International Conference: The Armenian Genocide, 110 Years After

8.11.2025 8:30
Lepsiushaus Potsdam
International conference November 8 and 9, 2025

This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. To commemorate this anniversary, the Lepsiuhaus Potsdam and theInternational Institute for Nationality Law and Regionalism, Munich, are organizing an international conference entitled “The Armenian Genocide, 110 Years After” On November 8 and 9, 2025, to which we cordially invite you. Scholars from Armenia, Germany, France, Poland, Lebanon, Switzerland, and Turkey will present and discuss recent research that goes beyond the beaten track.

The conference language is English.

Please register to participate at: anmeldung@lepsiushaus-potsdam.de

Saturday, November 8

► 08:30-09:30

Registration and Welcome

► 09:30-11:00

Mehmet Polatel: The Anatomy of Collapse. Deconstructing Social and Economic Life after the Hamidian Massacres

Hilmar Kaiser: The Ottoman Government and Local Competitors. The Struggle for Armenian Property and the Djanik-Trebizond Liquidation Commission 1915-16

► 11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

► 11:30-13:00

Dominika Maria Macios: Extermination of Armenians in the Press of the Prussian Partition from 1894 to 1918

Ara Papian: Hayastan (Armenia) Newspaper as a Primary Source on the Armenian Genocide

► 13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

► 14:00-15:30

Antranik Dakessian: The Holocaust Aftermath. A 1914 Report on Four Towns of Cilicia

Anna Kazaryan: The Armenian Deportations from Keghi District. Abduction, Massacre, and Survival

► 15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

► 16:00-17:30

Jakob Zollmann: Armenia and the Question of Reparations and Indemnities in the Treaty of Sévres and Beyond, 1918-1923

Elodie Gavrilof: Following an Institution Through Exile. The Tbrotsaserschool's Journey from Constantinople to Le Raincy (1918-1926)

► 19:00

Dinner(away; only speakers)

Sunday, November 9

► 09:30-11:00

Mihran Minassian: The Mass Murders of Armenian Children in Syria Duringthe Armenian Genocide

Regina Galustyan: The Dynamics of Dehumanization: A Study of the Armenian Genocide

► 11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

► 11:30-13:00

Hayk Martirosyan: Germans in the Testimonies of Armenian Survivors. A Classification Attempt

Roy Knocke: Johannes Lepsius, Armenians and Herzl's Zionism

► 13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

► 14:00-15:30

Gohar Khanumyan: The Berlin Prison Diary of Soghomon Tehlirian

Arpine Maniero: Expulsion as Policy. Interethnic Conflict and Forced Migration in the 20th Century South Caucasus

► 15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

► 16:00-17:00

Closing Speeches