"Forgotten Memories" conferences to start with Armenian Genocide issue

PanARMENIAN.Net - A series of conferences named "Forgotten Memories - project of a Righteous People Garden in Torino" will enable a period of reflection for Torino citizens preceding the building of the Garden, in an area named "Pian del Lot". Such a garden will be made of 36 parts in reference to the biblical story of the 36 Righteous People, Mr Pasquale Totaro, the project initiator told PanARMENIAN.Net



This project was signed by many associations, committees, foundations, universities and researchers will be illustrated through a series of conferences, each of them about one among 36 genocides or crimes against the Humanity, occurred from the beginning of the 20th Century, with special references to "The Righteous People". The meetings will be realized with the financial contribution of VSSP and of Regione Piemonte.



The first conference will be dedicated to the Armenian Genocide and will be the first path of the Garden. This will take place next 4 May 2007 at 20.45 in the "Salone Conferenze del VSSP" in Via Toselli n°1, Torino.



Speakers: Dr Pietro Kuciukian (Unione Armeni d'Italia), Professor Annamaria Samuelli (Comitato Foresta dei Giusti), Dr Roberto Tricarico (Deputy Mayor in charge with Garden of Torino Community), Dr Giampiero Leo (ex deputy mayor in charge of culture for Regione Piemonte) and Pasquale Totaro, conceiving the project.