The Suryoye Lectures on April 7 & 8 2005

The Suryoye Lectures aim at contextualizing DAI's project Rucksack: Turkey in an artistic, social, historical, diasporic and political context.

The Programme:

Thursday April 7
10.00	August Thiry, writer: Mechelen on the Tigris.
12.00	LUNCH
13.00	Sabri Atman, Assyrian intellectual: Seyfo.The genocide of 1915.
15.00	Joost Jongerden, rural sociologist: Resettlement politics and the Kurds of Turkey.
16.00	Floris van den Eijnde, archeologist: Antioch, urban history of a multicultural city.
Friday April 8
10.00	Dr. A.J.Schukkink, anthropologist: The Suryoye, a hidden community in Enschede.
12.00	LUNCH
13.00	Dr. Bas ter Haar Romeny, theologist and scolar Semitic languages: Syrian Orthodox religion and culture and the formation of a communal identity.
15.00	Anne Verhoijsen, artist: Genesis 3 (www.genesis3.org)
16.00	Maxine Kopsa, art theorist and free lance editor Metropolis M: On the making of context specific art.