Armenian Studies in Oxford
Oxford Armenian Studies - Lectures and Seminars
Week 6 - Hilary Term, 24-28 February 2014
Introduction to Armenian Studies: Epigraphy and Numismatics
- Prof Theo van Lint
Mon. 24 February, 3-4 pm, Pembroke College, The Henderson Building, Henderson Seminar Room
An Introduction to Ancient Armenian Linguistics
- Dr Irene Tinti
Mon. 24 February, 4-5 pm, Pembroke College – The Henderson Building, Henderson Seminar Room
The purpose of the course is to introduce the audience to linguistic research on Ancient Armenian; the lectures are ideally aimed at students, and do not require any prior knowledge of the language. The third lecture will deal with Hellenising Armenian, discuss methodological issues and present some research tools.
Diaspora Politics and the Armenian Church
- Dr Hratch Tchilingirian
Tues. 25 February, 6:30-8:00 pm, Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute
This lecture -- as part of the series on "Armenian Relgion, Society, Politics" -- will focus on church and politics in the Diaspora, especially on the "Church Crisis" in the 1950s, during the Cold War era, the effects of which still reverbrate in the relationship between the Catholicosate of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin and Catholicosate of Cilicia in Lebanon. Politics and power relations in the Church continue to present many challenges to communities in the Diaspora today.
Kurdish Studies Seminar (convened by Prof. Theo van Lint and Dr Özlem Galip)
"Conceptions of statelessness among Kurdish diaspora: 'Statelessness means having your home and identity on your back like a vagrant Roma'"
- Dr Barzoo Eliassi, University of Oxford
Wed. 26 February, 5-7 pm, Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute
Kurdish diaspora in Sweden is predominantly a product of political and economic deprivation in the Middle East. Although Kurds are often defined and registered as nationals or citizens of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, the questions of statehood and statelessness shape and complicate their discourses about identity and spatial belonging. The emergence of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has materialized Kurdistan as a political entity and can no longer be reduced to the illusion of overzealous Kurdish nationalists. Hence, the Kurdistan Region has become a source of political inspiration and intensified Kurdish demands about undoing the centralized power of the Turkish, Iranian and Syrian state. For Kurds, the question "where are you from" becomes a troubling moment in which they are urged to define their "original" identity in the context of nation-state and paradoxically reproducing the political value of nationalism as a potent form of categorization, identification and belonging. The stateless is both a product and the Other of the nation-state. Consequently, statelessness creates political invisibility and non-recognition in the name of overarching political identities to which many Kurds do not conform. In this regard, Kurdish diaspora becomes a contesting force that not only challenges the identity of the state but also its citizenship.
Introduction to Armenian Literature and Culture (II)
- Dr Emilio Bonfiglio
Thu. 27 February, 2-3 pm, Pembroke College, The Henderson Building, Andrew Pitt Seminar Room
The History of the Armenians of Łazar P‘arpec‘i (5th-c.): problems of assimilation and the defense of faith: Armenians against Persians (I).
For further details about Oxford Armenian Studies, contact Prof. Theo van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies: theo.vanlint@orinst.ox.ac.uk or Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, Associate Faculty: hratch.tchilingirian@orinst.ox.ac.uk.
Oxford Armenian Studies (short profile)
University of Oxford
The Oriental Institute,
Pusey Lane,
Oxford, OX1 2LE
Week 6 - Hilary Term, 24-28 February 2014
Introduction to Armenian Studies: Epigraphy and Numismatics
- Prof Theo van Lint
Mon. 24 February, 3-4 pm, Pembroke College, The Henderson Building, Henderson Seminar Room
An Introduction to Ancient Armenian Linguistics
- Dr Irene Tinti
Mon. 24 February, 4-5 pm, Pembroke College – The Henderson Building, Henderson Seminar Room
The purpose of the course is to introduce the audience to linguistic research on Ancient Armenian; the lectures are ideally aimed at students, and do not require any prior knowledge of the language. The third lecture will deal with Hellenising Armenian, discuss methodological issues and present some research tools.
Diaspora Politics and the Armenian Church
- Dr Hratch Tchilingirian
Tues. 25 February, 6:30-8:00 pm, Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute
This lecture -- as part of the series on "Armenian Relgion, Society, Politics" -- will focus on church and politics in the Diaspora, especially on the "Church Crisis" in the 1950s, during the Cold War era, the effects of which still reverbrate in the relationship between the Catholicosate of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin and Catholicosate of Cilicia in Lebanon. Politics and power relations in the Church continue to present many challenges to communities in the Diaspora today.
Kurdish Studies Seminar (convened by Prof. Theo van Lint and Dr Özlem Galip)
"Conceptions of statelessness among Kurdish diaspora: 'Statelessness means having your home and identity on your back like a vagrant Roma'"
- Dr Barzoo Eliassi, University of Oxford
Wed. 26 February, 5-7 pm, Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute
Kurdish diaspora in Sweden is predominantly a product of political and economic deprivation in the Middle East. Although Kurds are often defined and registered as nationals or citizens of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, the questions of statehood and statelessness shape and complicate their discourses about identity and spatial belonging. The emergence of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has materialized Kurdistan as a political entity and can no longer be reduced to the illusion of overzealous Kurdish nationalists. Hence, the Kurdistan Region has become a source of political inspiration and intensified Kurdish demands about undoing the centralized power of the Turkish, Iranian and Syrian state. For Kurds, the question "where are you from" becomes a troubling moment in which they are urged to define their "original" identity in the context of nation-state and paradoxically reproducing the political value of nationalism as a potent form of categorization, identification and belonging. The stateless is both a product and the Other of the nation-state. Consequently, statelessness creates political invisibility and non-recognition in the name of overarching political identities to which many Kurds do not conform. In this regard, Kurdish diaspora becomes a contesting force that not only challenges the identity of the state but also its citizenship.
Introduction to Armenian Literature and Culture (II)
- Dr Emilio Bonfiglio
Thu. 27 February, 2-3 pm, Pembroke College, The Henderson Building, Andrew Pitt Seminar Room
The History of the Armenians of Łazar P‘arpec‘i (5th-c.): problems of assimilation and the defense of faith: Armenians against Persians (I).
For further details about Oxford Armenian Studies, contact Prof. Theo van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies: theo.vanlint@orinst.ox.ac.uk or Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, Associate Faculty: hratch.tchilingirian@orinst.ox.ac.uk.
Oxford Armenian Studies (short profile)
University of Oxford
The Oriental Institute,
Pusey Lane,
Oxford, OX1 2LE
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