Hratch Tchilingirian, “’Being Armenian is a package.’ Some critical issues facing Diaspora organizations today,” in H. Oshagan and Kh. Tölölyan (eds.), The Diaspora at 100. (Boston: The Armenian Weekly), June 2024: 60-61.
Human Rights Violations and Aggression subject of Bishop Grigoris Balakian Annual Lecture
Diocesan Newsletter. London, 20 March 2024— Critical issues of ethnic cleansing and international law was the subject of the inaugural Bishop Grigoris Balakian Annual Lecture, a new initiative of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Two distinguished speakers, Lord Alton of Liverpool and Dr Arman Tatoyan delivered compelling lectures on the topic of “Ethnic Cleansing: Does International Law Still Matter?” at St. Yeghiche Armenian Church in London on March 19th.
In setting the larger context of the annual lecture, Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, in his opening remarks as chair of the proceedings, said: “We are here tonight because “‘Never Again’ is again, and again, and again… We are gathered because crimes against humanity and human rights abuses are being committed before our very eyes from the Middle East to the Caucasus, to Eastern Europe, Asia, Central America and many parts of the world.”
... Director of the ADS, Hratch Tchilingirian, associate of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, thanked Tölölyan for his service on the project, noting “In addition to his brilliant scholarship and numerous academic accolades, Khachig Tölölyan is a wonderful human being. He shares his enormous, accumulated wisdom with intellectual humility; engages with everyone with grace and empathy; and empowers others with generous and sincere acknowledgment and encouragement.”
"...Now though, “We’ve come 180 degrees,” Hratch Tchilingirian, from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, told Asia Times, “and there’s a completely different context.”
... "I think we’re back to square one in the sense that what started as a conflict between self-determination of the Karabakh Armenians and the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan…30 years later, this conflict has not been resolved, even despite the war, even despite Azerbaijan saying there is no longer Karabakh conflict," Hratch Tchilingirian, a scholar and activist, told Fox News...
Imagine Boris Johnson ordering the bombing of Edinburgh because the Scots voted for independence in a referendum, or the British Government declaring war against Northern Ireland because it wished to join the Republic of Ireland. Unlike the political dialogue and the search for legal remedies that dissatisfied nations of the United Kingdom utilise to resolve their conflicts, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, who have been natives of the territory for centuries, have been the target of years of demonisation in Azerbaijan for voting for independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union was collapsing.
Network Nation, USC Institute of Armenian Studies, 14 May 2021
Covid and the Karabakh War impacted institutions in the Diaspora, and changed Homeland-Diaspora relations. Or did they? Are Armenians a Crisis Nation – mobilizing urgently but not altering fundamentally? Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan joins Dr. Laurie Brand, Dr. Vicken Cheterian, Dr. Shushan Karapetian and Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian to analyze short and long-term impact.
The instrumentalization of religion—especially Islam by Azerbaijan in foreign relations—in the nonreligious Nagorno Karabakh conflict could further deepen the differences among the parties in the conflict and in the region, and make a final resolution and reconciliation even more difficult.
Biden's curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low
by Jonathan Gorvett
. . .“there was no additional strategic risk for the US in doing this,” Hratch Tchilingirian, from Oxford University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, told Asia Times...
Karabağ’da Hristiyanlık: Azerbaycan’ın Tarihi Yeniden Yazma Çabaları Yeni Değil
Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford Üniversitesi
HyeTert.org, 9.12.2020 - Karabağ’da silahlı çatışma başlamadan çok daha önce, bölgenin gerçek tarihini ‘ispatlama’ çabaları, tarihçiler, siyaset bilimi uzmanları, arkeologlar, araştırmacılar ve bürokratlar için akademik ve bilimsel bir savaş alanıydı. Sovyet araştırma geleneği, özellikle de tarihin inşası süreci, oldukça yıkıcıydı ve hala da çatışan tarafların...
Christianity in Karabakh: Azerbaijani Efforts At Rewriting History Are Not New
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford
EVN Report / MassisPost/ Aravot(22 November 2020)—Long before the start of the armed conflict in Karabakh, the “authentication” of the history of the region had become the scholarly battleground of historians, political scientists, archaeologists, researchers and bureaucrats. The consequences of Soviet scholarship—particularly in the process of constructing histories—have been disastrous and continue to have a negative impact on how conflicting parties view “the other.” It should be noted that, even today,
As one of the nations in this world, whose millennia-long biography is the envy of the world, we should not allow some anomalous, self-interested forces, circles or personalities trample the national wisdom we have gained through myriads of imposed wars, destruction and displacement.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2018) [Christianity in] “Armenia and Karabkah” in Christianity in North Africa and West Asia (edited by Kenneth R. Ross, Mariz Tadros, Todd M. Johnson). Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 198-201.
The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in partnership with the Armenian Institute of London, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian as the Director of the Armenian Diaspora Survey (ADS) project.
Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan was one of the most courageous, principled and forward looking church leaders in the contemporary history of the Armenian Church. His youth, charisma, strong pastoral and
Armenian Khatchkar in the Canterbury Cathedral’s Memorial Garden
Hratch Tchilingirian | 2 March 2019
A new Armenian khatchkar (cross stone) was consecrated in the Canterbury Cathedral’s Memorial Garden on Friday March 2nd. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby presided over the ceremony.
"They've had to start from zero, and obviously, they've had their difficulties," said Hratch Tchilingirian, a sociologist and associate faculty member at the University of Oxford, who specialises in Middle Eastern and Armenian studies.
Why the future of the Armenian World’s most coveted address hangs in the balance
By Daniel Halton
Along the narrow stone-covered streets, winding alleyways and ancient chapels inside Jerusalem’s walled city, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world sets out to observe a sacred rite, just as it has for the past 1,700 years.... “The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is one of the richest and probably most significant living Armenian institutions in the world. The Patriarchate is the depository and custodian of an enormous religious and cultural heritage,” observed Hratch Tchilingirian, Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University.