Wednesday, March 25th – 16.30 / 8:30 p.m.

Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne 76 rue des Ecoles – 75005 Paris

Address by the President of the French Republic, FRANÇOIS HOLLAND

Messages of support

Address by the Rector of the Academy of Paris, FRANÇOIS WEIL

Address by the President of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

SIR PETER CYRILLE HAUTCOEUR

Inaugural Conference of MR YVES TERNON historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Holocaust Memorial, president of CSI

Thursday 26 March, 9h30-19h00,

Shoah Memorial

17 rue Geoffroy The Asnier, 75004 Paris

First Panel: 10.00-12.30

Space-time, the steps of the genocidal process

Chair: Catherine Nicault, historian, University of Reims. Discussant: Stephan Astourian, historian, UC Berkeley

Interventions:

1. The legacy of Abdülhamid II. Janet Klein, Historian, University of Akron.

2. The Ottoman opposition, the Committee of Union and Progress and 1908. Erdal Kaynar Revolution, historian, Polonsky Academy of the Van Leer Institute, EHESS.

3. The “European Concert” and reforms in the eastern provinces, 1878-1914. Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS.

4. The Special Organization. Cetinoglu known historian, Free University of Ankara.

5. The entry of the Ottoman Empire in the war, from 1914 to 1915. Mustafa Aksakal, historian, Georgetown University.

12h30-13h30: lunch

Second Panel: 13.30-15.00

Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers

Chair: Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA.

Discussant: Vincent Duclert, historian, EHESS.

Interventions:

1. The first phase of the Destruction: Deportations and Massacres (April-August 1915). Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of Paris VIII.

2. The second phase of the genocide. KM-historian, Rutgers University.

3. Forced conversions. Umit Kurt, historian, Sabancı University.

15.00-15.15: Pause

Third Panel: 15h15-16h20

Witnesses

Chair: Wolfgang Gust, journalist. Discussant: Ara Sarafian, historian, Gomidas Institute.

Interventions:

1. European and American Witnesses. Hans-Lukas Kieser, historian, University of Zurich.

2. Armenian Witnesses. Amatuni Virabyan, historian, State Archives of Armenia.

16h20-16h30: pause

Fourth Panel: 16h30-19h00

Other minorities Empire

Chair: Gérard Chaliand, geostrategist. Discussant: Laurent-Olivier Mallet, historian, University of Montpellier.

Interventions:

1. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century. Georges Bensoussan, historian, the Holocaust Memorial.

2. The complexity of the genocide of the Assyrian-Chaldeans. David Gaunt, a historian, Centre for Baltic and East European University of Soedertoern.

3. Ottoman Greeks. Sia Anagnostopoulou, historian, University of Athens.

4. Kurdish-Yezidi-Armenians, many facets of a community in exile (s). Estelle Amy of Bretèque, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, CNRS.

Day 2: Friday, March 27, 9h30-20h30

EHESS

Amphitheatre Furet

105 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris

Fifth Panel: 10.00-12.30

Logic of war, economic, ideological.

Chair: Joël Kotek, a political scientist, historian, University of Brussels. Discussant: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, historian, EHESS.

Interventions:

1. Logical ideological, demographic and economic genocide. Hamit Bozarslan, political scientist, historian, EHESS.

2. The logic of pre-genocidal massacres. Vincent Duclert, historian, EHESS.

3. The evolution of the Caucasian front. Peter Holquist, historian, University of Pennsylvania.

4. The mechanisms of decision making of the Young Turk leadership (1913-1915). Erik-Jan Zürcher, historian, University of Leiden.

5. The spoliation of property during the Armenian genocide. Mehmet Polatel, historian, Koç University.

12h30-13h30: lunch

Sixth Panel: 13h30-16h00

International relations and criminal law

Chair: Peter Mertens, lawyer, Sociology of Literature Centre, Free University of Brussels.

Discussant: Vincent Nioré, lawyer and president of the Institute of Criminal Law.

Interventions:

1. The trial of Constantinople (1919-1920). Mikaël Nichanian, historian, National Library of France.

2. breaking the consensus. The Perinçek case, the Armenian genocide and international criminal law. Sevane Garibian, lawyer, Universities of Geneva and Neuchâtel.

3. The status of Armenian stateless refugees and international action of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office. Dzovinar Kevonian, historian, Institute for Political Social Sciences, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

4. Raphael Lemkin, the extermination of the Armenians and the invention of the word genocide. Annette Becker, historian, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

5. Lemkin and the Armenian genocide, a legal play. Olivier Beauvallet, international judge.

16h00-16h15: Pause

Seventh Panel: 16h15-18h20

Historiography, a new research field

Chair: Michel Marian, philosopher, Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Discussant: Edhem Eldem, historian, Boğaziçi University.

Interventions:

1. The historiography of the Armenian genocide, a new field of research. Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

2. Reflections on Ottoman historiography (years 1960-1990) about the role of non-Muslims and the Ottoman Armenians in commerce and the urban economy. Stephan Astourian, historian, University of Berkeley.

3. The Ottoman governors opposed to deportations and massacres of Armenians. Ayhan Aktar, historian, Bilgi University.

4. The speech of Turkey on the Armenian genocide. Jennifer Dixon, political scientist, Villanova University.

18h20-18h30: Pause

Eighth Panel: 18h30-20h30

Perspectives on clearing trails or the Armenian ghost.

Chair: Patrick Donabedian, art historian, University of Aix-Marseille. Discussant: Antoine Spire, journalist, vice president of Lycra.

Interventions:

1. The permanent traces of the 1915 genocide in the Armenian memory; role of politics in their registration or erasure. Janine Altounian, essayist, translator of Freud.

2. The confiscation and destruction of wealth and property of Armenians and genocide. Dickran Kouymjian, historian, California State University.

3. Photographing after. Pascaline Marre, photographer and Anouche Kunth, historian, CNRS.

Aram Andonian 4. The Nubar library and the creation of a heritage in exile after the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. Boris Adjemian, historian, Library Nubar AGBU.

3rd Day: Saturday, March 28, 9h30-19h30

National Library of France Quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris

Ninth Panel: 10.00-12.30

Storage, transmission, history, negation

Chair: Henry Rousso, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Claude Mutafian historian.

Interventions:

1. The sacrifice, witness and forgiveness: The Candidate Zareh Vorpouni. Marc Nichanian, professor of philosophy, Sabancı University.

2. Gender, genocide survival. Islamized Armenians again working memory. Ayşe Gül Altinay, anthropologist, Sabancı University.

3. Teaching genocide: European examples. Alban Perrin, historian, the Holocaust Memorial, Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux.

4. The Founding Myths of Turkish denial. Büşra Ersanli, political scientist, University of Marmara.

5. The memory of the genocide in Turkish Armenians. Hira Kaynar, historian, EHESS.

12h30-13h30: lunch

Tenth Panel: 13.30-15.00

Specificities and comparatismes, I

Chairman: Jean-Pierre Chrétien, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Meir Waintrater journalist.

Interventions: 1. Genocidal thinking: a comparative perspective. Dominik Schaller, historian, University of Heidelberg.

2. Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottomans. Roger Smith, historian, College of William and Mary.

3. The Armenian Genocide in the light of a general theory of genocide. Bruneteau Bernard, Professor of Political Science, University of Rennes I.

15.00-15.15: Pause

Eleventh Panel: 15h15-17h00

Specificities and comparatismes, II

Chair: Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Yves Ternon, historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Shoah Memorial.

Interventions:

1. Uniqueness of the Holocaust. Christian Ingrao, historian, CNRS.

2. Singularity of the famine in Ukraine. Nicolas Werth, historian, CNRS.

3. Uniqueness of the Tutsi genocide. Helene Dumas, historian, EHESS.

17h00-17h15: pause

Closing Conference: 5:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. President: Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Interventions: 1. Report of the symposium. Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of Paris VIII.

2. 1915 and the social sciences. Taner Akcam, historian, University of Clarke.

3. Turkism and pan-Turkism. Erik-Jan Zürcher, historian, University of Leiden.

4. The contemporary denial and its defenders. Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA.

5. The outlook from the perspective of international justice. Nicholas Koumjian, prosecutor at the international courts.

6. The issue of research on the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ragıp Zarakolu, editor.

Practical information

Registration by mail in the number of places available

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