9:00
(YSU Alley of Gratitude)
Placing a wreath at Franz Werfel’s bust
9:30
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Registration
10:00
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Opening Ceremony, Welcome
| Hovhannes Hovhannisyan | YSU Rector, Doctor of History |
| Vahram Shemmassian | Director of California State University Northridge Armenian Studies Program, Doctor of History, Professor |
| Roy Knocke | Director of Lepsiushaus Potsdam, Doctor of Philosophy |
| Ashot Melkonyan | Director of the Insitite of History, NAS RA, Academician |
| Vahram Petrosyan | Director of YSU Institute for Armenian Studies, PhD in History, Associate Professor |
| Ruben Melkonyan | Dean of YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, Doctor of History, Professor |
| Gevorg Barseghyan | Dean of YSU Faculty of European Languages and Communication, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor |
10:40
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Plenary Session
Franz Werfel and His Time | |
| Conveners: | Ashot Melkonyan Roy Knocke |
| Vahram Shemmassian United States of America | Overarching connections pertaining to the Musa Dagh phenomenon |
| Tessa Hofmann Germany | The experience and consequences of the Armenian Genocide (English) |
| Ashot Melkonyan Armenia | The Armenian Genocide and forced expatriation: 1894 – 1923 and 2020 – 2023 (historical parallels) |
| Lusine Sahakyan Armenia | The historical-political and source value of the archive of “Information Bureau” by the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople |
12:30
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Coffee break
13:00
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Plenary Session (continued)
Franz Werfel and His Time | |
| Conveners: | Lusine Sahakyan Iakovos Aktsoglou |
Roy Knocke | Franz Werfel – a cultural critic. Individualism, collectivism and the moral-aesthetic task of a poet (English) |
| Iakovos Aktsoglou Greece | “To the Hills for your Lives! The Flood is behind!” or Meddâhlar’s obsession in deceiving Kleio (English)
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| Rubina Peroomyan United States of America | Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh: A perpetually present production rather than a product (English) |
14:30
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Lunch break
16:00
(Entrance hall to YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Panel Session (1a)
The Genocidal Policy of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian People | |
| Conveners: | Edgar Hovhannisyan Jurgen Gispert |
| Zollmann Jakob Germany | Arbitration denied. Armenia and the question of reparations and indemnities in the treaty of Sèvres and beyond (1919 – 1923) (English) |
| Robert Tatoyan Armenia | On the question of demographic consequences of the massacre of Armenians in Cilicia in 1909 |
| Hayk Martirosyan Germany | The reaction of German missions to the massacres of Cilicia in 1909 |
| Avetis Harutyunyan Armenia | The factors of the Armenian Genocide (based on the historical experience of the Armenian and Balkan peoples) |
| Edik Minasyan Armenia | The battle of Musa Dagh and the heroic deeds of Armenian women |
| Jurgen Gispert Germany | Origin of bridge (English) |
| Edgar Hovhannisyan Armenia | Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and the settlement of Armenian immigrants of Alexandretta Province in Syria and Lebanon |
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Panel Session (2)
Manifestations of the Genocidal Policy of Azerbaijan against Artsakh | |
| Conveners: | Arega Akopyants Gaiane Muradian |
| Alvina Aghababyan Armenia | The Azerbaijani policy of distructing the Armenian spiritual, historical and cultural heritage in Artsakh in 1918 – 2023 |
| Iskuhi Avanesyan Armenia | The massacres of Gandzak (Kirovabad) in 1988 as an expression of Azerbaijan’s Genocidal policy |
| Seda Gasparyan Narine Minasyan Armenia | The concept of Genocide in mass media on Nagorno Karabakh problem: A pragma-cognitive perspective (English) |
| Mariam Melkonyan Armenia | The symbolization of the Genocidal actions by Azerbaijan during the 44-day war as an expression of Armenophobia |
| Harutyun Harutyunyan Armenia | Loss of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and an urgent need for a post-Genocidal theology (English) |
| Hovik Avanesov Armenia | Comparative analysis of the Cultural Genocide in Western Armenia and Artsakh |
(YSU Hall after the Palians)
Panel Session (1b)
The Genocidal Policy of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people | |
| Conveners: | Sona Haroutyunjan Hayk Martirosyan |
| Arpine Bablumyan Armenia | The peculiarities of the internal migration and emigration of the Armenian population of Van and Bitlis of Western Armenia in late XIX and early XX cc. |
| Naira Gasparyan Armenia | The Genocide of Armenians: A view from inside and outside (English)
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| Meline Anumyan Armenia | The actuality of the trials of the Young Turks in 1919 – 1921 |
| Maria Luciana Minassian Argentina | Armenians as minority in Turkey after 1923 (English) |
| Ani Fishenkchean Armenia | The resettlement of Armenians of Alexandretta Province in Syria |
(YSU Armenian Studies Institute Hall for discussions)
Panel Session (3a)
The Reflections of the Theme of Genocide in Educational, Media and Literary Spheres as well as Arts | |
| Conveners: | Aelita Dolukhanyan Francisco A. Zurian |
| Samvel Muradyan Armenia | Authentic grounds of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel and the characteristics of the archetypes |
| Aelita Dolukhanyan Armenia | One important publication about the Armenian Genocide (English) |
| Manushak Markosyan Germany | The heroic novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel and the interrupted Armenian epopee Deportation by Armin T. Vegner |
| Kristine Hovhannisyan Armenia | Literature as documentation of Genocide (based on The book of Whispers by V. Voskanyan) |
| Francisco A. Zurian Spain | Film adaptations to The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel (English) |
| Siranuysh Galstyan Armenia | The screened versions of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel and the denial of the Armenian Genocide |
19:00
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Supper
10:00
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Plenary Session
The Armenian Genocide: History and Contemporary Challenges | |
| Conveners: | Donna-Lee Frieze Armen Marukyan |
| Antonia Arslan Italy | Ah, Gabriel, how much I loved you! (English) |
| Arega Akopyants Irina Mikhailovskaya Russian Federation | Linguistic Genocide as a factor of destructive language policy in the modern world (English) |
| Ruben Melkonyan Armenia | General Andranik in the memories of Turkish military and political figures |
| Tessa Hofmann Germany | “Far too heavy to bear…”: the Armenian Genocide in contemporary German-language post-migrant prose (English) |
| Armen Marukyan Armenia | From Musa Dagh to Sinjar: Comparison of self-defense fights |
12:00
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Coffee break
12:30
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Plenary Session (continued)
The Armenian Genocide: History and Contemporary Challenges | |
| Conveners: | Gevorg Stepanyan Vahram Shemmassian |
| Donna-Lee Frieze Australia | “Between chaos and form”: The convoluted worlds within Werfel and his Musa Dagh (English) |
| Seda Gasparyan Lusine Sahakyan Armenia | Mark Ward’s diary as testimony of Genocide (1921 – 1922) (English) |
| Bartholomäus Kühn Germany | New insights into Lepsius’s Armenia and Europe. An Indictment (1896): About the sources, the work, the history of its creation and impact (English) |
| Gevorg Stepanyan Armenia | The stages of the realization of the ethnic cleansing and Genocidal policy against Armenians in Eastern Transcaucasus (XI – XX cc.) |
| Hasmig Baran United States of America | Content and pedagogy of Genocide education in XXI century: The Armenian case (English) |
14:30
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Lunch break
16:00
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Panel Session (3b)
The Reflections of the Theme of Genocide in Educational, Media and Literary Spheres as well as Arts | |
| Conveners: | Edik Minasyan Arpine Bablumyan |
| Sona Haroutyunian Italy | The theme of the Armenian Genocide in Italian literature (English) |
| Maral Aktokmakyan Tamar Marie Boyadjian United States of America | Authorial testimony: Zabel Yesayan’s pen as witness (English) |
| Gaiane Muradian Armenia | Biblical symbols in The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel (English) |
| Lilit Hovhannisyan Armenia | The reflection of the idea of repatriation of the Armenian deportees in Battle, Homeland and Asparez periodicals in 1920 |
| Karen Mkrtchyan Armenia | The theme of the Armenian Genocide in Iranian discourse |
| Robert Sukiasyan Armenia | Using oral history as a source for Armenian Genocide education (English) |
(YSU Hall after the Palians)
Panel Session (1c)
The Genocidal Policy of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people | |
| Conveners: | Ruben Melkonyan Hasmig Baran |
| Hasmik Amirjanyan Armenia | The assistance of Catholicos Gevorg V Sureniants to the Armenian migrants (1915 – 1918) |
| Hranush Sahakyan Armenia | Ewald Stier’s activity in German-Armenian Society during WWI |
| Seda Ohanyan Armenia | The participation of Levon Shaghoyean in the activities for saving the people of Van-Vaspurakan (March – August, 1918) |
| Khachatur Stepanyan Armenia | The significance of the regional meeting of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in Constantinople in 1919 |
| Mane Koninyan Armenia | The humanitarian activity of the American “Near East Relief” among Armenian immigrants in 1918 – 1930 |
| Margarita Abgaryan Armenia | The Armenian Cause in French-Turkish relations |
(YSU Armenian Studies Institute Hall for discussions)
Panel Session (4)
The Turkish-Azerbaijani Genocidal Policy in Transcaucasus | |
| Conveners: | Gevorg Stepanyan Ashot Hayruni |
| Armen Hayrapetyan Armenia | Demographic consequences of the Turkish occupation in the province of Aleksandrapol (1918 May – November) |
| Alik Gharibyan Ruzanna Gasparyan Elena Zohrabyan Lilit Muradyan Armenia | Turkish-Azerbaijani Genocidal policy in Eastern Transcaucasus and Eastern Armenia |
| Mariam Khazhakyan Armenia | International attitude to Cultural Genocide prevention in Artsakh: A linguistic perspective (English) |
(Entrance hall to YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Panel Session (1d)
The Genocidal Policy of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people | |
| Conveners: | Haykazun Alvrtsyan Lusine Yeghiazaryan |
| Lusine Yeghiazaryan Brazil | The Armenian community and the shaping of Armenian Genocide Studies in Brazil: An overview (English) |
| Anahit Margaryan Spain | The concept of Critical Discourse Studies in the context of the Armenian Cause (English) |
| Ani Voskanyan Armenia | The warrier of the struggle: Archbishop Mushegh Serobian |
| Haykazun Alvrtsyan Armenia | The armed fight of Hamshen Armenians in 1915 – 1923 |
| Arkadi Akopov Armenia | The Armenians of Khotorjur during the Armenian Genocide |
| Silva Karavartanian Lebanon | The memory of victims can never fade |
19:00
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Supper
10:00
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Plenary Session
Franz Werfel’s Message against the Turkish-Azerbaijani Genocidal Policy | |
| Conveners: | Ruben Safrastyan Rubina Peroomyan |
| Ruben Safrastyan Armenia | Concealing the reality: how was the Turkish Red Book created? (1915 – 1916) |
| Ashot Hayruni Armenia | The capture of Baku by the Turks and the massacre of the Armenian population in 1918 in the context of the fatal mistakes of the Armenian military-political elite |
| Alan Whitehorn Canada | Remembering and understanding the Armenian Genocide through literature and the arts (English, distant) |
| Raffi Kantian Germany | Territorial claims against Armenia as a means of preserving the autocratic regime in Azerbaijan (English, distant) |
| Verjine Svazlyan Armenia | Franz Werfel’s warning. The heroic battle of Musa Dagh as reported by eyewitness survivors (distant) |
12:30
(YSU Central building, 5th-floor foyer)
Coffee break
13:00
(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5th floor)
Closing Session
14:30
Cultural Program and Farewell
