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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
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