UCI Center for Armenian Studies

05/16/2026

05/11/2026

On May 2, 2026, the UCI Center for Armenian Studies hosted “New Diasporas for an Old Diaspora:Armenian Hybrid Communities in the 21st Century,” a one-day symposium bringing together international scholars to examine the changing formations of Armenian diasporic life today 🌎

Moving beyond inherited models of the “classic diaspora,” the symposium explored how Armenian communities are being reshaped by secondary migrations, post-Soviet and post-colonial histories, conflicts and precarities in diaspora homelands, shifting state formations, and new global circuits of labor, media, education, and culture. With Southern California as one critical site among others, the day’s conversations invited participants to think comparatively and theoretically about layered, hybrid, and emergent Armenian worlds.

We are grateful to our speakers, chairs, moderators, cosponsors, students, and community members for making this gathering such a thoughtful and generative space for dialogue.

05/08/2026

Thrilled to be a co-sponsor of Feminist Armenian Research Collective Workshop: New Directions in Music, Arts, and Performance!

When: May 26th-27th Where: UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, Green Room Join us for the Feminist Armenian Research Collective’s (FemARC) Third Workshop, New Directions in Music, Arts…

04/30/2026

It’s not too late to RSVP for New Diasporas for an Old Diaspora: Armenian Hybrid Communities in the 21st Century 🗺️📌

We close the symposium with a final panel discussion that draws together the day’s conversations and reflects on emerging questions around diaspora, identity, and community.

📅 Saturday, May 2nd
📍 Humanities Gateway 1030
🕘 In-person only

RSVP is required to attend. Please RSVP below!

jotform.com/form/260886492363165

04/23/2026

Continuing our symposium program announcement for New Diasporas for an Old Diaspora: Armenian Hybrid Communities in the 21st Century

We are excited to introduce the presenters featured in this panel as we continue rolling out the full symposium program.

📅 Saturday, May 2nd
📍 Humanities Gateway 1030
🕘 In-person only

RSVP is required to attend. Please RSVP by today via the link below!

jotform.com/form/260886492363165

04/20/2026

We are excited to begin announcing the program for New Diasporas for an Old Diaspora: Armenian Hybrid Communities in the 21st Century 🌎

Our first featured panel, California’s Armenian Diasporas, brings together scholars whose work explores the transformations and lived realities of Armenian communities across California.

Join us on Saturday, May 2nd for this one-day symposium and visit the link below to RSVP by April 23rd!

jotform.com/form/260886492363165

04/16/2026

Join us Saturday, May 2nd for “New Diasporas for an Old Diaspora: Armenian Hybrid Communities in the 21st Century” 🌎

This one-day symposium brings together international scholars to examine Armenian diasporic formations that have emerged over the past fifty years. Moving beyond the “classic diaspora” model rooted in the post-genocide era, it explores how layered, hybrid, and transnational communities– shaped by secondary migrations, geopolitical shifts, and new global circuits– are reconfiguring Armenian life today.

In-person only.

*RSVP is required to attend, please RSVP via the link below

https://www.jotform.com/form/260886492363165

03/20/2026

An evening with author Vania Apkarian, reflecting on expressing himself in Western Armenian and writing his poetry collection «Փխրուն Գերդաստան» 📘🙌

12/13/2025

Deadline approaching on December 15th!⏳📖

The 2nd annual “Translating a Stateless Language” workshop at UC Irvine is happening Saturday, February 21, 2026. Submit your application by DECEMBER 15!

♦️ Open to anyone translating to or from Western Armenian (literary, poetic, essayistic, etc.)

🔷 Send 1 abstract (max 250 words) + 1 sample (max 300 words, unpublished)

🔶 Submit as a single PDF to [email protected] by December 15, 2025

Selected participants will be notified by January 10, 2026.