Parrhesia
Seminar with Claude Armen Mutafian: Antique and Medieval Armenia
Parrhesia Collective has organized a seminar series entitled "Antique and Medieval Armenia" with Claude Armen Mutafian.
The seminar consists of four lectures.
October 6, Thur. - Armenia from Urartu until King Tigran the Great (66 BC)
October 13, Thur. - Armenia until the partition between Byzantium and Persia (428)
October 19, Wed. - Medieval Armenia until the Crusades (1099)
October 27, Thur. - Until the fall of the last Kingdom of Armenia (1375)
Claude Armen Mutafian was born in Clamart in 1942, to Armenian parents, who survived the Armenian genocide. He graduated from ENS and soon he became a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Paris XIII. He taught mathematics in various universities such as Princeton, La Havane, Mexico, and Yerevan for more than 40 years. He published seven pedagogical books about algebra in three different languages. Mutafian wrote various articles and booklets concerning opera and has published a series of books presenting his father’s, Zareh Mutafian’s paintings. He always admired fine arts and music but his passion has always been history. After visiting regions of Turkey that were historically populated by Armenians and being invited to Armenia as a lecturer where he found the opportunity to visit Matenadaran, he shifted his focus to ancient and medieval Armenian history. He received his Ph.D. in history from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2002 with his thesis titled “The Armenian diplomacy in the Levant during the Crusades”. His main area of interest is the Medieval period, in particular Cilician Armenia and its relations with the Crusaders and the Mongols. In 2012, he published two volumes entitled L’Arménie du Levant. In 2013, he received the highest university degree “Habilitation to direct Researches” at the Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier for this work. That book was followed by La Saga des Arméniens de l’Ararat aux Carpates (2018). In 2022, he published Jerusalem and the Armenians until the Ottoman conquest and he is currently working on the Armenian Museum in Jerusalem, which will be opened soon.
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