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UCLA International Conference Series in Armenian Studies

After Nine Decades
The Enduring Legacy of the Armenian Genocide

APRIL 1-3, 2005 ** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Friday, April 1, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., AGBU Manoogian Center, Pasadena
Saturday, April 2, 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m., 100 Moore Hall, UCLA
Sunday, April 3, 1:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Court of Sciences 50, UCLA
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April 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Friday Evening Session in Armenian,
AGBU Manoogian Center, 2495 E. Mountain Street (at Altadena Drive),
Pasadena California

The Armenian Genocide in the Syrian Press
Nora Arissian, Damascus University

The Final Phase of the Armenian Genocide, 1919-1922
Karen H. Khachatryan, Institute of History, Erevan

Art and Testimony
Marc Nichanian, Wesleyan University

Will There Ever Be a Post-Genocide Era?
Raffi K. Hovannisian, Armenian Center for National and International
Studies (ACNIS), Erevan

UCLA–APRIL 2-3, 2005

April 2, Saturday, Moore Hall 100, UCLA, 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Morning Sessions: 9:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m.

Rethinking Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

The Enduring Legacy
Richard Hovannisian, UCLA

Rethinking Dehumanization in Genocide
Henry Theriault, Worcester State College

America’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide: A Legacy of Paradox
Suzanne E. Moranian, AIWA, Boston

Genocide and the Philosophy of History
Michael Papazian, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia

Discussion, 10:45-11:00

INTERMISSION

The Armenian Genocide in Comparative Perspective, 11:20 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Comparative Media Coverage in English-Speaking Countries
Katia Peltekian, American University of Beirut

The Assyrian Genocide: Late-Nineteenth-Early-Twentieth Century
Anahit Khosroyeva, Institute of History, Erevan (in Armenian with English
summary)

The Greek Calamity in Asia Minor and the Pontus
Speros Vryonis, Jr., UCLA and NYU, Emeritus

Comparative Aspects of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
Tigran Matossian, Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Erevan

Discussion, 12:45-1:00 p.m.

LUNCH RECESS: 1:00-2:15 p.m.

Illustrated Lunch-Hour Presentation: 1:45-2:00 p.m.
The Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in Deir-ez-Zor (Der-Zor)
Sarkis Balmanoukian, The Architect, Los Angeles

Afternoon Sessions ** 2:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Genocide Education, Human Rights, and Prevention, 2:15-3:40 p.m.

No Mandate Left Behind
Nicole Vartanian, Fulbright Scholar, Washington, D.C.

Teaching the Armenian Genocide to a Non-Armenian Audience
Sara Cohan, Washington, D.C.

The Armenian Genocide and Education
Adam Strom, Facing History and Ourselves, Boston

Genocide in Virtual Space (Cyberspace)
Hagop Gulludjian, UCLA

Discussion, 3:40-3:55 p.m.

INTERMISSION

Artistic Responses to Genocide, 4:15-6:00 p.m.

Leon Tutundjian-Witness
Jean Murachanian, UCLA

Testmony and Witness: Armenian Artists in Los Angeles
Ramela Grigorian Abbamontian, UCLA

From Charles Aznavour to System of a Down
Jack Der Sarkissian, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles

The Archaeology of Memory: Framing the Invisible
Hrag Varjabedian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussion, 5:45-6:00 p.m.

April 3, Sunday Afternoon, Court of Sciences 50, UCLA, 1:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m.

History and Memory, 1:30-3:15 p.m.

Across the Chasm: From Catastrophe to Creativity
Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University, Fresno

James Joyce: Armenia and Armenians
Marc Mamigonian, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Boston

Historical Memory: Threading the Contemporary Literature of Armenia
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA

The Armenian Genocide and French Society
Phillipe Videlier, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Lyons

Discussion, 3:00-3:15 p.m.

INTERMISSION

Prospects of Dialogue and Reconciliation, 3:40-5:30 p.m.

Amnesia, Truth, Reconciliation
Elazar Barkan, Claremont Graduate University

Turkish Liberal Historiography and Genocide
Bedross Der Matossian, Columbia University

Constructing a New Historiography of the Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire
and the Turkish Republic
Fatma Muge Goçek, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Anatomy of Post-Genocide Reconciliation
Simon Payaslian, Clark University

Discussion, 5:30-5:50 p.m.

A Retrospective, 5:50-6:00 p.m.
Richard Hovannisian

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