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НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК РЕСПУБЛИКИ АРМЕНИЯ

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

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ЕРЕВАНСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY

 

 ՄԻՋԱԶԳԱՅԻՆ ԳԻՏԱԺՈՂՈՎ 

«ՀԱՅՈՑ ՑԵՂԱՍՊԱՆՈՒԹՅՈՒՆԸ

ԵՎ ՀԱՏՈՒՑՄԱՆ ՀԻՄՆԱԽՆԴԻՐԸ»

22–23 նոյեմբերի 2016 թ.

МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ

«ГЕНОЦИД АРМЯН И ПРОБЛЕМА ВОЗМЕЩЕНИЯ»,  

22–23 ноября 2016 г. 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

«THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

AND THE PROBLEM OF REPARATION»

 22–23 November 2016

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

YURI SUVARYAN           Academician- Secretary of the Division of Armenology and Social Sciences of NAS RA

ARAM SIMONYAN  Rector of Yerevan State University (YSU)

ASHOT MELKONYAN Director of the Institute of History of NAS RA

RUBEN SAFRASTYAN Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA

VLADIMIR HARUTUNYAN Director of M. Kotanyan Institute of Economy of NAS RA

PAVEL AVETISYAN Director of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of NAS RA

ARARAT AGHASYAN Director of the Institute of Art  of NAS RA

GEVORG POGHOSYAN Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Sоciology and Law of NAS RA

VARDAN DEVRIKYAN Director of M.Abeghyan Institute of Literature of NAS RA

EDIK MINASYAN Dean of Department of History of YSU

GAGIK GHAZINYAN Dean of Law Department of YSU

ARMEN MARUKYAN Head of Department of Armenian

Question and Armenian Genocide History of Institute of History of NAS RA

 

SUREN MANUKYAN Deputy Director of Museum-institute of the Armenian Genocide of NAS RA

 

OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CONFERENCE AND PLENARY SESSION 

22 November 2016

10:00–12:00

Conference Hall of the Presidium of NAS RA

Opening Speech

Academician- Secretary of the Division of Armenology and Social Sciences of NAS RA Yuri Suvaryan

Welcome Speech

Rector of Yerevan State University

Aram Simonyan

Director of the Institute of History of NAS RA

Ashot Melkonyan

Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA

Ruben Safrastyan 

Presentations

Ewa Salkevich-Myunerlin (Poland) Reparaiton for Armenian Genocide Based on International Law

Armen Marukyan (Armenia) About Some Outlines of the Possible Road Map of Overcoming Consequences of the Armenian Genocide

Haroutioun Khatchadourian (France) Information Representation and Compensation

Аra Papyan (Center «Моdus vivndi») Arbitral Award of Woodrow Wilson (on November 22, 1920) as a Legal Basis of Territorial Integrity of the Republic of Armenia

 

Section

Financial and Property Losses of the Armenian People Owing to the Armenian Genocide

22 November 2016

12:20–14:20

Conference Hall of the Presidium of NAS RA

Chairmen: Vladimir Harutunyan, Edik Minasyan

1. Hayk Melik-Adamyan (IGS NAS RA) Mineral Resources of the Ottoman Empire in the Context of the Material Property Damage to Armenians During the Genocide (1894–1923)
2. Amatouni Virabyan, Gohar Avagyan (NAA) Material Losses of the Armenians of Erzrum Vilayet Owing to the Genocide
3. Anahit Astoyan (IE NAS RA) The Financial and Economic Situation and Material Losses of the Armenians in the Province of Bursa During the Armenian Genocide
4. Ani Voskanyan (IE NAS RA) The Financial and Economic Situation and Material Losses of the Armenians in the Province of Adana During the Armenian Genocide
5. Anush Hovhannisyan (IOS NAS RA) The Armenian Community Foundations’ Property Issue in the Turkish Republic: Continuity of Dispossession Policy
6. 6.    Harutyun Marutyan (IAE NAS RA) From the Jewish Experience of Receiving Compensation: Creation and Activity of the Conferences of Requirements Organization 

Discussion

Section

Legal Issues, and Cultural and Civilization Losses of the Armenian People Owing to the Armenian Genocide

22 November 2016

12:20–14:20

Conference Hall of Institute of History of NAS RA

Chairmen: Ararat Aghasyan, Pavel Avetisyan 

1. Artur Vagharshyan (YSU) Armenian Question as a Problem of National-Constitutional Policy 
2. Seda Gasparyan (YSU) The 1948 UN Convention on Genocide and the Responsibility of Turkey for the Delinquent Actions of its Predecessors 
3. Edik Minasyan (YSU) Problems of the International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide and Compensation in the Official Documents of RA Independence Period  
4. Hasmik Stepanyan (IOS NAS RA) The Armenian Genocide and Ministerial, Administrative and Diplomatic Staff of the Ottoman Empire  
5. Martik Gasparyan (Armenian scientific center of Russian academy of natural sciences) Qualimetrical Valuation Methods of Cultural Heritage and Damage to Cultural Heritage from “Culturacide” and Genocide for Reparations and Restitutions 
6. David Kertmenjian (IA NAS RA) New developments of memorial architecture in Armenia from independence period 

Discussion

Section

Reflection of the Armenian Genocide and

reparation problem in literature

22 November 2016

12:20–14:20

Conference Hall of Institute of of Oriental Studies of NAS RA 

Chairmen: Vardan Devrikyan, Artsrun Avagyan 

1. Knarik Ter-Davtyan-Arevshatyan (RIMAM) Karapet Gabikyan's Book «Destruction of Small Armenia and its Great Capital of Sebastiya» as the Important Primary Source for the History of the Armenian Genocide
2. Inga Avagyan (SCAS NAS RA), Hasmik Hmayakyan (IAE NAS RA) G. Hmayakyan’s Memories of «My History» and His work «Chaplet» Devoted to Great Genocide
3. Lusine Vardanyan (IL NAS RA) The Story of Elif Shafak about Istanbul and the Armenian Genocide: literature and truth
4. Susanna Hovhannisyan (IL NAS RA) Hovhaness Tumanyan as witness and bearer of requirements
5.  Armen Karapetyan (IH NAS RA) Fears on Possible Loss of the Western Armenia on Pages of «Armenia» Newspaper 
6. Karine Araqelyan (AIL NAS RA) Publicizing of the Armenian Genocide on pages of the Armenian press of Lebanon

Discussion

Section

Demographic Losses of the Armenian People Owing to the Armenian Genocide

23 November 2016

10:00–12:00

Conference Hall of the Presidium of NAS RA

Chairmen: Gevorg Poghosyan, Armen Marukyan

1. Gegham Badalyan (YSU) The Armenian population of the county of Sparakert of Bitlis Province in 1914.
2. Arpine Bablumyan (IH NAS RA), The Armenian Population of Kharberd Province in 1916–1923 (Historical and Demographic Research)
3. Robert Tatoyan (MIGA NAS RA) The Questions of Number of Western Armenians and of the Ethnic Composition of Population of Western Armenia at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920
4. Narine Margaryan (MIGA NAS RA) The Turkification of the Armenian Children in the Ottoman Empire's State Orphanages (1915–1918)
5. Narek Poghosyan (MIGA NAS RA) Concept of Humanitarian Intervention in Raphael Lemkin's Researches

Discussion

 

Section

Historical Questions of the Armenian Genocide

23 November 2016

10:00–12:00

Conference Hall of Institute of History of NAS RA

Chairmen: Ruben Safrastyan, Mher Hovhannisyan

1. Meline Anumyan (WAQRC) The Ottoman Sources on the Armenian Genocide: New Documents on Yozgat Trials
2. Valery Tunyan (АSEU) Falsification of the Armenian Genocide in the History of Turkey
3. Feliks Movsisyan (VSPU) Zionism and the Armenian Genocide
4. Shushan Khachatryan (MIGA NAS RA) Cases of the Ritualization of Violence and Murders During the Armenian Genocide
5. Hasmik Grigoryan (IAE NAS RA) From the Armenian Genocide to the «4-Day War»: Cultural Factors of Violence Legalization

Discussion

 

 PLENARY SESSION AND CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE CONFERENCE

23 November 2016

12:20–13:20

Conference Hall of the Presidium of NAS RA

The Reports of the Chairmen of the Sections on the Results of Discussions

Concluding Remarks

Academician- Secretary of the Division of Armenology and Social Sciences of NAS RA Yuri Suvaryan

 

 REDUCTIONS

 

AIL NAS RA – Gr. Acharyan Institute of language of NAS RA

АSEU – Armenian State Engineering University

IA NAS RA – Institute of Art of NAS RA

IAE NAS RA – Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of NAS RA

IE NAS RA – M. Kotanyan Institute of Economy of NAS RA

IGS NAS RA - Institute of Geological Sciences of NAS RA

IH NAS RA– Institute of History of NAS RA

IL NAS RA – M. Abeghyan Institute of Literature of NAS RA

IOS NAS RA – Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA

MIGA NAS RA – Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide

of NAS RA

NАА – National Archive of Armenia

RIMAM – Research Institute and Museum of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran

SCAS NAS RA – Shirak Center of Armenology Stadies of NAS RA

VSPU – Vanadzor State Pedagogical University

WAQRC –Western Armenia and Western Armenians Questions Research Center

YSU – Yerevan State University