{"id":7696,"date":"2026-02-03T19:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:45:40","slug":"announcing-program-it-takes-a-diaspora-to-raise-a-language-future-directions-for-armenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2026\/02\/03\/announcing-program-it-takes-a-diaspora-to-raise-a-language-future-directions-for-armenian\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Program: It Takes a Diaspora to Raise a Language: Future Directions for Armenian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            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forward-looking question: How can the Armenian language thrive in the Diaspora? Rather than centering narratives of loss or decline, the conference intentionally shifts the focus to examples of innovation, creativity, and success\u2014highlighting initiatives, strategies, and targeted efforts that sustain and invigorate Armenian in its literary standards as well as its colloquial and dialectal forms, across generations and geographies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program is designed to foster dialogue between research and on-the-ground experience, featuring a mix of academic panels, roundtables, keynote lectures, live conversations, and practitioner showcases. This structure encourages exchange across disciplines and professional roles, emphasizing collaboration between scholars and those actively engaged in language education, cultural production, and community work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over three days, participants will address themes including language policy and assessment, heritage language transmission, early childhood and university-level language education, translanguaging and immersion models, creative and artistic language practices, journalism, artificial intelligence, and the future of Armenian in digital spaces. The program foregrounds both Western and Eastern Armenian, featuring global perspectives from Armenia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keynote addresses by Dr. Ruth Kircher and Dr. Maria Polinsky anchor the program, alongside sessions that spotlight innovative pedagogical approaches, creative language use in digital and artistic spaces, and emerging models of language revitalization. By centering diasporic agency and experimentation,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It Takes a Diaspora to Raise a Language<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aims to chart practical and hopeful pathways for the future of Armenian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference is free of charge and open to the public. Its working languages are English and Armenian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The preliminary program can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/it-takes-a-diaspora-to-raise-a-language\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/it-takes-a-diaspora-to-raise-a-language-future-directions-for-armenian-tickets-1982301314594?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&amp;utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-term=listing&amp;utm-source=cp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here to RSVP. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies and the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announce full program for upcoming conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":7660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7696","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 v27.1.1 - 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