Lilit Mnatsakanyan, M.A.
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About
Lilit Mnatsakanyan was born in Nagorno Karabakh. She holds a bachelor's degree in translation studies from Artsakh State University. From 2020 to 2022, she studied toward a master's degree at Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Budapest. Her master thesis was entitled »Mothering the Fatherland: The Role of Women in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflicts and the Peacebuilding Process.«
She has been PhD student in Budapest since 2022 and enrolled in a cotutelle PhD programme, collaborating with Leipzig University and the GWZO. Lilit Mnatsakanyan has been an associate researcher at the GWZO since 2023.
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Work focus
- Translation studies and language dynamics
- Regional narratives and historical perspectives (with a specific focus on Eastern Europe)
- Armenians in Eastern Europe
Constructive Relativities
Eastern Europe, historically framed through Western lenses as a byproduct of Enlightenment or Cold War narratives, has seen limited exploration from Eastern perspectives. The scarcity of viewpoints from the East creates a historiographic asymmetry, which is to be reduced by this research which delves into Armenian perspectives on Eastern Europe, unveiling how it was defined in pre-modern and early-modern sources.
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