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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Armenian-American Soldiers as Liberators against Nazism

Aftandilian, Gregory, 2025
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2025), pp. 40–53 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0062

Aftandilian examines Armenian-American soldiers in World War II — many of them children of genocide survivors — who enlisted partly to prove their patriotism and shed the 'foreigner' label. He argues their wartime experiences, both leaving distraught survivor parents at home and witnessing Nazi atrocities in Europe (including against Armenian slave laborers and prisoners), led them to connect the extreme nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress with Nazi ideology, deepening their sense of Armenian identity and responsibility. The article draws on oral-history interviews and Armenian-American periodicals.

Armenian-American historyWorld War IIgenocide survivors' childrenidentityNazism
English
ThesisOpen Access

Armenians in Strasbourg and Berlin: Engagement, Institutions and the Dynamics of Diaspora

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.

Armenian diasporadiaspora institutionsmigrationidentityEurope
English
ThesisOpen Access

Dislocations of Identity in Late Twentieth Century Armenian Diaspora Literature

Keshishyan, Lilit, 2013
PhD dissertation, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles; eScholarship

Enters the debate in diaspora studies over how much a physical homeland matters when defining expatriate communities as diasporic, working through the literary output of three Armenian diaspora writers: Vahé Oshagan, Hakob Karapents, and Vahe Berberian. It examines how identity is represented and reconceptualized in Armenian diaspora literature of the late twentieth century by reading characters' relationships to the many spaces they call home. The author argues these works offer a complex view of the diasporic subject because they acknowledge the duality of living outside one's 'home' country and then push past that binary, rejecting romanticized narratives of origin and place. Rather than finding solace in any single space, the characters' searching and wandering becomes the only stable fixture in their lives, and so defines their identity.

Armenian diaspora literatureidentityVahé OshaganHakob KarapentsVahe Berberian
English

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