Event: Kurdish Human Rights Conference and Film Festival
Date: September 4 and 5, 2004
Host & Location: Social Cultural Anthropology Program
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Title: KURDISH HUMAN RIGHTS: Statelessness, Resistance, and Survival Purpose of the Conference:
The Kurds and their allies have been engaged in diverse struggles for survival and cultural rights. The conference will bring together prominent scholaractivists to discuss the politics of Kurdish nationalisms, ethnic identities, and human rights. Nation-building and statelessness, ethnicity and race, gender and class, Empire and neocolonialism, as well as strategies for cooperation between stakeholders in the Middle East and the Kurdish diaspora, will be discussed.
The two-day conference also features a cultural celebration with Kurdish food, music, dance, and a film festival. Individuals and organizations committed to social change and human rights are cordially invited.
Presenters include:
Tara Aziz Robert Olson
Angana Chatterji Mitchell Plitnick
Fredrick Cloyd Soraya Serajeddini
Ali Ezzatyar Richard Shapiro
Michael Gunter Joe Subbiondo
Rashid Karadaghi Kerim Yildiz
Brucek Khailany Nicole Watts
Diane King Kani Xulam
Soraya Mofty Stephen Zunes
Mustafa Mirzeler
Saturday Conference:
9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Opening Remarks and Sessions including Lunch
Topics include:
Nation-building and the Kurds
Current Landscape of the Kurds
Alliances and Strategies
6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Traditional Kurdish Dinner and Kurdish cultural celebration
Sunday Film Festival:
10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Films include:
InNowhereLand (Nirgendwo)
Jiyan
Saddam