UCLA Scholars Gather in Yerevan for Conversations on Microhistory and the Global

The UCLA Richard Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History, Professor Sebouh Aslanian, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, has sponsored the translations of key works in microhistory into Western Armenian. Two studies by UCLA faculty, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller (1976) by renowned historian and Professor Emeritus Carlo Ginzburg and Three Ways to be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World (2011) by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Distinguished Professor of History and Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA were translated into Western Armenian, a diasporic, post-genocide language designated by UNESCO as “definitely endangered” in their taxonomy of threatened languages.

To mark this occasion, the Richard Hovannisian Chair, in collaboration with the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the auspices of the Yerevan Dialogue Initiative, organized an event featuring Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Levi, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam titled From Menocchio to Manuzzi: Conversations on Microhistory. The book launch took place on September 10, 2024, in Yerevan’s internationally celebrated Cafesjian Center for the Arts.

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