051021 - Symposium Armenians, Turks, and Europe in the shadow of World War I

invito della prof.ssa Valentina Calzolari alconvegno.
-Symposium
Wanted for the future - historical clarification!
Armenians, Turks, and Europe in the shadow of World War I

Zukunft braucht Geschichtsklärung:
Armenier, Türken und Europa im Schatten des Ersten Weltkriegs

Basel 12-13 November 2005

Program

Saturday, 12 November
Mitte, Gerbergasse 30, 4001 Basel

9.15
Introduction

9.25-10.25
Panel 1: The state of research on the Armenian catastrophe of 1915/16
- Raymond Kévorkian (Bibliothèque Nubar, Paris): "Hiérarchie des sources et
problématiques nouvelles dans la recherche autour du génocide des Arméniens ottomans"
- Halil Berktay (Sabanci University, Istanbul): "Multiple layers of the Turkish nationalist discourse as seen through the prism of the recent `Ottoman Armenians´ conference in Istanbul"

10.25-10.45: Break

10.45-12.30
Panel 2: The 1915 genocide: reception in literature and repercussions in Germany
- Hülya Adak (Sabanci University, Istanbul): "The Armenian question in Turkishliterature"
- Valentina Calzolari (Université de Genève): "1915 dans la literature arménienne"
- Mike Joseph (Cardiff): "The Personal Link. Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter:
the personal link from genocide to Hitler"
-- Short presentation: Joni Kreutner (Zürich): "Deutsches Judentum und die Rezeption der Armeniermorde, 1896-1939"

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30
Panel 3: Coming to terms with the Armenian catastrophe
- Hans-Lukas Kieser (University of Zurich): "Armenians, Turks, and Europe in the shadow of World War I: Historiographical developments"
- Ayse Gül Altinay (Sabanci University, Istanbul): "Where did Ottoman Armenians go? Reconstructing a silenced History through stories"
- Gérard Libaridian (University of Michigan): "What questions should we be asking today?"

15.30-16.00 Break

16.00-17.30
Panel 4: Coming to terms with the Armenian genocide in the context of Europe and European history
- Georg Kreis (Europainstitut, Basel): "Zur Strafbarkeit von Genozidleugnung vor dem Hintergrund der Genozide im Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg"
- Jakob Tanner (University of Zurich): "The historian and the judge: The significance of the Armenian genocide for the 20th century"
- Micha Brumlik (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt): "'Katastrophen lernen'. Zeitgeschichtliche Bildung und menschenrechtliche Sensibilisierung"

Snack (evening program, see culturescapes)

Sunday, 13 November
Mitte, Gerbergasse 30, 4001 Basel (next to the Marktplatz, in the historical center of Basel)

9.45-10.30
Final discussion: "Armenians, Turks, and Europe in the shadow of World War I"

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-12.30
Public discussion (auf Deutsch, Gesprächsleitung: Georg Kreis): "Der Völkermord und die Zukunft der Völker"

12.30 Lunch

Culturescapes (www.culturescapes.ch), Europainstitut and Department of History of the Basel University, and SGMOIK (Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen)

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