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    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."

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/02/05/academic-conference-the-armenian-genocides-legacy-100-years-on/

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