On May 2, 2026, the UCI Center for Armenian Studies hosted “New Diasporas for an Old Diaspora: Armenian Hybrid Communities in the 21st Century,” a one-day symposium bringing together international scholars to examine the changing formations of Armenian diasporic life today.
Moving beyond inherited models of the “classic diaspora,” the symposium explored how Armenian communities are being reshaped by secondary migrations, post-Soviet and post-colonial histories, conflicts and precarities in diaspora homelands, shifting state formations, and new global circuits of labor, media, education, and culture. With Southern California as one critical site among others, the day’s conversations invited participants to think comparatively and theoretically about layered, hybrid, and emergent Armenian worlds.
