U of M Graduate Student Activities

April 23, 2015

Organized around events | Details forthcoming

Reception prior to Ohanessian Chair Lecture (7:00pm)

April 25, 2015

11:00 am 1:00 pm

100 Years of Genocide

Remembrance, Education, Prevention

Guided tour of Bedote Dakota site at Ft. Snelling

National Park

Events Organized By:

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Human Rights Program
Institute for Global Studies
Ohanessian Chair

Made Possible By:

The Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice

and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis
Foundation

International Student Conference

April 24, 2015
8:45 am 5:00 pm
University of Minnesota
West Bank
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Room 25

Schedule of Events

100 Years of Genocide

8:45 - 9:15
Registration

1:00 - 2:00
Lunch Break

9:15 - 9:30
Welcome

2:00 - 3:30
Session 3
Responses to Genocide: Justice, Media and Mediations

Evelyn Davidheiser, Director, Institute for Global Studies

Alejandro Baer, Associate Professor in Sociology, and Director of the Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies

9:30 - 11:00
Sesssion 1
The Armenian Genocide: Survival, Trauma, Resilience

Professor Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska Lincoln (Moderator)

Peter Kranitz, Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Hungary)
Survivors, Asylum Seeking and Repatriation: The case of Armenian refugees in Constantinople
Angel Amirjanyan, Yerevan State University (Armenia)
The Psychological Effects of Genocide
Varduhi Gumruyan, Anania Shirakatsy Lyceum Educational Complex (Armenia)
Armenian Genocide: Consequences as Posttraumatic Stress

11:15 1:00
Session 2
Armenians and Turkey after the Genocide

Professor Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota (Moderator)

Vahram Ayvazyan (Armenia)
Turkish Denial and Public Opinion
Gevorg Petrosyan, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia
"Shared Pain": Turkish Government's current steps toward denial of Armenian Genocide
Torkom Movsesiyan, City College of New York (2009), TORKOMADA, Inc.
The Armenian Holocaust and International Law
Kendra Kyndberg, University of Minnesota
The G-Word: Why the Turks wont say it and why the Armenians want them to in the first place

Professor Barbara Frey, University of Minnesota

(Moderator)
Lindsay Blahnik, University of Minnesota
Transitional Justice and Social Cohesion: effects of punitive and restorative justice on
social cohesion following the Rwandan Genocide
Tom Dunn, Exeter University (U.K.)
Rethinking British Perceptions of Genocide and Mass Atrocities: The Sierra
Leonean Civil War and Britain, 1997-2002
Rebecca Shnabel, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Traversing Translation: A Reader's Response and Marxist Critique of Elie Wiesel's
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign, La Nuit, and Night

3:45 - 4:45
Session 4
The Causes of Genocide and its Prevention

Professor Alejandro Baer, University of Minnesota

(Moderator)
Kayla Nomina, Valparaiso University
Patterns of the Past: Determining common causal agents of genocide to predict
and prevent future mass atrocities
Joe Eggers, University of Minnesota
Native Americans and Armenians: Exploring nationalism in genocidal violence

4:45 - 5:00
Concluding Remarks