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“Ebb and Flow of the Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean” is the theme for the next UCLA international conference, Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18, 2007. Sixteen scholars from Armenia, Europe, and North America will discuss the important commercial, cultural, and intellectual roles of the Armenian communities of Southeast Asia from the seventeenth through twentieth century.
The Saturday sessions will focus on cultural and intellectual themes, including the current state of the Indo-Armenian community, while the Sunday afternoon session will feature three presentations on the long-distance trade of the New Julfa merchants and their interaction with the mercantile forces in the Indian Ocean and beyond.

The conference is sponsored by the UCLA Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia, Department of History, International Institute, Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the AGBU Southern California District Committee. It is the sixteenth consecutive conference in the UCLA series on Historic Armenian Cities, Provinces, and Communities. As in past conferences in this series, Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht of Davis will mount a pictorial exhibit, this one on the Armenian churches, buildings, and institutions of South Asia.

The conference proceedings in this series are edited and prepared for publication by Richard Hovannisian. To date, six volumes have been released: Van/Vaspurakan, Bitlis-Mush/Taron, Kharpert/Tsopk, Erzerum/Karin, Sivas/Sebastia, and Diarbekir-Urfa/Tigranakert-Edessa. The seventh, Armenia Cilicia, is being co-edited with Professor Simon Payaslian of Clark University and will be published in 2007, to be followed by volumes on the Armenian communities of Constantinople, Smyrna, the Black Sea-Pontus region, Kars and Ani, Caesarea, Jerusalem, and New Julfa.