ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
Chair of Pontic Studies
The Young Turks’ revolution in 1908, which had origins in Thessaloniki, was the result of three main stresses which the Ottoman Empire faced at the beginning of the 20thcentury. On the one hand, its modernization effort and, on the other, Balkan nationalism and the pressure put on it by the Great Powers. The great loss of lands, the reforms and local self-government by the Armenians, and the outbreak of World War I generated severe pressure on the Young Turks who had taken power in 1913, radicalizing the nationalistic ideology that had already been shaped and consolidated among large parts of the population. Unswerving national and religious homogenization also remained the aim of the subsequent Kemalist movement.
Amidst these rapidly changing social and political conditions, the ethno-religious communities of the Empire found themselves caught in a process of transformation of the multinational Empire into a Turkish nation-state, with the Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Assyrian elements ultimately eliminated.
The present International Conference aims to analyze and discuss the various mass-atrocities (genocides, ethnic-cleansings and massacres) and forced deportations, specifically on the Genocide of the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire (1908-1923).
Speakers
Richard Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) & Chapman University
Michael J. Kelly, Professor
Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law at Creighton University School of Law
Taner Akcam, Professor
Clark University
David Gaunt, Professor
Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University
Hannibal Travis, Professor
Florida International University - College of Law.
Uğur Peçe, Assistant Professor
History & Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University
Schedule plan
Chairman of the Session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
A Culture of Impunity and anti-Armenian Violence at the Turn of the Twentieth Century View Details
Against Assimilation: Assessing Late Ottoman Violence through Conscription Debates, 1908-1912 View Details
A Step towards Identity Construction or Genocide? Ideological Transformations in the Ottoman Empire in 1911-1913 View Details
The Balkan Wars and the rise of the reactionary modernist utopia in young Turk thought and the journal Türk Yurdu [Turkish Homeland] View Details
Chairman of the second session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
The 1914 Cleansing of Aegean Greeks as a Trial Run for the Deportation of Armenians View Details
The Unweaving of Greeks from Black Sea: The Pontic Genocide, 1919-1922 View Details
British Perspectives on Atrocities Against the Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire following the Balkan Wars and World War I View Details
"When disaster and calamity of misery become their inseparable companion:" Pontus Between Two Deportations (1916-1921) View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
The Anatomy of Ottoman Genocide View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Chairman of the third Session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
The evidence of the French commission in Pontus on the anti-hellenic persecutions after the end of the First World War (1919-1920) View Details
«The Genocide of the Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire through the Greek and the International Press» View Details
The Pontic Greek Genocide documented by Political Archive of the Pontus National Council. View Details
Location: Hall 1, Building A , Golden Street , Southafrica
Testimonies of the American Humanitarian and Missionary Organizations regarding the Greek Pontic Genocide View Details
The persecutions of the Greek Orthodox populations in Asia Minorthrough the eyes of Chrysostom of Smyrna. View Details
Chairman of the 4th Session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Liman von Sanders and the German plans for the Christians in Asia Minor during World War I View Details
The network of local Young Turks in East Thrace and their genocide strategies against Greeks, 1913-1920. View Details
Official Genocidal Policy of the Young Turks’ State: The Assyrian Case View Details
Location: Hall 1, Building A , Golden Street , Southafrica
The"systematic elimination"of the Christian element as presented in the minutes of the Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War and on the Enforcement of Penalties (1919). View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
“Shared Intent in a Collapsing Empire: Pan-Turkism as Mens Rea Evidence under the Akayesu Standard for Genocide against Christian Populations in the Late Ottoman Period. View Details
The Poles in the Ottoman Empire and their opinion about the extermination of Greeks and Armenians, 1908-1923. View Details
Bulgarians of Asia Minor – the 1914 Exodus View Details
The Greek Genocide and the Italian Dodecanese View Details
Interim Session dedicated to the Memory of Speros Vryonis, Jr. (1928- 2019). Brief obituary by Emeritus Prof. I. K.Hassiotis. View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Evolving Approaches to the Study of Genocide The Armenian Case View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Chairman of the sixth session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Time and Space Problematics in Studying Genocides: The Armenian Case View Details
Mass Rape and Body Destruction of the Armenian Women During the Genocide View Details
Tattooed: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion View Details
Unarmed and Dangerous: Humanitarian Resistance during the Ottoman Genocides View Details
Chairman of the seventh session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
The legal conundrum of genocide before 1948: Defining the core crime under customary international law View Details
National Security Justifications for Ottoman Greek Expulsions and Killings: Reading Denialist Accounts in Light of International Law View Details
The Armenian Genocide: A Victim of the discrepancy between International Law and International Politics? View Details
Chairman of the eighth Session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Genocide Narratives of Separation, Reunion and Recovery View Details
Reclamation of Armenian and Greek women and children after the Genocide: the Efforts of the League of Nations View Details
The Necessity of Civilizational Protection of Cultural Monuments in the Context of Current Developmentsin the Middle East. View Details
Why does Turkish Denialism of Genocide against Christians Persist?: An Examination of the Political andCultural Factors. View Details
Chairwoman of the ninth session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosoph
Lost in Commemoration: The Emblematic Cases of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocides. View Details
Approaching the Genocide through Literature and Art: an educational program for Primary School View Details
Teaching the Asia Minor Disaster with Teaching and Learning Based on Problem Solving and Decision Making View Details
Chairman of tenth session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Flawed Cultural Trauma and the Late Recognition of the Assyrian Genocide View Details
Big Secrets, Small Villages: The Collective Memory of the Assyrian Genocide. View Details
Location: Hall 1, Building A , Golden Street , Southafrica
Routes of Escape, Exile and Extermination of Pontic Hellenism through Oral Narratives View Details
Chairman of eleventh session View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Waiting for the Ships of Salvation: Scenes from the Abandonment of the Fatherland of Anatolian Hellenism (1922-1923). View Details
Collective action in refugee identity of prefecture Thessaloniki. Resistance to historical oblivion View Details
Between memory and 'amnesia': The Greek State and the political retention of the Ottoman Greeks' genocide View Details
Closing Remarks by the President of Scientific Committee Professor Emeritus Artemis Niki Xanthopoulou Kyriakou View Details
Location: “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Ceremony Hall, Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Inauguration Ceremony of the Research Center of Pontic Studies & the Black Sea Archive View Details
Location: Central Library of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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