Armenia and the Diaspora in the Post-Truth 21st Century
EVN Report podcast, 6 June 2017
Arto Vaun sits down with scholar and sociologist Hratch Tchilingirian to discuss Armenian-Diaspora relations and Armenian identity in a post-truth context.
Türkiye’de yeni Ermeni Patriğinin seçilmesi süreci, geleneksel devlet dayatmaları, idari zorluklar ve Ermeni toplumuna yönelik keyfi muamelelerle karşı karşıya. Durum geçtiğimiz haftalarda Patrikhanedeki üst düzey din adamlarının meseleyi bölücü bir büyük krize dönüştüren şahsi çatışmaları ve hırsları nedeniyle daha da kötüleşti.
The election process of a new Armenian Patriarch in Turkey faces the customary state-imposed restrictions, administrative hurdles and arbitrary treatment of the Armenian community. In recent weeks, the situation has been exacerbated by personality clashes and ambitions of the high ranking clergymen at the Patriarchate, who have turned a problem into a divisive major crisis.
Lecture: “The ‘Other’ Citizens – Armenians in Turkey between Isolation and (dis)Integration”, American University of Armenia (AUA), Political Science & International Affairs (PSIA).
Lecture: “A 15th century ‘Curriculum for Educating Infants’ in the Armenian Church”, Eastern Christianity Lecture Series convened by the Oxford Armenian Studies, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Panel speaker: "European Identity in the Times of Post-Truth Politics", held at the London School of Economics and Political Science, organised by LSESU European Society and The Youth Association for a Greater Europe.
On Thursday February 23rd, the Youth Association for a Greater Europe and the LSESU European Society invited students and public for a panel discussion on 'European Identity in the Times of Post-Truth Politics' at the LSE. Our speakers – Roger Casale, founder of New Europeans and former MP for Wimbledon, and Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies
Oxford University scholar Hratch Tchilingirian has published an article entitled "The 'Other' Citizens: Armenians in Turkey Between Isolation and (Dis)integration."
Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, state discrimination against the Armenian community—and generally the non-Muslim minorities—has been institutionalized and systematically
Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, state discrimination against the Armenian community—and generally the non-Muslim minorities—has been institutionalized and systematically used towards the detriment of the target community. This article provides a discussion of these issues and the processes of state and societal ‘othering’ of the Armenians in Turkey, with a particular focus on the impact of such policies and public discourses on the current situation of the community. It then provides an analysis of the internal dynamics of the Armenian community itself. The discussion highlights several sociological concepts that are useful to the understanding and analysis of the Turkish state’s and society’s treatment of the Armenians in Turkey today—or what the economists would call the stresses and distortions in the system.
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, a scholar and lecturer at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford - specializing in Eastern Christianity and Armenian Studies - spoke to CivilNet about the current Armenia-Diaspora relations.
The Anatomy of the Armenian Diaspora, Hratch Tchilingirian
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Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, scholar and lecturer at Oxford Institute of Oriental Studies on the historical juncture Armenians have arrived at, on the misconception that the Armenian Diaspora is an eight million single unit and on how to establish a reciprocally beneficial interaction between the Armenian State and its “diasporas”.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2016) “L’Eglise arménienne pendant la guerre froide : la crise Etchmiadzine-Antelias”, NH Hebdo, 9 juin.
l’Eglise Arménienne, en tant qu’institution religieuse, a été affectée à des fonctions « laïques » ou civiles pour « conduire la nation », alors que le clergé était devenu un agent et un médiateur mandatés par l’Etat entre les dirigeants, les gouvernements et les intérêts politiques. Dans le même temps, la société arménienne, en Arménie comme dans la diaspora, avait traversé un processus de sécularisation du fait d’un rationalisme et d’une modernité émergents, ce qui s’est traduit par le capitalisme, l’industrialisation et l’Etat-Nation. Ces développements historiques ont conduit l’Eglise arménienne à une sécularisation.
The Armenian Studies at University of Oxford organized a conference/workshop, entitled “Western Armenian in the 21st Century”, which was held in Oxford on 21-23 January 2016, with the financial support of the Caluste Gulbenkian Foundation. Hayern aysor presents an interview with Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, sociologist in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, who was the initiator and chief organizer of the conference.
To mark the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held an international conference, “The Impact of the Armenian Genocide,” on Saturday, November 21, 2015, in Denver, Colorado... SAS Vice-President Bedross Der Matossian chaired the first panel on “The Impact on Society,” where three participants presented papers: Lerna Ekmekcioglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “When History Became Destiny: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey”; Sossie Kasbarian (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom), “The Politics of Memory and Activism: The Armenian Diaspora Facing 2015”; and Hratch Tchilingirian (University of Oxford), “Armenians in Turkey: The Impact of post-Genocide Isolation and (dis)Integration.”