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    Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute
    RA, Yerevan 0028
    Contact: Arevik Avetisyan
    Tel: (374 10) 39 09 81
    Fax: (374 10) 39 10 41
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http: //www.genocide-museum.am/


    From Memory to Memorizing

    The International Conference Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the
    Tsitsernakaberd memorial of the victims of Armenian Genocide



    27-28 November 2007
    Yerevan, Armenia


    CALL FOR PAPERS


    The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI)
    (http://www.genocide-museum.am) is organizing an international
    conference in Yerevan on 27-28 November 2007, in occasion to the 40th
    Anniversary of the Tsitsernakaberd memorial Complex of the victims of
    Armenian Genocide.

    Papers on all aspects of genocide and genocide victims' commemoration,
    as well as museum exhibitions on the genocides and mass killings and war
    crimes are welcome. Of particular interest are papers on memory,
    memorizing and monuments dedicated to mass crime victims' memory and
    destruction of cultural heritage. Another interesting aspect is
    comparative study of the destruction of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian
    genocides, especially survivors' memoirs, commemoration, monuments
    description, reutilization of the commemoration etc.

    For paper proposals, please send abstracts (350 words maximum) and
    biographical information on the presenters to Arevik Avetisyan,
    Press-Secretary of AGMI [email protected] /
    [email protected] or to Hayk Demoyan, Director of AGMI
    [email protected]

    All proposals should be submitted by 15 October 2007 and will be
    refereed by Organization Committee. [email protected]

    The meeting will begin with opening of plenary session in the morning of
    Monday, 26 November. On Tuesday, 27 November the session will be held
    in the National Academy General session room.

    Cultural program includes choral of Komitas and visit to Echmiadzin Holy
    See and excursion to the Garni and Geghard historical sites.

    Partial or complete support for travel, lodging, and meals will be
    provided for a limited number of participants who will present papers
    and come from developing countries, whose institutions cannot pay their
    travel and other expenses, and who have special circumstances.

    PLEASE NOTE: Selected papers will be included in the second issue of
    the Journal of Xenophobia and Genocide Studies.

    Contacts of editor: [email protected]
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