APSU CALLS UPON ALL ARMENIANS TO BOYCOTT FALSE ARMENOLOGICAL CONFERENCE IN LA UNIVERSITY

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.03.2009 16:38 GMT+04:00

The Armenian Progressive Students Union demands that the grossly
falsified textbook The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times
is removed from academic circulation.

>From March 26-28, 2009, Richard Hovannisian has organized an
"Armenological conference" which will include more than 40 speakers
from many countries, including several from Turkey. There will be only
one speaker from Armenia. This is simply Armenian Studies conference
without Armenia, which is the center of Armenology. Imagine,
Armenologists from Armenia will not be present during this
conference. The only one speaker from Armenia will present a lecture,
and that will be about AIDS in Armenia. The title of the speech
is HIV/AIDS in Armenia: Migration as a Socio-Economic and Cultural
Component of Women’s Risk Settings. First of all, this lecture is
not within the scope of Armenology. And secondly, in Armenia HIV is
not a cultural crisis. This is simply distortion of truth.

One of the opening speakers during this conference is the notorious
falsifier of Armenian history and culture, Robert Thomson. The
conference will also include other falsifiers like Peter Cowe who
claims that medieval Armenian poetry is influenced adoption of Seljuk
Turk, Persian and other Islamic works.

Furthermore, several of the Turkish presenters have entitled their
lectures by using common Turkish terminology for Armenian Highland
by falsely calling it "Anatolia." Here is the title of one of the
presenters from Turkey – "Ottomanism among the Anatolian Armenians
after the 1908 Revolution." Now this unscientific and anti-Armenian
Turkish terminology has entered the field of "Armenian Studies."

This conference is far from being "Armenological" or even academic.

On December 19, 2001, the faculty board of the Armenian History
Department of the Yerevan State University made a public declaration
and strongly criticized some of the representatives of the Armenian
Studies chairs in the US by rightfully calling them the False
Armenological School, APSU reported to PanARMENIAN.Net.

>From March 26-28, 2009, the False Armenological School (headed by
R. Hovannisian) will hold a conference at UCLA campus. The Armenian
Progressive Students Union calls upon all Armenians to show their
protest by boycotting this False Armenological conference by abstaining
from the event altogether and not participating at the "fundraising."