Vahagn Dadrian to give lectures in Yerevan

PanARMENIAN.Net - Professor Vahagn Dadrian, internationally-renowned expert on the Armenian Genocide will give lectures in Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, Yerevan, from May 5 to 7.



The particularity of Dadrian's research is that by mastering many languages, including German, English, French, Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Armenian; he has researched archives of different countries, and extensively studied materials in various languages in a way that very few, if anyone has done before him. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree for his research in the field of Armenian Genocide Studies by the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, and later, in 1998, he was made a member of the Academy and honored by the President of Armenia, the republic's highest cultural award, the Khorenatzi medal. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsored him as director of a large Genocide study project, which culminated with the publication of articles, mainly in the Holocaust and Genocide studies magazines.



While Dadrian's specialization is genocide in general, most of his study concerns the Armenian Genocide, even though he has publications regarding such cases as the Holocaust and the destruction of the American Indians.



Dadrian's latest project is the translation of the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-20 from Ottoman Turkish to English.



He is the author of the books "German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide", "History of the Armenian Genocide: ethnic conflicts from Balkans to Caucasus" and others.