TIME: 11 AM EST | PLATFORM: Zoom | REGISTER: bit.ly/LBGLSarmenia
The final stage of genocide is denial. Due to an ongoing campaign of distortion and denial by the Turkish government, the Armenian Genocide has never truly ended; it has only evolved. What’s more, renewed conflict in contested land between Armenia and Azerbaijan means the lives of ethnic Armenians are still at risk today.
On March 23, join us virtually for the 11th Annual Lichtman Behm Genocide Lecture Series featuring Diana Yayloyan, an expert on Armenian-Turkish civil society relations and granddaughter of Armenian Genocide survivors. Diana will discuss the history and legacy of the Armenian Genocide and her trailblazing activism to foster memory, justice, and peace.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn how they can take action in solidarity with the Armenian community in our collective pledge of “never again.”
This program is free and well-suited for students, educators, and the general public. Educators will have access to a recording of this program as well as learning tools that complement this virtual experience.
The Lichtman Behm Genocide Lecture Series is part of the newly launched program Ohio Remembers, a joint initiative of Heidelberg University and Together We Remember to empower students, educators, and community leaders across the Buckeye State to be effective human rights advocates and stewards of collective memory. Through interactive virtual programming offered from January to May 2021, participants will gain the knowledge, skills, and relationships they need to foster social resilience in a time of acute social conflict. They will learn to apply the lessons of the past to the present to counter antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of violent hatred in their schools, communities, and on social media.
This collaboration is inspired by the life and experiences of the late Don Behm, Heidelberg class of ‘51, a U.S. Army veteran, and the late Jimmy Lichtman, a survivor of the Holocaust. #TogetherWeRemember
About Diana Yayloyan:
Diana Yayloyan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations. Her interdisciplinary research covers trauma and reconciliation, nationalism, foreign policy, politics of emotion, and memory studies. Since 2014 she has been working on the Armenian-Turkish civil society dialogue. Together with a team of political experts and economists, she has worked on numerous projects, studying the cross-border engagement and economic, social, and psychological effects of the sealed border and the absence of direct communication between Turkey and Armenia. Diana is an alumna of the Genocide and Human Rights Graduate Program organized by the Zoryan Institute in partnership with the History Department of the University of Toronto. She has delivered presentations on her research at national and international academic conferences, seminars, workshops. In 2020, together with a group of researchers and activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, she became the co-founder of the CaucasusTalks, which is a platform that gives voice to young researchers, practitioners, and activists from the South Caucasus to conduct alternative and informed discussions about issues related to the South Caucasus and the surrounding regions.