The Armenian Genocide 1915-2015

Speeches and performances

International symposium will be held at the University Paul Valery,

5 and 6 February 2015.

Event co-organized by the RIRRA 21 and EA CRISES

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To mark the centennial commemoration of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in 1915 under the government of the Young Turks, the RIRRA 21 and CRISES laboratory organized a symposium entitled “The Armenian Genocide 1915-2015. Discourse and representations. “

The aim of this conference is to consider the Armenian Genocide in its relation to the texts and images he produced and have perpetuated their news and memory, resistance to the will of annihilation of the executioner.

One of the peculiarities of the Armenian genocide is a hundred years after the fact, it is still not recognized by Turkey, heir to the Ottoman Empire. Become in history a political issue, the genocide in the Armenian case, not only history but also a politicized object object, which influences the forms of its representations and historiographical discourse.

If in a famous passage of his Poetics, Aristotle distinguished poet historian, the latter faithfully related the past when the poet, he was at a higher level of generality, so philosophy, since the twentieth century, which opened the era of genocide, this distinction is made to be rethought. Indeed, the boundaries between work and historiographical literary creation tend increasingly to blur: novelists and artists to trigger this controversy too when fictionalizes history. We think and controversies raised by Life is Beautiful Roberto Benigni and The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Little. Document, testimony, archive and often serve underbody creative writing while at the same time, the historiography offer more and more like writing.

As part of this conference, it will identify the relationship between the historical event and the text and images that are as such.

In line with work on sites of memory, it will explore places of memory of the Armenian Genocide. How museums do they put on stage the event? What about memorials or, conversely, their absence?

On the other hand, it will establish the subjectivity or ideology in the historical discourse on the Armenian genocide. The discourse of historians may indeed be dictated by the official of a State or influenced by more personal sensitivities within the religious or political persuasion speech. Similarly, the representation (or lack of performance) of the Armenian Genocide in textbooks of different states can be questioned: do we teach the Armenian genocide in the same way in France, the United States , Russia, Turkey and Armenia, and why?

Finally, the conference will explore literary and artistic representations of the event. He will bring to question the status of the document and on the part of fictionalization, emotional and traumatic load works. A confrontation between literary and artistic works Armenian and Turkey also seems to win. How the event is perceived on one side and the other of the border? How the Armenian diasporas they perpetuate the memory in Armenian literature and art? What gaps remain in terms of writing and creating?

This meeting is mainly based on the intersection and dialogue between different disciplinary fields. It will result in a publication: the participants’ contributions will be made to the Scientific Committee in the weeks following the conference.

Proposals for papers should be sent to the Scientific Committee organizing the event 15 September 2014 at the latest.

Contact: montpelliercolloque2015@yahoo.fr

Organization: Patrick Louvier, Annick Asso, Helena Dermichian.

Scientific Committee: Gérard Dedeyan, Frédéric Rousseau, Vincent Duclert Patrick Louvier, Corinne Saminadayar, Annick Asso, Marie-Eve Thérenty, Marie-Christine Rochmann, Helena Dermichian.

Responsible: Annick Asso Helena Dermichian Patrick Louvier

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