From December 1 to 2, 2000 a conference on Genocide called ?Human Rights and Historic Life? will be held in Buenos Aires (Argentina). The conference will be held under the patronage of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian Center of Argentina.
The theme of the conference will be Armenian Genocide and Human Rights in a large sense.
All those who wish to take part in this conference as a lecturer are kindly asked to contact the executive committee: Nélida Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian: bnelida@hotmail.com, and Juan Carlos Toufeksian: jctoufeksian@hotmail.com and Carlos Alemian: carlosalemian@escape.com.ar

Joint Conference on Armenia
September 27-28

Academics from throughout the United States met in Washington  September 27-28 to discuss recent scholarship on ?The American Response to the Armenian Genocide? at a conference co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Armenian National Institute, in cooperation with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The conference began on September 27 at 7 p.m. at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with a presentation by Sir Martin Gilbert, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, titled ?Genocide in the 20th  Century.?  The conference continued the next day at the Library of Congress, in the Mumford Room, sixth floor, Madison Building, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with four panels of scholars discussing ?U.S. Government Response,? ?Media, Information, and Awareness,? ?Public Response? and ?The Outcomes.?  A small exhibition of related  documents from the Library?s collections was displayed.
The purpose of holding this conference at the Library of Congress was twofold.  First, to examine the recent scholarship that looks at the response of many sectors, both public and private, in the United States to this major humanitarian crisis during the first World War.  And, secondly, to call attention to the rich legacy of Armenian materials in the collections of the Library of Congress.
Schedule:
?The American Response to the Armenian Genocide?
September 27-28, 2000
September 27, 7 p.m.: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Opening program: Dr. Martin Gilbert,
?Genocide in the 20th Century?
September 28: Mumford Room, Madison Building,
Library of Congress
9 a.m.- 9:10 a.m.:  Welcoming remarks
Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress

Robert A. Kaloosdian, chairman, ANI Board of Governors

9:10 a.m.-9:40 a.m: Introduction
Dr. Jay Winter, professor, Cambridge University
?Under Cover of War: The Armenian Genocide?

9:45 a.m.-11 a.m.:  Panel I: U.S. Government Response
Moderator: Dr. Leo Ribuffo,
George Washington University
1. President Woodrow Wilson: Dr. John Milton Cooper,  University of Wisconsin
2. The Role of Congress: Dr. Donald Ritchie,  Associate Senate Historian
3. U.S. Diplomats: Dr. Lloyd Ambrosius,  University of  Nebraska
4. U.S. Archives: Dr. Rouben Adalian, Armenian National  Institute

Q&A (10 minutes)

11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Panel II: Media, Information, and Awareness Moderator: Dr. Thomas Keenan,
Director, Human Rights Project, Bard College
1. Information Sources: Dr. Sybil Milton, Vice President, Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland-
World War II
2. U.S. Print: Dr. Thomas Leonard,
University of California, Berkeley
3. The Impact of the Media Coverage on the Public:
Dr. Christopher Simpson, American University

Q&A (10 minutes)

12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 3 p.m.  Panel III: Public Response
Moderator: Jerry Fowler,  U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience
1.  Missionaries? Involvement: Dr. Suzanne Moranian, Wellesley College
2. First-Person Missionary Account: Mary Louise Graffam: Dr. Susan  Billington-Harper,  Pew Charitable Trust
3. Intellectual and Cultural Response: Dr. Peter Balakian, Colgate University
4. American Red Cross: Dr. Brien Williams, The American Red Cross

Q&A (10 minutes)

3:10 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.   Panel IV: The Outcomes
Moderator: Dr. Gary Bass, Princeton University
1.  Investigative Commissions: Dr. Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
2.  Trials: Dr. Vahakn Dadrian,
State University of New York (retired)
Q & A (10 minutes)
4:40 p.m.- 5:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks Dr. John Roth,
Claremont McKenna College

World Conference Armenia 2000
On the Occasion of the 1700th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Christianity in Armenia

September 2, 2000 through September 10, 2000

Organized by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Mesrop Centre for Armenian Studies at the Leucorea Foundation, Wittenberg)
Conference languages: Armenian, German, Russian, French, English
Location: Kongress- & Kulturzentrum Halle (Saale)
High Patrons: Johannes Rau, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
Robert Kocharian, President of the Republic of Armenia
Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
Associated Partner: UNESCO German Commission

A. Thematical sections: Armenian language and literature, Armenian History, Armenian Church and Theology, Armenian Arts and Crafts, Armenian Sciences in History and Today
B. Forum Discussions about Armenian concerns:
Political Culture, Environmental Protection, Language, Armenian Women, Armenian Youth, Church, Diaspora, Globalization, Identity, Genocide, Computers, Armenology
C. Plenary Discussion
(in cooperation with the UNESCO German Commission)
Armenia in Europe
D. World Premiere September 2, 2000, 5 p.m.
Festive Opening of the Exhibition  ?Rescued Armenian Treasures from Cilicia? at the Castle Moritzburg State Gallery in the centre of the city of Halle (Saale), Germany;
E. Festive opening of the World Conference September 3, 2000, 5 p.m.
F. Sourb Patarag
Sunday, September 3, 2000, 10 a.m. Main Church of Our Lady in the centre of Halle (Saale), Germany
Ecumenical Worship Service
September 8, 2000, 5 p.m. St. Moritz Church Halle (Saale), Germany

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