NOVEMBER 27


10:00-10:30 – Registration of the participants of conference
10:30-11:30 – Plenary session

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

Speeches
• Tigran Torosyan, President of National Assembly of RA
• Radik Martirosyan, President of the National Academy of Sciences of RA
• Vardan Oskanyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Hasmik Poghosyan, Minister of Culture of RA
• Vigen Sargsyan, Advisor of the President of RA
• Jussi Bioern, Norway


11:00-11:15 – Documentary film
11:15-11:30 – The official ceremony

11:30-11:45 – Coffee break

11:45-14:00 – The First Panel /moderated by Hayk Demoyan/

1. Sashur Kalashyan /co-author and architect of the Memorial Complex of the Armenian Genocide/ The Memorial Complex of the Armenian Genocide: creative brief review
   
2. Tsypylma Darieva /Berlin Humboldt University, Department of European Ethnology/ From Silenced to Voiced. The Memory of Loss and Armenian Commemorative Practices
   
3. Amatuni Virabyan /Director of the State Archive of RA/ The History of the Genocide Memorial: National Monument and Soviet Reality
   
4. Harutyun Marutyan /Institute of Archeology and Ethnography/ Memorial to the Genocide Victims in Armenian Memory Ritual System
   
5. Pamella de Condappa /King’s Collage, Cambridge, Great Britain/ Destroying Cultural Heritage: The Impact of Cultural Genocide on Memory, Identity and Legitimacy

Questions, Comments, Discussion

14:00-15:15 – Dinner

15:15-17:30 – The Second Panel /moderated by Suren Manukyan/

1. Hayk Demoyan / Director of the AGMI/ Sport and Competing Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20 century. Neglected Memory
   
2. Ekaterina Boltunova /Institute of Russian History, Science Academy of RF/ Remembrance of Terror. Nazi Military Crimes in Post-Soviet Museum Background
   
3. Lusine Sahakyan /Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies/ Armenian Songs as Remembrance and Manifestation of Forced Apostate Hamshenians' Identity
   
4. Ruben Safrastyan /Director of Oriental Studies Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of RA/ Decision on Armenian Genocide. Structural approach
   
5. Sabri Atman /Seyfo Center-1915, Amsterdam, Holland/ The Annihilation of Assyrians in Turkey and Destroying of Cultural Heritage

Questions, Comments, Discussion

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NOVEMBER 28



9:30-10:00 - Registration of participants of the conference
10:00-12:15 – The Third Panel /modereted by Harutyun Marutyan/

1. Samvel Karapetyan /Director of RAA - Research of Armenian Architecture/ Historical Monuments of Western Armenia: Yesterday and Today
   
2. Yurgen Gispert /Germany/ “The eagle of history”. Some motives on the Genocide and Sardarapat monuments.
   
3. Levon Abrahamyan /Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of RA/ Not to Remember the Monument: The Anthropology of Monuments Fighting
   
4. Gayane Shagoyan / Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of RA/ Remembrance of the 1988 Earthquake in Modern Gyumri
   
5. Azat Eghiazaryan /Director of the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of RA/ Genocide Remembrance in the Armenian Literature

Questions, Comments, Discussion

12:15 – 12:45 – Coffee break

12:45 – 15:00 – The Fourth Panel /moderated by Benjamin Poghosyan, AGMI /

1. Hideki Fuchinoe / Hiroshima University, Japan/ Peace Monuments of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa
   
2. Laurence Ritter /Caucasus Media Institute/ Policy of memory and recognition: getting out from psychology of victimhood in Diaspora
   
3. Tigran Zakaryan /Yerevan State University, Faculty of Sociology/ Memory, Commemoration, Les lieux de memoire. Commemoration of Armenian Genocide in Diaspora
   
4. Seda Parsamyan /Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute/ The Methods and Mechanisms of Destroying Armenian Historical-Architectural Monuments in the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey as a part of Genocidal policy
   
5. Suren Manukyan /Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute/ The Role of the Genocide Memory and Genocide Memorial in Nationalist Discourse in the Soviet Armenia

Questions, Comments, Discussion
15:00-15:30 – Closing Session

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.

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