A conference titled “Critical Approaches to Armenian Identity in the 21st Century: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Transformation” organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation and the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society was held in Istanbul on October 7-8.

Hülya Adak (Turkey),Aida Boudjikanian (Canada),Khatchik DerGhougassian (Argentina),Ferhat Kentel (Turkey),Ohannes Kılıçdağı (Turkey),Haroutiun Kurkjian (Greece),Lalai Manjikian (Canada),Ardaşes Margosyan (Turkey),Khatchig Mouradian (USA),Anna Ohannessian-Charpin (France),Günay Göksu Özdoğan (Turkey),Razmik Panossian (Portugal),Rubina Peroomian (USA),Vahé Tachjian (Germany),Arman Yeghiazaryan (Armenia) and Arus Yumul (Turkey) participated in the conference and were included in the scientific committee.

The conference was organized with the purpose of studying the various approaches to Armenian identity today and the ways these approaches connect to identity studies.