Where is ME? Locating “Armenia” in the “Middle East”
Armenian Institute
25 Cheniston Gardens, London W8 6TG
Last year, the Biden Administration unexpectedly announced major revisions to its race and ethnicity standards – the first in 27 years – by including a Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) category.
While it is unclear whether this development will survive the Trump administration, the broader Middle East and especially Gaza remain at the fore of the new administration’s foreign policy. However, defining or even locating the Middle East remains a fraught endeavour, particularly in relation to notions of the “Near” East and Orient, to say nothing of semantic nuances across multiple languages. Therefore, this talk will examine the “Middle East” and particularly “Armenia” as sites of recurring ambiguity and anxiety within academic disciplines, foreign policy, legislation, cultural imaginaries, and most importantly, diaspora communities themselves.
This event will be hybrid.
Armenian events around the world
- Armenian events in United States
- Armenian events in Armenia
- Armenian events in Hungary
- Armenian events in France
- Armenian events in Switzerland
- Armenian events in United Kingdom
- Armenian events in Bulgaria
- Armenian events in Belgium
- Armenian events in Canada
- Armenian events in Netherlands
- Armenian events in Italy
- Armenian events in Austria
- Armenian events in Germany
- Armenian events in Cyprus
- Armenian events in Australia
- Armenian events in Lebanon
- Armenian events in Spain