THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018

ADVOCACY DAY ON CAPITOL HILL

8:00am to 11:00am

REMARKS FROM MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

Congressman Jeff Denham

Congresswoman Anna Eshoo

Congressman Brad Sherman

RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ROOM 2045

45 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20515

12:00pm to 4:00pm

MEETINGS WITH CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES

ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS TO TAKE PLACE IN SALON ROOM A/B UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

9:00am to 10:15am

The Future of Minorities in Iraq:

The Nineveh Plain and Other Territories

Alda Benjamen, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Smithsonian

Murad Ismael

Executive Director, YAZDA

Riva Gewarges

PhD Candidate, McMaster University

Reine Hanna

Director, Assyrian Policy Institute

Moderated by Dr. Fadi Dawood

10:30am to 11:45am

Securing the Nineveh Plain

Michael Youash

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

Board of Directors, Nineveh Plain Defense Fund

Ret. Brigadier General Ismael Alsodani

Former Iraqi Defense Attache to the U.S.

Gregory John Kruczek

PhD Candidate, Virginia Tech

Moderated by Waleeta Canon

11:45am to 12:30pm

Lunch

Provided by the AANF

12:30pm to 1:45pm

Rebuilding and Resettlement:

The Nineveh Plain After IS

Mourad Wahba

Director, UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States

Ashur Eskrya

President, Assyrian Aid Society

Juliana Taimoorazy

President, Iraqi Christian Relief Council

Jon Koriel

Chairman, Assyrian Policy Institute

Savina Dawood

Cofounder, Etuti

Moderated by Renya Benjamen

2:00pm to 3:15pm

Perspectives on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-Referendum

Abbas Kadhim, PhD

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute

Mariam Georgis, PhD

University of Alberta

Jomana Qaddour

USCIRF

Crispin Smith

JD Candidate, Harvard Law School

Max J. Joseph

Board of Directors, Assyrian Policy Institute

Diliman Abdulkader

Director, The Kurdistan Project

Moderated by Reine Hanna

3:30pm to 4:45pm

Under Siege from All Sides:
Assyrians in Syria and Turkey

The Honorable Alberto Fernandez

Retired U.S. Ambassador

Uzay Bulut

Journalist

Sargon Saadi

Director

Bedri Diril

Director

Rosemary Youhana

Assyrian Universal Alliance

Moderated by Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeloo

PHOTO EXHIBITION &

COCKTAIL RECEPTION

7:00pm to 10:00pm

"Khabour in a Thousand Words"

by Sargon Saadi

SALON ROOM C

ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS TO TAKE PLACE IN SALON ROOM A/B UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

9:00am to 10:15am

Preserving Assyrian Cultural Heritage

Efrem Yildiz, PhD

Vice-Chancellor, University of Salamanca

Abdulamir Hamdani, PhD

Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage

Nicholas Al Jeloo, PhD

Adjunct Lecturer, University of Melbourne

Nadia Younan

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

10:30am to 11:45am

Archiving the Past to Build a Future:

Modern Assyrian Research Archive as a National Archive

Michael Youash

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

Hannibal Travis

Professor of Law, Florida International University

Moderated by Dr. Fadi Dawood

11:45am to 12:30pm

Lunch

Provided by the AANF

LECTURE

12:30pm to 1:45pm

The Murder of Mar Benyamin Shimun and

the Secularization of the Assyrian Question

Wilfred Bet-Alkhas

Lecturer, San Jose State University

PANEL DISCUSSION

2:00pm to 3:15pm

Legacies of the Assyrian Genocide

and the Simele Massacre

Hannibal Travis

Professor of Law, Florida International University

Fadi Dawood, PhD

Senior Research Fellow, NATO Institute of Canada

Anahit Khosroeva, PhD

Leading Researcher, Department of Armenian Genocide Studies, Institute of History, Republic of Armenia

Antoni Yalap

PhD Candidate, Catholic University of Paris

Sabri Atman

Director, Seyfo Center

THE ROMRAMA GALA

7:00pm to 10:00pm

Martin Youmaran, AANF President

Iraq's Ambassador to the U.S.

His Excellency Dr. Fareed Yasseen

Keynote Address by

Dr. Efrem Yildiz, Vice-Chancellor

University of Salamanca

David B. Perley Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Simo Parpola

AANF Humanitarian Award

Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart

Live Entertainment by

Walter Aziz

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