“Deportation and Memory: The Ongoing Crisis of Artsakh in Oral Histories”
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“Deportation and Memory: The Ongoing Crisis of Artsakh in Oral Histories”
On October 17–19, 2025 the international conference “Deportation and Memory: The Ongoing Crisis of Artsakh in Oral Histories” took place.
The event was organized by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, the Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies “Hazarashen,” and Inalco (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France).
Held in a hybrid format, the conference brought together more than thirty researchers from Armenia and abroad. Scholars from various disciplines — including history, cultural anthropology, linguistics, cultural studies, archaeology, and psychology — discussed the ongoing crisis in Artsakh within the broader context of the Artsakh people's 30-year struggle for survival, wars, and displacement.