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The HJS Virtual Event Series: 'Should the UK Recognise the Armenian Genocide?' - Wednesday 13th April, 3pm-4pm (BST)

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The UK is lagging behind the world in recognising the Armenian Genocide. Democratic nations including the United States, France, and Germany have recognised it, as have the devolved parliaments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. And yet, we have failed to do so, citing reasons that include: the fact that the term “genocide” did not exist in 1948, and that it should be a matter for Turkey and Armenia to sort out between themselves. The UK is lagging behind the world in recognising the Armenian Genocide. Democratic nations including the United States, France, and Germany have recognised it, as have the devolved parliaments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. And yet, we have failed to do so, citing reasons that include: the fact that the term “genocide” did not exist in 1948, and that it should be a matter for Turkey and Armenia to sort out between themselves.

The Henry Jackson Society is pleased to gather world experts to discuss why the UK government should recognise this genocide and what parliamentarians are doing to make this a possibility.

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Apr 13, 2022 03:00 PM in London

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Apr 13, 2022 03:00 PM London Topic: The HJS Virtual Event Series: 'Should the UK Recognise the Armenian Genocide?' - Wednesday 13th April, 3pm-4pm (BST) Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AKXILpnSTB66jrLAv0aZoA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Dr Seyhan Bayraktar (Projects and Research Coordinator and Head of PhD Program at the Department of International Business @ZHAW School of Management and Law) Seyhan Bayraktar is research associate and head of the PhD programme at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences` School of Management and Law. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Konstanz in 2009. Her research areas include the politics of memory and apology, in particular the denial politics of Turkey with regard to the Armenian genocide. She has published widely about the ongoing denial of Turkey as well as the role and responsibility of the international community in terms of acknowledgement and recognition in a number of articles (e.g. “The Politics of Denial and Recognition: Turkey, Armenia and The EU”, in Alexis Demirdjian (ed.), The Armenian Genocide Legacy, (New York, 2016); “The Grammar of Denial: State, Society, and Turkish-Armenian Relations.”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 47(4), 2015) Tim Loughton MP (Home Affairs Select Committee and Chair for the All-Party-Parliamentary Group for Armenia @UK Parliament) Prior to Parliament, Tim Loughton worked in the private sector as a fund manager in the City of London before becoming a Director at Fleming Private Asset Management. Tim was first elected to Parliament in 1997 as Member for East Worthing and Shoreham and has been re-elected in 2001, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019. As Chair for the All-Party-Parliamentary Group for Armenia, Tim put forward a Bill in Parliament asking Her Majesty’s Government formally to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915-23; and for connected purposes which formally recognised the genocide of the Armenians in the period 1915 to 1923 and sought to establish an annual commemoration to the victims of the Armenian genocide. As well as continuing as a Vice-President of the Local Government Association (LGA), Tim has recently joined the Conservatives Against Racism For Equality (CARFE) as an advisory Board Member. Professor A. Dirk Moses (Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History @University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Professor A. Dirk Moses is Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He edits the Journal of Genocide Research and is the author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Cambridge, 2021). Geoffrey Robertson QC (Founder and Joint Head @Doughty Street Chambers) Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He has had a distinguished career as a trial and appellate counsel, an international judge, and author of leading textbooks. He is also an author of the book “An Inconvenient Genocide – Who Now Remembers the Armenians?”, published by Biteback. Geoffrey has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law, in the European Court of Justice; the European Court of Human Rights; the Supreme Court (House of Lords and Privy Council); the UN War Crimes courts; the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and in the highest courts of many commonwealth countries. Geoffrey has, as a jury advocate, appeared in many criminal trials at the Old Bailey and libel trials in the High Court. He has appeared in several hundred reported cases in the Court of Appeal (both civil and criminal divisions) and in judicial reviews in the High Court, and in subsequent appeals. Isabel Sawkins (Research Fellow @The Henry Jackson Society) Isabel Sawkins is a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. She has a BA in Modern Languages at Durham University and an MA in Political Sociology of Russia and Eastern Europe at UCL. She is currently completing a PhD on Holocaust memory in the Russian Federation at the University of Exeter, funded by the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Isabel has presented her research at numerous international conferences. She has also published her findings in academic journals, as well as contributing to online media outlets. Isabel’s most recent accomplishment was the curation of an online exhibition about a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland.

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