[Sci-tech-public] MIT hosts conference on America's response to the Armenian Genocide

[Margo Collett]

> Cambridge, Mass. - On March 13, 2010, a one-day conference entitled "America's
> Response to the Armenian Genocide: From Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama," will
> take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Building 10
> Room 250 from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
> 
> The conference is co-organized by Profs. Bedross Der Matossian (MIT) and
> Christopher Capozzola (MIT) and sponsored by the Faculty of History, the Center
> for International Studies (CIS), the Office of the Religious Affairs, and the
> Program on Human Rights & Justice (PHRJ).
> 
> The goal of the conference is to discuss and examine America's evolving policy
> toward the Armenian Genocide from the earliest years of World War I through the
> present day.
> 
> Although the Armenian Genocide is increasingly recognized as one of the
> foundational events of the twentieth century's painful history of political and
> ethnic violence, scholars who have examined its impact on United States foreign
> policy have concentrated almost exclusively on the presidency of Woodrow
> Wilson. But the legacy of the Armenian Genocide shaped U.S. policy through the
> twentieth century-as Americans confronted the meaning of "genocide" itself in
> the wake of World War II; as they confronted Armenia's pivotal place in the
> tense Cold War conflict; as Armenian Diaspora voices pressed Congress for
> recognition; and as geopolitics shifted again with the unification of Europe
> and U.S. intervention in the Middle East.
> 
> The one-day conference will bring together specialists in U.S. foreign
> relations, along with historians of ethnic conflict, genocide, and humanitarian
> intervention more generally. By bringing together experts on Armenia with those
> whose interests range somewhat further afield, the conference seeks to
> incorporate Armenian histories more fully into historical and social scientific
> disciplines and to foster dialogue between area studies specialists and U.S.
> historians.
> 
> Panels will discuss three major historical phases that shaped U.S. policy
> towards the Armenian Genocide: World War I, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War
> era. The latter two periods remain particularly understudied periods.
> 
> Speakers at the conference include Prof. Jens Meierhenrich (Harvard University),
> Prof. Richard Hovannisian (UCLA), prof. David Engerman (Brandeis University),
> Prof. Christopher Capozzola (MIT), Prof. Simon Payaslian (BU),  Prof. David
> Ekbladh (Tufts University), Prof. Dennis Papazian (University of
> Michigan-Dearborn),  Michael Bobelian (lawyer, author, and journalist), Gregory
> Aftandilian (independent scholar), Dr. Rouben Adalian (ANI), Marc Mamigonian
> (NAASR), Dr. Suzanne Moranian (AIWA), and  Prof. Bedross Der Matossian (MIT). A
> keynote speech will be delivered by Hovannisian, who holds the Armenian
> Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
> 
> 
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