Tweet
RESPONSIBILITY 2015 CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK
15:31, 11 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. "Responsibility 2015" the
international conference marking the Centennial of the Armenian
Genocide will be held on March 13-15, 2015, at New York's Marriott
Marquis Hotel at Times Square. Registration can be done either on
the conference website, or the conference registration page.
As reports "Armenpress" citing Armenian Weekly, the conference
will feature 12 concurrent panels, lectures, and photography and
art exhibits. Evening sessions bringing together policymakers,
political leaders, artists, and celebrities known for their activism
and humanitarian work will highlight the theme of responsibility to
confront past injustices and struggle towards preventing new ones.
Speakers include jurist Geoffrey Robertson, actor and playwright Eric
Bogosian, screenwriter and playwright Alex Dinelaris, photojournalist
Scout Tufankjian, novelists Chris Bohjalian and Nancy Kricorian,
journalists Robert Fisk, Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand, and
David Barsamian, scholars Richard Hovannisian, Deborah Dwork, Raymond
Kevorkian, Roy L. Brooks, Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey, Janna Thompson,
Jermaine McCalpin, Israel Charny, Roger Smith, David Gaunt, Seyhan
Bayraktar, Bilgin Ayata, Marc Mamigonian, Ruken Sengul, Umit Kurt,
Kori Street, Elyse Semerdjian, and Hannibal Travis, human rights
activist Sarah Leah Whitson, educator Sara Cohan, among others.
Photography and art exhibits with the theme of survival will be held
at the same venue for the duration of the conference.
The "Responsibility 2015" conference is being organized by the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Eastern U.S. Centennial Committee,
under the auspices of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of
America, Eastern Region.
The organizing committee is comprised of the following scholars and
activists: Khatchig Mouradian and Hayg Oshagan, co-chairs; George
Aghjayan, Kim Hekimian, Antranig Kasbarian, Sarkis Balkhian, and
Henry Theriault.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793670/responsibility-2015-conference-on-armenian-genocide-to-be-held-in-new-york.html
15:31, 11 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. "Responsibility 2015" the
international conference marking the Centennial of the Armenian
Genocide will be held on March 13-15, 2015, at New York's Marriott
Marquis Hotel at Times Square. Registration can be done either on
the conference website, or the conference registration page.
As reports "Armenpress" citing Armenian Weekly, the conference
will feature 12 concurrent panels, lectures, and photography and
art exhibits. Evening sessions bringing together policymakers,
political leaders, artists, and celebrities known for their activism
and humanitarian work will highlight the theme of responsibility to
confront past injustices and struggle towards preventing new ones.
Speakers include jurist Geoffrey Robertson, actor and playwright Eric
Bogosian, screenwriter and playwright Alex Dinelaris, photojournalist
Scout Tufankjian, novelists Chris Bohjalian and Nancy Kricorian,
journalists Robert Fisk, Guillaume Perrier, Laure Marchand, and
David Barsamian, scholars Richard Hovannisian, Deborah Dwork, Raymond
Kevorkian, Roy L. Brooks, Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey, Janna Thompson,
Jermaine McCalpin, Israel Charny, Roger Smith, David Gaunt, Seyhan
Bayraktar, Bilgin Ayata, Marc Mamigonian, Ruken Sengul, Umit Kurt,
Kori Street, Elyse Semerdjian, and Hannibal Travis, human rights
activist Sarah Leah Whitson, educator Sara Cohan, among others.
Photography and art exhibits with the theme of survival will be held
at the same venue for the duration of the conference.
The "Responsibility 2015" conference is being organized by the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Eastern U.S. Centennial Committee,
under the auspices of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of
America, Eastern Region.
The organizing committee is comprised of the following scholars and
activists: Khatchig Mouradian and Hayg Oshagan, co-chairs; George
Aghjayan, Kim Hekimian, Antranig Kasbarian, Sarkis Balkhian, and
Henry Theriault.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793670/responsibility-2015-conference-on-armenian-genocide-to-be-held-in-new-york.html