The International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide: Memorial, Political, and Geopolitical Stakes of a Decades-Long Unfinished Struggle

Yerevan, October 23-25, 2024

Wednesday, October 23

Welcoming the participants/Coffee 9:00 – 9:30
Opening speeches 9:30 - 10:00

Virginie Laval

President, University of Poitiers

Salwa Nacouzi

Rector, French University in Armenia

Marc Mamigonian

Director of Academic Affairs, NAASR

Edita Gzoyan

Co-chairman of the organizing committee, Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation

Julien Zarifian

Co-chairman of the organizing committee, University of Poitiers

Panel 1
A Political Fight 10:00 - 12:30

Moderator

Harutyun Marutyan (Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation, Armenia)

Júlia de Moraes Cabral Tordeur (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)

Suren Manukyan

(Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation, Armenia)

A Century of Shifting Policies: Russia and the Question of the Armenian Genocide

Yeghia Tashjian

(Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, Lebanon)

Sophie-Zoé Toulajian

(Normal Superior School of Lyon, “LARHRA”, France)

Narek Poghosyan

(Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation, Armenia)

Lunch break 12:30 - 14:00
Panel 2
A Parliamentarian Matter? 14:00 - 15:45

Moderator

Boris Adjemian (AGBU Nubar Library/Centre de recherches historique (EHESS), France

Tehmine Martoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation)

Jérôme Nossent (University of Liège, Belgium)

Ricardo Ruiz de la Serna (CEU San Pablo University, Brazil)

Ludivine Thouverez (University of Poitiers, France)

Coffee Break 15:45 - 16:15
Panel 3
Roundtable: The Case of the United States

John M. Evans (Former Ambassador of US in Armenia, USA) and Julien Zarifian, in discussion with Stephan Astourian (American University in Armenia, Armenia)

Thursday, October 24

Welcoming the participants/Coffee 8:30 - 9:00
Panel 4
Why no recognition – yet? Part 1 9:00 - 10:30

Moderator

Tehmine Martoyan

Maria Armoudian (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

How Soon We Forget: National Myth-Making and Recognition of the Armenian Genocide

Nagothu Naresh Kumar (Independent researcher, India)

Anna Vardanyan (Armenian State University of Economics, Armenia)

Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00
Why no recognition – yet? Part 2 11:00 - 12:45

Moderator

Edita Gzoyan

Melanie O’Brien (University of Western Australia, Australia)

Anne Cousson (University of Poitiers, France)

Eldad Ben Aharon (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Lunch break 12:45 - 14:00
Panel 5
In Europe and Beyond

Moderator

Jérôme Nossent

Daniel Fittante (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Tessa Hoffman (Independent Author and Researcher, Germany)

The Specifics and Effects of the Recognition of the Genocide against Ottoman Armenians by Germany

Hasmik Martirosyan (UWC Dilijan College, Armenia)

Kamil Glen (Institute of History and Archival Studies, University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, Poland)

The Role and Significance of Armenian Organizations in Poland in Recognizing and Commemorating the Armenian Genocide

Coffee Break 15:45 - 16:15
Panel 6
Is Argentina Special? 16:15 - 17-45

Moderator

Júlia de Moraes Cabral Tordeur

Nélida Elena Boulgourdjian (National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina)

Federico Gaitan Hairabedian (American University, Washington College of Law, USA)

María Luciana Minassian (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Friday, October 25

Welcoming the participants/Coffee 8:30 - 9:00
Panel 7
Legal Perspectives 9:00 - 10:30

Moderator

Federico Gaitan Hairabedian

Rosa Ana Alija Fernandez (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Philippe Raffi Kalfayan (University Paris-Pantheon-Assas, France)

Thomas Hochmann (Paris Nanterre University, France)

In the “Legal Limbo”? Constitutional Debates about the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in France

Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00
Panel 8
Beyond Recognition 11:00 - 12:30
End of the Conference at 12:30