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    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."
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