All the information about the Armenian members of the DisTerrMem team is found on the DisTerrMem webpage.
Arsen Hakobyan has decided to write a few words about his stay in Poland.
'As a member of the DisTerrMem team I had a chance to spend a month at a very special place on the Polish -Lithuanian border, in the International Centre for Dialogue in Krasnogruda. Not only is it a place where you can work on your own researches, articles, or to do various field works and trips to borderland areas, but also to discover that the same place has different layers of the past and present. The biography of the place and the history of the manor (the Centre now) links heritage, memory, civic activism, which is very impressive.
Another important part of my experience was related to everyday life here: talks and discussions with other colleagues, interesting people from different professions and from different countries: Poland, France, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus etc.
These talks often took place at dinner or breakfast, around wine or beer, tea or coffee. It was a nice part of my life here as a kind of learning process, sharing knowledge and experience. Finally, the area as a borderland was very interesting to me, as borders, memory, heritage and history are crossed. I could find here different research topics: identity and minority, memory and space, heritage and culture etc. All of them are not “isolated” but corporate because you are in the borderland, where the border and the Borderland are like a bridge that links people, the past and present.