Tölölyan Delivers Inaugural Lecture at Oxford’s Diasporas Programme Launch

Khachig Tölölyan, professor of letters, professor of English, has been actively involved in the launching of the University of Oxford’s Diasporas Programme in June. Tölölyan is the editor/founder of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies and an internationally known expert on diasporas and transnationalism.

On June 2, Tölölyan delivered the inaugural lecture titled “Diaspora Studies: Past, Present and Promise” at the program’s launch. He is a scholar in residence at Wolfson College (one of the 40 colleges and halls that make up the university), where he is a tutor and consultant to various graduate students, postdoctoral faculty and researchers at several programs, all of which deal with diasporas, migration, transnationalism and globalization in some way.

In addition, Tölölyan delivered the keynote lecture at the University of Mainz in Germany at a conference on “Trends and Tensions in Contemporary Diaspora Studies” on May 19. He also guest lectured at the University of Toronto on “The Trajectories of Contemporary Diaspora Studies,” on March 25.