She presented a paper entitled “From the 5th to the 21st Century: matenadarans and the Matenadaran Repositories of Armenian Manuscripts” and took part in a round table discussion on the topic “Eurasian Manuscript Heritage: Values, Challenges, Perspectives”. The participants were given a guided tour of the State Hall of the Austrian National Library, and visited the Manuscript Conservation section and the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books.
Armine Melkonyan also visited the Department of Armenian Studies at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Budapest within the framework of the Erasmus+ program. She gave lectures to the students of the department on “Episodes from the History of Christian Armenian Communities: Northern Syria, Manchester and Artsakh”, “Colophons of Armenian manuscripts as a historical source. Ghevond Vardapet Pirghalemyan: The first compiler of Armenian colophons”. During the meetings with Prof. Balint Kovacs, Head of the Department of Armenian Studies and Prof. Karen Jallatyan the possibilities of developing the cooperation were discussed. She also attended the conference on Armenian dialects held at the Pazmany University.
