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Genocide Through the Lens of Cultural Rights

12/7/2021

 
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On the occasion of the "International Day of the Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”, the AUB Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), in partnership with AGBU Lebanon and, Lepsius Haus Potsdam, hosted an annual conference titled, "Genocide Through the Lens of Cultural Rights.” The conference was held online (webinar) on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 5:00 pm Beirut time.

​This year's theme  focused on memorialization revolving mainly around genocide in light of cultural destruction and the construction of narratives and memories. The conference  also focused on the role of memory as a form of prevention against genocide, and how museums and memorialization can help in providing justice to the victims. Moreover, the legal implications regarding cultural destruction are also important to mention.


Opening Remarks
Arine Ghazarian, Executive Director, AGBU
Joseph Bahout, Director, IFI-AUB

Setting the Tone
The Loss of Worlds: Genocide Culture and the Challenge of Plurality  
Roy Knocke, Lepsius Haus Potsdam
 
Panel 1- Cultural Interventions as Prevention
Heghnar Watenpaugh, Professor of Art and Architecture at UC Davis
 
Panel 2 - Museums and Memorialization: 
Communicating A Form of Ongoing Justice
 The Role of Memory in Prevention: A Failing Story from Afghanistan 
Ahmad Rashid Salim, University of California, Berkeley
 
Cultural Intervention in Divided Societies: Stories from Azerbaijan and Armenia
 
Part 1: Politics of Cultural Erasure in the Region
 Simon Maghakian,  Investigate Researcher

Part 2: The Azerbaijani-Armenian Conflict: An Unheeded Warning from the Past 
Marcus Papadopoulos, Publisher and Editor of Politics First magazine and an expert on Russia
 
Legality and Justice vs. Memorialization and Cultural Rights
 
Part 1: Cultural Genocide in Iraq by the hands of the IS
Ali Al Nashmi – Researcher and Historian

Part 2: Heritage and Cultural Diversity at Risk in Syria 
Alaa Al Sayed
 
Moderator
Yeghia Tashjian, Associate Fellow, IFI-AUB

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