ACADEMIC CONFERENCE: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’S LEGACY, 100 YEARS ON

14:57, 05 Feb 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The University of Southern California Institute of Armenian Studies
has joined with the Centennial Project Foundation and the Netherlands
Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies to convene a
two-day conference at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in the
Netherlands, on March 6-7, 2015, Massis Postreports.

This major interdisciplinary gathering will bring together academics
and professionals from various fields to discuss the impact of the
Genocide. Experts will examine such issues as impunity, sexual
violence, demographics, compensation, memorializing, political
discourse and media approaches.

Keynote speaker, Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus, University of
Chicago and University of Michigan, will open the conference. He will
be followed by experts in the field of Law (Geoffrey Robertson – QC,
Susan L. Karamanian, Nolwenn Guibert, Sun Kim, Najwa Nabti, Alexis
Demirdjian, Hannibal Travis), historians Ugur Umit Ungor, Jakub Bijak,
Lorne Shirinian, experts in social sciences and humanities (Levon
Chorbajian, Seyhan Bayraktar, Nanor Kebranian, Ayda Erbal, Eugene
Sensenig-Dabbous, Anthonie Holslag), literature, media, education
and journalism scholars Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Lisa Siraganian,
Esra Elmas, Marie-Aude Baronian, Joyce Sahyouni.

Alexis Demirdjian, Director of the Centennial Project Foundation and
a trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, said, “We are pleased
to partner with the University of Southern California Dornsife
Institute of Armenian Studies. We look forward to a conference that
is significant going forward beyond the centennial.”