‘Memories and Language transfered by Genocide’ conference in Ontario

AZG Armenian Daily #103, 07/06/2005

Diaspora

‘MEMORIES AND LANGUAGE TRANSFERRED BY GENOCIDE’ CONFERENCE IN ONTARIO

On May 28, “The Canadian Federation of Humanitarian and Social Sciences”
held annual conference dedicated to the holocaust and genocide issues. The
conference was organized with the assistance of the Canadian Social Science
and Archeology Association, the Center for Social Researches and the
Canadian Women’s Research Center. The conference was held at the University
of the South Ontario in London city of Canada. It was entitled “The Memories
and Languages Transferred by Genocide.” Verzhine Svazlian, member of RA
National Academy of Sciences, scientist at the Armenian Genocide Museum,
also participated in the conference, representing our republic. Mrs.
Svazlian touched upon the registered memories, as well as the facts of
ignoring and denying the genocide and its dangerous consequences. Mrs.
Svazlian represented all the written, recorded and shot testimonies and
memories of the genocide survivors. She has been accumulating these
testimonies for 50 years In Armenia, Greece, France, the U.S. and Turkey.

Gabriel Elisa Popov, from Columbia University, (The Sounds of Silence in
“Elsa Morant’s Murder”), Karin Doer, from Concordis University (The Words of
Death and the Death of the Words), Judith Lermer Crowlie, from Montreal
Collage (“About Auswentsin. New Photos”), Arlen Avagian, from University of
Massachusetts, (“Strong Silence. To become A Survivor”) and many other
scholars participated at the conference.

By Hakob Tsulikian

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS