Pontian Genocide Conference

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Originally From: Dimitrios Konstantakos <Konstand@MIT.EDU>

We would like to inform you of a Scientific Conference titled "The Genocide in Ponto as Part of the Minor Asia Holocaust"

Organized by World Council of Hellens Abroad Council of Hellens Abroad, North & South America Region Pan-Pontian Federation of USA-Canada Panhellenic Federation of Pontian Associations

Co-organizers: Hellenic Societies of Boston Federation of Pontian Associations in Australia Federation of Greek Associations in Russia Federations of Greek Communities in Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan,Armenia Pontian Unions from Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland

Friday 30 April, Saturday 1 May, Sunday 2 May 1999 at the "Malliotis Cultural Center"

Schedule of Events

Friday 30-April 17:00-18:00 Church Liturgy "Saint John's Baptist Church on Boston"

18:00 Conference Introductions Konstantinos Kotsalidis/ President of the Pan-Pontian Federation USA-Canada Theodoros Katsanebas/ PASOK Parliament Representative, University Professor Theofilos Leontaridis/ New Democracy Other Political Representatives 20:00 Lecture: " Who Greek Writers Viewed the Minor Asia Destruction" Nora Kwnstantinidou 20:30-22:30 Dinner

Saturday 1-May

8:30-10:00 Introductory

10:30-11:00 First Section Lecture:" The Holocaust of the Greek Minor Asia Civilization as described by secret documents of Vienna, Berlin, Vern" Polyxronis Enepekidis- Vienna University Professor

11:30-12:00 Lecture:" Human Rights, Genocides and International Organizations" Theodoros Pagkalos/ Parliament Pasok, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

12:00-12:30 Lecture:" Geopolitics of the Pontian Hellenism" Michel Bruneau/ Professor-Researcher University of Bordeu

12:30-13:00 Lecture:" Conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean" Dimitris Karugiannis/ Senator of the Federal Parliament of Canada

13:00-14:00 FREE LUNCH

Second Section

14:00-14:30 Lecture:" Hellenism of America and the Danger of assimilation" Panos Spyrianidis

14:30-15:00 Lecture:" The Genocide of the Greeks of Minor Asia during 1908-1922" Xara Galanou

15:00-15:30 Lecture:" Stalinic Persecutions of Greeks in the Soviet Union until the Kemalic Politics of National Cleansing" Blassis Agtzidis/Ph.D. History, Writer

15:30-16:00 Lecture:" The Genocide as recorded by the Foreign Office Files" Fanoula Argyrou

20:00-24:00 Dance with Kosta Karapanagiwtidi & band of Steve Pesiridi in the Room of Saint Nectarios

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