Taline Voskeritchian
Lisbon was recently the site of two important events related to the literature of the Armenian diaspora.
The first was a panel that convened at the International Symposium of
the Modern Language Association, the major professional association for
scholars and teachers of language and literature, including comparative
literature. This year’s theme was Remembering Voices Lost. According to
the organizers, the conference, which took place between July 23 and 25
in the Portuguese capital, aimed to “recuperate the ‘lost voices’ of
humanity: those that have been buried or forgotten and those that have
been marginalized or othered on the grounds of their perceived
foreignness.”
