From April 20 to July 27, 2021, on the initiative of Professor Dr. Armenuhi Drost-Abgaryan, the Head of the Mesrop Center for Armenian Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, a series of digital lectures have been launched at the Department “Christian East and Byzantium”, entitled: “44 days of Karabakh versus Artsakh. Comprehensive presentation of the conflict in the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh “.
Throughout the whole summer semester, lectures and scientific presentations will be made by the reputable experts, scientists, professors from Armenia, Artsakh, as well as from Germany and other research centers abroad, with the focus on Oriental studies, Caucasian studies, political science, law, ethnology, art and cultural studies, archeology, history, philology and theology . During the lectures will be provided a complete overview of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh in the past and present, comprising the following thematic coverage: The internal and external Implication of the 44-day war. A view from Artsakh by Armine Aleksanyan (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh/ Stepanakert), The role of German diplomacy in the settlement of the Artsakh conflict (Harutyun Grigoryan / Potsdam), Erasure of Armenian Heritage in Nakhichevan (Simon Maghakyan /USA,Denver), The Baseler mission in the cultural capital of Artsakh’s Shushi (Prof. Dr. Raffi H. Gazer/Erlangen), The role and function of the OSCE Minsk Group in the failed attempt to bring the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to a peaceful solution (Prof. h. c. Hans-Jochen Schmidt/Berlin), Artsakh in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (Prof. Dr. Christiane Annegret Plontke-Lüning /Jena), The Caucasian Albanians and their language (Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert /Frankfurt /Main), The genocide of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915/16 and the situation of the Armenians in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabagh after 2020 (Dr. Elke Hartmann/Berlin), The situation in the South Caucasus from the perspective of Armenian foreign policy (Dr.Ashot Smbatyan ,RA Ambassador to the FRG/Berlin), Turkey as the third party of the Karabakh war: background, processes, perspectives (Dr. Raffi Kantian/Hannover), Legal Aspects of the Conflict – the Legality of the Nagorno-Karabakh secession (Dr. Sarah Babaian/Hamburg), Why Diplomacy Failed and War Succeeded in the Karabakh Conflict? (Gerard Libaridian/Michigan), The reception of Artsakh in modern art (Archi Galentz /Berlin).
It should be stressed that the launch of thematic lectures with such an emphasis is, specifically, important given the fact that it takes place in the heart of Europe, in central Germany, where the topic of the Artsakh conflict is in dire need of international coverage today, not only in terms of dissemination and feedback, but also in terms of expanding the scope of the study. What is going on in Artsakh in nowadays is a global issue, and a very crucial manifestation of the global challenges, a new phase of great international transformations. The international discussion of the Artsakh issue will definitely find a feedback in the new world manifestations.
It should be also noted that the University of Halle is the only German university with an extraordinary professorship for Armenology. During its 23 years activity, the “Mesrop” Center for Armenian Studies has scrutinized profoundly our language, history and religion, implemented numerous research and academic programs, thus contributing to the national preservation activity of proliferation and entrenchment of Armenology in the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Anna Vardanyan, Yerevan-Halle
