The second part of panel I: The Contested Public Space in Iran and Kurdistan:
Dr. Hiwa Alidoust, research associate at the University of Hildesheim

The first part of Panel I: Identity – Subjectivity in the Gurani literature

Presented by Dr. Behrooz Chamanara, Director of the International Institute for the Study of Kurdish Societies (IISKS)

Opening of the symposium

Ms. Vian Nesrat Alo and Ms. Lala Kaykhosrawi, member of the TISHK Center for Kurdistan Studies

Conclusion of the Symposium:

Siawash Mohammadi, Director of the TISHK Center for Kurdistan Studies

The second part of Panel II: Rojhelat’s diversification of measures of resistance and advancement of civic activism

The second part of Panel II: Dr. Allan Hassaniyan, a senior lecturer specializing in Middle East Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, and a member of the Advisory Board of the TISHK Center

The first part of Panel II: Political Islam, the West and the Kurds

Prof. Dr. Said Shams, former head of the Department of Sociology at Soran University and member of the Advisory Board of the TISHK Center for Kurdistan Studies