Ten associations – refugee and non-refugee – have joined forces to present a three-day program honouring the Centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, to be held at Piraeus between Friday 3 and Sunday 5 Μarch under the auspices of Piraeus council, its mayor, Piraeus Cultural and Athletic Organisation and the mayor of Nikaia and Nikaia-Renti council.
The three-day event is being organised also under the auspices of the Pan-Pontian Federation of Hellas and the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Cretan Cultural Associations with the noble support of the Piraeus Association.
For those in Athens in March, the councils have organised a series of events:
– Friday, March 3 from 7pm there will be a screening of the film ‘1922’ by director Nikos Koundouros in the main hall of the Peiraeus Association
– Saturday, Μarch 4 from 10.15am the council will hold a Symposium titled the ‘100 years since the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Treaty of Lausanne’ in the foyer of of the Piraeus Municipal Theatre.
The morning session will commence at 11am tapping into two subjects i) The Asia Minor Catastrophe and ii) the Genocide.
Papers will be presented by Harut Spartalian, President of the Armenian National Committee of Hellas The Genocide of the Armenians, titled The first act of a pre-aggravated crime.
Dr Panayiotis Diamadis from the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will present studies on What Australia knew about the Genocides of the Hellenes, Armenians and Assyrians 1914-1924, while Yiannis Hatzieleutheriou of the Pontian Studies Committee will present the The unity of the genocides as the basis for recognition.
The afternoon Session will start at 4.30pm focusing two presentations titled ‘The Settlement of Refugees’ and ‘The Treaty of Lausanne and the geopolitical circumstances’.
The events program will conclude on Sunday, Μarch 5 at 7pm with a theatrical monologue titled Music and Dances of the Eastern Homelands that will take place in the main hall of the Piraeus Association.
