Armin T. Wegner, collection des pères Mechitaristes
The genocide against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the Great War (1915-2015): this is the title of the international conference that will take place in Paris at the Mémorial de la Shoah from 25 to 28 March, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The meeting, directed by the great expert of the genocide cases of the XX century Yves Ternon, will comprise the remarks of numerous world-famous scholars, spacing from the ideology of genocide to military history, from Political Science to Social Sciences, presenting the outcomes of 100 years of research.
Here are some of the reports that will be delivered:
Perpetrators, victims and rescuers, by Richard Hovannisian, at 13.30 of 25 March;
The first stage of destruction: deportations and massacres (April - August 1915), by Raymond Kévorkian; always in the second half of the first day;
European and American witnesses, by Hans-Lukas Kieser;
The Jews in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the XIX century, by Georges Bensoussan;
Kurds, Yazids, Armenians: multiple facets of a community in exile, by Estelle Amy de la Bretèque.
Download the full programme here.