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Armenian Studies Program
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Contact: Prof. Stephan Astourian
(510) 643-6737
[email protected]
Lecture
The Honorable Robert Avetisyan
Permanent Representative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) to the
United States
"The Independent Nagorno-Karabakh-Artsakh Republic: The First 20 Years of
Challenges and Achievements."
Friday, September 30, 2011
270 Stephens Hall, U.C. Berkeley
12:00 Noon
Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and the Institute of Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies.
Symposium
`The Presence of the Past: Legal Dimensions of Armenian-Turkish Relations.'
Sunday, October 2, 2011
370-371 Dwinelle Hall, U.C. Berkeley
10am-12pm and 1:30pm-5pm
Participants;
Professor Alfred de Zayas (Geneva School of Diplomacy and International
Relations) Professor Susan Karamanian (Associate Dean for International and
Comparative Legal Studies, Professorial Lecturer in Law; The George
Washington University Law School) Professor Catherine Kessedjian (University
Pantheon-Assas, Paris II) Professor Raymond Kevorkian (Institut français de
géopolitique, Université Paris-VIII-Saint-Denis) Professor Serge Sur
(University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II)
This symposium will explore three contentious issues which are preventing
Armenian-Turkish rapprochement (cf. the still unratified Armenian-Turkish
Protocols signed on October 10, 2009), complicating Turkish-Azerbaijani
relations, and thwarting the goals of the United States and Russia in the
South Caucasus. These are the possible legal consequences of the Armenian
genocide, or at least the crime against humanity, committed by the Ottoman
Empire in 1915-17, the relevance to the present of the Treaty of Sevres
(August 10, 1920) and of President Woodrow Wilson arbitration on the
borders of the then envisioned Armenian State, and the validity of the
Treaty of Kars (October 13, 1921) defining the borders of the South
Caucasus. These issues also affect the resolution of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the status of the self-proclaimed,
unrecognized Republic of Mountainous Karabagh, and thus the stabilization of
the South Caucasus as a whole.
Organized by the Armenian Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley. Co-sponsored by
the Western Armenian National Congress.
Armenian Studies Program
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Contact: Prof. Stephan Astourian
(510) 643-6737
[email protected]
Lecture
The Honorable Robert Avetisyan
Permanent Representative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) to the
United States
"The Independent Nagorno-Karabakh-Artsakh Republic: The First 20 Years of
Challenges and Achievements."
Friday, September 30, 2011
270 Stephens Hall, U.C. Berkeley
12:00 Noon
Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and the Institute of Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies.
Symposium
`The Presence of the Past: Legal Dimensions of Armenian-Turkish Relations.'
Sunday, October 2, 2011
370-371 Dwinelle Hall, U.C. Berkeley
10am-12pm and 1:30pm-5pm
Participants;
Professor Alfred de Zayas (Geneva School of Diplomacy and International
Relations) Professor Susan Karamanian (Associate Dean for International and
Comparative Legal Studies, Professorial Lecturer in Law; The George
Washington University Law School) Professor Catherine Kessedjian (University
Pantheon-Assas, Paris II) Professor Raymond Kevorkian (Institut français de
géopolitique, Université Paris-VIII-Saint-Denis) Professor Serge Sur
(University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II)
This symposium will explore three contentious issues which are preventing
Armenian-Turkish rapprochement (cf. the still unratified Armenian-Turkish
Protocols signed on October 10, 2009), complicating Turkish-Azerbaijani
relations, and thwarting the goals of the United States and Russia in the
South Caucasus. These are the possible legal consequences of the Armenian
genocide, or at least the crime against humanity, committed by the Ottoman
Empire in 1915-17, the relevance to the present of the Treaty of Sevres
(August 10, 1920) and of President Woodrow Wilson arbitration on the
borders of the then envisioned Armenian State, and the validity of the
Treaty of Kars (October 13, 1921) defining the borders of the South
Caucasus. These issues also affect the resolution of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the status of the self-proclaimed,
unrecognized Republic of Mountainous Karabagh, and thus the stabilization of
the South Caucasus as a whole.
Organized by the Armenian Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley. Co-sponsored by
the Western Armenian National Congress.