Saturday, 12 November
Mitte, Gerbergasse 30, 4001 Basel (next to the Marktplatz, in the historical center of Basel)
9.15
Introduction
9.25-10.25
Panel 1: The state of research on the Armenian catastrophe of 1915/16
- Raymond Kévorkian (Bibliothèque Nubar, Paris): "Hiérarchie des sources et problématiques nouvelles dans la recherche autour du génocide des Arméniens ottomans"
- Halil Berktay (Sabanci University, Istanbul): "Multiple layers of the Turkish nationalist discourse as seen through the prism of the recent ‘Ottoman Armenians’ conference in Istanbul"
10.25-10.45: Break
10.45-12.30
Panel 2: The 1915 genocide: reception in literature and repercussions in Germany
- Hülya Adak (Sabanci University, Istanbul): "The Armenian question in Turkish literature"
- Valentina Calzolari (Université de Genève): "1915 dans la littérature arménienne"
- Mike Joseph (Cardiff): "The Personal Link. Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter: the personal link from genocide to Hitler"
-- Short presentation: Joni Kreutner (Zürich): "Deutsches Judentum und die Rezeption der Armeniermorde, 1896-1939"
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30
Panel 3: Coming to terms today
- Hans-Lukas Kieser (University of Zurich): "Armenians, Turks, and Europe in the shadow of World War I: Historiographical developments"
- Ayse Gül Altinay (Sabanci University, Istanbul): "Where did Ottoman Armenians go? Reconstructing a silenced History through stories"
- Gérard Libaridian (University of Michigan): "What questions should we be asking today?"
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-17.30
Panel 4: Coming to terms with the Armenian genocide in the context of Europe and European history
- Georg Kreis (Europainstitut, Basel): "Zur Strafbarkeit von Genozidleugnung vor dem Hintergrund der Genozide im Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg"
- Jakob Tanner (University of Zurich): "The historian and the judge: The significance of the Armenian genocide for the 20th century"
- Micha Brumlik (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt): "'Katastrophen lernen'. Zeitgeschichtliche Bildung und menschenrechtliche Sensibilisierung"
Sunday, 13 November
Mitte, Gerbergasse 30, 4001 Basel
9.45-10.30
Final discussion: "Armenians, Turks, and Europe in the shadow of World War I"
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.30
Public discussion (auf Deutsch, Gesprächsleitung: Georg Kreis): "Der Völkermord und die Zukunft der Völker"