Public Lectures |
Alex Hinton
"Trials, Truth, and Tribulations" (on genocide and transitional justice)
Sarkis Shahinian
Armenia-Diaspora relations in the context of national security and cooperation for international recognition of the Armenian genocide
14.05.2010
Alex Hinton is Executive director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs and at Rutgers University, Newark. He is also the First Vice-President and Executive Board member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
He is the author of the award-winning “Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide” (California, 2005) and six edited or co-edited collections, “Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence” (Rutgers, forthcoming in 2010), “Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation” (Duke, 2009), “Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia” (Paul Robeson Gallery, 2007), “Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide” (California, 2002), “Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2002), and Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions” (Cambridge, 1999).
In 2010 the International Association of Genocide Scholars was awarded with Armenian presidential prize for supporting the international recognition of the Armenian genocide.
Sargis Shahinian is a chairman of Switzerland-Armenia Association. He is one of the initiators of the process of official recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Switzerland in December 2004 and for making its denial criminally pursuing. He also initiated trial in Switzerland against Dogu Perincek, head of the Turkish Workers' Party for denying Armenian genocide.
Switzerland-Armenia Association was awarded in 2010 by Armenian presidential prize for supporting the international recognition of the Armenian genocide.
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VIRTUAL MUSEUM |
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE |
Armenian Genocide:
Challenges on the Eve of Centenary
Ani plaza, Ani hall
Yerevan, March 22-23
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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 |
Aghababyan Levon was born in 1887 in Baghesh and graduated from the Sanasaryan College. From 1908 to 1914 he was first a teacher then a headmaster at the national colleges of Akshehir and Kutahya. He was a teacher of mathematics, opened a private school in Kutahya which worked for only three years and also was an editor of “Azatamart”. He was a victim of the Armenian Genocide.
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LEMKIN SCHOLARSHIP |
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EVENTS OF AGMI |
April 9, 2013 The Russian delegation headed by the Chief of Staff of the RF Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov, which is in Armenia on the occasion of the inauguration of the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and put flowers at the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...
December 18, 2012 The world known French actor Alain Delon visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex ...
November 24, 2012 The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bashkiria Raphayil Zinurov Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex ...
November 24, 2012 The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bashkiria Raphayil Zinurov Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex ...
September 25, 2012 Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. Cardinal Kurt Koch put flowers at the Eternal Fire and prayed for the repose of the victims’ souls...
June 15, 2012 The delegation of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS), Moscow, headed by the director Leonid Reshetnikov and accompanied by Ruben Safrastyan...
May 1, 2012 Christos 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...
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