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Conversations on Groong: The Armenian Diaspora Survey
Hello
and welcome to the Armenian News Network, Groong.
In
this Conversations on Groong
episode, we’ll be talking about the Armenian Diaspora Survey (ADS) which, in
its current phase, is surveying Diaspora Armenians in the US and in Ontario,
Canada. The survey is funded by the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation and administered by the Armenian Institute in London.
To talk about
this survey, we are joined by:
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Sedda
Antekelian, who is a Learning and Development Specialist
at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and develops
multimedia testimony-based resources for educators and learners. She is a
doctoral student in USC Rossier's Global Executive
Doctor of Education program. Sedda is active in the
Armenian American community with organizations like the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the ANCA-WR Education Committee. |
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Gegham Mughnetsyan, who is the Chitjian Researcher Archivist at
the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies. He works with post-genocide
archival materials of the Armenian diaspora. Gegham
is a graduate of UC Berkeley and also the American University in Washington
DC, with a background in International Affairs, focusing on Peace and
Conflict, and US foreign policy toward Nagorno Karabakh. |
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In
May we talked with Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian
at Oxford University, who is the administrator of The Armenian DIaspora Survey Project - ArmenianDiasporaSurvey.com. The current phase of which is polling
Armenians in the US and Ontario, Canada. The current phase ends later this
month, July 29, 2022.
Sedda and Gegham, you are the
Western US coordinators of the survey, can you remind us
what the project is, and its goals?
● Can you tell us what kind of questions you ask
in the survey? Why?
● How long would it take to take the survey? How
many questions?
● What needs to happen for this phase to be a
success?
● What happens after the end of this phase? Who
goes to work on the results, and what do they do with the data?
● Who can have access to the data?
● How will this survey provide knowledge to us
about ourselves, in a manner that will tangibly improve our lot as Armenians?
What’s the value proposition?
That
concludes this Conversations On Groong episode.
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wish you a good week, thanks for listening and we’ll talk to you soon.
Sedda Antekelian, Gegham Mughnetsyan, Hratch Tchilingirian, Armenian
Diaspora Survey, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,
University of Oxford, United States of America, Ontario, Canada,