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Mother Armenia: Educating the Patriotic Armenian Woman in the XIX Century

May 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm +04

About the Event:

The metaphor Mother Armenia evokes emotions and ties the Armenians have with their place of origin. The development and dissemination of this metaphor date to the birth of nationalistic ideas within the literary culture in the 1860s whose impact emerged most fully in the context of repressive Russian politics in the aftermath of Alexander II’s assassination in 1881. During this period, young male national writers positioned the idealized figure of the Armenian mother at the heart of their literature, whose characteristics offered a sharp contrast to that of the upper-class Armenian woman. These patriotic and national ideas were disseminated in schools for girls along with the embroidered nationalistic allegories and the map of historical Armenia, which the schools used as a way of teaching schoolgirls about the history and geography of the motherland and expressing patriotic values. The research in Armenian Studies never considered the gender implications of the patriotic poetry written in the 1850s and 1860s, and the nationalistic allegories never appeared in any Armenian studies. This public lecture traces the influence of the emerging late-nineteenth century nationalist movement and the concept of Mother Armenia on the education of girls, exploring how patriotic discourses infused womanhood with new meanings and representations during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

About the Speaker:

Hayarpi Papikyan holds a PhD in history and sociology of education by the Université Paris V – Sorbonne Cité and is attached to the research and scientific center of CERLIS (Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux) in Paris, France. Her main research interest is the history of girls’ and women’s education, which also involves the history of schooling and institutionalized education and women’s history. Her doctoral research and thesis, Education on the edge of Empire: schooling girls and winning public roles for Armenian women in the Caucasus (mid-XIX century – early XX century), brought to the light the story of the late-mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth-century education of Armenian girls for the first time by placing it in the context of the general political events that influenced its development. She is currently working on the involvement of university-educated Armenian women in the late-nineteenth century political movements to be delivered as a lecture in July in Paris during the Week of Armenian Studies.

Language:

English with simultaneous translation into Armenian

Details

Date:
May 11, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm +04
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Organizer

Phone
+374 60 69 40 40

Venue

40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave
Yerevan,
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Phone
+374 60 69 40 40