Monday, December 08 

Conference Opening 

09:40

Registration (YSU Central building 1^st floor foyer)

09:50-12:00

Opening Ceremony (YSU Central building 1^st floor foyer) 

• Opening of the Genocide Memory Tree
• Opening of an Exhibition Dedicated to the History of Genocides,
• Book Presentation
• Presentation of Genocide Research Organizations

Opening speech

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan-YSU Rector, Doctor of History, Armenia

 Greeting speech

• Dr. Vahram Petrosyan- Director of YSU Institute for Armenian Studies, PhD in History, Associate Professor, Armenia
• Lilit Martirosyan- President of the Centre for Human Rights and Genocide Studies NGO, Armenia
• Prof. Arman Yeghiazaryan- Director of the All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies, Armenia 
• Awarding of certificates/medals

12:00-13:00 Lunch (YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5^th floor)

Panel 1 

13:00-15:20

Prevention, recognition and condemnation of genocide in the context of international law 

(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5^th floor) 

Chair:   Prof. Dr. Otto Luchterhandt, Dr.Vahram Petrosyan  

13:00

Prof. Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser (Historian)

Public Truth – Core Of Historical Justice: The Challenge Of Remembering The Armenian Genocide Since The Conference Of Lausanne/  Switzerland

13:15

Prof. Gevorg Danielyan (Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Faculty of Law, Yerevan State University) Legal Basis for Condemning and Reparations for the Armenian Genocide / Armenia

13:30

Dr. Eran Gündüz (Sociologist, board member of the Association of Genocide Opponents in Frankfurt am Main)

The Armenian Genocide: What Role Does The Time Factor Play In Recognition?/ Germany

13:45

Larisa Alaverdyan (The First Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, Executive Director Against the Violation of Law Foundation),

The unpunished crime committed by Azerbaijan in Artsakh/ Armenia

14:00

Prof. Dr. Otto Luchterhandt (Doctor of Law, Professor at the University of Hamburg) Legal Possibilities And Ways For Armenians To Obtain Compensation For Their Property Left In Nagorno-Karabakh/ Germany 

14:15

Prof. Artur Ghambaryan (Chairman of the Department of Theory of Law and Constitutional Law of  Russian-Armenian University, Full Professor of the State Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia, Doctor of Law, Full Professor, Honored lawyer of the RA,

Refutation of the constitutional demand for recognition of the Armenian Genocide under the guise of recognition: the paradox of the actions of the Armenian authorities/ Armenia

14:30

Mari Hovhannisyan (Executive Director of the Zoryan Institute Armenia International Foundation for Research and Development)

Theoretical Perspectives on Genocide Denial: From Reaction to Structural Mechanism /Armenia

14:45

Dr. Svante Lundgren (Theologian, Lund University)

The Scandinavian Countries And The Armenian Genocide: A Humanitarian Legacy Betrayed/ Sweden

15:00

Dr Jakob Zollmann (Specialist in the History of Law)

International Law During Genocide. Armenia 1918–1920/ Germany / Zoom

15:15

Discussion

Panel 2  

15:30-18:45 

Genocide in the context of memory studies, identity, and psychology

(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5^th floor) 

Chair:    Dr. Jeanine Ntihirageza, Lilit Martirosyan     

15:30

Erik Hellsborn-  (Member of the Swedish parliament) Following in the footsteps of Alma Johansson/ Sweden

15:45

Dr. Nkurunziza Joseph Ryarasa- Executive Director, Never Again Rwanda ''Memory and Memorialization. Commemorative Practices in Healing Communities & Combating Denialism/ Rwanda

16:00

Dr. Jürgen Gispertis  (German ethnographer, Armenologist and journalist).

“If you have one identity, I have three!”

 Remembering, recognizing and preventing genocide with Hrant Dink/ Germany 

16:15

Krikor A. Alozian (Director Of Armenian Genocide Orphans Aram Bezikian Museum, Lebanon)

Birds' Nest - Maria Jacobsen " Where Echoes Of Trauma Transformed Into Songs Of Survival"  Lebanon Zoom

16:30

Naira Poghosyan- YSU Department of Genocide Studies at the Institute of Armenology,The memory of the Armenian Genocide in Armenian-letter Turkish songs based on the memoirs of Manuk Perperyan, Armenia   

16:45- 17:15

COFFEE BREAK

17:15

Dr. Jeanine Ntihirageza-Director, Center for Genocide and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora at Northeastern Illinois University,  Memory and Identity Paradox in Burundi and Rwanda Pre-, During, and Post-1972 and 1994 Genocides, Burundi 

17:30

Viktor Gerasimovski, Photographer of “Echoes of Silence” From Silence to Social Change: The Transformative Relationship in “Echoes of Silence”  USA

17:45

Dr. Meline Anumyan (Research Center on Western Armenian Studies, Turkologist, Lecturer at the Brusov State Universit)

Manifestations Of Armenian Identity and Daily Life Of The Forcibly Islamized Armenians/ Armenia

18:00

 Prof. Levon Chugaszyan, Professor, Department of History and Theory of Armenian Art, Faculty of History, Yerevan State University,

The Reflection of the Armenian Genocide in Armenian Painters / Armenia

18:15

Colette Ruscheinsky-(The Digital Oral History archivist at GHRAD (The Genocide and Human Rights Research Center in Africa and the Diaspora) Breaking Silence: Storytelling and Portraiture as Pathways to Healing and Genocide Prevention, USA

18:30

Youk Chhang Executive Director Documentation Center Of Cambodia Memory And Justice ‘Although Two Million Were Killed, Five Million Survived To Tell Their Story.’  Cambodia/ Zoom

18:45

Discussion

19:00

Dinner  

Tuesday, December 09 

Panel 3 

10:00-12:50

Genocide in the context of source studies, history and political science 

(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5^th floor) 

Chair:    Moritz Florin, Ashot Hayruni 

"To honor the memory of the victims of genocides with a minute of silence."

10:10

Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy, Executive Director, World Without Genocide, Margery Amundson, Researcher, World Without Genocide,  Starvation And Ecocide: Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh And Ukraine-USA

10:25

Prof. Dr. Ruben Safrastyan (Counselor of the Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences Member of Public Council of Armenia)
Theorizing Genocide Prevention: The Concept of Pre-Genocide/Armenia

10:40

Dr. Roy Knocke- (Director of the Lepsiushaus Potsdam) Documentarist and Agitator: New Insights On Johannes Lepsius' Writings On The Armenian Question- Germany / Zoom

10:55

Ara Ketibian (Scientific researcher, genocide scholar)

Coverage of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrians Genocides in the American press/ Australia

11:10

Lusine Sahakyan- Head of the Section of Armenian-Ottoman Relations, the Institute of Armenological Studies, YSU, Bulletins of the Fact-Finding Branch of the Information Divan as Evidence of the Reality of the Armenian Genocide., Armenia

11:25

Ani Voskanyan- Department Armenian-Ottoman relations Junior Researcher,

Conscription and Extermination Orders: Armenian Soldiers During the Years of the Armenian Genocide, Armenia

11:40- 12:10 

Coffee break 

12:10

Prof. Dr. phil. Tessa Hofmann- Independent scholar of Armenian and genocide studies; formerly Freie Universität Berlin, Armenia: A Case Of Repetitive Genocide, Germany / Zoom

12:25

Dr. h.c. Michael Hesemann-(German historian, Vatican journalist and author) Was it really a genocide? What documents from the Vatican Archives reveal. Germany

12:40

Dr. Ivan Gastañaga (Political Scientist, Spain) Documenting Atrocity: Traces Of The Armenian Genocide In Spanish Diplomatic Correspondence. Իսպանիա, Zoom

12:55

Manushak Markosyan- Hamburg University, Armin T. Wegner. Witness of the Armenian Genocide and Defender of the Armenian Cause, Germany

13:10

Prof. Ashot Hayruni- YSU Head of the Department of Genocide Studies at the Institute of Armenology, The imposition of silence on the Armenian Genocide during World War I, German policy and Johannes Lepsius; / Armenia

13:25

Discussion

13:35- 14:00

Lunch 

Panel 4 

14:00 - 

Genocide in the context of information science and information warfare 

(YSU Academic Council Hall, Central building, 5^th floor) 

Chair:    Dr. Eran Gündüz, Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy

14:00 

Prof. Dr. Bernd Braun (Historian and political scientist, executive director of the Foundation for the Friedrich Ebert House Museum in Heidelberg, Germany) Anti-Armenian Lobbying In Germany/Germany

14:15

 Dr. Raffi Kantian (President of the German-Armenian Society, Germany) The Armenian Genocide And The Republic Of Turkey: Approaches To A Taboo Chapter Of Turkish History/ Germany Zoom

14:30

Hemn Mamrash (Assistant Director of Media in the Ministry of martyrs and Anfal Affairs in Kurdistan Regional Government)

The Genocide of the Kurdish people in Kurdistan Region by Iraqi regims/Iraq

14:45

Քննարկում/ Discussion

15:00

Closing Session

15:30

Cultural Program and Farewell