CONFERENCE: ANN ARBOR. The Armenian Studies Program of the University of Michigan is organizing a major international conference on “Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties” will cover instruments of international law over 2,000 years. Given the history of Armenia and Armenians, 24 scholars from Armenia, Europe, South America, and the U.S. will cover treaties and agreements involving ancient Roman and Persian empires to the Arab Caliphates; Byzantium; the Mongol Empire; Italian city-states; Muslim and Crusader states in the Middle Ages; the Ottoman, Safavid, and Russian empires; European states and Turkey in early modern and modern history; and Russia, Kazakhstan, and international organizations since Armenia’s independence in 1991. The conference will be webcast live (at http://umtv-live.rs.itd.umich.edu/asp/asp013009.asx). For more information, contact Gloria Caudill, administrator (734-763-0622, gcaudill@umich.edu).
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