PRESS RELEASE
UCLA AEF Chair in Armenian History
Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
Tel: 310-825-3375
Email: Hovannis@history.ucla.edu

UCLA International Conference Series in Armenian Studies

After Nine Decades
The Enduring Legacy of the Armenian Genocide

Sponsored by the
Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History

Co-sponsored by the UCLA
International Institute
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Center for European and Eurasian Studies

APRIL 2-3, 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

___________________________________________________________

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

Art and Testimony

Marc Nichanian, Wesleyan University

Will There Ever Be a Post-Genocide Era

Raffi K. Hovannisian, Amenian Center for National and International
Studies (ACNIS), Yerevan

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 Műge 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

Photographic Exhibit of Memorial Monuments by Hrair `Hawk’ Khatcherian,
Quebec

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ** NO ADMISSION FEE

PARKING STRUCTURE NO. 2, HILGARD AND WESTHOLME ENTRANCE TO UCLA