Genocide conference at The Hague on March 6-7

The University of Southern California Institute of Armenian Studies has joined with the Centennial Project Foundation and the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies to convene a two-day conference at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in the Netherlands, on March 6-7, 2015.

This major interdisciplinary gathering will bring together academics and professionals from various fields to discuss the impact of the Genocide.

Keynote speaker, Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago and University of Michigan, will open the conference.  He will be followed by a score of experts in the field of Law (including Geoffrey Robertson), historians Ugur Umit Ungor, Lorne Shirinian, experts in social sciences and humanities (Levon Chorbajian an others, literature, media, education and journalism scholars Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Lisa Siraganian and others.

Alexis Demirdjian,Director of the Centennial Project Foundation, said, “We are pleased to partner with the University of Southern California Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies. We look forward to a conference that will go forward beyond the centennial.”