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The Liberation Movement of Armenian in the first half of 18th Century:
Rebellions in Syunik and Karabagh (Artsakh).
A Lecture by Roman Smbatian, visiting Lecturrer of Modern Armenian History, UC Irvine. April 17, 2014, Humanities Gateway University of California, irvine.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2014 — On Sunday, April 27, 2014 from 2-4 pm, thousands of devoted Armenian-Americans and their friends and supporters will gather in Times Square (43rd St. & Broadway) to commemorate the first genocide of the 20th Century, The Armenian Genocide (Medz Yeghern).
The theme of the Armenian Genocide Commemoration is “Turkey is Guilty of Genocide: Denying the Undeniable is a Crime.” This historic event will pay tribute to the 1.5 million Armenians who were annihilated by the Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire and to the millions of victims of subsequent genocides worldwide. Speakers will include civic, religious, humanitarian, educational, cultural leaders, as well as performing artists. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Mary A. Papazian, President of Southern Connecticut State University and Attorney R. Armen McOmber will preside over the ceremonies.
Dennis R. Papazian, PhD, past National Grand Commander of Knights of Vartan and Founding Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn discusses the Armenian Genocide. “These killings, which were labeled crimes against humanity and civilization at the time, exactly fit the definition of the word genocide, which was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer in 1943,” comments Papazian. “It is only proper to bring the terminology up to date and apply the international laws for genocide to the Armenian case.”
Papazian headed the Armenian Assembly of America in 1975, when a non-binding resolution recognizing the mass killings as genocide, passed through Congress. On April 22, 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation #4838 that summoned Americans to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. The proclamation stated, “Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it—and like too many other persecutions of too many other peoples—the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.”
Papazian further discusses that President Barack Obama used the Armenian phrase Medz Yeghern, which is the equivalent of the phrase genocide in the Armenian language, in a statement issued to commemorate Armenian Remembrance Day on April 24, 2013. “But still the U.S. position is still kept ambiguous about using the word genocide because our country fears alienating Turkey, an important country in the Middle East,” he adds.
“In the long run, Turkish recognition of the Armenian Genocide is critical, since Turkey is the responsible successive government of the Ottoman Empire,” stresses Papazian. “In recent years there have been some positive developments among progressive Turkish intellectuals, including the grandson of one of the chief perpetrators; therefore, it is within the realm of possibility that Turkey itself will recognize the Armenian Genocide on the one hundredth anniversary of its beginning,” he concludes.
The 99th Commemoration is organized by the Mid-Atlantic chapters of the Knights & Daughters of Vartan (www.kofv.org), an international Armenian fraternal organization headquartered in the United States, and co-sponsored by the Armenian General Benevolent Union (www.agbu.org), the Armenian Assembly of America (www.aaainc.org), the Armenian National Committee of America (www.anca.org), the Armenian Council of America and the Armenian Democratic League (Ramgavar Party).
Participating organizations include the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, Prelacy of the Armenian Church of America, Armenian Missionary Association of America, Armenian Catholic Eparchy for U.S. and Canada, the Armenian Church Youth Organization of America (ACYOA), the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF-YOARF), several Armenian youth organizations, and university and college Armenian clubs.
For more information please visit, www.kofv.org,www.april24nyc.org, www.armenianradionj.net,www.theforgotten.org, www.armenian-genocide.org,www.twentyvoices.com.
LOS ANGELES—The Armenian community of Greater Los Angeles will commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on Thursday, April 24, at the Armenian Genocide Monument at Bicknell Park, 910 Via San 
Clemente, Montebello, CA 90640.
The event will start at 1 pm with the placement of wreaths at the Monument by participating organizations, followed by a religious service with the participation of representatives of all religious denominations of the Armenian community and a full program that includes remarks and messages from invited political dignitaries, concluding at 3 pm.
The Los Angeles United Armenian Council for the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, which consists of more than 50 Armenian religious, political, compatriotic, and other community organizations, is the organizer of this commemorative event. For a complete list of the member organizations, please visit www.uacla.com.
The United Armenian Council for the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide invites all community members to attend the commemorative event at the Monument.
The United Council also calls upon everyone to take part in great numbers in all other commemorative events on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
99th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
April 21 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Memorial Garden (In front of Kennel Bookstore), 5241 N. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93740 United States+ Google Map
“99 Years…A Crime Left Unpunished” – End the Denial Campus Awareness Activity – “Genocides Around the World”
99th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
April 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Mclane Hall, Room 161 & Free Speech Area Platform, 5241 N. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93740 United States+ Google Map
“99 Years…A Crime Left Unpunished” – End the Denial Screening of “My Mother’s Voice” and “20 Voices” McLane Hall, Room 161 Immediately Followed by Candlelight Vigil Free Speech Area Platform
99th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
April 24 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Free Speech Area Platform, 5241 N. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93740 United States+ Google Map
“99 Years…A Crime Left Unpunished” – End the Denial 12:00 PM – Silent Protest 1:00 PM – Armenian Genocide Commemoration Keynote Speaker: Judge Houry Sanderson
“The Armenians of Gesaria” by Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian
April 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Industrial Technology Building, Room 101, 5241 N. Maple Ave., Fresno, CA 93740 United States+ Google Map
99th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide “99 Years…A Crime Left Unpunished” – End the Denial
Source: http://hyesharzhoom.com/events/
Remembering the Past Toward Healing our Future.
Speakers: Barbara English, Jeff Mallinson, Levon Marashlian
April 2014 Six-event commemorative film series featuring the stories of survivors and their children. Armenian, The Holocaust, Cambodia, rwanda, Bosnia…
this Video is one of the six on Armenian Genocide
1915-1923 Genocide of Armenians, The Turkish Government sought the creation of the new homogenous Turkish state extending into Central Asia and now saw the Armenian minority population as an obstacle to the realization of that goal. on April 24, 1915, began the genocide at first with arresting and then with mass deportation into the Syrian desert. ultimately, more than half the Armenian population, 1.500,000 people were annihilated. In this manner the Armenian people were eliminated from their homeland of 3,000 year.
Speakers: Barbara English, Jeff Mallinson, Levon Marashlian
1530 Concordia West, Irvine, CA (map)
April 2014 Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.
– Elie WieselRemembering the Past toward Healing our Future
A free six-event commemorative film series featuring stories of survivors and their children
The Armenian Genocide – PBS (2006)
GENOCIDE: Armenian
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 – 9p
Concordia University Center
1530 Concordia West, Irvine, CA 92612
campus map
(See below for free PARKING details.)
Speakers: Barbara English, Jeff Mallinson, Levon Marashlian
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Space is limited.
Camp Darfur a traveling, awareness-raising six-tent refugee camp exhibit, (one for each genocide being commemorated in April), will be on campus all day outside venue location beginning at noon.
Community booths from our partnering organizations will also be featured in the same area beginning at 5:30p.
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Film Synopsis:
The Armenian Genocide is the complete story of the first Genocide of the 20th century – when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I. This unprecedented and powerful one-hour documentary, was written, directed and produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Andrew Goldberg. Featuring interviews with the leading experts in the field such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and New York Times best-selling author, Peter Balakian, this film features never-before-seen historical footage of the events and key players of one of the greatest untold stories of the 20th century. The Armenian Genocide is narrated by Julianna Margulies and includes historical narrations by Ed Harris, Natalie Portman, Laura Linney and Orlando Bloom, among others.
Speakers:
Barbara English, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and Certified Bioenergetic Therapist with over 20 years of experience in psychotherapy. Ms. English’s training included a strong focus on Early Development and Infant Mental Health. Working from a mind-body perspective, she utilizes relational somatic methods as part of the healing process for those seeking recovery after abuse or trauma. Recognizing that current Western models of recovery are grossly inadequate for addressing the pervasiveness of traumatized societies, locally and globally, in 2005, she founded Living Ubuntu and serves as its volunteer Executive Director. Living Ubuntu seeks to increase compassion and support for the common good. Its efforts include raising awareness of trauma, while offering methods of recovery better-suited to large numbers of people from a variety of cultures. Recovery begins in safety; highlighting related human right issues (e.g. genocide and mass atrocities) is a companion piece of the organization’s approach. Ms. English is a 2009 Carl Wilkens Fellow.
Jeff Mallinson, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Concordia University, Irvine, where he serves as the Faculty in Residence for Global Village, a living-learning community for student residents interested in global issues. He earned his doctorate at Oxford University, and researches and writes in the area of intellectual history during the Reformation and early modernity. He serves part time as director of the League of Faithful Masks (faithful masks.org) and is co-host of the Virtue in the Wasteland podcast (virtueinthewasteland.com).
Levon Marashlian, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Glendale Community College. He holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois in Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA. He has lectured extensively in Armenia at the Academy of Sciences, Yerevan State University, and the American University of Armenia, as well as in Beirut, Lebanon and Montreal, Canada. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Armenia in 1994, teaching courses on democracy in America. In 1996, Dr. Marashlian testified before the US House of Representatives International Relations Committee, during a hearing on the Armenian Genocide; his testimony was published in the Congressional Record, 5 May 1998. In 1987, he served on the California Department of Education Curriculum Advisory Committee for the development of instructional material on genocide and human rights and testified before government committees in favor of legislation mandating the teaching of the Armenian Genocide in secondary schools. He was invited to Ankara in 1990 to participate in the government-sponsored 11th Congress of Turkish History. His paper, “Economic and Moral Influences on US Policies Toward Turkey and the Armenians, 1919-1923,” covered the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath and was published in Ankara by the Turkish Historical Society Press in 1994. He has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Daily News, Education Week, Washington Jewish Week, Jewish Daily, Houston Chronicle, Glendale News Press, Washington Times, Daily Star (Beirut) and Courier (Paris), as well as in several scholarly journals.
Parking:
Let the guard gate attendant know you are coming to the event and they will distribute visitor parking passes and direct you to appropriate place to park. There is no charge for parking. See campus map.
Living Ubuntu, in collaboration with Amnesty International – Irvine, community partners and six local academic institutions, presents a six-event commemorative film series featuring the stories of survivors and their children. April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, and each film commemorates a genocide that started during April. Living Ubuntu provides education about global traumas as part of its mission to heal trauma in order to promote peace. All events are free and open to the public. The second one is about the Armenian genocide. All details are above.
For info on all six events, a complete list of community partners, and to RSVP, click here.
The State Dance Ensemble of Armenia will give a concert today at the Aram Khachaturian Concert hall in Yerevan. In June, the ensemble will perform in the Armenian cities of Dilijan, Ijevan and Noyemberyan, director of the 
ensemble Eric Chanchuryan told Panorama.am.
He noted that the halls are always full during their concerts. “The spectators always thank us after the concerts and leave with good emotions,” he said.
According to Mr Chanchuryan, the State Dance Ensemble of Armenia will perform on tour in Qatar in May and in the French city of Marseille in October. By the end of the year, they plan to make a concert tour to Argentina.
The ensemble’s repertoire includes folk and ethnographic dances and dance performances with music by Komitas, Spendiaryan, Avetisyan, Khachaturian and modern composers.
YEREVAN. – The song and music video of “Not Alone,” with which famous Armenian showman and singer Aram MP3 will represent Armenia at Eurovision 2014 Song Contest, were premiered minutes ago on Public Television of Armenia.
The creator of “Not Alone” is Aram MP3 himself, the lyrics are written by Garik Papoyan, the musical arrangement is made by Lilit Navasardyan, and the music video is directed by Grigor Gasparyan.
As Aram MP3 had recently told the official website of Eurovision Song Contest, the song is very personal, emotional, but at the same time it has a universal concept. The three words that describe the song are: “Fight for love!”.
The two semifinals of Eurovision 2014 Song Contest, which will be held in Danish capital city Copenhagen, will take place on May 6 and 8, and the final will be held on May 10.
You may join Aram MP3’s official website pages for this year’s Eurovision song with these links:
Source: news.am
The Armenian Students’ Association at the University of California, Berkeley has organized a one-day seminar called, “The Road to Home: Defining Success in the Diaspora” on Sunday, March 16, Asbarez reports.
The featured speakers hail from a host of backgrounds including Goldman Sachs, Google, and Human Rights Watch, among them Aram Ayazyan from Googlep; Vache Moroyan from BloomReach; Sarah Leah Whitson from Human Rights Watch; Christine Soussa from Symantec Corporation; Alex Saghatelian from Cisco Systems, Inc.; Adam Kablanian, the CEO of PlasmaSi; Kevin Minissian, the CEO of Norchem Corporation; and Kim Bardakian from Visit Oakland.
The speaker panel will be focused on discussing the role that young Armenian diasporans should play. The panelists will touch on how their cultural heritage influenced their success in the United States and how that success redounds to the benefit of Armenia. Most important, the panelists will share how that success can be replicated for a younger generation of Armenian Americans.
The event is composed of three parts. First, the audience will hear from each speaker individually then the first speaker panel will convene, followed by a brief intermission. The second speaker panel will be followed by a question and answer session. Both speaker panels will be moderated by Professor Stephan Astourian of the UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Program.
“We are excited to offer this unique opportunity, for the first time ever, to students and community members alike, interested in spending an evening with different generations of Armenians in our local Bay Area and from around the globe,” Berkeley ASA member David Mkrtchian, an organizer of the event.
NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—The Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will host a conference on the theme of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Woven Art. The event will take place at the Oviatt Library 
conference room on Saturday, March 29, from 1 to 5 pm. It is cosponsored by the Armenian Rugs Society and the United Armenian Council of Los Angeles.
This conference aims to illuminate the Armenian Genocide from the perspective of the woven art in its widest scope: rugs, embroideries, lace work, handkerchiefs, textiles, and so on. The artists were widows and orphans, survivors who from the massacres in the mid-1890s through the decades following World War I maintained their sanity and dignity by keeping busy with gainful occupations. In a sense, traumatized as they were, they mocked life’s unfairness and cruelty by producing what was beautiful and ennobling. Their manufactured articles reached Europe, the United States and elsewhere. People purchased them out of humanitarianism, but by doing so they also enriched themselves with priceless artworks.
The following speakers will participate: Gevork Nazaryan, “Armenian Weaving Centers in the Ottoman Empire on the Eve of the Genocide”; Harold Bedoukian, “Armenian Orphans and Orphanages: Their Contribution to the Carpet Weaving World”; Vahram Shemmassian, “The Industries at the Armenian Refugee Camp of Port Said, 1915-1919”; Hratch Kozibeyokian, “The Revival of an Ancient People and Their Crafts in Post-World War I Aleppo, Syria”; Susan Lind-Sinanian: “Stitching to Survive: Handcrafts of Armenian Widows and Orphans, 1896-1930”; Bared Maronian, “The Newly-Discovered Hajin Orphan Rug.” Dr. Hasmig Baran will introduce the speakers.
CSUN is located at 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California. The parking structure is B3 at Darby and Prairie streets (the information booth for parking tickets is on Prairie). For further information, contact vahram.shemmassian@csun.edu or (818) 677-3456.
