CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1, Monday, 21 April 2014


9:30 - 10:00 – Registration of Participants at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute

10:00 - 10:30– The opening of the temporary exhibition
“The First World War: Allies, Images, Massacres”

11:00 - 11:30–Opening speech – Hayk Demoyan, Secretary of the State Commission on Coordination of the events dedicated to the 100tհ anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

Main speaker –
Viktor Nadein-Raevsky (Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), The Activity of Pan-Turkish Intelligence Network in the Caucasus during WWI


1st Plenary Panel
Moderator: Harutyun Marutyan

11:30 - 11:45 Hayk Demoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia),The Last Jihad of the Ottoman Empire: Confessional Basis of the Genocide
11:45 - 12:00 Arsen Avagyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia), “Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa” on the Caucasus Front of WWI
12:00 - 12:15 Adam J. Sacks (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA),“On Ararat Alone, no ark can rest.” Beyond Morgenthau: Jews, Social Democrats, And Jewish Social Democrats: Piercing the Levels of Silence During the Armenian Genocide
12:15 - 12:30 Meline Anumyan (Western Armenian's Affairs Research Centre), The Application of Politicide in the Context of the Armenian Genocide
12:30 - 12:45 Anahit Khosroeva (North Park University, Chicago, USA),The Assyrian Massacres during the Rule of Young Turks: Political Heredity of Genocidal Policy

12:45 - 13:00 Questions, discussion
13:00 - 13:30 Coffee-break

2nd Panel - War and Genocide
Moderator: Hayk Demoyan

13:30 - 13:45 Suren Manukyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), Preparation for the Genocide: the Formation of the Genocidal Environment in the Ottoman Empire (pre-war period of 1908-1914)
13:45 - 14:00 Rubina Peroomian(UCLA, USA), Conflicting Factors at Work in Transcaucasia Facilitated the Continuation of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians before the End of WWI
14:00 - 14:15 Harutyun Marutyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography,National Academy of Sciences, Armenia),The Phenomenon of Self-Defence during the Armenian Genocide
14:15 - 14:30 Talin Papazian(Institute of Political Sciences, Paris, France),The Armenian Volunteer Movement during WWI as a Ground for Political Ideology
14:30 - 14:45 Ani Voskanyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), The Mobilization, Disarmament and Annihilation of the Armenian solders in the Ottoman Army during World War I

14:45 - 15:00 Questions, discussion
15:00 - 16:00 Lunch

3rd Panel: Genocide and War: facts, testimonies, opinions
Moderator: Suren Manukyan

16:00 - 16:15 Verjine Svazlyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography,National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), Genocide Survivors’ Eyewitness Testimonies about the Developments on the Caucasus Frontline of the World War I
16:15 - 16:30 Joceline Chabot, Richard Godin, Sylvia Kasparian(Université de Moncton, Canada), A Journalist on the Caucasus Front: the Knowledge and the Narrative of the Armenian Genocide during the Great War
16:30 - 16:45 Valery Tunyan (Russian State University of Tourism and Services studies, Yerevan branch), Self-Defence of Van: Myths and Facts
16:45 - 17:00 Dominika Maria Macios (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland),Poles in Russian Empire from 1914 to 1918 and their Opinions about the Armenian Genocide
17:00 - 17:15 Tehmine Martoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), Invasion of Turkish Army to Northern Iran. The Massacre of the Armenians of Salmast (1914-1915)

17:15 - 17:30 Questions, discussion
Summing up the first day of the conference


Day 2, Tuesday, 22 April 2014

4th Panel: Caucasus Frontline, Refugees, Memory
Moderator: Anahit Khosroeva

10:00 - 10:15 Jussi Flemming Bioern (independent researcher, Norway), Humanitarian crisis in Caucasus and Asia Minor in Bodil Bioern photos
10:15 - 10:30 Gevorg Vardanyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), War and Propaganda. The Armenian Genocide and the falsifications of Young Turks
10:30 - 10:45 Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (European University Institute, Italy and Raphael Lemkin Fellow 2014), Historical Silence: A Reflection on Victimhood and the Perpetrator in post-genocidal Societies
10:45 - 11:00 Kránitz Péter Pál (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary), Armenian Refugees and Interpretations of the Armenian Genocide in Hungary between the Two World Wars
11:15 - 11:30 Khoren Grigoryan(Sardarapat Museum, Armenia), Lost Monuments. The Photo Collection of Aram Vruyr and the Armenian Genocide

11:30 - 12:00 Questions, discussion
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee-break

5th Panel: Western Armenia at the rear of Caucasus Frontline
Moderator: Rubina Peroomian

12:30 - 13:45 Knarik Avagyan (Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), American Armenians support to the Caucasus front and participation in volunteer movement
13:45 - 13:30 Lusine Abrahamyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), The Condition of Armenian Refugees and Orphans According to the Materials of the "Armenian Herald” Weekly
13:30 - 13:45 Gohar Khanumyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia),The Relief Activity of "All-Russian Union of Cities" on Behalf of the Armenian Refugees and Orphans Suffered from the Armenian Genocide
13:45 - 14:00 Robert Tatoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia), Organizing the Relief for the Armenian Genocide Survivors and Refugees in Yerznka (Erzincan) on the Period when Town was under Russian Control (July 1916-end of 1917)

14:00 – 14:30 Questions, discussion
Summing up and Closing of the Conference