PROGRAM

9:00-10:00 – Registration of participants of the conference

10:00-10:30 – Plenary session

Prayer

Opening Speech

Hayk Demoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute (AGMI)

 

Speeches

• Hranush Hakobyan The Minister of Diaspora of RA

• Spartak Seyranyan The Minister of Education & Science of RA

• Vladimir Barkhudarian The academician-secretary of NAS RA

 

10:30 – 12:30 – The First Panel /moderated by Richard Hovhannisian, Professor of UCLA/

1. Harutyun Kevorkian (Nubaryan library, Paris, France) The political evaluation of Cilician Massacres by Young Turks government

2. Hamit Bozarslan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)1909 Context. Unionism, nationalism and violence

3. Ruben Safrastyan (Institute of Oriental Studies)The massacres of Adana vilayet as a pattern of genocidal policy

4. Hayk Demoyan (AGMI) Cilician tragedy. observations on several psychological aspects of the massacre

5. Claude Mutafian (Paris 13 University, France) Cilicia and cilicians in the travel notes of European travelers (the end of XIV-the beginning of XX century)

6. Yve Ternon (University Paris IV Sorbonne, France) Cilicia, 1909. If it was possible to prevent the threat of Genocide?

 

Questions, Comments, Discussion

 

12:45-13:00 – Coffee break

 

13:00-15:00 – The Second Panel /moderated by Dr. Hayk Demoyan, Director of AGMI/

1. Stephan Astourian (University of California at Berkeley) The Adana Massacres: Ottoman Turkish Interpretations and Historical Facts

2. Suren Manukyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute) The life in Adana at the beginning of 20 century: the Cilician model of national modernization

3. Hasmik Stepanyan (Institute of Oriental Studies) The reflections on Adana Massacres in turkish literature with Armenian character

4. Rubina Peroomian (University of California Los-Angeles, USA) The poetics of violence in the literary responses on Adana massacres

5. Artem Ohanjanyan (Vienna, Austria) The massacres in Adana in the Austro-Hungarian documents

6. Eva Merenic (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) The tragedy of Cilicia in the Austro-Hungarian media sources

7. Vahan Ohanyan (Mkhitarists Congregation of St.Lazzaro, Italy) Adana massacres in the American media coverage

 

Questions, Comments, Discussion

 

15:15-16:00 – Lunch

 

10:30 – 12:30 – The Third Panel /moderated by Dr. Prof. Ruben Safrastyan, Director of Institute of the Oriental Studies of the NAS of RA/

1. Varujan Poghosyan (Institute of History)The book of Brezol “The Turk passed from here…” as an important source of Adana Massacres

2. Arpine Bablumyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute)The demographic consequences of Cilician massacres

3. Tatevik Ghaltakhchyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute)First responses of Adana massacres in Western Armenian press

4. Aram Arkun (Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center, USA) The self-defense of Dortyol and Cilician Armenians during the 1909 massacres

5. Seda Parsamyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute) The mechanism of implementation of cultural genocide and in Adana and adjacent regions during 1909 massacres and its consequences

6. Harutyun Selimyan (Armenian Protestant Church of Syria)The Loses of the Armenian Evangelical Church during the Adana massacres

 

Questions, Comments, Discussion

 

10:00-10:30 – Registration of participants of the conference

 

10:30 – 12:30 – The Fourth Panel /moderated by Dr. Suren Manukyan, Deputy Director of AGMI/

1. Vahakn Dadrian (Zoryan Institute, USA)The Twin 1909 Adana Massacres Revisited

2. Verjine Svazlian (Institute of Archeology and Ethnography) The Adana massacre and the popular memory and songs

3. Aramayis Baloyan (Matenadaran - Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) The Cilician massacres in the responses of the Italian diplomatic sources

4. Reverend Father Gevorg Saroyan (Vazgenyan Theological Academy) The losts of Armenian Holy Apostolic Church during the Armenian Genocide /case of Adana/

5. Ani Voskanyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute) – On the participation of the Turkish army in Adana massacres

6. Anna Aleksanyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute) The reflection of the Adana massacres in the correspondence and literary works of the Western Armenian female intellectuals

7. Aram Mirzoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute) – Orphan care activities after Adana massacres (1909-1912)

 

Questions, Comments, Discussion

 

CLOSING SESSION

19:00 - Cultural Event – National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia

Haykazn Mihrdat was born in 1864 in Constantinople (Ottoman Empire), social-political figure, national deputy, president of the “Aharonyan akumb” (Aharonyan club) in Peshiqtash. He was a victim of the Armenian genocide.

November 10, 2011On November 9, 2011, the granddaughter of Fridtjof Nansen Marit Greve, with the Norwegian delegation, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex ...

November 10, 2011On November 7, 2011, Asya Darbinyan, a graduate research fellow at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, recently spent four days at the Armenian Research Center conducting research for her dissertation on Near East Relief orphanages ...

November 9, 2011On November 6, 2011, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Head of the Russian Imperial House visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, put flowers at the eternal fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence ...

October 25, 2011On October 25, 2011, the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Libby Dowling Heffern, visited ...

October 13, 2011 On October 13, 2011, Secretary General of Interpol Ronald Noble visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and put flowers at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...

August 31, 2011 On August 30, 2011, the regular meeting of the MFA senior staff and the heads of the diplomatic missions started in the Conference Hall of the K. Demirjian Sports and Concert Complex ...

August 27, 2011 Dr. Hayk Demoyan, director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, has become a new member of the Genocide Education Project’s (GenEd) advisory board ...

July 11, 2011 Fanny Ardant, the world known French actress, who visited Yerevan in the framework of the 8th edition of “Golden Apricot” Yerevan International Film Festival, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial ...

June 30, 2011 Director of AGMI H.Demoyan and Deputy Director of AGMI S.Manukyan had a meeting with ambassador of RA in Russia Oleg Yesayan in Moscow. During the meeting the projects and cooperation ...

June 17, 2011 Minister of French Cooperation Henri de Raincourt visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, within the framework of his official visit to Armenia on June 16-17, and put a wreath at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...

June 17, 2011 The delegation headed by President of Brest Regional Executive Committee in Belarus Konstantin Sumar visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. Mr. Konstantin Sumar put a wreath at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...

June 10, 2011 Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of USA, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, put flowers at the eternal fire ...

June 09, 2011 Dr. Ara Sanjian, the Associate Professor in Armenian and Middle Eastern History from University of Michigan - Dearborn had a meeting in the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute with the staff of AGMI ...

June 01, 2011 The deputy-director of AGMI Suren Manukyan participated on conference dedicated to 150th anniversary of Fridtjof Nansens held in a city of Kharkiv, Ukraine ...