‘Migrations’: Viken Berberian in conversation with Columbia University Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, drawing on autobiographical reflections to explore displacement, diaspora and the evolving meanings of migration in his storytelling. The discussion will take place at West Den Haag in The Hague and consider how the experience of migration shapes identity, memory, and the narratives we tell. https://westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/26_11_Righting_Wrongs/more2 at ...

My translation of Beyrouth-sur-Seine by Sabyl Ghoussoub (Éditions Stock, 2022; recipient of the Prix de Goncourt des Lycéens) is forthcoming from McSweeney’s, supported by a translation grant from Villa Albertine: https://villa-albertine.org/va/professionals/the-2024-albertine-grants-laureates

The Consolidated Republic of Nowhere will appear in Spanish, Ukrainian, and English, in an anthology on borders, with contributions by Etgar Keret, Andriy Lysenko, Jessica Cohen, Ana Selimović, ariel rosé, Sabyl Ghoussoub, and others. Todos Lados: Fronteras From All Directions (ibidem Press, dist. Columbia University Press) will be published in December 2026. Editors: Julia Yuliya Sushytska, Alisa ...

“Climate change and causality: a comparison of chatbot-generated and student-written essays” in the land of semiotician Juri Lotman. Findings will be presented at the 9th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic (DHNB) Countries conference in Tartu, Estonia, in March 2025: https://dhnb.eu/conferences/dhnb2025/  

https://villa-albertine.org/va/professionals/the-2024-albertine-grants-laureates/ Villa Albertine laureates in the category of translation / non-fiction: * L’invention de l’économie française by Thomas Angeletti (Presses de Science Po), translation by Juliette Rogers *Beyrouth-sur-Seine by Sabyl Ghoussoub (Editions Stock), translation by Viken Berberian *Quand les indiens parlaient latin: Colonisation alphabétique et métissage dans l’Amérique du XVIe siècle by Serge Gruzinski (Arthème Fayard ...

Je vous écris de Dilijan, my memoir on the transformation of a medieval town is in the print edition of Kometa (hors-série, Dec. 2024): https://kometarevue.com/je-vous-ecris-de/la-moldavie-ne-va-pas-pouvoir-continuer-d-exister-comme-ca  

The story is in the June/July 2024 print edition of TLM, available at the London Review Bookshop. The online version can be read here: https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-request-for-a-more-complete-obituary-by-viken-berberian/ Founded in 1732, the journal has published George Orwell, Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, Hilary Mantel, W.H. Auden, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, Eugene Ionesco, and Annie Ernaux.

This talk was originally given by Professor K. Tölölyan on 6 March 2002 at an event at the University Club, New York City. I was told not to speak for more than fifteen minutes. Faced with this edict, my first temptation was just to read to you some of the many laudatory passages from the various ...

An essay on the dominance of manga and the Angoulême comics festival: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/manga-hulks-its-way-to-the-top/

Faint-Hearted Z, a short story about a war that could have been prevented: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-faint-hearted-z-by-viken-berberian/