MONDAY, 9 MAY
Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas - GWZO)
Specks Hof – Entrance A, Reichsstraße 4–6, 4th Floor
Welcome and Opening Remarks
17:00 - 17:30 Prof. Stefan Troebst, GWZO/GESI, Leipzig University
Armenians in the Economy and Culture of East-Central Europe (15th to 19th Centuries): A Research and Editorial Project
17:30 - 18:00 Dr. Vahe Sahakyan (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan): Why this conference? Armenianness Beyond Ethnicity
TUESDAY, 10 MAY
Centre for Area Studies – CAS, Thomaskirchhof 20
9:00 - 11:00 Session I
Negotiating Communal Spaces: Institutions and Politics in Modern Armenian Diaspora
Chair: Prof. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Institute for Cultural Studies, Leipzig University
Discussant: Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Hakob Matevosyan (Institute for Cultural Studies, Leipzig University)
Establishment and Transformation of the Armenian Diasporic Field in Hungary
Konrad Siekierski (Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw)
Armenians in Romania Today: Diasporic Interventions and Institutions
Heitor Loureiro (Department of History, São Paulo State University)
Political Struggles within the Armenian community in São Paulo (1930-1960s)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break (CAS)
11:15 - 13:15 Session II
Negotiating Belonging: Homeland in Diaspora, Diasporans in “Homeland”
Chair: Dr. Balint Kovacs, GWZO, Leipzig University
Discussant: Dr. Jo Laycock, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University
Sevan Beukian (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta)
Collective Memory and National Habitus: Constructions of Homeland among the Armenian Diaspora
Nanor Karageozian (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
Mobile, Sedentary and Oscillating Habituses: Identity and Belonging Among Long-term Diasporic Returnees in Post-Soviet Armenia
Hamazasp Danielyan (Department of Diaspora Studies, Yerevan State University)
Refugees, Repatriates or Citizens? The Evolution of State Policy towards Syrian Armenians and their (Self)-perception
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break (CAS)
14:15 - 16:30 Session III
Negotiating Diasporic Identities
Chair: Prof. Armenuhi Drost-Abgaryan (Institute for Oriental Studies, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)
Discussant: Dr. Vahe Sahakyan (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan)
Ulrike Ziemer (Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Winchester)
Armenian Youth Cultural Identities in Southern Russia: Narratives of Location, Translocation and Dislocation
Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Identity Construction in Narratives: Activists of the Armenian Diaspora in Estonia
Nikolett Czézár (Department of East European History, Ruhr-University Bochum)
Narrative of Genocide and Identity (Re)construction among Hungarian Armenians
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 - 18:30 Round Table Discussion: Armenian Diaspora Studies: Challenges and Perspectives
Moderators: Prof. Stefan Troebst, Dr. Vahe Sahakyan, Hakob Matevosyan