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Herman Vahramian as Diasporic Intellectual

Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM AMT

AHA collective, 31, Moskovyan street, Yerevan, Yerevan, 0002, Armenia

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Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM AMT

AHA collective, 31, Yerevan, Yerevan, 0002, Armenia.

Through the figure of Herman Vahramian and his engagements with Armenian, Italian and Iranian intellectual milieus, the talk outlines some of the key entanglements of Armenian diasporic culture of the late 20th century, as seen from the eyes of the speaker, a kid and later young man growing up in the Italy of the 1970s and 1980s. Prefiguring contemporary post-colonial and decolonial approaches but also outdoing their tendency to being recuperated into mainstream western paradigms, the artistic and intellectual work of Herman Vahramian continues to challenge received views about what it means to think and create from a “non-dominant,” minoritarian perspective.

Setrag Manoukian is a cultural anthropologist. His main area of research is modern Iran. He teaches at the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

The talk will be through zoom and the public living outside Yerevan not able to come to the gallery can join online:

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82094426036?pwd=1qpauRNG2a91LL5jvl7Ao6QrBFhMIm.1

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AHA collective is a curatorial practice engaged internationally, rooted in Yerevan, Armenia. Founded in 2019 by curator and art historian Nairi Khatchadourian, AHA collective aims at conceiving projects in a way so they foster collaboration, investigate local resources and know-how, become a subject of conversation, of the society, of today and tomorrow. We manage, curate, and commission research, artworks, exhibitions, publications, design, audiovisual works, site-specific installations. We love working with tangible and intangible cultural heritage, territories, communities, and institutions. AHA’s gallery in Yerevan exhibits and sells works by artists from diverse backgrounds across the modern and contemporary eras, with a strong focus on emerging voices and overlooked figures from Armenia and its diaspora. Through curated exhibitions, public programs, and critical dialogue, the gallery contributes to a broader recognition of Armenian art within the global cultural discourse.

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