The editorial board of “Etudes Arméniennes Contemporaines,” a
publication of AGBU Bibliothèque Nubar in Paris, recently announced that the
journal is now available free of charge on www.revues.org. With the
support of CLEO (or Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte) and
OpenEdition, all three issues of “Etudes Arméniennes Contemporaines” as well as the final issue of its precursor, “Revue Arménienne des Questions Contemporaines,” are now accessible in their entirety at http://eac.revues.org.
In September 2013, the Bibliothèque Nubar published the first issue of “Etudes Arméniennes Contemporaines,”
an academic and multidisciplinary journal that examines the current
issues facing Armenians both in Armenia and in the diaspora. Published
in French and English, the journal examines political, historical,
cultural, and geographic challenges in Armenia, the Caucasus, Turkey,
and the Middle East. With special themed issues, it also seeks to
explore broader subjects involving international relations, nationalism,
migrations, diaspora, heritage, memory, and mass violence.
As part of the revues.org database, “Etudes Arméniennes Contemporaines”
joins web-based versions of more than 400 humanities and social science
journals in French and other languages. This editorial evolution
enables the journal to contribute more substantively to the field of
Armenian studies, which lacks an academic journal specifically dedicated
to the modern and contemporary periods.
The biannual journal replaces “Revue Arménienne des Questions Contemporaines,”
which published 15 issues between 2004 and 2012. The new name and look
of the journal is intended to rebrand the magazine as more academic. To
this end, a new editorial committee has been appointed to meet regularly
and define the content of the journal. The committee is advised by an
international team of researchers, and includes Sebouh David Aslanian,
Raymond Kévorkian, Vincent Duclert, Vahé Tachjian, Taner Akcam, Yves
Ternon, Bernard Heyberger, Ugur Umit Ungor, Béatrice Giblin, Sévane
Garibian, Hamit Bozarslan, and Michel Bruneau.
“As part of its mandate to inform and educate, “Etudes Arméniennes Contemporaines”
will continue to engage the general public to foster as broad a
readership as possible—not just those within the academic community.
This is to promote a better understanding of the themes the journal
seeks to explore in each issue,” said Boris Adjemian, the director of the Bibliothèque Nubar.
The first issues of the journal are comprised of original research,
including Taline Papazian’s study on political sovereignty in the South
Caucasus in the 20th century; Emmanuel Naquet’s article on
the mobilization of intellectuals during the Dreyfus Affair in support
of the Armenian cause; and Laurence De Cock’s analysis of the inclusion
of the Armenian Genocide in the French secondary school curriculum.
The third issue, under the direction of Taline Papazian, was devoted
to comparing Jewish and Armenian experiences of statehood and nationhood
in the 20th century. It included interviews with Israeli
historian Shlomo Sand and diaspora specialist Khachig Tololyan. The
fourth issue, currently in press, is comprised of an article by Vazken
Khachig Davidian that reinterprets Armenian and Turkish historiographies
of Ottoman arts, as well as an essay by Sebouh David Aslanian that
argues for the necessity to study Armenian history in the broader
perspective of world history, among many others.
The fifth issue of the journal, under the direction of Alexandra
Garbarini and Boris Adjemian, will be released in June 2015. Comprised
of articles from several fields of study, the issue will focus on the
theme of victim testimony and understanding mass violence.
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