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Professor Richard Hovannisian Participates in Several Forums Around the World

by Asbarez Staff
May 18, 2010
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UCLA—After a half century affiliated with the University of California, Professor Richard G. Hovannisian, AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA, continues with numerous professional and outreach activities while still teaching a full complement of courses.
From BU, Georgetown, MIT to Asia Minor
Hovannisian began the year in January by representing the Society for Armenian Studies at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in San Diego. At Boston University, February 12-14, he chaired two panels in a major international conference on the Armenian Diaspora. The conference, which included a workshop of graduate student papers, was organized by Charles and Elizabeth Kinosian Chair Holder Dr. Simon Payaslian. From February 28 to March 2, Richard Hovannisian participated in and chaired a panel of the Second Annual Policy Forum Armenia (PFA) at Georgetown University, organized by a committee headed by Dr. David Grigorian. Member of the Armenian Parliament Raffi K. Hovannisian delivered the keynote address, “Armenia-Diaspora Relations: Twenty Years since Independence.”
On March 7, Professor Hovannisian was in New York City to speak in a panel titled “Armeno-Turkish Relations: Pitfalls and Possibilities.” Organized by the ARF, the panel also included Ambassador John Evans, Mr. Ken Hachikian, and Dr. Dennis Papazian. A week later on March 13, Hovannisian gave the keynote address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a conference on “America’s Response to the Armenian Genocide: From Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.” The conference, organized by Professors Bedross Der Matossian and Christopher Capozzola, was sponsored by the Faculty of History, the Center for International Studies, the Office of Religious Affairs, and the Program on Human Rights and Justice. During the same conference, Hovannisian also gave a paper titled “From Turkey to the Soviet Union and Back” in the session dealing with the Cold War period.
On the weekend of March 19-20, Hovannisian organized the 18th UCLA conference in the well-attended series on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces. This conference focused on the smaller communities of Asia Minor such as Adabazar, Armash, Bardizag, Bolu, Kutahia, and Konia.  He then traveled to Armenia where he consulted on the on-going transcriptions of the UCLA Armenian Oral History collection of genocide survivors and was invited to discuss his academic and professional work on Armenian television.

From Clark to Poland-Ukraine

On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Professor Hovannisian participated in a number of programs. On April 7-8, he was at Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts, for an international genocide conference organized by Dr. Taner Akcam, Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian History and Genocide Studies, and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair of the University of Minnesota, and NAASR. Hovannisian gave the opening talk, “So, Where Do We Go from Here,” and was one of four panelists in an evening public session on “The Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later—Academic and Personal Reflections.”
During the following week, Dr. Hovannisian organized lectures at UCLA by Mr. Matthias Bjornlund of Copenhagen, speaking on Smyrna as a “special case” during the Armenian Genocide, and Dr. Ugur Ungor of Amsterdam and Dublin, discussing on the Young Turk seizure of Armenian property. He then joined these two young scholars, along with Dr. Wolf Gruner of the University of Southern California, on April 18 for a Sunday afternoon symposium on the 95th anniversary, held in cooperation with Glendale Public Library Armenian Outreach Director Ms. Elizabeth Grigorian. The event, which was supported by UCLA’s European-East European and Near Eastern centers and the Organization of Istanbul Armenians, was given extensive coverage on Armenian state television.  On April 20, Hovannisian appeared before the World Affairs Council of Orange County in a panel relating to the causes and effects of genocide, and on April 24, he was a featured author at the Abril Bookstore’s Armenian Booth at the UCLA annual Book Fair.
From April 26 to 30, Drs. Richard and Vartiter Hovannisian were in Poland for a conference on art of the Armenian Diaspora, held in the historic town of Zamosc, where an Armenian mercantile community flourished from the sixteenth to eighteenth century. The participants also visited nearby Lvov, now in Ukraine, and the historic Armenian sites there, including the Armenian cathedral which in recent years has been restored to the jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church. While in Warsaw, the Hovannisians met long-long acquaintances Ambassador and Mrs. Ashot Galoyan, who had spent several years at UCLA, where Dr. Galoyan was an exchange scholar and taught as a visiting lecturer at Hovannisian’s invitation.
From Chicago and Madrid to Arshile Gorky
Hovannisian will be in Chicago on May 15 at the invitation of the Pontic Greek Society for a commemorative lecture, “Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: the Fate of the Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The large audience, made up largely of Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenians, engaged in a brisk discussion period. While in Chicago, Hovannisian will also attend an opening reception and panel of the Armenian Bar Association during its midyear meeting.
The UCLA professor will be in Madrid, Spain, on May 21-22, for a conference on Recognition of the Armenian Genocide, sponsored by the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy. His topic is “U.S. Recognition of the Armenian Genocide: From Condemnation to Amnesia to Medz Eghern.” Richard Hovannisian rounds out the academic year on June 20 with a lecture at the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art on the Armenian national trauma during the formative years of Arshile Gorky in conjunction with a major exhibition of the artist’s works at the museum.

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Comments 8

  1. Arman says:
    12 years ago

    Wasn’t this person who wrote falsifying Armenian history books for universities in USA? Hmm, I wonder why Asbarez has this person on its pages!

    Reply
  2. Giro says:
    12 years ago

    I wonder why you, Arman, and several like you are targeting “this person,” just like Turkey and its puppets are. I suspect you do that to get attention and the more respectful the target you are trying to discredit, you think, the greater the attention. A fly in my soup gets my attention too, and that’s how much you and the likes of you deserve. By the way, I wonder why you read Asbarez at all…

    Reply
  3. Arman says:
    12 years ago

    @Giro,
    Likes of me were freeing Artsaxh in 90’s. Likes of me are fighting every day for Armenian interests. I do not appreciate when my nation is called new comers (nomads) on their lands, which this person did in his fake history books. Just to say the genocide word and tag my nation as nomads is not a way of patriotism. Why do I read Asbarez? I am from ARF, this is my party’s newspaper.

    Reply
  4. Arman says:
    12 years ago

    @Garo
    And before you can tag people as “just like Turkey and its puppets are” you better watch this video:
    –
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kI_d30vt0
    regards,
    Arman

    Reply
  5. Arman says:
    12 years ago

    @Giro
    And this one. It is low quality but the facts are there.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI9gRPxgnuE&NR=1
    After seeing this video you may feel ashamed, but that’s OK, you didn’t know about it. The good thing that you know about it now. Just one advise to you, don’t be too quick to judge people without any base.
    As you can see I presented the base.
    regards,
    Arman

    Reply
  6. Araxi says:
    12 years ago

    Garo also read
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/13544346/Armen-Aivazian
    You can choose the Armenian version on scribd or find it under ԱՇԽԱՏՈՒԹՅ?ՒՆՆԵՐ in
    http://www.louysworld.com
    Be in the Know …

    Reply
  7. Giro says:
    12 years ago

    @Armen
    Thanks for the video links, I watched those and others related to them and the only thing I saw as fact “against” Prof. Richard Hovannisian is that he is the father of Raffi K. Hovannisian, whose speech in the PACE is being used to discredit his father.
    Equating Russel and Thomson and even Suny with Prof. Hovannisian is giving too much credit to the first three, in a futile effort to discredit the fourth. To attribute what the first three, or others, have written (even in a book he has edited) to Prof. Hovannisian is simply dishonest. By targeting Prof. Hovannisian you are targeting the decades of academic legacy he has, which is not, as you claim, “just to say the genocide word…” His five volumes on the first Republic of Armenia are enough to prove you wrong. This does not mean what others are doing at the Armenian Studies Chairs is right; but you should target those who are responsible for that. Here I remind you of your own advise: “don’t be too quick to judge people without any base.”
    You say you are “from ARF”; if you really are, then you should not be surprised why Asbarez writes about “this person.”

    Reply
  8. Arman says:
    12 years ago

    @Giro
    Thanks for your response, I am not bringing the argument that Prof. Richard Hovannisian is the father of Raffi K. Hovannisian. I presented the second video to make it clear what mistakes and false information contained in that two volume books so that you could have better understanding of the first video I presented. My argument is about the published two volume Armenian history books whose publisher is Prof. Richard Hovannisian. This means that he should have read and checked the facts before he could publish it. This were not unimportant books but university books and in foreign language.
    I am not equating Russel, Thomson or Suny with Prof. Hovannisian but the point in here is that this two volume books are published by Prof. Hovannisian who should make sure that the book doesn’t contain any false information. I can’t understand how Prof. Hovannisian didn’t see that Western Armenian is presented as Eastern Anatolia in those books? This can be explained with the fact that Prof. Hovannisian didn’t read what the others have written in the books. As you can see the responsibility lies on Prof. Hovannisian, these are his books.
    And lastly I don’t discredit his five volume books on the First Republic of Armenia. In fact I haven’t read them so I can’t say anything about it. All I am saying is that it is Prof. Hovannisian who discredits his writings, by having in his book Western Armenia (the real name of a region) as Eastern Anatolia (fake madden name by Turkey). All other efforts by Prof. Hovannisian are equated to null by his own hand.
    Finally, I am from ARF and have been one since 1990’s. I have gone through Artsaxh freeing movement and know what is to be a member of ARF and I am proud of it. Asbarez is a newspaper in winch people write articles and people can make mistakes. There are no ideal people but there are ideal ideas. Anyway, this is my opinion and I don’t think you can change my opinion about Prof. Hovannisian. Maybe I may sound too much of nationalist to you but that is what took to free Artsaxh.
    regards,
    Arman

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