Jürgen Heyde, Diasporisches Wissen? Konstruktionen von Raum und Identität bei den Armeniern in Polen-Litauen im 16./17. Jahrhundert, 18.1.2024, Uhr 16:45-18:15, Kolingasse 14-16, SR 16

The lecture presents Armenian sources that emerged around the Armenian communities of Lviv and Kamjanec. Legal texts, chronicles and a travelogue will be used to work out how Armenian people in Poland-Lithuania constructed their reference spaces and what offers of identification they associated with them. By reading the texts as self-narratives, the authors and their audience can be experienced as active shapers of their social environment. A priori attributions such as "diaspora", which classify the examined textual testimonies into an interpretation scheme in advance, are questioned and creative horizons beyond ethnocultural categorizations are made visible.

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Map of the town and castle of Kamieniec Podolski from 1691; author: Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720), French cartographer and engraver (Image rights: Public domain (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Kamianets-Podilskyi_map_1691.jpg)