*Friday, October 28 - Saturday, October 29
**International Conference Dedicated to the 1600th Anniversary of St.
Mesrops Mashtots, Inventor of the Armenian Alphabet*
//(Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies/Davis Center/Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations)
Speakers include Prof. Michael Stone (Hebrew University, Jerusalem),
Prof. Robert Thomson (Oxford University), Prof. Karen Yuzbashian
(Russian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Gohar Muradyan (Matenadaran, Erevan),
Prof. John Huehnergard (NELC, Harvard), and Prof. Abraham Terian (St.
Nersess Seminary).
Papers will consider the origins and paleography of Armenian script, the
work of Mashtots, the early translators, and his hagiographer Koriun,
and the writing systems of neighboring Near Eastern languages.
1730 Cambridge Street, Auditorium, South Concourse
Free and open to the public.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/stmesropsmashtotsconference.htm
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Enelc/stmesropsmashtotsconference.htm>.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu