Dr. Tigran Amiryan is the founder of the Cultural & Social Narratives Laboratory (CSN Lab) in Armenia, an expert in ifa's Research Programme "Culture and Foreign Policy" and a member of PEN Armenia. He holds a PhD in World Literature and specialises in semiology and contemporary cultural research. Amiryan has authored numerous books and articles on memory studies, comparative literature and the sociology of literature. His research interests include the narrativisation of individual and collective memory in contemporary culture, as well as the intersections of urban memory, migration, democratic memory and cultural policies.

Amiryan has explored literary genres such as conspiracy fiction, crime fiction, autofiction and autobiographical novels, focusing on the interplay between documentary and fiction and the connections between historical discourse and personal and collective memory. He has also published works in cultural and social anthropology, examining collective and individual memory in the contexts of coexistence, migration and exile. Many of Amiryan's projects address issues related to the memory of place and cultural heritage. He has been a visiting lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at institutions such as the University of Lyon 2, Sciences Po and Humboldt University.

Research Project at EXC "Temporal Communities":

Displaced Memories: Armenian Auto-Narratives from Constantinople to the Megapolises