The Armenian Genocide: The First European Genocide of the 20th Century - Facts and Future ConsequensesInternational conference on 18-19 May 2005 at Danish Institute for International Studies, Strandgade 71, Copenhagen.24 April 2005 marks the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide. During World War I, more than one million people were murdered in the Ottoman empire, present day Turkey, and a corresponding number were driven away. The Armenian genocide war the first genocide of the 20th century which partly took place on European ground, was executed by a partly European power, and was directed mainly against a people which at the time was often regarded as European. The genocide was an attempt to modernize and homogenize an empire through mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and forced assimilation. It stands as one of the first, largest, and most well-documented examples of exterminatory projects of the last hundred years, a period that counts examples like the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the ongoing Sudanese conduct in the Darfur province. On this occasion, the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), in cooperation with University of Southern Denmark, will hold an international conference on the Armenian genocide, where researchers from Armenia, Turkey, Canada, USA, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark will discuss a range of historical and topical subjects:
Furthermore, at a public event in ”Politikens hus” on 19 May 2005 at 16.00-18.00, an expert panel will debate the the question of what role the the lack of official Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide should play for the accession of the country into the European Union. |
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