Armenia and Armenians from 1500s to the Present

4 credits · Undergraduate

In the early modern era, cultural, literary, social, economic, and political transformations occurred among Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran, and later the Russian Empire. Armenians engaged in global trade and cultural processes from India to Venice and beyond. We will particularly focus on the different iterations of Armenian identity in various imperial settings, diasporan communities as well as in relation to the Armenian genocide and the Soviet and contemporary Republic of Armenia. We will examine the changing meanings and roles of Armenian identity across space and time.