ARMENIAN SCHOLARS AND RESEARCHERS ASSESS THE OUTCOME OF “THE 20 APRIL 2009, YEAR OF COMMEMORATION OF 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACRES COMMITTED BY THE OTTOMAN AUTHORITIES IN THE TOWN OF ADANA”

12/08/2010
 
More than 60 Armenian scholars and researchers met in Antelias on 8 December 2010. They were invited by His Holiness Aram I to the launch of the publications decided during the Conference on 20 April 2009. The papers presented during the conference were published as part of the Armeneology Yearbook series, sponsored by the Khatchik Babikian Foundation.
 
His Holiness welcomed the guests and thanked all those who had contributed to the publication and supported it. He then extended a special word of thanks to Mr. Zaven Yegavian, Director of the Armenian Section of Kalouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for contributing to the 100th Anniversary Special Publications. Catholicos Aram also thanked the three editors of the Yearbook, Messrs. Viken Avakian, Yervant Pamboukian and Sarkis Guiragossian, as well as the contributors to the conference, authors of reprint books and said: “Through scientific research, reprints and by recording oral history, we are not only keeping alive our history and memory, but also rebuilding our archives and enriching our documentation centres. Oral history is an academic discipline to accompany the writings of historians, we are therefore thankful for those efforts”.
 
At the end of his introduction, His Holiness Aram I invited the guest of the day, Prof. Dr. Ashod Melkonian, Head of the History Department of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan to speak. Dr. Melkonian thanked Catholicos Aram I for this valuable work, and his untiring effort to create to bring together scholars from Armenia and the Diaspora to dialogue and work together.

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