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  • "New Directions in Turkish Response To The Armenian Genocide" - 4/20

    PRESS OFFICE
    Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern)
    630 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016
    Contact: Chris Zakian, Coordinator of Public Relations
    Tel: (212) 686-0710 Ext. 44; Fax: (212) 779-3558
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.armenianchurch.net

    April 3, 2006
    ___________________

    "NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE TURKISH RESPONSE TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" IS TOPIC
    OF PANEL DISCUSSION IN NYC ON THURS., APRIL 20

    Prof. Israel Charny, Dr. Dennis Papazian, & Mr. Aram Arkun are Featured
    Speakers

    * * *

    Over the past several years, the Armenian Genocide has become a topic of
    intense discussion among Turks both within the Republic of Turkey and
    abroad. The European Union, United States, and other states have raised the
    issue directly and indirectly with the Turkish state.

    Unexpectedly, recent years have also seen an increase in Genocide discussion
    among Turkish intellectuals. These remarkable recent developments will be
    the subject of a panel discussion on the evening of Thursday, April 20,
    titled "New Directions in the Turkish Response to the Armenian Genocide."

    Professor Israel Charny, of Jerusalem, a leading international scholar of
    genocide, will head the roster of distinguished speakers. He will be joined
    by Dr. Dennis Papazian and Mr. Aram Arkun.

    The event is being jointly sponsored by the Krikor and Clara Zohrab
    Information Center of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
    (Eastern), and the Mid-Atlantic Knights and Daughters of Vartan.

    DR. ISRAEL CHARNY, Ph.D., founder and director of the Institute on the
    Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, is a leading international scholar in
    the field of genocide who has published extensively on the subjects of
    genocide as well as on marriage and family therapy. He is editor-in-chief
    of the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Genocide, which has appeared in English in
    the U.S. and U.K., with a partial edition in French, and which can also be
    purchased for computer use in an electronic edition. He is a clinical
    psychologist and a professor of Psychology and Family Therapy in the Program
    for Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy, which he founded in 1993,
    at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His latest book, Fascism and
    Democracy in the Human Mind (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska
    Press) has been hailed as "one of the most important books of this decade,"
    and as a momentous and innovative work of scholarship. He recently took
    part in a conference in Istanbul on Turkish-Armenian relations.

    (Please note that on the afternoon of Sunday, April 23, 2006, Dr. Charny
    will be the main speaker at the annual Genocide commemoration organized by
    the Knights of Vartan, in Times Square, New York City.)

    DR. DENNIS R. PAPAZIAN is a professor of history and director of the
    Armenian Research Center (ARC) at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He
    is a former president of the Society for Armenian Studies, former editor of
    the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, an international lecturer,
    and a frequent radio, TV, and newspaper commentator. A former university
    administrator, he has been the recipient of various grants, awards, and
    honors, and recently received a medal from Armenia's Genocide Institute.
    Dr. Papazian has worked with objective Turkish scholars who oppose the
    denialist narrative of the Turkish state to encourage research and
    publication for the education of the Turkish public. It was Dr. Papazian
    who brought Taner Akçam to America as a researcher at the ARC.

    Aram Arkun is coordinator of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center
    of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of American (Eastern). A specialist
    in modern Armenian history, he has delivered research papers on topics
    pertaining to the Armenian Genocide; participated in conferences on
    Armeno-Turkish relations; and conducted research in the Ottoman state
    archives in Istanbul. He has published a number of articles and annotated
    translations on Ottoman and Iranian Armenian topics, as well as on
    contemporary Armenian events, in scholarly journals, encyclopedias, and
    books. He is editor of the periodical Ararat, chairman of the Armenian
    Student Association "Arthur H. Dadian Armenian Heritage Award" committee,
    and a member of the board of directors of the Columbia University Armenian
    Center.

    The panel discussion on "New Directions in the Turkish Response to the
    Armenian Genocide" will take place on Thursday, April 20, beginning at 7:15
    p.m., in Guild Hall of the Diocesan Center, Second Avenue (corner of 35th
    St.), New York City. Admission is free and open to the public. For
    information, please contact: Dr. Arthur Kubikian at (718) 786-3842; or Aram
    Arkun, at (212) 686-0710, ext. 26, e-mail [email protected].

    --4/3/06
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