28 episodes
Bright Garden Voices Bright Garden Voices
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Bright Garden Voices (Պայծառ Պարտեզի Ձայներ - ParlaqBağ Səsləri - Голоса из Светлого Сада) is a project that intends to provide a platform for constructive dialogue between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. We host Zoom meetings where guests from both sides share their experiences and ideas concerning all matters relating to Azerbaijani and Armenian conflicts and issues. Each meeting also hosts an audience which is able to propose questions or comments to the moderators to be voiced.
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Garden Chat #13 with Elnura Hüseynova
Our thirteenth Garden Chat featured Elnura Hüseynova, an Azerbaijani poet and literary historian. She joined our volunteer Narek Aleksanyan for a conversation about her new article on Sayat-Nova in Azerbaijani national memory and historiography.
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Garden Chat #12 with Thomas de Waal
Our 12th Garden Chat featured Thomas de Waal, a veteran journalist and writer specializing on South Caucasus and Eastern Europe. In the interview with our volunteer Marat Grigoryan, de Waal talked about his work and the developments in Nagorno-Karabakh and between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the fall of 2023.
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Garden Chat #10 with Mirkamran Huseynli
Our tenth Garden Chat featured Mirkamran Huseynli, a PhD fellow at Vytautas Magnus University. In the interview with our co-director Arnold Alahverdian, Huseynli talked about Azerbaijani history textbooks and nationalism, the common notions of alterity (otherness) in the Azerbaijani society and how Armenians fit into that picture.
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Tət-à-Tեt #4 - Oğul and Andrea
Oğul Tuna joined Andrea for a chat about his research and views regarding Armenians and Azerbaijanis, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Oğul Tuna is a PhD student at UC Irvine. Born in Adana, he studied international relations in Istanbul, Turkey, and Lille, France, before moving to California. He has researched the parallel lives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Bolsheviks, Stepan Shahumyan and Nariman Narimanov in order to understand the interplay between nationalism and socialism in the South Caucasus between 1905 and 1925. -
Tət-à-Tեt #3 - Raffi Chilingirian and Uli
Our third Tət-à-Tեt #3 Raffi Chilingirian is a talented duduk player residing in Beirut, who joined Uli Nasibova in Los Angeles for a conversation about the duduk and about similar and shared musical styles, instruments, and traditions among Armenians, Azerbaijanis, and other peoples in the region. Raffi started the conversation with a masterful and touching performance of Sari Aghjik / Sarı Gəlin.
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Roundtable #2 • Javid Agha
Our second Roundtable was an engaging discussion with Javid Agha, who answered the questions of our audience about society, politics, identity, history and minorities, with a few questions on Udis and Caucasian Albanians as well.