Presented By: Center for Armenian Studies
15th Annual International Graduate Student Workshop in Armenian Studies. Armenians Apart: Connections, Disconnections, and Tensions in Premodern and Modern Diasporas
Organized by: Armen Abkarian (U-M) and Michael Pifer (U-M)
Diaspora studies tends to emphasize a set of loosely shared commonalities across space and time. This international graduate student workshop leans the other direction, and instead asks: what can aspects of life that are not easily shared across a broader space teach us about the formation and maintenance of “diasporas,” premodern or modern?
We invite graduate students and early career scholars (such as postdoctoral fellows within the first three years of completing a dissertation) to explore tensions and overlooked connections across the Armenian diaspora, as well as to envision fresh possibilities for writing local history against a broader geographic, cultural, or historical backdrop. How might medieval and modern diasporic peoples envision belonging (or not belonging) to something larger from the vantage point of local history? How does being local shape conceptions of other peoples, including one’s own people, in other places? What overlooked networks of connection also run through diasporas, linking Armenians to something else, such as other peoples, empires, trade routes, linguistic communities, or cross-cultural forms of art?
In short: what might being apart, in whatever sense, do? And where does apartness end, and togetherness begin again?
In asking these questions, we seek to consider the linkages, possibilities, and drawbacks in thinking about “diaspora” as a cohort, bringing the modern globe and the premodern world, defined by connections that do not always translate to our contemporary moment, into productive dialogue. Although this conference is centered in Armenian Studies, we welcome contributions from cognate fields and case studies, particularly those that raise fresh questions or propose theoretical interventions that resonate with the themes of the workshop.
Webinar ID
969 6198 7579
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96961987579
*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- armenianstudies@umich.edu
We invite graduate students and early career scholars (such as postdoctoral fellows within the first three years of completing a dissertation) to explore tensions and overlooked connections across the Armenian diaspora, as well as to envision fresh possibilities for writing local history against a broader geographic, cultural, or historical backdrop. How might medieval and modern diasporic peoples envision belonging (or not belonging) to something larger from the vantage point of local history? How does being local shape conceptions of other peoples, including one’s own people, in other places? What overlooked networks of connection also run through diasporas, linking Armenians to something else, such as other peoples, empires, trade routes, linguistic communities, or cross-cultural forms of art?
In short: what might being apart, in whatever sense, do? And where does apartness end, and togetherness begin again?
In asking these questions, we seek to consider the linkages, possibilities, and drawbacks in thinking about “diaspora” as a cohort, bringing the modern globe and the premodern world, defined by connections that do not always translate to our contemporary moment, into productive dialogue. Although this conference is centered in Armenian Studies, we welcome contributions from cognate fields and case studies, particularly those that raise fresh questions or propose theoretical interventions that resonate with the themes of the workshop.
Webinar ID
969 6198 7579
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96961987579
*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- armenianstudies@umich.edu
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