Lilit Mnatsakanyan, M.A.

Affiliated Researcher

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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.

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

Interculturalism

(Verflechtung und Globalisierung)

Lilit Mnatsakanyan

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.