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
