10:00 Keynote Lecture by Nazan Üstündağ (Independent Scholar) Welcome and Introduction by Axel Rudi

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Panel 1: Dealing with/in the State: Violence, Autonomy and (Im)practical Utopias
Sardar Saadi (Wageningen University/University of Rojava) Dilar Dirik (Univerisity of Oxford) Esin Düzel (Sabanci University)
Discussant: Axel Rudi (University of Bergen)

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Panel 2: Inescapable Echoes: Space, Memory and Otherness in the Kurdish Political Imaginary
Eray Çaylı (University of Hamburg) Onur Günay (Princeton University) Alice von Bieberstein (Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin)
Discussant: Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)

15:00 Coffee Break

15:15 Discussion with Panel Members, and questions from the audience

16:00 Conference End