Keynote Lecture: "Christianity in the Middle East: contexts and challenges" at Eastern Christian Tradition in the World Today: Dialogues, Ecumenism, Theology and Ecclesiology, Heythrop College, University of London, organised by Centre for Eastern Christianity, 18 June 2018.
Panelist (with Kenneth Ross, Mariz Tadros, John Eibner, Anthony O’Mahony) "Christianity in North Africa and West Asia" (watch).
Paper: "Ideological relevance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" at Armenian Statehood Reborn: Achievements and Reflections, conference marking 100th Anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia. California State University Northridge, 5-6 May 2018; organised by ARF Western United States and Cal State Northridge Armenian Studies Program.
Hratch Tchilingirian (2018) “Armenia and Karabkah” in Christianity in North Africa and West Asia, edited by Kenneth R. Ross, Mariz Tadros, and Todd M. Johnson. Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018: 190-201.
Hratch Tchilingirian and Ed Alden (2018) "Turkey" in Christianity in North Africa and West Asia, edited by Kenneth R. Ross, Mariz Tadros, and Todd M. Johnson. Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018: 92-101.
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...
Nel IV secolo, poco dopo la conversione dell’Armenia al cristianesimo, il Regno di Albania (da non confondersi con l’Albania dei Balcani) che comprendeva le province di Artsakh (la futura Karabagh) e Utik, si convertì al cristianesimo grazie agli sforzi di Gregorio l’Illuminatore, evangelizzatore dell’Armenia. Grigoris, il nipote di san Gregorio, fu nominato capo della Chiesa albanese intorno al 330 d.C. Fu martirizzato nel 338 mentre evangelizzava la regione a nordest del paese, nei pressi di Derbend (l’attuale Daghestan). Il suo corpo fu traslato in Artsakh e sepolto in una
The Parikian Collection: A New Treasure Made Public
Hratch Tchilingirian | 21 February 2018
Eton College formally launched the collection of some 650 volumes of rare early Armenian printed books from the 16th to 19th centuries, bequeathed to the school by renowned British-Armenian violinist Manoug Parikian (1920-1987).
Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian...spoke about the global humanitarian challenges and their reflection in the Middle East. The lecture at the Yerevan State University was entitled "Wars, religious extremism and future challenges facing Eastern Christianity in the Middle East."
...Kudüs’te en azından 4. yüzyıldan beri, yani 1700 yıldır Ermeniler yaşıyor. Oxford Üniversitesi Şarkiyat Enstitüsü öğretim üyelerinden Hratch Tchilingirian, Kudüs’teki Ermenilerin “Ermeni anavatanın dışında, varlığını halen sürdüren en eski diaspora topluluğu” olduğunu...
The debate on "Armenian identity" has a long history and is an ever-evolving discourse, especially in the Diaspora. In the last 100 years since 1915, along with efforts to build communities in dispersion, there have been hierarchies of identity and canonical approaches to
Paper: "Secularising Effects of Sectarianism: The Case of the Armenian Church in the Middle East During the Cold War Era" at Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East, convened by Dr Alex Henley, Dr Ceren Lord, Dr Hiroko Miyokawaunder, under the auspices of Pembroke College, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), 27 February 2018.
Yerkir Media TV and Artsakh TV programs on Oxford Armenian Studies, featuring Theo Maarten van Lint, Hratch Tchilingirian (at 9:29), David Zakarian, Ani Shahinian and Krikor Momdjian.
Historic Ordination of a Deaconess in the Tehran Diocese of the Armenian Church
Hratch Tchilingirian | CivilNet.am 12 January 2018 [updated 20.06.2019]
The Primate of the Diocese of Tehran ordained a young woman as a deaconess in Tehran’s St. Sarkis Mother Church on September 25, 2017. Even as the office of deaconess had existed in Armenian Church convents for centuries, this was a historic first. It is the first time that a lay woman, not a nun, was ordained a “parish deacon”
Historic Ordination of a Deaconess in the Tehran Diocese of the Armenian Church
Hratch Tchilingirian | 12 January 2018
The Primate of the Diocese of Tehran ordained a young woman as a deaconess in Tehran’s St. Sarkis Mother Church on September 25, 2017. Even as the office of deaconess had existed in Armenian Church convents for centuries, this was a historic first. It is the first time that a lay woman, not a nun, was was ordained a “parish deacon.”
Hratch Tchilingirian, The Struggle for Independence in the post-Soviet South Caucasus: Karabakh and Abkhazia. London: Sandringham House, 2003. ISBN 9781366927606.