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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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Topic:photographic archives
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Observing South Caucasus' Historical Landscape: An Open Photo Archive. Tools, Activities, and Purposes of the OSCOP Project

Riccioni, Stefano · Penoni, Francesca · Spampinato, Beatrice, 2025
Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 4 (2025), pp. 173–196; DOI 10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2025/01/007 (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice)

Presents the OSCOP project, which collects, digitises and catalogues a photographic archive documenting the cultural heritage of the South Caucasus, held by the Centro di Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena in Venice. The collection derives from the research missions led by Adriano Alpago Novello from 1967 onward and comprises roughly 10,000 items. Preservation work targets three layers: the photographic object itself, the intangible historical layers (site ownership, historical stratification and toponymy), and the architectural and natural heritage of historical Armenia and Georgia. The authors devote substantial attention to cataloguing method, arguing for transliteration over translation of Armenian names in order to resist toponymic erasure and appropriation of contested heritage.

Armenian architectural heritagephotographic archivesdigital humanitiesheritage preservationtoponymy
English
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Making Space and Community Through Memory: Orphans and Armenian Jerusalem in the Nubar Library's Photographic Archive

Adjemian, Boris · Suciyan, Talin, 2017
Études arméniennes contemporaines, No. 9 (2017), 'Jerusalem in the Making: Spaces and Communities', pp. 75–113 (Bibliothèque Nubar / AGBU); DOI 10.4000/eac.1129

Adjemian (director of the AGBU Nubar Library) and Suciyan analyze a body of 1920s–1930s photographs held in Paris to reconstruct how communal space was made in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem. Reading the layered history of post-WWI refugees and orphans alongside older Armenian religious institutions in Palestine, they examine how memory shaped Armenian communal life. The essay is also methodological, reflecting on how historians can build a social history from a visual archive that recovers lives the post-genocide record otherwise forgot or ignored.

Armenian Jerusalemphotographic archivesgenocide orphanspost-genocide diasporasocial history
English

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