Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise

Professor Robin Cohen will introduce the Oxford Diasporas Programme. Professor Khachig Tölölyan of Wesleyan University (and editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies) will give the lecture. This will be followed by drinks at Wadham College.

Professor Khachig Tölölyan of Wesleyan University (and founding editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies) is the child of Armenian refugees from Turkey. His parents fled to northern Syria, where he was born. He continued to move with his family, first to Cairo, Egypt and then to Lebanon, Beirut, and finally, to Watertown, Massachusetts. Tölölyan has written on nationalism and diasporas, modern narrative and critical theory, Armenian studies and terrorism. He is interested in the increasing level of migration and dispersion; how these dispersions become ethnic and diasporic; and how they reshape the culture and politics of the nations that host them as well as the nations they left.

Please ensure that you register for this event by emailing Ann Cowie: ann.cowie@qeh.ox.ac.uk