International Conference
Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 19-21, 2009
Day 1 – Thursday, March 19, 2009 – Michigan Union (Anderson D)
Session I – 9:00-12:00
Dr. Levon Avdoyan, “Unintended Consequences: Three Ancient Treaties
and the Armenians” (63,299, 387 CE)
Prof. Robert H. Hewsen, “Armenia in the Treaty of Nisibis of 299 CE”
Prof. Seta B. Dadoyan,”From the ‘Medinan Oaths’ to the Shah’s
‘Compact’ for New Julfa-Isfahan: The Millennial Record of
Islamic-Armenian Protocols”
Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, “Armenian Aristocrats as Diplomatic
Partners of Eastern Roman Emperors, 387-884/885 AD”
Session II – 2:00-5:00
Prof. Azat Bozoyan, “The Treaty of Deapolis (1107) as an Example of
the Byzantine Policy of ‘Divide and Rule'”
Prof. Claude Mutafian, “The International Treaties of the Last Kingdom
of Armenia”
Mr. Armen Kouyoumdjian, “When Madrid Was the Capital of Armenia”
Prof. Ali Kavani, “The Treaty of 1639 and its consequences for Armenia
and Armenians”
Day 2 – Friday, March 20, 2009 – Michigan Union (Anderson D)
Session III – 9:00-12:00
Dr. Sebouh Aslanian, “Julfan Agreements with Foreign States and
Chartered Companies: Exploring the limits of Julfan Collective
Self-Representation in the Early Modern Age”
Prof. Kevork Bardakjian, “The National ‘Constitution’ of 1863: A
Dhimmi-Muslim Contract?”
Prof. Aram Yengoyan, “No War, No Peace: The Treaty of Brest Litovsk, 1918″
Prof. Richard Hovannisian,”The Unratified Treaty of Alexandropol as
the Basis for Subsequent Russian-Turkish-Armenian Relations”
Session IV – 2:00-4:00
Dr. Fuat Dundar, “Diplomacy of Statistics: Discussing the Number of
Armenians during Diplomatic Negotiations (1878-1914)”
Dr. Vladimir Vardanyan, “Peace Treaties of Armenia and Relating to
Armenia: A Legal Analysis”
Prof. Dennis Papazian, “The Treaty of Lausanne”
Day 3 – Saturday, March 21, 2009 – Michigan Union (Wolverine ABC)
Session V – 8:30-12:00
Dr. Lusine Taslakyan, “Armenia in International Environmental Conventions”
Mr. Emil Sanamyan, “The OSCE-CFE Treaty and Breaches in the
International Legal System: Armenia’s Predicament Today”
Mr. Rouben Shougarian, “Yielding More to Gain the Essential: The
Russo-Armenian Treaty of 1997”
Prof. Sevane Garibian, “From the 1915 Allied Declaration to the Treaty
of Sevres: The Legacy of the Armenian Genocide in International
Criminal Law”
Session VI – 1:30-4:00
Prof. Keith Watenpaugh, “The League of Nations and the Formation of
Armenian Genocide Denial”
Pascual Ohanian, JD, “International Treaties in International Penal
Law Concerning Crimes Against Humanity: Applicability of the Juridical
Experience in Argentina and Chile to the Turkish-Ottoman State and
Turkish Republic for Acts Perpetrated from 1910 to 1923 and Beyond”
Prof. Catherine Kessedjian, “Beyond Treaties”
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