Friday May 30: Plenary Lecture
Mason Hall, Baruch College Performing Arts Center
17 Lexington Avenue (@ East 23rd Street), NYC
Plenary Lecture
7:30pm
The New Imperialism: Old problems, New Challenges
Tariq Ali
David Barsamian
Neil Smith

Saturday May 31: Conference Panels
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street), NYC

9:30am-10:00am Registration
Session I
10:am-12:00pm

Panel 1: Changing Gender Roles in the Diaspora
Nancy Agabian
Florence Avakian
Nora Armani (Discussant)
Doug Geogerian(Moderator)

Panel 2: What Would a Global Armenian Progressive Agenda Look Like?
Armineh Arakelian
Antranig Kasbarian
Pedro Mouratian
Nubar Hovsepian (Discussant)
Levon Chorbajian (Moderator)

Session II
1:00pm-3:00pm

Panel 3: The ADL and the Armenian Genocide: Pursuing Common Goals Through Grassroots Activism
Sevag Arzoumanian
Laura Boghosian
Joey Kurtzman
Jack Nusan Porter
Khatchig Mouradian (Moderator)

Panel 4: Foreign Assistance to Armenia: Toward Prosperity or Dependency?
Levon Chorbajian
Elizabeth Chouldjian (Discussant)
Karen Hakobyan
Markar Melkonian
Dikran Kaligian (Moderator)

Session III
3:00pm-5:00pm

Panel 5: Student Panel: New Work of An Activist Bent
Celina Agaian
Lori Janbazian
Zohrab Sarkissian
Sossi Essajanian (Moderator)

Panel 6: Unrest in Armenia: New Seeds of Democracy or Destabilizing Acts?
Armineh Arakelian
John Hughes
Simon Maghakyan
Kim Hekimian-Arzoumanian (Moderator)

Closing Plenary
5:30pm-7:30pm
Coalition Building Among Dispossessed Peoples
Tariq Ali
David Barsamian
Nubar Hovsepian
Antranig Kasbarian (Moderator)