Conference on “Armenian Genocide Centennial: Addressing the Implications” at Haigazian University

01 February, 2015

On the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, and under the high patronage of the President of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East, Rev. Mgrdich Karageozian, a conference titled “Armenian Genocide Centennial: Addressing the Implications” was organized by Haigazian University and the Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary Commemoration Lebanon Committee, from January 31 to February 1, 2015.

The auspicious opening and the conference sessions were attended by ministers, members of parliament, diplomtic staff of the Embassy of Armenia in Lebanon headed by Ambassador Ashot Kocharian, officials, religious leaders, and academicians. The guest speaker of the first working day prominent scholar and historian Prof. Masoud Daher from the Lebanese University delivered his speech on the subject of “the Armenian Question in the Age of Globalization: the Current Situation and its Prospects”.

The conference also witnessed parallel events: a worship service in the First Armenian Evangelical Church, with a special message by Haigazian University President, Rev. Paul Haidostian, in addition to two Arabic book launches and presentations, “100 years of the Armenian Genocide: 100 Testimonials”, by author Dr. Nora Arisian, and “Karabagh Dailies, Green and Black: no War no Peace”, by author Tatul Hakobyan.

The conference convened four sessions on two consecutive days, covering eight topics, presented by eight scholars coming from Armenia, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. Panelists were deputy director of the Armenian Genocide museum-institute Dr. Suren Manukyan on “The Demographic, Cultural, Psychological, Geographic, Economic, Psychological and Political Consequences of the Armenian Genocide, head of legal-advisory department of the Constitutional court of Armenia Dr. Vladimir Vardanyan on “Responsibility for the Armenian Genocide: International Legal Obligations of the Ottoman Empire Concerning its Armenian Population”, historian Dr. Zaven Messerlian (Lebanon) on “the Reaction of the International Community during and after the Armenian Genocide”, lecturer of the Lebanese University Dr. Saleh Zahreddine on “the Blackmailing of Turkey by the Great Powers Regarding the Armenian Genocide”, Prof. Arsen Avagyan, head of Neighbouring Countries Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, on “the Relations of Turkey and the Republic of Armenia (1991-2014), reporter Mr. Tatul Hagopyan on “the Relations of Turkish-Armenian non-state Actors”, Dr. Bulent Bilmez (Turkey) on “the Position of the Turkish State vis-à-vis its Minorities (1923-2014)”, ethnographer Dr. Hranush Kharatian (Armenia) on “the Status of the Armenians in Contemporary Turkey: the Case of the Converted Armenians.”

Presentations and sessions were moderated by Dr. Antranig Dakessian (head of Armenian Diaspora Research Center, Haykazaian University) and Mrs. Seda Khedeshian (Chair of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Central Body of Lebanon).

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