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the April Conference of the Air

The Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of Denial

Sunday, April 26, 2015  10:30 am - 1:30 pm

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Featuring a panel of world experts

Dennis Showalter	David Pryce-Jones	Bill Hoversten
Professor Levon Marashlian	Nancy Eskijian	Guy Milliére
Frank de Varona	Norman Stone	Avi Davis

 

About the Conference

Friday, April 24, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the deportations in Western Turkey which resulted in the genocide of the Armenian people. Over the next nine months nearly 1.5 million men, women and children were either brutally murdered, starved to death or else  forced to march across a parched desert to their almost certain extinction, by Turkish gendarmes and  their accomplices at the behest of the Turkish government.  This event, one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th Century has been recalled in countless books , articles and documentaries and its veracity is without question.  Yet to this day, the Turkish government refuses to recognize this massive human rights crime, let alone apologize for it and most world governments have stonewalled any attempt to build a universal recognition of the events of those months.  This conference will seek to investigate the motivations behind the genocide, the extent of the massacres and the reasons the world has largely failed the memory of the innocent victims.

About the Speakers

Dennis Showalter is Professor of History at Colorado College, where he has taught since 1969. He is Part President of the Society for Military History, Joint Editor of War in History, and has held visiting appointments at the US Military Academy and the US Air Force Academy. He specializes in modern military history. His recent books include Armor and Blood. Kursk 1943 (2013); Frederick the Great: A Military History, rev. ed. (2012); Hitler's Panzers. The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare (2009); and Soldiers' Lives through History. The Early Modern World., co-authored with William Astore (2007). He is also completing The Age of Mass War, 1789-1918 for Yale University Press.

David Pryce-Jones is the author of books dealing with contemporary events and including ten novels. In 1967 and 1973 he covered the wars in the Middle East for the Daily Telegraph and afterwards wrote The Face of Defeat (1974) about the Palestinians, and the best-selling The Closed Circle (1989) about the Arab world. He has published regularly in Commentary, New Criterion, the Wall Street Journal, and since 1999 has been a Senior Editor of National Review. He lives in London.

Bill Hoversten, an LA-based writer, has done “police beat” reporting from LAPD Headquarters for City News wire service and traffic reporting for WNHV-AM radio. He has written features for the LA Times, Huffington Post, and LA Business Journal. His screenplay “The Secret War,” set during the 1915 Armenian Genocide, has been a finalist in competitions sponsored by the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, and the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival.

Professor Levon Marashlian is Professor of History and Political Science at Glendale Community College where he teaches Armenian history and diaspora and Middle Eastern, Russian, and US history and politics. He has also taught at UCI, UCLA, CSUN. He has lectured in Armenia at the Academy of Sciences, YSU, and AUA, where he taught a US government course as a Fulbright Scholar in 1994. In 1990, he delivered a paper in Ankara on the Armenian Question. He testified on the Armenian Genocide in the US Congress in 1996 (published in the Congressional Record). In 2013, he spoke on Armenian-Turkish relations at the Pacifica Institute’s Anatolian Cultures Festival in Orange County. His publications include: Ermeni Sorunu ve Türk-Amerikan Iliskileri, 1919-1923 (Istanbul, 2000); Politics and Demography: Armenians, Turks and Kurds in the Ottoman Empire (1991); “Finishing the Genocide: Cleansing Turkey of Armenian Survivors, 1920-1923,” in R. Hovannisian, ed., Remembrance and Denial (1998); and numerous articles and letters to the editor in scholarly journals and the general press including New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Daily News, Education Week, Washington Jewish Week, Houston Chronicle, Washington Times. In 1968-69, he served in the US Army as a combat infantryman in Vietnam.

Nancy Eskijian is Senior Pastor of Bread of Life Foursquare Gospel Church in Los Angeles,  a lawyer and a writer. Bread of Life is a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic church serving the needs of the inner city. In addition to the books and articles she has written, Nancy has also contributed to two books on the Armenian Genocide with regard to her family history.  Her father, a Genocide survivor, founded the Ararat-Eskijian Museum in Mission Hills, California, the only Armenian museum on the West Coast, which honors those who perished and survived in the Armenian Genocide.

Guy Milliére, a senior fellow of the Gatestone Institute, is also a Professor at the University of Paris VIII. He is the former President of the Turgot Institute in Paris and an economist at the Bank of France. He has published 40 books on France, Europe, the United States, Israel and the Middle East. He is the authors of thousands of articles published in France, Israel and the United States. His last book, The State with a Yellow Star, is an analysis of the new forms of antisemitism in Europe, and the consequences of the demonization of Israel and the Jews in the European media. He is working on a book on the decline and fall of Europe.

Frank de Varona is an educator, historian, journalist, and internationally known expert on politics, economics, foreign affairs and national security issues. He was born in Cuba and, at the age of 17, he participated on the Bay of Pigs invasion in an effort to eradicate communism in Cuba. After spending two years in prison, he returned to the United States, where he earned three college degrees. He is married and has a daughter and a grandson.

Norman Stone Born in Glasgow in 1941, Norman Stone is the Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford, taking early retirement and taking up a post as Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara (to the present day). His main Publications are The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1974) awarded the Wolfson Prize for History 1975, and maintained in print by Penguin Books with a new introduction (1998). Europe Transformed 1878-1919 ( 1983), World War One: A Short History, The Atlantic and its Enemies 1945–1991 (Penguin and Basic Books ), Turkey: A Short History (Thames and Hudson) and World War Two: A Short History (Penguin and Basic Books) with eight translations. He is former contributor to The Sunday Times, and worked as a speech writer for Margaret Thatcher.

Avi Davis is an attorney, journalist, travel journalist, commentator, documentarian and President of the American Freedom Alliance. He was born in Melbourne, Australia where he graduated from the David Derham School of Law (Hons.) at Monash University in 1981. As a journalist, Mr. Davis' commentary, travel writing and sports writing has appeared in opinion pieces, feature articles, letters and book reviews in such periodicals as the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, Washington Times, Melbourne Age, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Jewish Spectator, New York Jewish Week, among many other papers and magazines.