Press Release
March 9, 2009

Armenica.org
Vahagn Avedian
vahagn.avedian@armenica.org
enica.org
Uppsala, Sweden

The Legacy of the 1915 Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Conference – March 23, 2009, Kungsholmens Konferens, Fleminggatan 18
(Trygg-Hansa huset), Stockholm, Sweden

Program

P rogram

– 08:00 – 09:00 Registration
– 09:00 – 09:10 Introduction
Vahagn Avedian, Chief Editor of Armenica.org, Chairman of the Union of
Armenian Associations in Sweden
– 09:10 – 09:25 An Ongoing Living History
Stefan Andersson, Project manager, Living History Forum, Stockholm
– 09:25 – 09:45 Coffee break
– 09:45 – 10:45 The Phases and Faces of the Denial of the 1915 Genocide
Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History,
UCLA, Los Angeles
– 10:45 – 11:00 Break
– 11:00 – 12:00 The 1915 Genocide and Present-day Turkey: Discussions and
Processing
Ragip Zarakolu, Human Rights Activist and Publisher, Istanbul
– 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
– 13:30 – 14:30 Assyrian Identity Problems and the Struggle for Assyrian
Genocide Recognition
David Gaunt, Professor, History Department, Södertörn University, Stockholm
– 14:30 – 14:45 Break
– 14:45 – 15:45 The Legal Dimension of the Atrocities of 1915: Then and Later
Ove Bring, Professor, International Law, Swedish Defence College, Stockholm
– 15:45 – 16:40 Turkey’s Policy and Fractures with Regard to the Armenian
Genocide in the Framework of its EU Accession Prospect
Laurent Leylekian, Executive Director, European Armenian Federation for
Justice & Democracy, Brussels

Moderator: Marika Griehsel, journalist, foreign correspondent

Conference language: English

Please notice: The numbers of seats are limited. Free admission.
Registration via email to vahagn.avedian@armenica.org. The closing date
for entries is March 18.

Photographing prohibited. Accredited photographers only. Photos can be
downloaded from and after the
conference is closed.

The Conference is arranged in cooperation between The Living History
Forum, ABF – Workers’ Educational Association, The Union of Armenian
Associations in Sweden, The Assyrian Federation in Sweden, Evxinos Pontos
Stockholm, and Armenica.org.

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Vahagn Avedian
Chief Editor and Project Manager
History of Armenia