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France Marseille Symposium on the Status of Women in Armenia

March 21, 2018 By administrator

Nearly 250 people came to attend, Saturday, March 17, at the conference organized by the Blue Cross of the Armenians of France, Marseille section, with the assistance of the Armenian General Union of Benevolence, in the premises of the amphitheater of the Faculty of Medicine. ‘Aix Marseille on the theme: The status of women in Armenia, a future without violence.

This symposium was moderated by Véronique Bruna Mardoyan, history professor, recalling the place of women in Armenia through the ages, Lara Aharonian, founder of the NGO “Women’s Resource Center Armenia” has, in a long exposed the public’s attention to the condition of women in Armenia and their difficulties in gaining recognition in a social and political landscape, the great majority of which is male, but with a new law giving women the dignity they deserve. within society. Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe, made a precise and complete comment on the law recently passed.

After a welcome coffee break, the symposium continued with the intervention of Michel Marian, philosopher, lecturer at the IEP in Paris, who emphasized the excesses of the planned birth, giving preference to boys rather than girls, a situation that may create an imbalance in the evolution of a country where the male preference has long been a subject on which it is difficult to speak or comment. Maitre Rose Marie Frangulian-Le Priol, lawyer at the Paris Bar, founder of AFAJA, commented on the French texts that refer to all that is undertaken to restore dignity to women in society, referring to news, and comparing it with the situation in Armenia. The last speaker was Eric Florentino representing SOS Women in Marseille, who shed light on the situation of women, and the action of his association to help them, host them, and accompany them in all the steps inherent to their condition.

Then, through the game of questions and answers, the public was able to demonstrate the attention with which he had followed the debates and passions he had provoked. We have seen that such debates are necessary to enable the community to advance, through its testimony, subjects on which information is discreet. A ballot box had been deposited at the entrance, the amount of which had been supplemented by CBAF and AGBU, which had given the association of Mrs. Lara Aharonian the sum of € 1,000.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018,
Claire © armenews.com

Kurdish resistance Paris: The member Garo Paylan symposium at the National Assembly on November 12

November 8, 2015 By administrator

The Democratic Union Party (PYD?), The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) and the Kurdish Democratic Council of France (CDK-F) are organizing a conference in Paris whose interest will not escape anyone interested to the Kurdish issue and, more generally, the Middle East crisis and the fight against the organization “Islamic State”, the first of which the Kurds are.

The quality and diversity of stakeholders suggest high exchange held on sensitive topics to be discussed. Have announced their participation Bernard Kouchner, former Minister, Cecilia Dufflot, MP, Eric Coquerel, regional councilor of Ile de France, Virginia Dusen, lawyer, Patrice Francheschi, writer, Guillaume Perrier, journalist, Renée Le Mignot, co-chair of MRAP Yves-Jean Gallas, Peace Movement, Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chairman of the HDP will be represented by Garo Paylan, Gültan Kisanak, co-mayor of Diyarbakir, Adem Uzun, KNK and Sinem Mohamed, co-chair of the cantons of Rojava? . Participants will be welcomed by François Pupponi, MP and Claire Cemile Renciklay, co-president of CDK-F.

Introduction will be screened in an excerpt from “Kurdistan Dream of Spring”, a film by Mikael Baudu conducted for France 3 Rojava Britain, closest to the fighter / are Kurdish, with a delegation of Kurdish Friends of Brittany.

Practical information

This conference will be held Thursday, November 12, 2015 from 9:30 am to 18 pm at the National Assembly, Victor Hugo room, 101 rue de l’Université, Paris 7th.

Registration required: contact colloquekurde2015 an email with name, date and place of birth (information required by the Vigipirate).

Only persons previously registered will be allowed in the room. An ID will be requested at the entrance.

For more information: 09 52 51 09 34

Sunday, November 8, 2015,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

Symposium on ancient Armenia

October 21, 2015 By administrator

Distance of more than a quarter century of publishing the thesis of James Russell, Zoroastrianism in Armenia, this conference allows to make a first focus on religious interactions in ancient Armenia (seventh century BC. – fifth century. AD).

The advancing research, discovery and new interdisciplinary perspectives allow to understand the Armenian case in a more global framework.

In the presence of James Russell, a professor at Harvard University, this conference will bring together many Armenian specialists, French and Italian.

Scientific Committee: Samra Azarnouche Patrick Donabédian, Frantz Grenet, Charles Lamberterie, Giusto Traina.

Monday 26 and Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Collège de France (Room Levi-Strauss), 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris

Schedules and full program on: http://www.labex-resmed.fr/interactions-religieuses-dans-l

Wednesday, October 21, 2015,
Claire © armenews.com

Video of masterful inaugural speech at the International Symposium Yves Ternon #armeniangenocide

March 29, 2015 By administrator

Yves Ternon, member of the Scientific Council of the Holocaust

Video recorded March 25 Arto Pehlivanian at the Sorbonne. Inaugural Address of the historian Yves Ternon, member of the Scientific Council of the Holocaust Memorial, President of the International Scientific Council (ISC)

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem opens the International Symposium of the CSI at the Sorbonne

March 26, 2015 By administrator

“The Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of research”

Wednesday, March 25, the doors of the prestigious Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne are solemnly opened on the study and the consequences of the Armenian Genocide, 100 years of research. A cycle unprecedented three days organized by the International Scientific Council (ISC) with the support of the Mission 2015, the CFC and the Ile de France Regional Council that will host 70 researchers from around the world. Three sessions who asked for their preparation, two years of work, as indicated Gaïdz Minassian. #ArmenianGenocide

resented by the master of ceremonies, the historian Vincent Duclert (EHESS), under the High -patronage the President of the Republic, the Minister of Education and Research, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, inaugurated the International Symposium on delivering a powerful speech recounting the dark hours of the first genocide of the twentieth century. She will say, in essence, about the Armenian genocide, that “the rigorous study of sources, testimonies of survivors, documents, has established this truth that no longer debate in the scientific community” [.. .] “This is also what has led France

assert that denial is intolerable; because the law is what protects against all forms of manipulation. And this is the position of France to the European Court of Human Rights. “Reflecting the intellectual struggle of Archag Tchobanian whose role was decisive in the aftermath of Hamidian massacres, the Minister of Education says,” The Armenian intellectuals were tirelessly book and writing a fight for the truth ” . Which led him to thank the Turkish intellectuals present in the amphitheater, such Zarakolu and Fethi Çetin and politist Büşra Ersanlı. It will make a tribute to historians came especially from around the world to witness and publicize their work. With the contribution of the First World War specialists. “Historians of the Great War included the now fully [Armenian Genocide] in the study and understanding of the extremes of war violence. “Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has finally announced that it would be next to Francois Hollande on April 24 in Yerevan.

In his address, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, President of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), noted that “it was not until April 1984 that was held in Paris in the Richelieu amphitheater, a session the Permanent People’s Tribunal on the Armenian genocide. “A session during which a communication was read by the historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet,” which became the preface to the book The Crime of silence. “Vidal-Naquet appears the fate of the Armenians to that of Jews and Palestinians. […] Armenians victims of a major historical crime. “Armenians and Jews” experiencing wildest ideologues, torn between the memory that weighs and history that always fails to deliver. And struggling with what he called the great denial. The most amazing character seen today of the Armenian Genocide, which is the degree was increased its denial. Not only by those who had perpetrated. Not only by the Turkish state in all of these judicial, educational and diplomatic, but almost by all its allies. Sometimes even by the United Nations. “Complains Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoueur, justifying the session of the Permanent People’s Tribunal, which therefore” have a real impact. “ He finished his speech by noting that the Armenian genocide “more than ever found its place in European history. »

Thursday, March 26, 2015,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

France: Beginning today at the Sorbonne of major international symposium CSI #armeniangenocide

March 25, 2015 By administrator

The international conference organized by the International Scientific Council for the study of the Armenian Genocide (CSI) “Genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the Great War. 1915-2015: one hundred years of research “will be held in Paris from 25 to 28 March 2015 under the patronage of the President of the Republic, François Hollande. This is an exceptional event that will mobilize tens of researchers and historians of various nationalities, among the most prestigious. The sessions of the event will be held at the Sorbonne, in the Holocaust Memorial at the National Library of France and EHESS. Syllabus:

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

Address by Ms. Najat VALLAUD-BELKACEM, Minister of Education,

Address by the President of the School of Advanced Studies
Social Sciences (EHESS) SIR PETER CYRILLE HAUTCOEUR
Address by the President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France SIR JOHN PAUL HUCHON
Inaugural Conference of MR YVES TERNON
historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Holocaust Memorial, president of CSI

Thursday, March 26 – 9:30 / 7:00 p.m.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
17 RUE GEOFFROY The Asnier
75004 PARIS

10.00-12.30: SPACE-TIME, THE STEPS OF THE PROCESS GENOCIDAL
Chair: Catherine Nicault, historian, University of Reims
Discussant: Stephan Astourian, historian, University of Berkeley Interventions:
The legacy of Abdülhamid II. Janet Klein, Historian, University of Akron.
The Ottoman opposition, the Committee of Union and Progress and the 1908 revolution.

Erdal Kaynar, historian, Polonsky Academy of the Van Leer Institute, EHESS.
The “European Concert” and reforms in the eastern provinces, 1878-1914.
Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS.
The Special Organization. Cetinoglu known historian, Free University of Ankara.
The entrance of the Ottoman Empire in the war, from 1914 to 1915.
Mustafa Aksakal, historian, Georgetown University.
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13h30-15h00: PERPETRATORS VICTIMS, LIFEGUARD
Chair: Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA
Discussant: Vincent Duclert, historian, EHESS
Interventions:

The first phase of the Destruction: Deportations and Massacres (April-August 1915).
Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of Paris VIII.
The second phase of the genocide. KM-historian, Rutgers University.
Forced conversions. Umit Kurt, historian, Sabancı University.
15.00-15.15: Pause

15h15-16h20: WITNESSES
Chair: Wolfgang Gust, journalist
Discussant: Ara Sarafian, historian, Gomidas Institute Interventions:
European and American witnesses. Hans-Lukas Kieser, historian, University of Zurich.
Armenian witnesses. Amatuni Virabyan, historian, State Archives of Armenia.
16h20-16h30: Pause
16h30-19h00: OTHER MINORITIES OF THE EMPIRE
Chair: Gérard Chaliand, geostrategist
Discussant: Laurent-Olivier Mallet, historian, University of Montpellier
Interventions:
The Jews of the Ottoman Empire to f in the nineteenth century.
Georges Bensoussan, historian, the Holocaust Memorial.
The complexity of the genocide of the Assyrian-Chaldeans. David Gaunt, historian,
Centre for the Study of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, University of Soedertoern.
The Ottoman Greeks. Sia Anagnostopoulou, historian, University of Athens.
Kurdish-Yezidi-Armenians, many facets of a community in exile (s).
Estelle Amy of Bretèque, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, CNRS.

Friday, March 27
EHESS, 105 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris

10h-12h30 – Fifth Panel: Logic of war, economic, ideological

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

Ideological, demographic and economic logic of genocide by Hamit Bozarslan, political scientist, historian, EHESS.
The logic of pre-genocidal massacres by Vincent Duclert, historian, EHESS.
The world in turmoil: waves of refugees and massacres in the occupied northern Persia (1914-1918) by PeterHolquist, historian, University of Pennsylvania.
The mechanisms of decision making of the Young Turk leadership (1913-1915) by Erik-Jan Zürcher, historian, University of Leiden.
The confiscation of Armenian property during the genocide by Mehmet Polatel, historian, Koç University.

12h30-13h30: lunch
13h30-16h – Sixth Panel: 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 for Criminal Law

The trials of Constantinople (1919-1920) by Mikaël Nichanian, historian, National Library of France.
The breakdown of consensus. The Perinçek case, the Armenian genocide and international criminal law by Sevane Garibian, lawyer, Universities of Geneva and Neuchâtel.
The status of Armenian stateless refugees and international action of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office by Dzovinar Kevonian, historian, Institute for Political Social Sciences, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Raphael Lemkin, the extermination of the Armenians and the invention of the word genocide by Annette Becker, historian, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Lemkin and the Armenian genocide, a legal play by Olivier Beauvallet, international judge.

16h-16h15: Pause

16h15-18h20 – Seventh Panel: historiography, a new research field

Chair: Michel Marian, philosopher, Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Discussant: Edhem Eldem, historian, Boğaziçi University.
The historiography of the Armenian genocide, a new field of research by Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute of Political Studies in Paris.
Reflections on Ottoman historiography (years 1960-1990) about the role of non-Muslims and Ottoman Armenians in commerce and the urban economy by Stephan Astourian, historian, University of Berkeley.
Ottoman governors opposed to deportations and massacres of Armenians by Ayhan Aktar, historian, Bilgi University.
The speech of Turkey on the genocide of Armenians by Jennifer Dixon, political scientist, Villanova University.

18h20-18h30: Pause

18h30-20h30 – Eighth Panel: 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.

The permanence of traces of the 1915 genocide in the Armenian memory; role of politics in their registration or erasure by Janine Altounian, essayist, translator, Freud specialist.
Confiscation and destruction of property by Armenian Dickran Kouymjian, historian, California State University. After photograph by Pascaline Marre, photographer and Anouche Kunth, historian, CNRS.
Aram Andonian, the Nubar library and the creation of a heritage in exile after the destruction of Ottoman Armenians by Boris Adjemian, historian, Library Nubar AGBU.

Saturday, March 28

National Library of France, Quai François Mauriac, 75013 Paris

10h-12h30 – Ninth Panel: Memory, transmission, history, negation

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

The sacrifice, witness and forgiveness: The Candidate Zareh Vorpouni by Marc Nichanian, professor of philosophy, Sabancı University.
Gender, genocide survival. Islamized Armenians new working memory Ayşe Gül Altinay, anthropologist, Sabancı University.
The teaching of genocide: European examples Alban Perrin, historian, the Holocaust Memorial, Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux.
The Founding Myths of Turkish denial by Büşra Ersanli, political scientist, University of Marmara.
The memory of the genocide in Turkey Armenians by Hira Kaynar, historian, EHESS.

12h30-13h30: lunch

13h30-15h: Tenth Panel: Features & comparatismes, I

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

Genocidal thinking: a comparative perspective by Dominik Schaller, historian, University of Heidelberg.
The genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottomans by Roger Smith, historian, College of William and Mary.
The Armenian Genocide in the light of a general theory of genocide by Bernard Bruneteau, Professor of Political Science, University of Rennes I.

15.00-15.15: Pause

15h15-17h – Eleventh Panel: Features & comparatismes, II

Chair: Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Yves Ternon, historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Shoah Memorial.
Singularity of the Holocaust by Christian Ingrao, historian, CNRS.
Singularity of the famine in Ukraine by Nicolas Werth, historian, CNRS.
Singularity of the genocide of Tutsis by Helene Dumas, historian, EHESS.

17h00-17h15: pause

5:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Closing Conference

Chair: Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Symposium balance by Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of Paris VIII.
1915 and the social sciences by Taner Akcam, historian, University of Clarke.
Turkism and pan-Turkism by Erik-Jan Zürcher, historian, University of Leiden.
The contemporary revisionism and its defenders Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA.
The outlook from the perspective of international justice by Nicholas Koumjian, prosecutor at the international courts.
The publication of research on the Armenian genocide in Turkey by Ragıp Zarakolu éditeur.v

Practical information

Registrations are closed.

Founding members of the CSI

Annette Becker, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense), member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Hamit Bozarslan, historian, political scientist, director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

Vincent Duclert, historian, lecturer and researcher at the Center for Sociological and Political Studies Raymond Aron (EHESS).

Raymond Kevorkian, historian, emeritus director of research at the French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris VIII.

Gaïdz Minassian, journalist, doctor of political science lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Claire Mouradian, historian, research director at the CNRS
.

Mikaël Nichanian, historian, curator at the National Library of France, associate researcher at the College de France.

Yves Ternon, historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Shoah Memorial, President of CSI.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE REGIONAL ILE DE FRANCE AND THE MISSION OF THE 2015 CCAF

Wednesday, March 25, 2015,
Ara © armenews.com

Pursuing Justice Through Art: 2015, Genocide Exhibit & Symposium

February 28, 2015 By administrator

A Multi-Cultural Genocide Exhibition and Symposium

Jennifer Rocco Stone, Blood of the Innocent,

Exhibition: March 18 – April 25, 2015

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 21, 2 – 4PM

Saturday, April 18, 1 – 4PM

LOWELL, MA – As April is International Genocide Month, the Whistler House Museum of Art is planning a Multi-Cultural Genocide exhibition and symposium entitled Pursuing Justice Through Art: 2015. In conjunction with the symposium, which will take place from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Saturday, April 18, there will be an art exhibition which will be presented in the Parker Gallery. The exhibition runs from March 18 to April 25, where works of art will be displayed by artists whose themes are rooted in genocide and holocaust memories and commemoration. The opening reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, March 21 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

The year 2015 is significant in genocide history. It is the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the 70th Anniversary of the end of the Jewish Holocaust, and the 40th Anniversary of the Cambodian Genocide.

The word “genocide” was coined in 1944 to name a particularly shocking and horrific crime of violence. It was hoped it would never happen again. Genocide is the systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. Genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law.

More than 262 million people throughout the world were murdered as a result of genocide in the 20th century. Armenian, German, Cambodian, Bosnian, Guatemalan, Rwandan, Sudanese and Native Americans are only a few of the nationalities that have been affected by genocide. It is the hope that education and awareness through the medium of art can be used to help ensure a more peaceful future in the 21st century.

Gagik Aroutiunian, The Family, Life Goes On

“We are very proud to be presenting this important program to the public,” says Whistler House Museum of Art president and executive director, Sara Bogosian. “It was inspired by Arshile Gorky, the Father of Abstract Expressionism, who is one of the artists in the Whistler House Museum of Art collection. Gorky is considered to be one of the most famous survivors of the Armenian Genocide,” added Bogosian.
The symposium will include experts in the field of genocide studies including:

Diana Der-Hovanessian: Der-Hovanessian, a New England born poet, was twice a Fulbright professor of American Poetry and is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and translations. She has awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, PEN/Columbia Translation Center, National Writers Union, Armenian Writers Union, Paterson Poetry Center, Prairie Schooner, American Scholar, and the Armenian Ministry of Culture. Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Ararat, CSM, Poetry, Partisan, Prairie Schooner, Nation, etc., and in anthologies such as Against Forgetting, Women on War, On Prejudice, Finding Home, Leading Contemporary Poets, Orpheus and Company, Identity Lessons, Voices of Conscience, Two Worlds Walking, etc. She works as a visiting poet and guest lecturer on American poetry, Armenian poetry in translation, and the literature of human rights at various universities in the USA and abroad. She serves as president of the New England Poetry Club.

Kim Servart Theriault PhD: Dr. Theriault holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Virginia and is currently Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. She has several academic publications to her credit including Rethinking Arshile Gorky and the essay “Exile, Trauma, and Arshile Gorky’s The Artist and His Mother” and the published catalog for the Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. She has given art historical lectures at venues such as the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and universities such as Oxford, the University of London, UCLA, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan.

Dr. Elliott W. Salloway: Dr. Salloway is the USA founder of Project eXodus, an international organization that explores the issues of genocide and human nature through art exhibitions, raising awareness throughout the world. As a faculty member at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, he has used art extensively as a teaching tool. Dr. Salloway has been a periodontist in Worcester for 49 years and is an avid painter and photographer whose works have been exhibited at the Miami Historical Museum, Worcester City Arts, Boston City Arts, The New Gallery in Boston, Panopticon Gallery in Boston and Waltham, Arts Worcester, and the Davis Art Gallery. He studied art at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Worcester Art Museum. Dr. Salloway’s works of art will also be included in the genocide exhibition.

Sayon Soeun: Soeun is a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide featured in the documentary, Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey. He was abducted at the age of six, exploited by the Khmer Rouge, his family life and education stolen. His recovery and redemption from unimaginable evil entails his transition from an orphanage in a refugee camp to adoption by a loving American family. After more than 35 years, he recently made contact with brothers and a sister he assumed were dead. The documentary follows his journey back to Cambodia to heal himself by finding the family that let him slip away and forgiving himself for his complicity as a Khmer Rouge child soldier.

Artists featured in the art exhibition are well-known painters, sculptors, textile artists, and collectors specializing in this genre. They include: Mohammed Ali and Al Asadi, Gagik Aroutiunian, Bayda Asbridge, John Avakian, Ani Babaian, Stephen Clements, Ellen Davison, Adrienne Der Marderosian, Dave Drinon, Charlotte Eckler, Amy Fagin, Fanardjian (loaned by Stephen Dulgarian), Lynne Foy, Gillian Frazier, Charles Gallagher, Mary Hart, James Higgins, Raymond Howell (loaned by Eve Soroken), JoAnn Janjigian, Andrew Ellis Johnson, David Jones, Lucine Kasbarian, Mico Kaufman, Chantha Khem, Puthearith Kret, Sandra Lauterbach, Markus Lewis, Adam Mastoon,Talin Megherian, Crissie Murphy, Ruth Naylor, Marsha Nouritza Odabashian, Judith Peck, Dany Pen, Sandra Presley, Bill Reedy, Hope Ricciardi, Jennifer Rocco Stone, Alain Rogier, LinDa Saphan, Susanne Slavick, Jessica Sperandio, Rose Sielian Theriault, Nora Tang, Sopheap Theam and New England Quilt Museum’s Community Quilters, Rita Thompson, Robert Thurlow, Holly Tomlinson, Carol Vinick, Denise Warren

The exhibition and symposium are free to the public. The program is supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Funding was also supplied in part by UMass Lowell, Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Series, and with the participation of NAASR (National Association of Armenian Studies and Research) and Artscope Magazine.

The Whistler House Museum of Art, located in Lowell, Massachusetts, is the historic birthplace of the famous American artist, James McNeill Whistler. Established in 1878 as the Lowell Art Association Inc., it is the oldest incorporated art association in the United States. It is known internationally for its distinguished collection of 19th and early 20th century New England representational art. The Whistler House hosts many exhibits, lectures, educational and community programs, concerts and an array of social events in the residence, gallery and adjoining Victorian park.

Pursuing Justice Through Art: 2015 A Multi-Cultural Genocide Exhibition and Symposium

February 26, 2015 By administrator

Hope Ricciardi
Diaspora
collage and oil on three fir panels

By Heather Linton

This exhibition brings attention to genocide, the fragmented history of various cultural groups, and art as a means of educating us about humankind’s inhumanity. The year 2015 is significant. It is the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the 70th Anniversary of the end of the Jewish Holocaust, and the 40th Anniversary of the Cambodian Genocide. Details on the symposium and related events will be listed here as they are added:

Save the Dates!

Exhibit Runs March 18 – April 25, 2015

Reception: Saturday, March 21, 2-4 pm

Symposium: Saturday, April 18, 1-4 pm

http://whistlerhouse.org/index.php/exhibits/parker-gallery/80-pursuingjusticethroughart2015

And

https://www.facebook.com/WhistlerHouseMuseumofArt

Exhibitiing artists of Armenian descent include:

Aroutiunian, Gagik

Avakian, John

Babaian, Ani

DerMarderosian, Adrienne

Dulgarian, Stepan

Janjigian, JoAnn

Kasbarian, Lusin

Megherian, Talin

Odabashian, Marsha Nouritza

Ricciardi, Hope

Sperandio, Jessica

Whistler House Museum of Art | 243 Worthen Street | Lowell | MA | 01852 USA

France: Grand International Symposium: The genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the Great War

February 14, 2015 By administrator

Paris, Grand International Symposium,

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

colloquecsi@gmail.com

http://centenaire.org/fr/espace-scientifique/colloquesseminaires/le-genocide-des-armeniens-de-lempire-ottoman-dans-la-grande

France: MONTPELLIER Symposium on #armeniangenocide at the University Paul Valery

February 9, 2015 By administrator

February, 5 and 6 an international conference organized by Annick Asso, Helena and Patrick Dermichian Louvier, entitled “Speech and representations of the Armenian Genocide was held at the University Paul Valery under the centenary celebrations labeled by Mission 2015 CCAF.

This symposium brought together two research laboratories, and RIRRA CRISIS 21. It was a wonderful conference. Besides the eminent quality of the participants and their communications, there was, the general view, a breath. This breath, it was that of the humanistic spirit that animated all participants.

The approach was not meant communitarian.

It was a great success. A public lady confided moved, have learned more in two days than 71 years of existence. The research must radiate in civil society and participate in the world. We held the bet.

On the evening of February 5 was held a screening of three beautiful films of Artavazd Peleshyan (“We”, “Seasons” and “Our Century”) led by Vincent Deville, lecturer in film studies. We were honored by the presence of Mrs Anne-Yvonne Le Dain, socialist deputy of Herault and Vice President of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, we come show his support. We thank Ms Le Dain his unfailing presence at our side since the launch of centennial events. His generosity and commitment are humanistic beautiful lights on our roads. (Photos attached).

The proceedings, addressing the Armenian genocide at an angle quite new, will be published later in 2015.