Abstract
This presentation will focus on key communities like Boston, Paris and Beirut that emerged as intellectual centers in dispersion following the Armenian Genocide of 1915 to provide a comparative overview of the various schools of literary response to the catastrophe. In highlighting these centers’ varying approaches, it will discuss how a stateless language sustained itself in a diasporic setting and how it negotiated literary identity against the backdrop of genocidal violence and loss.
Bionote
Talar Chahinian holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She is the author of Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Forthcoming with Syracuse University Press) and the co-editor of the collected volume, The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century. She co-edits Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies and contributes regularly to the Armenian literary magazine Pakin.
Practical information
When?
May 15 – 11h30-13h BST
Where?
- Join us offline: Leslokaal 1.1 – Henri Pirenne, UFO, Campus Ufo (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33, 9000 Gent)
If you wish to join us offline, please send us an e-mail at tapas@Ugent.be so that we can reserve you a seat.
- Join us online: Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mmo-jywa-zhu