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April 18, 2011
On April 20 and 21, 2011 the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute organizes an international conference titled “The Armenian Genocide and the Scandinavian Response” dedicated to Fridtjof Nansen’s 150th anniversary. During the conference, historians and researchers from Armenia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway will present papers on various aspects of the topic.
The Armenian Genocide was met with a great international response, drawing the attention of the international community and the media. The Scandinavian countries were no exception. Governments, organizations, and individuals from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark reacted in a variety of ways to the ongoing crisis in Armenia.
The Scandinavian missionaries’ efforts directed at helping the Armenian people suffering massacres in the Ottoman Empire, and at proselytizing among them, were mainly realized by the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish branches of the Women Missionary Workers organization (KMA; Kvindelige Missions Arbejdere).
From the beginning of the 20th Century prominent Scandinavian relief workers such as Maria Jacobsen, Alma Johansson, Bodil Catharine Biørn and Karen Jeppe undertook difficult missions of providing help for the needy and saving the lives of thousands of Armenians.
Prominent Norwegian explorer, scientist, and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen’s efforts were of equally great importance on the list of Scandinavian initiatives addressed at ameliorating the consequences of the Genocide. As a High Commissioner of the League of Nations he took effective steps to repatriate the homeless Armenians and provide them with sustenance.
The international conference organized by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has the objective to revive key parts of the important, but largely forgotten or ignored history of Scandinavian-Armenian relations through discussing them in the context of common history and memory.
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VIRTUAL MUSEUM |
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TEMPORARY EXHIBITION |
On April 23, 2012, AGMI presents a temporary exhibition titled “Book as a witness of the Genocide” dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Armenian printing and proclamation of Yerevan as 2012 World Book Capital City by UNESCO. The temporary exhibition comprises more than 300 rare first editions and other sources on the subject of the Armenian Genocide.
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SMYRNA DISASTER – 90 |
In September 2012 AGMI presents a temporary exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of “Smyrna disaster” – destruction of the Christian population of Smyrna, one of the major sea ports of the Asia Minor. The fire of Smyrna becomes one of the dramatic episodes of the Armenian genocide carried out this time by Kemalist forces in September 1922.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE STUDIES |
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REMEMBER |
Shahpaz Barsegh was born in 1883 in Constantinople (Ottoman Empire), publicist-editor, social-political figure. He was a victim of the Armenian genocide.
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LEMKIN SCHOLARSHIP |
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EVENTS OF AGMI |
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 ...
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