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Hyeland Project Announces the Armenian American Forum in Nashville, Tennessee

Cookeville, TN – July 10, 2024 – The Hyeland Project is excited to announce the Armenian American Forum, set to take place at the beginning of 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. This forum is a throw-back event aimed at fostering dialogue and collaboration among Armenian-American organizations and projects. The focus of the event is to provide a venue for the mapping and connection of participants’ activities that impact the Armenian-American community’s political, economic, and cultural well-being.

The Armenian American Forum will feature keynote speeches from prominent Armenian-American leaders, panel discussions on pressing issues facing the community, and networking opportunities designed to strengthen ties within this diaspora. Attendees will have the chance to engage in meaningful conversations about distributed governance, innovative educational and cultural initiatives, and opportunities for collaboration.

This event is an excellent opportunity for Armenian-Americans to come together, share their experiences, and work towards a brighter future for their community.

More details about the event including date, venue, and specific programming shall be forth coming.

For more information and to register interest as a speaker or attendee to the forum, please visit Hyeland Project’s contact form.

About the Hyeland Project

The Hyeland Project is a pioneering initiative dedicated to supporting the goals of the Armenian Diaspora. Our mission is to offer diverse lifestyle opportunities for Armenians in America, maintain strong connections to Armenian culture, and serve as a test bed for innovative governance, educational, and cultural technologies. We do this by facilitating the creation of Armenian communities in opportune areas. Our first implementation of this model is the Tennessee Hyeland Project, encouraging and facilitating Armenian-Americans to relocate to the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee.

Media Contact: Sevan Chorluyan
Email: hyelandproject@gmail.com

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Genocide Scholars Conference in Armenia

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) will hold its twelfth meeting in Yerevan on 8-12 July 2015, hosted by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. Director of the AGMI Hayk Demoyan will serve as Local Conference Chair.

The conference theme is “Comparative Analysis of 20th Century Genocides”.

2015 is an important year for all Armenians worldwide in terms of commemoration of the centennial of the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The Armenian genocide is sometimes considered as the first genocide of the 20th century and in many ways served as a template for subsequent genocidal crimes. 2015 is also is the year of 70th anniversary of the end of WWII and the Holocaust. Therefore, it is a significant time to analyze both crimes and all genocides of the 20th century in global and comparative perspectives.

On April 24th 2015 the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute will be opened after two years of renovation and new exhibition development. This is the first major re-opening since its inauguration in 1995. The renovated museum’s mission and exhibits will feature all genocides that occurred after the Armenian genocide. New exhibits will enable all visitors to understand the deep roots, causes, and dynamics of development and consequences of the genocide, while also offering a platform for dialogue.

The urgent need for early warning systems to prevent genocide, and efforts to revisit the basic concepts of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, are matters of pressing concern. Related questions also arise:

  • How were ideologies and religion instrumentalized for mass destruction during the 20th century?
  • What kind of interaction exists between genocidal intent and genocidal processes?
  • Who are the victims, perpetrators, bystanders and witnesses and how do we classify the relevant actors in different cases?
  • How might the comparative study of 20th century genocide help to prevent 21st century genocides and mass atrocities?
  • How might the legal consequences of the pre-1948 UN Convention “crimes against humanity” be settled?

The conference will begin with a visit to the newly developed exhibition of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. During the conference participants will be able to devote one day to an optional excursion to Gyumri, the city where the world largest orphanages were established by American Near East relief after the Armenian genocide and to visit Memorial to Musa Dagh Resistance in nearby Yerevan.

Attendance at the conference is open to all interested professionals and students, but presentation at the conference requires one to be a member of IAGS.

For information on membership, please see http://www.genocidescholars.org/membership.

Website: http://www.genocidescholars.org/Yerevan2015/

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Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

Los Angeles — Skylight Books (1818 N. Vermont Ave.) welcomes Aline Ohanesian on Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30pm

In her extraordinary debut, Aline Ohanesian has created two remarkable characters–a young man ignorant of his family’s and his country’s past, and an old woman haunted by the toll the past has taken on her life.

When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather Kemal–a man who built a dynasty out of making “kilim” rugs–is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal’s will raises more questions than it answers. He has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in an Armenian retirement home in Los Angeles. Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan’s grandfather willed his home in Turkey to an unknown woman rather than to his own son or grandson. Left with only Kemal’s ancient sketchbook and intent on righting this injustice, Orhan boards a plane to Los Angeles. There he will not only unearth the story that eighty-seven-year-old Seda so closely guards but discover that Seda’s past now threatens to unravel his future. Her story, if told, has the power to undo the legacy upon which his family has been built. Moving back and forth in time, between the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the 1990s, Orhan’s Inheritance is a story of passionate love, unspeakable horrors, incredible resilience, and the hidden stories that can haunt a family for generations.

Aline Ohanesian’s great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Her history was the kernel for the story that Ohanesian tells in her first novel, Orhan’s Inheritance. Ohanesian was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction and “Glimmer Train”‘s Short Story Award for New Writers. Born in Northridge, California, she lives and writes in San Juan Capistrano, California, with her husband and two young sons. Her website is www.alineohanesian.com.

The event takes place on April 7 at 7:30pm.

Please visit link to the event:
http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/aline-ohanesian-reads-her-debut-novel-orhans-inheritance

Skylight Books is located at 1818 N. Vermont in Los Feliz (cross is Franklin), 323-660-1175. www.skylightbooks.com