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Hyestart co-organizes academic conferences in partnership with leading universities.

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On 14 and 15 March 2024, the international symposium “Armenian Diaspora(s) in motion” was held at the Centre des Colloques of the Condorcet campus (Aubervilliers - Paris). It was co-organized by Alain Navarra (University of Bologna, Hyestart), Boris Adjémian (AGBU France Nubar Library), Anouche Der Sarkissian (Sorbonne nouvelle, Crew, Institut Convergences Migrations) and Yann Scioldo-Zürcher (CNRS, CRH-EHESS, Institut Convergences Migrations).

 

The international symposium program can be viewed here: https://www.hyestart.org/post/diaspora-s-arménienne-s-en-mouvement-espaces-acteurs-et-pratiques-au-21ème-siècle

 

The symposium highlighted certain changes in Armenian diaspora studies.

 

Some panels vigorously challenged old definitions and approaches, conceptualizing new forms of dispersion, diaspora and transnationalism.

 

Martine Hovanessian's work in France, for example, laid the foundations for comparative work with other diasporas, considering the Armenian diaspora as a construction that articulates temporalities rather than as a fixed category.

 

All presentations questioned the notions of migrant or transmigrant communities, which create new social spaces, as well as hybridization, métissage, transculturalism and collective action on behalf of Armenia.

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Identification is no longer based exclusively on the past or shared roots, but on a future that diasporic people, as actors, develop and negotiate on a daily basis.