Soviet to Post-Karabakh times: Sociolinguistic studies of Armenian

Event details Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Time: 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM Location: Online Type: Lecture / Workshop Audience: Alumni,Faculty,Prospective Students,Public,Students About this event Speaker’s Bio: Jasmine Dum Tragut (Austria), Dr.DDr.h.c., Prof. of Armenian Studies and Linguistics, and hippologist. She directs the University of Salzburg’s Centre for the Study of the Christian East and its Armenian Studies Division, and senior scientist at the Department of Biblical Studies and Church History. She is an honorary doctor of the RA Academy of Sciences and of Yerevan State University. For many years she has been working on various interdisciplinary research projects on Armenian language (documentation, description and sociolinguistic studies), cultural heritage, and since 2022 heads an international project on knowledge transfer in medieval equine (Armenian, Arabic, Georgian and European) manuscripts ‘Meeting in the body of the horse‘. Since Sept. 1, 2023 she heads the laboratory ‘Interdisciplinary Armenian Cultural heritage studies’ as adjunct professor and Principal investigator, which is based at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of RA Academy of Sciences. She is known as an innovative scholar who integrates linguistic field research with deep investigation into historical manuscripts, bridging the gap between contemporary sociolinguistic challenges and the preservation of ancient cultural heritage. Furthermore, her multifaceted academic profile reflects a methodological commitment to examining language not merely as a formal system, but as a dynamic repository of identity shaped by shifting political landscapes and migration. Abstract: The presentation will give an impression of the decades-long, ongoing sociolinguistic research of the Austrian Armenologist J. Dum-Tragut, using several milestones as examples. It begins in the Soviet era with a study on Russian-national bilingualism, leads through the early post-communist period of language... Official event details: https://events.berkeley.edu/armenian/event/324278-soviet-to-post-karabakh-times-sociolinguistic