USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES
Academics and professionals discuss: Why Does It Still
Matter?
6 and 7 March
2015. The Hague. The Netherlands.
On the occasion of the centennial of the acts commonly
referred to as the Armenian Genocide, academics and professionals from a
variety of disciplines discuss the impact of the Genocide in their respective
fields. During this two-day event, they will also assess why it is still
relevant to discuss the Genocide today, its ramifications and its long lasting
mark.
USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Contact: Salpi Ghazarian/Director
Armenian@usc.edu
213.821.3943
The Armenian Genocide’s Legacy, 100 Years on
March 6-7, 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands
The University of Southern California Institute of
Armenian Studies has joined with the Centennial Project Foundation and the
Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies to convene a
two-day conference at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in the
Netherlands, on March 6-7, 2015.
This major interdisciplinary gathering will bring
together academics and professionals from various fields to discuss the impact
of the Genocide. Experts will examine such issues as impunity, sexual violence,
demographics, compensation, memorializing, political discourse and media
approaches.
Keynote speaker, Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus,
University of Chicago and University of Michigan, will open the
conference. He will be followed by
experts in the field of Law (Geoffrey Robertson – QC, Susan L. Karamanian,
Nolwenn Guibert, Sun Kim, Najwa Nabti, Alexis Demirdjian, Hannibal Travis),
historians Ugur Umit Ungor, Jakub Bijak, Lorne Shirinian, experts in social
sciences and humanities (Levon Chorbajian, Seyhan Bayraktar, Nanor Kebranian,
Ayda Erbal, Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Anthonie Holslag), literature, media,
education and journalism scholars Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Lisa Siraganian, Esra
Elmas, Marie-Aude Baronian, Joyce Sahyouni.
Alexis Demirdjian, Director of the Centennial Project
Foundation and a trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, said, “We are
pleased to partner with the University of Southern California Dornsife Institute
of Armenian Studies. We look forward to a conference that is significant going
forward beyond the centennial.”
Additional information and participants’ bios are
available at http://www.centennialprojectfoundation.org/. Contact details may
be found on the website. The conference
is open to the public, free of charge. Advance registration will open on
February 6, 2015.
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