International Conference

Tribute to Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou

A Conference organised by the Paris Kurdish Institute

Monday, February 17, 2020, 9:30 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.

Palais du Luxembourg - Salle Médicis
15ter, rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris

Programme

9.30 a.m.   Welcoming guests
9;50 a.m.   Welcome word and presentation of the conference

Moderator : Kendal NEZAN, president of the Kurdish Institute Paris



10.00 a.m. – 12.20 a.m. - 1st Panel:

The years of training and exile (1930 - 1978)

Moderator : Joyce BLAU, Emeritus Professor, INALCO

Speakers :

 

12.30 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Lunch break
2.15 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. - 2nd Panel :

The years of resistanceRelations with the Kurdish world (1978 -1989)

Moderator : Rémi FÉRAUD, senateur of Paris


Speakers

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. - 3rd Panel :

Ghassemlou, figure of the Iranian democratic opposition

Moderator : Hamid BOZARSLAN, Professor at EHESS


Speakers

 

5.00 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. - 4th Panel :

Ghassemlou International

Moderator : Kendal NEZAN, president of the Kurdish Institute Paris


Speakers

  • Gérard CHALIAND, writer and geopolitician
  • Alain CHENAL, editorialist, Le Monde

  • Bernard KOUCHNER, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Marc KRAVETZ, journalist
  • Carol PRUNHUBER, writer and author of a biography of Ghassemlou
  • Jonathan RANDAL, journalist
  • Dr. Florence VEBER, former head of International Medical Aid
6.45 p.m.
Closing speech