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GROUNDBREAKING ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN ISTANBUL
11:04, 18 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
Scholars from around the world will convene at Istanbul Bilgi
University on April 26, 2015, to participate in an international
conference entitled "The Armenian Genocide: Concepts and Comparative
Perspectives" and co-sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, the
History Foundation in Turkey (Tarih Vakfý), and the Modern Armenian
History Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The conference is part of the week-long series of activities
commemorating the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul
organized by DurDe, a Turkish human rights organization, and Project
2015, a US-based group helping to organize Armenians visiting Turkey
for the historic commemoration.
"This is a very important opportunity for scholars from around the
world to address critical aspects of the facts and history of the
Armenian Genocide here, in Istanbul, 100 years after it started," said
Bulent Bilmez, chair of Bilgi's history department and the History
Foundation in Turkey. "We hope that speaking openly about the shared
history of Armenians and the other peoples of Turkey--something that
has not always been possible--will help our society come to terms
with the past."
Among the scholars participating in the conference are Norman
Naimark, Jay Winter, Dirk Moses, Muge Gocek, Cathie Carmichael,
Keith Watenpaugh, Uður Umit Ungor, and Mehmet Polatel. The gathering
will probe the concept of genocide from a comparative perspective,
explore the forced transfer of children, and examine how the genocide
has been mapped in historiography and memorialized and enshrined in
collective and historical memory.
"To those who have suggested that historians review the history of the
Armenian Genocide we say, 'We are coming to Istanbul to do just that,
with fellow historians in Turkey,' " said Sebouh Aslanian, Richard
Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History at the History
Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. "A frank and
open discussion of the historical record is our way of contributing
to knowledge and education about the Armenian Genocide in Turkey."
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/18/groundbreaking-academic-conference-on-armenian-genocide-in-istanbul/
11:04, 18 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
Scholars from around the world will convene at Istanbul Bilgi
University on April 26, 2015, to participate in an international
conference entitled "The Armenian Genocide: Concepts and Comparative
Perspectives" and co-sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, the
History Foundation in Turkey (Tarih Vakfý), and the Modern Armenian
History Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The conference is part of the week-long series of activities
commemorating the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul
organized by DurDe, a Turkish human rights organization, and Project
2015, a US-based group helping to organize Armenians visiting Turkey
for the historic commemoration.
"This is a very important opportunity for scholars from around the
world to address critical aspects of the facts and history of the
Armenian Genocide here, in Istanbul, 100 years after it started," said
Bulent Bilmez, chair of Bilgi's history department and the History
Foundation in Turkey. "We hope that speaking openly about the shared
history of Armenians and the other peoples of Turkey--something that
has not always been possible--will help our society come to terms
with the past."
Among the scholars participating in the conference are Norman
Naimark, Jay Winter, Dirk Moses, Muge Gocek, Cathie Carmichael,
Keith Watenpaugh, Uður Umit Ungor, and Mehmet Polatel. The gathering
will probe the concept of genocide from a comparative perspective,
explore the forced transfer of children, and examine how the genocide
has been mapped in historiography and memorialized and enshrined in
collective and historical memory.
"To those who have suggested that historians review the history of the
Armenian Genocide we say, 'We are coming to Istanbul to do just that,
with fellow historians in Turkey,' " said Sebouh Aslanian, Richard
Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History at the History
Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. "A frank and
open discussion of the historical record is our way of contributing
to knowledge and education about the Armenian Genocide in Turkey."
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/18/groundbreaking-academic-conference-on-armenian-genocide-in-istanbul/