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Stepanyan, Khachatur · Hovhannisyan, Edgar, 2025
Hiperboreea, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 46– (Penn State University Press / Scholarly Publishing Collective)
Presents the ARF's activity in Greece from the mid-1890s, when party organizations formed in southern Greece, through 1924. Greek attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire and Greece's geography created favorable conditions for ARF work on behalf of the Armenian national liberation movement, and the party quickly became a significant organization there. Revolutionary figures persecuted in Constantinople took refuge in Greece, which also served as a base for maintaining links with Cilicia. ARF activity expanded further after the Genocide and the massacres of Greeks in Asia Minor, and the Greek branch organized substantial relief for Armenian refugees; after the fall of the First Republic in 1920 the ARF was central to the Armenian community's reorganization in Greece.
ThesisOpen Access
Tavitian, Nicolas, 2025
PhD thesis, The Open University (UK), Open Research Online
Based on 72 in-depth narrative interviews in Berlin and Strasbourg, examines how Armenians with differing migration histories engage with diaspora communities and institutions, identifying three distinct routes of engagement and developing the concept of 'diaspora dynamics': engagement as conditional and negotiated rather than automatic.
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Yeghiazaryan, Arman, 2024
Հայագիտության հարցեր / Armenological Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2(28), pp. 83–99 (YSU Institute for Armenian Studies); DOI 10.46991/ai.2024.2.28.005
Since 1980 a series of conferences has brought together representatives of Armenia and the diaspora to discuss cooperation, set priorities, and clarify future tasks. The necessity of such assemblies was debated both in the Soviet period and after the restoration of independence, and the search for the most effective format is still unresolved. Depending on the political approach of the government of the day and the problems it needed to solve, these gatherings took different shapes: representative meetings, conferences, summits. The article examines the agendas and convening formats of the Armenia–Diaspora conferences against the historical and political reality of each moment.
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Avakian, Knarik, 2018
Fundamental Armenology, Issue 1(7) (Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of RA, Yerevan); ISSN 1829-4618
Argues that the displacement of thousands of Syrian-Armenians by the war beginning in 2011 (to Lebanon, the Gulf, North America, Europe, and to Armenia and Artsakh) demands a fundamental reevaluation of pan-diasporan priorities. Calls for a coordinated moral, ideological, and practical reorganization of diaspora communal life led jointly by diaspora structures, the Armenian churches (Apostolic, Evangelical, Catholic), the national parties (Hunchak, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, Ramkavar), benevolent organizations, media, schools, and the homeland state. Frames repatriation and homeland-diaspora coordination as an epoch-making mission.
ThesisOpen Access
Manoogian, Sylva Natalie, 2013
PhD dissertation, Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles; eScholarship
The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is a major religious, educational and cultural institution established more than fourteen centuries ago, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Library is one of its intellectual resource centres. Planning began in 1925 as a tribute to Patriarch Yeghishe I Tourian; its mission has been to collect and preserve works of Armenian religion, language, art, literature and history alongside world literature. Construction was funded by the benefaction of Calouste Gulbenkian, with continuing support from the Gulbenkian Foundation. The dissertation offers the first systematic English-language institutional history of the library, analysing its emergence, leadership and functions. Manoogian found that key primary sources existed in the Patriarchate's administrative archives but had never been consistently organized.
