10:00 Keynote Lecture by Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Welcome and Introduction by Axel Rudi

11:15 Coffee Break

11:30 Panel 1: Kurdistan Beyond its Parts: Continuities, Interconnections, and Breaks
Andrew Bush (Bard College)
Schluwa Sama (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
Umut Kuruüzüm (Istanbul Technical University)
Discussant: Axel Rudi (University of Bergen)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Panel 2: Before and after Empire: Kurdistan and the Emergence of the Nation State
Johan Franzen (University of East Anglia)
Dara Salam (SOAS)
Seda Altuğ (Bogazici University)
Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Discussant: Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)

15:30 Coffee Break

15:45 Discussion with Panel Members, and questions from the audience

16:30 Conference End