STOPPING THE CENSORS: THE FINAL DEFEAT OF ARMENIAN NATIONALISM AT THE FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL IN JANUARY 2017 - MAXIME GAUIN
Center for Eurasian Studies (AVİM) will host a conference titled Censoring the Censors: The Final Defeat of Armenian Nationalism at the French Constitutional Council in January 2017, at which Maxime Gauin, a PhD student at Middle Eastern Technical University Department of History and AVİM Scholar in Residence, will speak about the January 2017 verdict of the French Constitutional Council on a proposed law that might have meant the criminalization of dissident views on 1915 events.
In recent years, different groups seeking the recognition of the 1915 events as genocide have focused their activities on passing parliamentary resolutions that identify 1915 events as genocide. The next step of these efforts is apparently the passing of laws that criminalize dissident views in order to silence those who do not consider the 1915 events as genocide. France is a country that is at the forefront of such activities. Thus, following the French Parliament’s decision in 2001 about the 1915 events, several steps have been taken to criminalize dissident views. The latest of these steps is the law proposal adopted by the French Parliament in October 2016. However, this law, as in a similar process in 2012, was rejected by French Constitutional Council in January 2017.
Maxime Gauin, a PhD Student at Middle Eastern Technical University Department of History and AVİM Scholar in Residence, in his speech titled Stopping the Censors: The Final Defeat of Armenian Nationalism at the French Constitutional Council in January 2017 will share his views on the above mentioned processes in France with the audience.
AVİM will be glad to see you at this conference that will be held at AVİM Conference Hall on 15 February 2017 Wednesday at 14:00-16:30.
The conference will be held in English.
There will be no translation service.
Place : AVİM Conference Halll
Adresse : Süleyman Nazif Sok. No:12/B D.5 Çankaya / ANKARA
Date: 15 February 2017
Time : 14:00 – 16:30
LCV: Hülya Önalp
Telephone: 0 312 438 50 23-24
Faks: 0 312 438 50 26
E-mail: honalp@avim.org.tr