Conference program

Ani Plaza hotel, Ani hall

DAY 1 April 20

10:30-11:00 – Registration
11:00-11:30 – PLENARY SESSION

Opening speech Hayk Demoyan

Welcome speeches
Welcoming address of the Prime Minister of RA Tigran Sargsyan to the conference participants

• Arman Kirakosyan – Deputy Foreign minister of RA
• Kaare Preben Hegland - Mayor Krageroe

11:30 – 12:30 - FIRST SESSION - Armenian Genocide and Scandinavian Response: Tragedy revisited

Chair Matthias Bjørnlund (Copenhagen, Denmark)

1. Hayk Demoyan (Yerevan, Director of AGMI) - “The Armenian Genocide and European Memory”
2. Ake Daun (Stockholm, Sweden) - “A Triangular Information-Political-Ethical Dilemma: Sweden and the Armenian Genocide”
3. Göran Gunner (Stockholm, Sweden) - “An Organized and Systematic Genocide [folkmord]”

12:30-12:45 – Discussion


12:45-13:00 – Break

13:00-14:00 –SECOND SESSION - Scandinavian archive documents on the Armenian genocide

Chair Hayk Demoyan (AGMI director)

1. Vahagn Avedyan (Uppsala, Sweden) - “The Armenian Genocide From a Neutral States' Perspective: Sweden”
2. Matthias Bjørnlund (Copenhagen, Denmark) - “Danish Archival Records on the Armenian Genocide”
3. Emma Hovsephyan (Yerevan, National Archives of RA) - “Armenian Archive Sources on the Activities of Scandinavian Missioners”

14:00-14:30 – Discussion

14:30-15:30 – Break

15:30 – 16:30 - THIRD SESSION - Scandinavian memory and the Armenian history

Chair Vahagn Avedyan (Chief Editor of Armenica.org)

1. Inger Okkenhaug (Oslo, Norway) - “Armenian Refugees, Relief and Scandinavian Missions, 1915-1925”
2. Helle Schøler Kjær (Copenhagen, Denmark) - “Bearing Witness - Why did Karen Jeppe, Maria Jacobsen and Others Endure the Horrors of Witnessing the Genocide?”
3. Jussi Biorn (Oslo, Norway) -“The Life and the Mission of Bodil Katharina Bioern in Armenia”

16:30-17:00 – Discussion
17:30 – Clossing Session


DAY 2 April 21

AGMI, Komitas hall

11:00-12:00 - FORTH SESSION - Post-genocide activity and the legacy of Fridtjof Nansen

Chair – Suren Manukyan (AGMI, deputy director)

1. Aram Mirzoyan (AGMI) – “Fridtjof Nansen’s Activity Toward the Repatriation of the Armenian Refugees to the Soviet Armenia”
2. Anna Alexanyan (AGMI) – “The Meaning of the Scandinavian Missionaries’ Testimonies From the Perspective of the Armenian Genocide”
3. Tehmine Martoyan (AGMI) – “The Armenian Refugees in Salonika and the Humanitarian Activity of the Scandinavian Missionaries”
4. Asya Darbinyan (AGMI) – “Joint Activities of American and Scandinavian Organizations for Armenian Relief: the Case of Maria Jacobsen”

12:00 -12:15 – Discussion

12:15 - 12:30 - Closing Session



MEMORIAL PLAQUE DEDICATION CEREMONY IN MEMORY OF ALMA JOHANSSON AND MARIA JACOBSEN

Shahpaz Barsegh was born in 1883 in Constantinople (Ottoman Empire), publicist-editor, social-political figure. He was a victim of the Armenian genocide.

May 1, 2012Christos Malikkidas, the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Cyprus, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and put flowers at the Eternal...

April 24, 2012 Stephen W. Clark, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and Elizabeth Morrison, Acting Senior Curator of...

April 21, 2012 Minister of culture of Romania, Mr. Hunor Kelemen visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex...

April 17, 2012 A group of Turkish participants of USAID supported program on Turkish-Armenian dialogue...

March 30, 2012 A group of Turkish students from California visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, took a tour of the museum...

March 29, 2012 UK Ambassador to Armenia Catherine Lich visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, took a tour of the museum and met with the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute Hayk Demoyan...

March 28, 2012 A group of Cambridge University MA/PhD Students of Department of Politics and International Studies visited Armenian Genocide Museum and took a tour of the museum after which they had a meeting with the director of AGMI Hayk Demoyan...

February 09, 2012 The Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council Nikolay Patrushev, who arrived in Armenia at the invitation of the Secretary of the Armenian Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex...

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 ...