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The trips were organized by Armen Aroyan, an engineer and USC alum, mostly of American-Armenians visiting ancestral Armenian sites throughout Turkey. Aroyan videotaped nearly all the trips he organized and frequently interviewed participants, local Armenians (both Christian and Muslim), and many others. Approximately 1,470 people\u2013\u2013whom Aroyan referred to as \u201cpilgrims\u201d for their return to the very places from which their ancestors had been expelled\u2013\u2013joined his nearly 100 guided tours.<\/p>\n<p>Across the many places Aroyan visited, he prioritized meeting and interviewing the area\u2019s few remaining Armenians, which became harder with each passing year. Local Armenians would take him and his \u2018pilgrims\u2019 from one Armenian home or shop to another, forming relationships that would be strengthened with each future trip.<\/p>\n<p>On rare occasions, Aroyan\u2019s \u2018pilgrims\u2019 actually returned to their childhood homes. During his earliest guided trips, a genocide survivor revisited his ancestral homes in both Hajin (now-Saimbeyli) and Adana, sitting side-by-side with another survivor who had converted to Islam as a child.<\/p>\n<p>Aroyan gifted his collection to the Institute in 2018 with the goal of making the footage widely accessible for research and educational purposes. The Institute has completed the initial phase of digitization and cataloging of the collection\u2019s nearly 400 tapes. As a result of Aroyan\u2019s generous support, a comprehensive metadata production scheme was also initiated, creating keywords to make each videotape easily searchable for end users on USC Digital Library. Place names, interviews, larger subject headings, and even music have been tagged to assist researchers in accessing and investigating a wide range of topics and themes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Nearly half of the collection is now available on USC Digital Library as part of the Institute\u2019s Digital Collection.<\/p>\n<p>The Armen Aroyan Collection marks a unique contribution to the study of inherited memory and diasporic return, offering rare insights into historical sites where the traces of an Armenian past continue to endure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Researchers who have questions or requests for potential peripheral materials associated with specific trips and\/or the collection should email armenian@usc.edu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitallibrary.usc.edu\/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&amp;VBID=2A3BXZLVXCTWQ&amp;PN=1&amp;WS=PackagePres\">Click here to access the collection.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7597 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2026\/01\/4716be79-d8b3-eaa1-77d1-800c65183fc6-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2026\/01\/4716be79-d8b3-eaa1-77d1-800c65183fc6-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2026\/01\/4716be79-d8b3-eaa1-77d1-800c65183fc6-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2026\/01\/4716be79-d8b3-eaa1-77d1-800c65183fc6-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2026\/01\/4716be79-d8b3-eaa1-77d1-800c65183fc6.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies announces a major development in making publicly accessible its Armen Aroyan Collection\u2013\u2013a trove of rare video material documenting decades of Armenian-American engagement with Armenian heritage in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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