Discourses of Memory In Iranian Languages

9.00 Registration

9.15 Welcome (Christine Allison, Paris)

9.30-13.00 Legend and History: Remembering the Remote Past

Chair: Prof. Philip Huyse

Naqqali: Ancient Legend as a Commentary on Current Events, Prof Philip Kreyenbroek, Georg-August University, Goettingen.

On Oral and Written Traditions in Ancient Iranian Cultures, Dr Antje Wendtland, Georg-August University, Goettingen.

Religion and Oral History: The Origin Myth of the Yezidis, Eszter Spät, Central European University, Budapest.

11.15 Tea/Coffee

History versus Legends: A Study of the Balochi Epic of Genealogy, Dr Sabir Badalkhan, University of Naples.

Folklore of the Tajiks of Boysun in Uzbekistan, Prof Ravshan Rahmoni, National University of Dushanbe, Tajikstan.

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 16.45 Workshop: Methods and Media

Chair: Dr. Sabir Badalkhan

"Are You Writing Our Book Yet?" War, Culture, Structural Violence, and Oral Historical Representation, (A work in progress from Herat, Afghanistan), Prof Margaret A Mills, Ohio State University.

The Potential of the Internet in Research on memory, Dr Christine Allison, INALCO / Mondes Iranien et Indien.

15.30 Tea/Coffee

Orality and Religion Prof Philip Kreyenbroek, Georg-August University, Goettingen.

Evening: Drinks at the Institut Kurde de Paris, 106 rue Lafayette, 75010 Paris

9.30 -13.00 Remembering and Forgetting

Chair : Prof. Touraj Atabaki

Untying the Tongue-Tied: Linguicide, Language, and Memory in Dersim, Ugur U. Ungor, University of Amsterdam Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Oral History of the Yezidis - Recollecting and Forgetting, Dr Ilhan Kizilhan, University of Konstanz.

11.15 Tea/Coffee

"Rice and Chickpeas": Remembering and Forgetting Fahriye's Story in Kurdish Nationalist Discourse, Rojda Alac, EHESS, Paris.

The Memory of an Archive: Nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the Post-colonial Debate Yavuz Aykan, EHESS, Paris.

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-18.00 From Individual to Collective Memory

Chair: Prof Margaret Mills

Remembering the West: The self and the West in the memoirs of Iranian politician, diplomats and intellectuals, Dr Oliver Bast, University of Manchester.

Don't Forget to Remember Me: Memoirs of Iranian Prisoners in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Prof Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

16.00 Tea/Coffee

Memory and Social Structure in Kurdish Society, Luqman Turgut, Georg-August University, Goettingen.

Lullabies and Collective Memory; a Comparative Study of Armenian and Kurdish Examples Estelle Amy de la Breteque, Universite Paris X Nanterre, and Melissa Bilal, University of Chicago.

Singing the Nation; Music in the Construction of a "National Memory" in Turkish Kurdistan, Yiannis Kanakis, Universite Paris IV.

18.00 Concluding Address Prof. Philip Kreyenbroek, Georg-August University, Goettingen.

Evening: Dinner, Restaurant 'Chez Bibi', 15 rue Frederic Sauton, 75005 Paris.