UNESCO Chair on Education and Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes at the Institute for Armenian Studies of Yerevan State University

Conference Program

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November 5, 19:00, Thursday

Working language: Armenian
Robert Suqiasyan (UNESCO Chair on Education and Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes at the Institute for Armenian Studies of Yerevan State University, Armenia) ,  Saving the orphans and nurturing new elites: On one initiative by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Narek Poghosyan (Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute Foundation, Armenia), Genocide in East Timor

Tehmine Martoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute Foundation, Armenia), Comparative study of methods of violence (Khoy, Salmast, Smyrna)

Mariam Topakyan (Yerevan State University, Faculty of International Relations) The Activities of French-Armenian Organizations in the Armenian Genocide  issue

Moderator – Neli Abrahamyan (UNESCO Chair on Education and Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes at the Institute for Armenian Studies of Yerevan State University, Armenia)

November 6, 20:00  Friday

Working language: English

Rubina Peroomian (UCLA, Genocide Studies, USA), Survivor Memoirs – A Multi-faceted Source, A Less-employed Field of Inquiry for Genocide Studies (9:00)

Carola Lingaas (VID Specialized University, Norway), “Pull up the grass, dig up the roots”: Judicial Recognition of Dehumanizing Speech for the Legal Construction of Genocide” (17:00)

Nélida Elena Boulgourdjian (University of Buenos Aires and UNTREF, Argentine), Child transfer during the Armenian genocide and the Argentine military dictatorship.  A comparative perspective (13:00)

 Regina Paulose (International Criminal Law Attorney, USA), Armenian Genocide: Lessons learned or repeated? (9:00)

Moderator Suren Manukyan (UNESCO Chair on Education and Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes at the Institute for Armenian Studies of Yerevan State University, Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute Foundation, Armenia)

November 7, 14:00, Saturday

Working language: English
Melanie O’Brien  (Law School, University of Western Australia, Australia), Fieldwork Challenges of Genocide Studies Research: Rohingya Refugees (18:00)

Narelle Fletcher  (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), ThisBecomes a Legal Definitional Thing: Rwanda 1994, the International Community and the ‘G word’ (21:00)

Carola Lingaas, VID Specialized University (Oslo), Bridge over Troubled Waters? Bridging Genocide, Religion and Law with Social Identity Theory (11:00)

Suren Manukyan (UNESCO Chair on Education and Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes, Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute Foundation, Armenia), The Anti-Armenian Hate Speech of the officials of Azerbaijan and Turkey as examples of the Direct and public incitement to commit genocide

Moderator Robert Sukiasyan (UNESCO Chair on Education and Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes)

November 7, 19:00, Saturday

Working language: Armenian
Lusine Poghosyan, GoharPetrosyan (Gavar State University, Armenia), Survivors' Memoirs as a Key Source for Armenian Genocide Study  /Nor Bayazet /

Vazgen Hakhoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute Foundation, Armenia),  The Genocidal Policy of Kemalist Turkey in the Pambakregion (Shirak Province) according to Witness Survivors' Testimonies  1920-1921.

Mariam Avagyan (Armenia), The Importance of Armenian Self-Defense Episodes study as a Genocide Prevention and Restraint tool

Mary Karapetyan  (Gavar State University, Armenia), Baku's genocidal policy towards the Azerbaijani

Armenians in 1988-1992

Moderator Tehmine Martoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum&Institute Foundation, Armenia),

The conference is held with their support of Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport RA Science Committee