Welcome and Introductions 9:00 am - 9:15 am (Barbara Ying Center 101)
Güneş Murat Tezcür, Director of KPSP & Kerstin Hamann, Chair of Department of Political Science
Panel I: Identities: Majorities and Minorities 9:15 am -11:00 am (Barbara Ying Center 101)
- Mücahit Bilici, John Jay College, Rethinking Ehmedê Xanî’s Political Philosophy in Mem û Zîn (1692)
- Tyler Fisher, UCF & Haidar Khezri, UCF Rebuilding the Yazidi Shrines: Sacred Geography, Communal Architecture, and Personal Pilgrimage in the Aftermath of ISIS
- Hakan Özoğlu, UCF, The Kurds of the Caucasus
- Hille Hanso, Freelance journalist, Contemporary challenges of the Assyrians in relation to Kurdish politics in Iraqi Kurdistan
Panel II: Refugees and Borders 11:15 am -12:45 pm (Barbara Ying Center 101)
- Fırat Bozcalı, University of Toronto, A State on Paper? Material and Affective Claims to Statehood in the Iraqi Kurdish-Turkish Border
- Arzu Yılmaz, Independent scholar, Political Mobilization of Kurdish Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Bayar Mustafa Sevdeen, American University of Kurdistan, Kurdish Inner Borders at a Crossroad: Rojava-Başur Border
Panel III: Kurds in the Eyes of Others 14:00 pm -15:45 pm (UCF Global Building 101)
- Zeynep Kaya, London School of Economics, Orientalist Views of National Identity and Colonial Maps of Kurdistan
- Ohannes Kılıçdağı, Harvard University, “White Man’s Burden” or Victim’s Hope(lessness): Armenian’s Attitude Toward the Kurds before the Genocide
- Ekrem Karakoç, Binghamton University, Turkish Problem and Kurdish Conflict
- Tutku Ayhan, UCF, “We are Yezidis. Being otherwise never stopped our persecution”: Yezidi Perceptions of Kurds and Kurdish Identity
Film Showing 16:00 pm-17:30 pm (UCF Global Building 101)
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