THE “POETRY OF IMAGE” CONFERENCE, AN INTERNATIONAL ARMENIAN-IRANIAN EVENT, WAS HELD AT THE MASHTOTS MATENADARAN

21 March, 2024

On March 21, the “POETRY OF IMAGE” conference, an international Armenian-Iranian event, was held at the MASHTOTS MATENADARAN.

The conference aims to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Iranian-Armenian artist Andre Sevrugian. Ara Khzmalyan, Director of Matenadaran, Artur Martirosyan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Armenia, H.E. Mr Mehdi Sobhani, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of Armenia, and Yvette Tajarian, senior researcher of the Department of Oriental Studies of Matenadaran, gave speeches of welcome.

The conference is expected to take cooperation between the two countries to a new level. In January 2024, a delegation from Matenadaran visited Iran for the first time on an official visit. During the visit, the delegation met with the people responsible for the preservation, study, and popularization of the written heritage in the most significant manuscript centres in Iran. As a result of the visit, the Armenian-Iranian “Poetry of Image” conference was initiated. Shortly, there is a plan for a separate exhibition dedicated to Sevrugian, which will be carried out in cooperation with the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and other museums.

The “Hanane” Iranian folk ensemble performed a concert program at the conference.

A two day conference included over a dozen thematic reports that focused on the historical and literary relations between the two countries, highlighting their past cultural dialogues and commonalities. Speakers from various institutions, including Matenadaran, Farhangian University of Iran, Imam Khomeini International University of Iran, University of Tehran, Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary, and Suzhou University of China, presented valuable reports on topics such as “Rostam Zāl” from “Shahnameh” to “Sasna Tsrer”: The Battle of Father and Son, “Legends about Armenians in Persian Poems from the 6th Century”, “Exploring the Representation of Women in 20th-Century Iranian Armenian Painting”, “The Position of Andre Sevrugian as an Innovative Painter in Iranian Painting”, and “Categorization of Matanadaran’s Calligraphy Artworks”.

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