NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA

ONE DAY CONFERENCE  at the ARMENIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

24 Marshall Baghramyan Street Yerevan – 2nd Floor   on April 3rd 201 8 at 12:00

Of DIASPORAS & ‘DIASPORICS’:

Seeking Novel Approaches in Studies of Dispersion

Opening remarks by Pavel Avetisyan and Rouben Karapetyan Introduction: Writing Ethnographies of Dispersion by S Aykut Ozturk

Session I: On Armenian Diasporas

Hrag Papazian (Oxford):”We are not a diaspora!”: Unpacking the Istanbul Armenians’ stance Khoren Grigoryan (NAS/ RA): Perception of Motherland among Ainjarians, and a Motherland in Ainjar Arsen Hakobyan(NAS/ RA): Syrian Armenians between Diaspora and Armenia

Keynote: Siranush Dvoyan (AUA): Representation of Loss in French-Armenian Diaspora Literature

Session II: On non-Armenian Diasporas

Zoe Goodman (SOAS): The World in a Sweetshop? Localising Diaspora in Mombasa, Kenya S Aykut Ozturk (UCL/NAS RA): ‘Diasporic Natives’ in a Settler State: Palestinians in two sides of ‘the Wall’ Besim Can Zirh (METU): Internalization of Domestic Affairs through Migration: Alevis in Germany: A Specter Haunting Turkish Foreign Policy