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1. Where Sociology Meets Leadership

Where Sociology Meets Leadership

What Institutional Innovation Looks Like in Practice

Hratch Tchilingirian

LinkedIn | July 23, 2026

Long before I spent years in academia, I was fascinated by a simple question: How can nonprofit organizations adapt to change without losing sight of why they exist?

Date:

2026-07-23

2. Keeping the Painting on the Easel

          

Asbarez June 4, 2026     Massis June 5, 2026    Armenian Weekly June 8, 2026

Keeping the Painting on the Easel
Reflections on Life, Career, and the Art of Continually Becoming

By Hratch Tchilingirian

Life is not a finished painting hung upon the wall to be admired as a static artifact of who we are. It is not something we frame and declare, “Here it is; this is my life."

Date:

2026-06-07

3. Keeping the Painting on the Easel

Keeping the Painting on the Easel
Reflections on Life, Career, and the Art of Continually Becoming 

Hratch Tchilingirian | Oxbridgepartners.com | 25 May 2026

Life is not a finished painting hung upon the wall to be admired as a static artifact of who we are. It is not something we frame and declare, “Here it is; this is my life.” To view life this way is to deny its very essence. Life is fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing—a living work of art that evolves with every passing moment. This is also true for professional life. 

Imagine instead that your life is a painting that remains on the easel, perpetually unfinished. Each day, you approach it with fresh eyes, a brush in hand, ready to add new strokes of color, refine its details, or sometimes paint over entire sections to create something entirely new. This metaphor has helped me see life as a process—a canvas upon which we continuously create and recreate ourselves.

Date:

2026-05-26

4. New Tools and Strategies for the Future of Western Armenian

... for mutual enrichment.     Prof. Donabédian also spoke about the International Master’s in Armenian Studies, a two-year online program at Inalco that prepares educators for Armenian-language ...

5. Syria’s forgotten Armenian community

... Syria’s Armenian community seems no longer to be a priority for much of the diaspora. In this environment of limited international attention and limited diasporan capacity, Armenians in Syria remain on ...

6. USC Mapping Language and Identity

Mapping Language and Identity: Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian and the Armenian Diaspora Survey

 ""Language Therapy with Dr. K"

University of Southern California, Armenian Studies Institute, 7 May 2025

Date:

2025-10-20

7. Hratch Tchilingirian (short biography)

... 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 ...

8. Mapping Language and Identity

Mapping Language and Identity: Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian and the Armenian Diaspora Survey

 ""Language Therapy with Dr. K"

University of Southern California, Armenian Studies Institute, 7 May 2025

Date:

2025-05-20

9. Religious Pluralism in the Modern Middle East

Paper: "Minority within Minorities: Armenian communities in the Middle East between imposed realities and uncertain future", CME International Workshop, Athens, Greece, 21 October 2022. Christianity and Religious Pluralism in the Modern Middle East: International Politics and Religion at the turn of the 20th and 21st century, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation

Hratch_Tchilingirian_Athens_conf_agenda_cme_workshop_2022.pdf

Date:

2025-02-05

10. Azerbaijan’s International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges

Azerbaijan's International Image-Making Strategies and Challenges

Hratch Tchilingirian

EVN Report, 14 January 2025   [Armenian version]

The Azerbaijani state has embarked on a concerted effort to enhance its international image following the Second Karabakh War in 2020 and especially since the subsequent ethnic cleansing of Armenians orchestrated by

Date:

2025-01-24

11. Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Appointed Director of Institutional Innovation

... and policy-making circles. He has lectured internationally, while his expert commentary has appeared in major media outlets such as BBC News, The New York Times, Financial Times, Al-Jazeera, and Fox News. ...

12. Being Armenian is a package

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.

Hratch_Tchilingirian_2024_Being_Armenian_is_a_package.pdf

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Hratch Tchilingirian

Date:

2024-07-18

13. Armenology: research and methodological issues

Paper: “Armenology: research and methodological issues”, International Conference, Prospects of Armenian Philology, National Library, Yerevan, 6 July 2024.

Զեկոյց՝ «Հայագիտութիւն՝ հետազօտութեան ու մեթոդաբանութեան հարցեր» « Միջազգային Գիտաժողով Հայ Բանասիրութեան Հեռանկարներ, Հայաստանի Ազգային Գրադարան, Երեւան Հուլիսի 6, 2024.

Date:

2024-06-14

14. Ethnic Cleansing: Does International Law Still Matter?

... 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 ...

15. Tölölyan Honored as Preeminent Scholar of Diaspora Studies

... particular, at the International Conference for the Society of Armenian Studies held at the University California, Los Angeles, on Oct. 12–13.   The conference, titled “Diaspora and ‘Stateless ...

16. Արցախահայութեան օժանդակութիւնը կրկին օրակարգի վրայ կը դնէ Սփիւռքի կառոյցներու խնդիրը

... “Reverse Engineering: A State-Created “Albanian Apostolic Church” in Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook (eds., Jost Gippert and Jasmine Dum-Tragut), De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, եւ “Armenian Communities ...

17. Հայկական «փափուկ ուժը» սփիւռքի մէջ

... աշխատանքներու արդիւնքները, եւ վերջերս լոյս տեսած` “Reverse Engineering: A State-Created “Albanian Apostolic Church” in Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook (eds., Jost Gippert and Jasmine Dum-Tragut), ...

18. Reverse Engineering: A State-Created Albanian Apostolic Church

Hratch Tchilingirian (2023) “Reverse Engineering: A State-Created ‘Albanian Apostolic Church’” in Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Edited by Jost Gippert and Jasmine Dum-Tragut. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023: 581-609, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-019.

Abstract: This Chapter provides a brief historical overview of Christianity in Nagorno-Karabakh in the wider context of the modern Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict and disputed territories. It then focuses on how the Azerbaijani state is constructing an “Albanian Apostolic Church” – variously called “Udi Church” or “Udi Orthodox Church” – as part of a new narrative that connects modern-day Azerbaijanis to ancient peoples, cultures and early Christianity in the Caucasus. The common features of this state-“engineered” narrative are denial of facts, erasure of evidence and reinvention of history, which goes back to Soviet times.

Tchilingirian_2023_Reverse_Engineering_A_State_Created_Albanian_ Apostolic_Church.pdf

Date:

2023-06-15

19. Hratch Tchilingirian biographie

    Le dictionnaire biographique

Tchilingirian, Hratch. Sociologue. Après des études á New York puis en Californie, Hratch Tchilingirian défend avec succès au London School of Economics and Political Science son doctorat de sciences sociologiques (2003). Professeur á la faculté des études orientales...

Date:

2022-06-23

20. Perceptions and expectations in Diaspora-Armenia relations

Speaker: “’Homeland Diaspora, Motherland Armenia’: perceptions and expectations in Diaspora-Armenia relations.”

Conference on The Impact of Regional Transitions on Armenia: Challenges and Opportunities, organised by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences. Tsagkhadzor, 12 June 2022.

Date:

2022-06-10