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- 1. Transformation Rooted in Legacy
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Interview: Transformation Rooted in Legacy
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian on Charting the Roadmap for the Western Diocese’s Next Century
By Sergey Arustamyan | MassisPost, October 15, 2025
... In this conversation, Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, director of the Institutional Innovation initiative, reflects on why change is essential, how it is taking shape, and what has been done since his appointment a year ago....
2025-10-20 - 2. Language: The Condition of Mrs. Arev Mudian
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Western Armenian: The Condition of Mrs. Arev Mudian
By Dr. HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN | MassisPost, Ocotober 15, 2025
In the last decade or so, the challenges surrounding the preservation and vitality of Western Armenian have grown increasingly urgent. Concerned community leader
2025-10-19 - 3. Hratch Tchilingirian (short biography)
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Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian is a sociologist, author and innovation executive. He is the Director of Institutional Innovation at the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church. He has taught at and held academic positions at the universities of Oxford (2012-2024) and Cambridge (2002-2012) in Britain and, since 2021, is Associate Professor of Armenian Studies (IMAS), INALCO university in Paris. His research, teaching and publications focus on sociology of identity, culture, and religion; Diaspora studies and inter-ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus and Eurasia region. Dr. Tchilingirian is the author of numerous studies and publications and has lectured internationally, in recent years drawing attention to the plight of minorities and Christian communities in the Middle East, especially in academic and policy-making circles. He was the Director of the Armenian Diaspora Survey (2019-2024), which conducted research in over 50 communities in 10 countries, with the participation of over 13,000 diasporans. Dr. Tchilingirian has held executive positions in charitable organizations and has served communities in various leadership positions in the United States and the United Kingdom. He remains deeply engaged in academic and community life and takes active part in civic and professional projects. His television, radio and newspaper interviews and expert comments have appeared in international media outlets, and have been quoted in BBC News, Al-Jazeera, The New York Times, Financial Times, Fox News, Asia Times, RFE/RL, Radio Vaticana, Armenia Public TV, AM H1, Armenian Public Radio, and a host of other media outlets.
2025-10-12 - 4. Azerbaijan’s International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges
- ... foreign apologists, and religious leaders coerced or co-opted by the [authorities], use claims of what the regime calls ‘tolerance, ‘dialogue’, ‘multiculturalism’ and similar terms to deny the reality ...
- 5. Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Appointed Director of Institutional Innovation
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Western Diocese Appoints Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian as Director of Institutional Innovation to Lead Major Initiative
Massis Post, 24 October 2024 | Asbsarez, 24 October 2024
2024-12-02 - 6. Being Armenian is a package
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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.
2024-07-18 - 7. Արցախահայութեան օժանդակութիւնը կրկին օրակարգի վրայ կը դնէ Սփիւռքի կառոյցներու խնդիրը
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Արցախահայութեան օժանդակութիւնը կրկին օրակարգի վրայ կը դնէ «Սփիւռքի կառոյցներու» խնդիրը
Darperag21.net, Նոյեմբեր 30, 2023
Արցախի աղէտը, ինչպէս Եղեռնի աղէտը, տասնամեակներ շարունակ սփիւռքահայութեան վրայ իր ազդեցութիւնը պիտի ունենայ: 44-օրեայ պատերազմէն ետք, Սփիւռքը «հոգեկան կաթուած»ի մատնուեցաւ, ու այդ ողբերգութեան ծանրութեան տակ` վրայ հասաւ արցախահայութեան էթնիք զտումը եւ Արցախի հայաթափումը: Բայց այսօր
2023-12-01 - 8. New hope for Turkey-Armenia to heal old wounds
- ... however, with relations then freezing until 2003, when the newly elected Justice and Development Party government in Ankara attempted to thaw relations. Then-Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul met ...
- 9. Network Nation: Crisis
- ... 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 ...
- 10. Religion in a Non Religious War
- ... (Georgetown University), May 2021, pp. 8-10. The instrumentalization of religion—especially Islam by Azerbaijan in foreign relations—in the nonreligious Nagorno Karabakh conflict could further deepen ...
- 11. Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan
- ... Yet Biden’s acknowledgment also plunged US-Turkish relations to a new low. “We entirely reject this statement,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, following Biden’s announcement, adding: ...
- 12. Christianity in Karabakh: Azerbaijani Efforts At Rewriting History Are Not New
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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,
2020-11-24 - 13. We have outlived empires and can build our nation's tomorrow
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We have outlived empires and can build our nation's tomorrow
CivilNet / HyeTert / Massis Post 11 November 2020
Hratch Tchilingirian, Oxford
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.
2020-11-24 - 14. Christians in Modern Turkey
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Hratch Tchilingirian (2020) “Christians in Modern Turkey. Native Foreigners” in Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East (eds. Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
2020-11-20 - 15. ADS prend le pouls de la Diaspora
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France Arménie, No. 478, Octobre 2020, pp. 35-37.
ADS prend le pouls de la Diaspora
Depuis deux ans, une équipe de chercheurs arméniens parcourt des communautés de la Diaspora pour y réaliser des enquêtes approfondies d’opinion publique. Cet automne, une équipe de chercheurs s’intéressera à la communauté francilienne. C’est pour mieux comprendre les motivations de cette initiative que nous avons interrogé le responsable du projet, Hratch Tchilingirian, sociologue, professeur à la chaire d’arménologie de l’Université d’Oxford.
2020-10-22 - 16. Hratch Tchilingirian (short bio)(AGBU)
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2019-01-02 - 17. A decade-long goodbye for a journey cut short
- ... he championed the cause of the Melkonian School in Cyprus, or when he spoke, for domestic reasons in Turkey, against the recognition of the Genocide by foreign parliaments. One Armenian party newspaper ...
- 18. Field of Study
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2019-01-02
- 19. Saving the Crown Jewel
- ... point, the Armenians of Jerusalem prevailed, successfully preserving a continuous and unshakeable presence in the Holy Land. For example, when other religious leaders fled foreign conquest during ...
- 20. First Republic Conference, Los Angeles
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Peroomian, Tchilingirian to Speak at ARF’s First Republic Conference
Glendale (Asbarez, March 7, 2018)—To mark and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first Republic of Armenia, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Western United States, in collaboration with the California State University, Northridge Armenian Studies Program, has organized a two-day academic conference, “Armenian Statehood Reborn: Achievements and Reflections.”… Two of the acclaimed speakers at the conference will be Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian and Dr. Rubina Peroomian...
2018-03-12
