Lecture Series: The Armenian Church, Society and Politics
Heythrop College, University of London, Centre for Eastern Christianity
Michaelmas Term Lecture Series
The Armenian Church, Society and Politics. The costs and challenges of the Soviet legacy in Armenia and the Diaspora
Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Dates and Topics
04 November: Introduction to the Armenian Church: Past and Present
11 November: The Soviet Regime and the Decline of the Church and Religion
18 November: The Soviet Regime and the 'Secularisation' of the Church
25 November: Post-Soviet Social and Political Dislocation and the 'Return' of Religion
The Bellarmine Room, Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN
Topics and synopsis
Paper: Armenian Christianity in the Middle East
Christianity in the Contemporary Middle East - The Life and Death of a Tradition? Conference hosted by the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, in association with the Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London
Invited Speaker: "Armenian Christianity in the Middle East: modern history and contemporary challenges"
1 November 2014, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford
Speaker: “Armenians in 2115” Strategy Seminar
Invited Speaker: "To Stay or Not to Stay? The Question of the Century for Armenian communities in the Middle East"
Part of “Armenians in 2115” Strategy Seminar organised by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Armenian Communities Department in Lisbon, 13 October 2014.
Paper: Modernity and Secularization
National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan
Paper: "Modernity and Secularization of the Armenian Church", Society for Armenian Studies, 40th
Anniversary Conference.
5 October 2014
Speaker: Turkey-Armenia Relations in 2015
Chatham House, Russia and Eurasia Programme
Invited speaker, "Turkey-Armenia Relations in 2015: Thaw or Freeze"; the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
26 June 2014
Paper: Diaspora's 'Natives' or Native 'Diaspora'?
Sheffield Hallam University
Paper: "Diaspora's 'Natives' or Native 'Diaspora'? Research and methodological questions regarding the study of Islamized Armenians in Turkey," at Armenian-Turkish Studies Workshop, Sheffield.
9 June 2014
Paper: Turkish-Armenian Relations
St. Anne's College, University of Oxford.
Middle East Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
International Conference: Global Conflict and Conflict Management: Israel/Palestine and Beyond
Paper: "Living with Injustice and Denial: Turkish-Armenian relations on the threshold of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire"
18-19 May 2014
Participant: Roundtable on Abkhazia
Chatham House, Russia and Eurasia Programme
Invited speaker, "Turkey-Armenia Relations in 2015: Thaw or Freeze"; the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
26 June 2014
Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme
Invited participant, Roundtable on "The Impact of External Factors on Abkhazia's Internatl Debate", with Liana Kvarchelia, Deputy Director, Center for Humanitarian Programs, Abkhazia. The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London.
14 May 2014
Participant: Reverberations of the events in Crimea and Ukraine
Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme
Invited participant, Experts Roundtable on "The Immediate Reverberations of the events in Crimea and Ukraine" and "South Caucasus - the role of Turkey, and interface with Iran" with Fiona Hill, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution, and Gareth Winrow, Independent Analyst. The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London.
12 May 2014
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