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The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide.
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1982 conference on genocide studies
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Genocide studies
Academic field of study that researches genocide
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Armenian genocide
1915–1917 genocide campaign in the Ottoman Empire
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