armenia, published by the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
in Lisbon, Portugal in 1992 was put
on the Armenian Studies website
along with 300 color slides of all
phases of Armenian art. The text
and the images are now regularly
used by students in Armenian Studies courses, especially AS 20, The
Arts of Armenia, AS 121 Armenian Miniature Painting, and AS
123, Armenian Architecture.
This year's grant will all work
to continue on two international
exhibits being organized by Dickran
Kouymjian. The first will be held
at the Museum of Art and History
in Geneva, Switzerland starting in
the fall of 2001. It will exhibit for
the first time the "Treasures of the
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia."
Already this spring a special team
of students has scanned slides of
the objects from Dr. Kouymjian's
collection onto a CD disk for use in
the writing of the catalogue. The
second exhibition will open at the
Textile Museum in Lyon, France
on December 15,2001 and run for
three months. Its subject is "Armenian Altar Curtains from the Collection of Holy Etchmiadzin." It
too will have a special illustrated
catalogue. Both projects are part of
the 1700th anniversary celebration
of the conversion of Armenia to
Christianity.
Thanks in part to the Bertha
and John Garabedian Foundation
grant, Professor Kouymjian will be
able to have some free time from
teaching to continue to study the
objects in both exhibits and to describe each item individually including the complete inscriptions
usually found on all Armenian liturgical objects. Both exhibits have
separate teams of international experts in textiles, metalwork, miniature painting, and early printing.
The Garabedian Foundation
provided 76 individual grants to
Valley organizations and projects
for the year 2000 totaling nearly
half a million dollars. The Armenian Studies Program is deeply
grateful to the Foundation and its
Trustees: Silvestre Arias, Glenn E.
Rose, Malcolm H. Stewart, and Dr.
H. Tookoian.
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