Friday, April 17
18.30-20.00
Welcome Remarks
Nicolas Tavitian (AGBU Europe)
Keynote
Rolf Hosfeld (Lepsiushaus Potsdam)
“No peace to end all violence”: Nationalism, Imperialism and Internationalism after 1919
20.00
Dinner
Saturday, April 18
Panel 1: Atrocities Against Civilians and the Rise of Humanitarian Movements
Chair: Nicolas Tavitian (AGBU Europe)
9.00-10.30
Melanie Tanielian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Violence, Aid, and Non-State Actors: Humanitarian Intervention in Nineteenth-Century Anatolia
Charlie Laderman (King’s College London): The Anglo-American Struggle to Save the Armenians and Remake Global Order
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Hilmar Kaiser (Yerevan State University): The Armenian Origins of the Near East Relief
Roy Knocke (Lepsiushaus Potsdam): Fridtjof Nansen: The Plight of Statelessness as an International Challenge
12.30-13.30
Lunch break
Panel 2: Post-Versailles Europe
Chair: N.N.
13.30-15.00
Hans-Lukas Kieser (University of Newcastle, Australia): Mass Violence – the Elephant in the Room at the Conference of Lausanne
Momme Schwarz (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig): Jewish Minority Protection During the Interwar Period – The Comité des Delegations Juives and the Schwarzbard trial
15.00-15.30
Coffee break
15.30-17.00
Chalak Kaveh (Volda University College): The Apex of European Traditional «Gypsy policy» in the Interwar Period – A History of Policy Radicalization
Stefan Ihrig (University of Haifa): Learning from the Turks – Interwar Germany, the Nazis and the Quest for Violent Solutions
17.00-20.00
Excursion to the exhibition ‘Johannes Lepsius and the Armenian Genocide’, afterwards light supper
Venue: Lepsiushaus Potsdam
Sunday, April 19
Panel 3: The Origins of International Justice
Chair: Ronald G. Suny (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
9.30-11.00
Gurgen Petrossian (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): The Impact of the Istanbul Experience on International Criminal Justice
Hülya Adak (Sabanci University Istanbul/Free University of Berlin): Andrei N. Mandelstam and the History of Human Rights between the World Wars
11.00-11.30
Coffee break
11.30-12.30
Edita Gzoyan (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan): Violence Against Women and Children in the Context of the Development of International Law
12.30-13.30
Lunch break
Panel 4: Remembrance and Transnational Justice in the 20th & 21th Century
Chair: Roy Knocke (Lepsiushaus Potsdam)
13.30-15.30
Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): The Complexity of Denialism in Turkey during the Interwar Period
Gerd Hankel (Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture, HSFWK): The Relationship Between International Criminal Justice and Remembrance
Michael B. Elm (Tel Aviv University/Free University Berlin): Remembering the Great War in the Middle East. Constructing Cultural Trauma in Aljazeera (English) Documentaries
15.30-16.00
Coffee break
16.00-17.30
Concluding panel
Rolf Hosfeld (Lepsiushaus Potsdam), Ronald G. Suny (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and other conference participants.
This conference is part of a European project. It will be followed by a number of events in several countries aimed at disseminating its findings and will include the production of video interviews and of a travelling exhibition. The project is funded by the European Union’s Europe for Citizens Programme.