Commemoration

Armenian Genocide Commemorative Lecture

The Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

29 mai 2025 7:00 PM

New South Wales Parliament House
Level 9, NSW Parliament House

New South Wales - Australia

2025 Armenian Genocide Commemorative Lecture organized by The Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (AIHGS).

Schedule:

- Wreath Laying Ceremony & Prayer Service at the Armenian Genocide 'Khatchkar', Peace Garden, Level 9, NSW Parliament House

- Commemorative Lecture by Distinguished Guest Speaker Professor Bruce Scates at Preston Stanley Room, NSW Parliament House, 7:45 PM

- Topic: 'With Courage and Compassion: Anzac and Armenia'

Bruce Scates Biography:

Bruce Scates is a Professor of History at the ANU, a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Social Sciences. He is the recipient/co-recipient of University, State and National Awards for Teaching Excellence, and his publications including Return to Gallipoli, A New Australia, the Cambridge History of the Shrine of Remembrance and Women and the Great War. His Annual Anzac Day broadcast began when the Covid pandemic saw a suspension of traditional services and has continued by public demand. The 2025 broadcast, featured on the ANU One Hundred Stories website, marked the 110th anniversary of both the Gallipoli Landings and the Armenian Genocide.