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Major International Conference on Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides held in Chicago May 11, 2013
Skokie, IL - The largest academic conference ever held focusing on the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides concluded on Saturday, May 11, after two days of presentations by over a dozen scholars from Armenia, Australia, England and across North America. Attended by over 120 participants each day, the conference was filled to capacity with an enthusiastic and inquisitive audience.
The conference, entitled The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians: A Common Case Study, was organized by the Armenian National Committee of Illinois, the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center and the Assyrian Center for Genocide Studies, and was held at the prestigious Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center in Skokie, IL, on May 10 and 11, 2013. The assessments of the conference, both by the presenters and the attendees, were overwhelmingly positive.
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The following article is from an event by the Pontian Greek Studies Committee, held on November 13, 2011, in Athens Greece to honor the Pontian Greek and Phanariot family of Ypsilanti. It provides important information on the history, accomplishments, and contributions of this great family to the Greek War of Independence of 1821. Picture above is a file licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.
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Translated by members of the Pontian Greek Society.
Day of Tribute to the Ypsilanti Family
The Pontian Studies Committee (PSC) held a successful presentation on Sunday, November 13, 2011 at the "House of Hellenic heirlooms in Pontus" building. The presentation was a tribute to the "Ypsilanti family" who were a great Phanariot family of Constantinople, natives of Ypsila in Trebizond whose members distinguished themselves in politics and the military; most notably the brothers Alexander and Dimitrios Ypsilantis who played an important role in the Greek revolution of 1821.
In a brief address by the President of PSC Mr. Christos Galanidis stated:
“Welcome to today's event which is a tribute to the Ypsilantis, who were a great Pontian Greek family.
‘On January 31, 1828 he confessed, said the Lord ’s Prayer, the Nicene Creed, and crossed himself. Then he whispered, "I want to sleep." And he fell asleep, forever nestled in the arms of history. In the bosom of Greece. His soul traveled to the Pontic coasts and ascended to the “parcharia” or great plains. Then he made his way up high and from there found himself in the City of Constantine. As a little child on the streets of the Phanar, he sought the minimal hope in the ‘Megali Idea’ that had blown in the nation’s soul. And he then rested forever...
The Greeks of Vienna carried the body of the prince to the chapel of St. George. Around his face, a wreath of laurel and roses decorated the black uniform of the sacred battalion’s dead."
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Contact: G. Mavropoulos
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DATE: January 19, 2013
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Tel: 630-303-4361
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“The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide”
A New Book Edited by George Shirinian of the Zoryan Institute
The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1913–1923 edited by George N. Shirinian, Executive Director of the Zoryan Institute, is a compilation of innovative papers given by distinguished scholars at two academic conferences organized by the Pontian Greek Society of Chicago, and is published by The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center in Chicago.
“…our knowledge of the catastrophic events affecting millions of people caught up in the huge political and social transformation connected with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire and the rise of the Turkish Republic has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. Even the best studied of these tragic events, ‘The Armenian Genocide,’ has been deprived of a certain panoramic contextualization of a tragedy which touched profoundly the lives of several other religious and ethnic groups, such as the Greeks and Assyrians,” observed Theofanis G. Stavrou, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
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The Pontian Greek Genocide Teaching Unit (Free Download) |
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Created by The Pontian Greek Society of Chicago with the help of Ron Levitsky, a teacher at Sunset Ridge School in Northfield, Illinois, The Pontian Greek Genocide Teaching Unit introduces middle schooland high school students to the tragedy of the Pontian Greeks who were subjected to the first genocide of the 20th Century. Available to download in English and in Greek.
From 1914 to 1923, Christian minorities were forcibly expelled from their homes to comply with Turkish nationalist visions of an ethnically pure homeland inhabited only by Turks. Villages, cities, and farmlands across Pontus were emptied and the inhabitants subjected to atrocities under carefullyconcealed orders by government and party officials until the population exchange of 1923.
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