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Marianna Hovhannisyan (Independent Researcher), Chair: Banu Karaca (BEYONDREST/ Forum Transregionale Studien)Scholarly work with Armenian-related archival materials often involves uncovering unseen repositories, questioning inaccessible archives, and (re)defining intergenerational memory through material traces. Archival institutions and digital humanities initiatives, meanwhile, tend to focus on preservation, as well as access and community work. In this talk, Marianna Hovhannisyan situates the “archive” as a theoretical inquiry and a site of contested knowledge. Drawing upon her book project, Double Assimilations, Empty Fields, and Orphan Objects: Armenian Archival Imaginaries, Hovhannisyan examines how Armenian cultural production, specifically modernist-era arts and crafts, is defined by fragmentations and archival absences. Contemporary metadata categorization and theories of artifacts continue to shape how these material fragments survive and circulate in transnational repositories as “folk” or “crafts.” This talk asks how these frameworks might also enable questioning and engagement with new epistemic openings.
The event is part of the conversation series Restitution and its Vantage Points: Beyond the Preservation Paradigm of the BEYONDREST Research Group. “Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge” (BEYONDREST) is an ERC-funded, five-year research project at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Project No. 101045661). More information on the project and the conversation series can he found here.
More information: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/veranstaltungen/kalender/details/armenian-archival-imaginaries
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