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