Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan Office-South Caucasus Region in cooperation with “Hazarashen” NGO implements a project called “Localizing genocide memory in the land/scape(s) of Armenia: A pilot study of the Malatia-Sebastia neigbourhood Soviet and post-Soviet topography – part II”.
“Hazarashen” NGO undertakes this project by a joint team of scholars and research assistants with affiliations from the American University of Armenia (AUA), the Center of Oral History at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography within the National Academy of Sciences (COH-IAE), and the AGBU Nubar Library in Paris (NL). The joint team brings together a group of social science scholars and practitioners from various fields of the humanities and social sciences, who believe in the importance of multidisciplinary and critical approaches in the production of knowledge.
The main aim of the project is to use innovative pedagogical and methodological tools to explore the connections between public and oral history in grassroots memorialisation practices in Soviet and post-Soviet urban landscapes.
Two interconnected objectives are identified within the goal:
1.Further the analysis of the data collected during the pilot study phase “Hazarashen” initiated last year.
2.Enhance the understanding and practice of oral history in Armenia.
Expanding the audiowalk, self-reflections and workshop series on the integration of oral history and education are outlined as the possible activities of the second phase of the project.
As a result, the two activity vectors will give the possibility of preparing a skeletal content mapping of a future website that may include both a downloadable version of the created audiowalk as well as various accompanying teaching tools.
