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

In April, 2010, AGMI organizes an international conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The special focus of the conference will be on the cultural genocide of the Armenian heritage in Turkey.

On April 22, 2010, The Armenian genocide museum opens a temporary exhibition titled “Armenian genocide: frontpage coverage in the foreign media”. The exhibition includes rare century old newspapers and magazines covering Armenian genocide on their frontpages.

Shahen Atom was born in 1875 in Akn city (Kharberd province of Western Armenia), social-political figure, deputy of Akn. He was a victim of the Armenian genocide.

July 09, 2010Today the delegation headed by Foreign Affairs State Secretary of the Swiss Confederation Peter Maurer visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial complex ...

June 23, 2010The Faith and Order Standing Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC) arriving to Armenia with an invitation of His Holiness Karekin II ...

June 18, 2010 A group of Turkish journalists visiting Armenia by the initiative of ‘International Hrant Dink Foundation’ ...

June 05, 2010 The Italian delegation headed by the chairman of the provincial council of Milan Bruno Dupei visited ...

June 03-04, 2010 Deputy Director of AGMI Suren Manukyan took part in International Seminar: ...

May 31, 2010 CSTO PA Council delegation led by Russian State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov visited Armenian Genocide victims memorial ...

May 22, 2010 The delegation headed by the president of “Europe de la Memoire” Organization Alexis Govchian visited Tsitsernakaberd ...

May 21, 2010 MD of Slovakia’s parliament member Frantisek Miklosko visited Tsitsernakaberd ...

May 21, 2010 Patrick Devedjian visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial complex ...

May 20, 2010 Governor of Orenburg region of Russian Federation Mr. Alexey Chernyshov visited Tsitsernakaberd ...

May 19, 2010 The delegation of bishops from the Christian churches in Damaskos visited Tsitsernakaberd ...

May 19, 2010 On the occasion of the massacre of Pontian Greeks the Greek community of Armenia visited Tsitsernakaberd ...

May 19, 2010 Meeting-discussion with Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan ...

May 15, 2010 The delegation headed by the chairman of the Culture’s Commission of Austrian parliament visited Tsitsernakaberd ...

May 13, 2010 The representatives of Poghosyan family visited Tsitsernakaberd...