PROFESSOR RICHARD HOVANNISIAN IN SUMMER CONFERENCES
During the summer months, Professor Richard Hovannisian, AEF Chair in Armenian History at UCLA, has continued his active schedule of conferences and presentations relating to Armenian history and issues.
Dr. Hovannisian gave the opening address at an international symposium on the history of Shushi, which was held under the auspices of Yerevan State University, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Mountainous Karabagh. The meetings were held in the Music Academy of Shushi and at Artsakh State University in Stepanakert, June 20-24, 2007. In his paper, Hovannisian focused on the relevance of Shushi in Armenian history, with particular reference to the modern period and the lessons to be learned from the struggle for Karabagh in the years of the first Armenian republic. Hovannisian was a part of a small delegation to meet with outgoing Karabagh President Arkady Gukasyan. Professor Kevork Bardakjian of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor also attended the conference and presented a paper on prominent literary figures of Shushi.
Immediately upon his return to Los Angeles at the end of June, Richard Hovannisian took part in a week-long Facing History summer institute on ways and means to teach about the Armenian Genocide. Teachers from across the United States had come to Antioch College in Los Angeles to gain further training on implementation of the Facing History resource book titled Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: Genocide of the Armenians. Professor Hovannisian shared with the teachers his experience in teaching about the Armenian Genocide and about genocide in comparative perspective within the parameters of the Facing History program
Dr. Hovannisian then traveled to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to participate in the Seventh Bienniel Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), July 9-13. A number of participants specializing in various aspects of the Armenian Genocide were present for the conference: Haig Demoyan and Tigran Sarukhanyan from Armenia; Herve Georgelin and Sevane Garibian from France; Carlos Antaramian fromMexico, Ani Degirmencioglu from Turkey and Austria; and Peter Balakian, Annie Kalaydjian, Ed Maljian, Arsen Marsoobian, Rubina Peroomian, and Hasmig Tatiossian from the United States.
The IAGS honored Ambassador John Evans with the Raoul Wallenberg Award "for speaking out when diplomats are expected to remain silent and for calling upon the United States Government to recognize the Armenian Genocide." Ambassador Evans gave a powerful affirmation of his position on the Armenian Genocide and crimes against humanity. Rajib Zarakoglu recived the IAGS Award "for combating denial of the Armenian Genocide and all genocides."
Richard Hovannisian's conference presentation focused on the new wave of genocide denial, with particular reference to the recent publication of Guenther Lewy's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide, issued by the University of Utah Press, along with Justin McCarthy's The Armenian Rebellion at Van. He pointed to Lewy's clever but highly flawed methodology and claims of objectivity disguised under a false veneer of deconstructing and discounting the primary sources relating to the Armenian Genocide. In Hovannisian's earlier discussion on the subject at the University of Utah, the school newspaper, The Daily Utah Chronicle, ran a feature article on this issue.
Back in Los Angeles, Professor Hovannisian joined Dr. Kevork Keshishian, Mrs. Janet Kassouni, Dr. Vicken Aharonian, Mr. Panos Titizian, Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, and the community at the AGBU Manoogian Center in Pasadena on August 17 in paying tribute to Dr. Haig Messerlian for his decades of dedicated service to education and historical research. Messerlian, the long-time principal of the Evangelical High School in Beirut, is also the author of several important monographs on modern Armenian history.
Coinciding with the beginning of a new academic year at UCLA, Richard Hovannisian's final summer engagement will be on September 29 as the keynote speaker at the first banquet of the Alumni and Friends of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. There, Richard Hovannisian will address the subject, "Links and Gaps in Modern Armenian History."
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