Posted Jun 27th, 2014 in Conference, News, Scholars
Comparative
Analysis of 20th Century Genocides.
The Twelfth Meeting of the
International Association of Genocide Scholars
July
8-12 2015, Yerevan, Armenia.The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
will hold its twelfth meeting in Yerevan on 8-12 July 2015, hosted by the
Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute (http://www.genocide-museum.am/).
Director of the AGMI Hayk Demoyan will serve as Local Conference Chair.
The conference theme is “Comparative Analysis of 20th
Century Genocides”.
2015 is an important year for all Armenians worldwide in
terms of commemoration of the centennial of the beginning of the Armenian
genocide. The Armenian genocide is sometimes considered as the first genocide
of the 20th century and in many ways served as a template for subsequent
genocidal crimes. 2015 is also is the year of 70th anniversary of the end of
WWII and the Holocaust. Therefore, it is a significant time to analyze both
crimes and all genocides of the 20th century in global and comparative
perspectives.
On April 24th 2015 the Armenian Genocide Museum and
Institute will be opened after two years of renovation and new exhibition
development. This is the first major re-opening since its inauguration in 1995.
The renovated museum’s mission and exhibits will feature all genocides that
occurred after the Armenian genocide. New exhibits will enable all visitors to
understand the deep roots, causes, dynamics of development and consequences of
the genocide, while also offering a platform for dialogue.
The urgent need for early warning systems to prevent
genocide, and efforts to revisit the basic concepts of the United Nations
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, are
matters of pressing concern. Related questions also arise: How were ideologies
and religion instrumentalized for mass destruction during the 20th century?
What kind of interaction exists between genocidal intent and genocidal
processes? Who are the victims, perpetrators, bystanders and witnesses and how
do we classify the relevant actors in different cases? How might the
comparative study of 20th century genocide help to prevent 21st century
genocides and mass atrocities? How might the legal consequences of the pre-1948
UN Convention “crimes against humanity” be settled?
IAGS and Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute welcome
the submission of papers and presentations for the 12th IAGS conference to be
held in Yerevan from July 8 to 12 with a theme of “Comparative analysis of 20th
century genocides.”
Papers on all aspects of genocide and genocidal violence
in the 20th century are welcomed, particularly following :
•“Genocide” - new definition of old crime.
•Conceptual dimensions of UN Convention: new approaches
•Armenian genocide: A template for further genocides
•Genocide of Greeks, Assyrians and Yezids in the Ottoman
Empire
•Comparative Genocide Research: the Holocaust, genocide
in Bosnia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Darfur and Latin American genocides.
•The genocidal process: early warning signs, prediction,
and prevention
•The dynamics, causes, and consequences of genocide
•Punishing genocidal crimes: the issue of reparations and
limited capacity of international justice
•Genocide, collective memory, narrative and public
commemorations
•Genocide education as a step towards prevention
•Genocide denial
•New directions in comparative genocide research:
advances, problems, and possibilities for future research
We are accepting one abstract per person in order to give
everyone a fair chance of presenting. If we receive more than one abstract per
person, we will review those abstracts after the due date for proposals if
there is room for more presentations.
Besides panels and papers, the organizers encourage other
modes of presentation, including workshops, roundtable discussion, film
screenings, book presentations, cultural media, and artistic works/readings.
The conference will begin with a visit to the newly
developed exhibition of Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute. During the
conference participants will be able to devote one day to an optional excursion
to Gyumri, the city where the world largest orphanages were established by
American Near East relief after the Armenian genocide and to visit Memorial to
Musa Dagh Resistance in nearby Yerevan.
Attendance at the conference is open to all interested
professionals and students, but presentation at the conference requires one to
be a member of IAGS. For information on
membership, please see http://www.genocidescholars.org/membership.
The applications for the participation in the meeting
will be accepted by the due date, January 23, 2015. The applications should
include: email address, title and abstract (250 words maximum in English) and a
short 3-4 sentence biographical statement (please no CVs) should be sent to the
organizational committee at: iags2015yerevan@gmail.com
The quality and relevance of the applications will be
assessed by the Conference Evaluation Committee. The Organizational Committee
will cover the accommodation of selected participants from developing
countries, whose institutions cannot pay their travel and other expenses and
students and others with special circumstances. Further announcements will give
information on how to apply for each of these benefits.
Organizational Committee
- See more at: http://www.genocidescholars.org/news/twelfth-meeting-iags-july-8-12-2015-yerevan-armenia#sthash.SwXdhbRk.8VmEJn3b.dpuf
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder
Not: Yalnızca bu blogun üyesi yorum gönderebilir.