In Kirants, a small village on Armenia’s northeastern border, ancient monasteries, a school with a bomb shelter, and a military base coexist. Sheila Paylan explores the physical and emotional boundaries that define security, identity and resilience in a fragile landscape.
What can documentary photography do in times of crisis? How can it help us understand and affirm our identities? We speak about these and other questions in our first English-language podcast with the internationally-renowned LA-based photographer Ara Oshagan.
In this article, political scientist Georgi Asatryan, reviews the academic literature on the theory of soft power and then considers it in the context of Armenia.
Navigating through the complexity of the triangular dimension of identity, trust and engagement infrastructure is the key to diaspora networks, their connection with the home country, and economic development.
The relationship between Armenians and “the political” (Le politique) embodies a dialectic of the village and of the Polity; more precisely, the unavoidable but asphyxiating spirit of the village pitted against the indispensable yet evanescent Polity.
Հայրենադարձության մասին որոշեցինք խոսել գրասենյակից դուրս, քաղաքում մի լավ տեղ՝ Բուն ակումբում: Խոսեցինք օվիր այցերից, պատերազմից, խաղաղությունից, հայ մնալուց, հարկայինից, աջից, ձախից՝ մի քիչ արեւմտահայերեն մի քիչ էլ արեւելահայերեն:
A new exhibition by the History Museum of Armenia entitled “Costume: Fragments of Identity” recently opened in downtown Yerevan. The curator of the exhibition, Vigen Galstyan speaks to EVN Report about how in the conceptualization of the temporary exhibit, it became clear how little scholarly research has been done on traditional Armenian costumes from a theoretical, political or social perspective.
Will the 2020 Artsakh War be a turning point for the diaspora to reassess and define a new agenda for itself? Dr. Khatchik DerGhougassian argues that a paradigm shift has started to occur in how the diaspora sees itself and its relationship with the homeland.
Do diasporas have agency, imagined and conceptualized, to produce collective behavior or are they too vast and heterogeneous to generate any coordinated collective action in unison?
The 2020 Artsakh War was perceived and experienced in Armenia as well as in the diaspora as an existential crisis. Kasbarian argues that the recent nation-wide mobilization made this moment a transformative one.
EVN Report’s mission is to empower Armenia, inspire the diaspora and inform the world through sound, credible and fact-based reporting and commentary. Our goal is to increase public trust in the media. EVN Report is the media arm of EVN News Foundation registered in the Republic of Armenia in 2017.
