31.05.2025


On May 29–31, 2025, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute hosted a major three-day international academic conference titled “A Century of Armenian Genocide: Studies-Legacy, Challenges, and Future”, in its conference hall. The event was organized within the framework of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, aiming to summarize the past century of scholarly work in the field, assess achievements and ongoing challenges, and outline future directions for genocide studies.

The conference brought together 51 scholars from Armenia, the United States, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Israel, Poland, Australia, Lebanon, and Turkey, representing leading academic institutions and research centers worldwide.

In her opening remarks, AGMI Director Associate Professor Edita Gzoyan stated: “Through this event, we aim to record what has been accomplished over the past hundred years in the field of Armenian Genocide studies — what topics have been researched, the directions taken by scholarly inquiry, and how the discipline should evolve in the future.”

Over the course of the three days, the conference featured dozens of scholarly presentations, structured into thematic panels. The papers addressed not only the historical development of Armenian Genocide research but also explored contemporary methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and comparative frameworks within a global context.

Conference Participants Present Research on Key Themes in Armenian Genocide Studies

The participants of the international conference “A Century of Armenian Genocide: Studies-Legacy, Challenges, and Future” presented their research across the following core thematic areas:

• Studies on the Armenian Genocide: history, historiography, structures, and challenges
• Early documentation of the Armenian Genocide
• Memory, archives, and oral history
• Testimony and humanitarianism
• Revisiting the Armenian Genocide: new approaches and perspectives
• Memory, trauma, and identity in post-genocide Armenian communities
• Gender and genocide
• Ideology, politics, and genocide
• Comparative genocide studies and global perspectives
• Post-genocide survival and reconstruction

Following the presentations, Dr. Raymond Kévorkian, a French-Armenian historian and President of the AGMI Board of Trustees, and Professor David Gaunt of the United Kingdom were awarded the AGMI James Bryce Memorial Medal. The honor recognized their significant contributions to the study and public dissemination of the Armenian Genocide and the broader history of the genocide of Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire.

At the conclusion of the conference, participants expressed confidence that this international academic forum would serve as a crucial platform for both summarizing the scholarly contributions of the Armenian school of genocide studies and for fostering new international collaborations within the global field of genocide research.

Conference Program in Armenian
Conference Program in English