International Conference: From Lausanne 1923 to Lausanne 2023

Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 , 17:58

From Lausanne 1923 to Lausanne 2023

What future for the excluded peoples from the Lausanne Treaty in 1923
Current situation and perspective

Organized by the Kurdish Institute of Paris, in partnership
with the City of Lausanne, AFKIV and Switzerland – Armenia Association

June 10, 2023

Hôtel de Ville
Lausanne City Council Hall

Programme

9.00 am – 9.30 am	: Welcome of the participants
9.30 am	: Word of Welcome: Mr. Grégoire Junod, Mayor of Lausanne, Mr. Ihsan Kurt, President of AFKIV
09.45 am	: Presentation of the Conference: Mr. Kendal NEZAN, President of the Kurdish Institute of Paris

9.45 am – 11.15 am : 1st round table

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Moderator ― Joyce BLAU : Professor Emeritus of Kurdish language and civilization (INALCO) Paris

Speakers:

Derya BAYIR : Doctor at Law, lawyer, author of the book "Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law".
Hamit BOZARSLAN : Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris, author of " Histoire de la Turquie : de l'Empire ottoman à nos jours ", published by Tallandier 2013 :
« The Ottoman Empire after the First World War »
Hans-Lukas KIESER : Professor at Newcastle University, Australia, author of "When Democracy died : The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne”:
« The Negotiation Process and Key Provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne »
Leonard V. SMITH : Professor at Oberlin University, Ohio, USA
« International Law and Greek-Turkish, Greek-Bulgarian population exchanges »

11.15 am – 12.30 am: 2nd round table

THE FATE OF EXCLUDED PEOPLES

Moderator ― Nazand BEGIKHANI : Visiting Professor at Sciences-Po, Paris

Speakers :

Raymond KEVORKIAN : Professor Emeritus of the Sorbonne University, author of reference works on Armenia
«Consequences of the Treaty of Lausanne on the Armenian question»

Joseph YACOUB : Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Lyon
Baskin ORAN : Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara, author of reference works on Lausanne.
«The fate of minorities in the Treaty of Lausanne»

12.30 pm – 2 pm: Lunch break

2.15 pm – 3.45 pm: 3rd round table

THE KURDS AFTER LAUSANNE

Moderator ― Hamit BOZARSLAN : Professor at EHESS, Paris

Speakers:

Nazand BEGIKHANI : Visiting Professor at Sciences-Po, Paris
« The power of History and the importance to include the experience of Kurdish women »
Jordi TEJEL GORGAS : Professor at the University of Neuchâtel
« The Kurds in Syria »
Sherko KIRMANJ : Professor at the University of Ulster, and Assistant Professor at Koya University
« Lausanne Treaty and the impact of the Mosul Wilayat on the Kurdish question »
Mesut YEGEN : Professor at the University of Ankara
« The fate of the Kurds under the Turkish Republic »

3.45 pm - 5.30 pm: 4th round table

TOWARDS A REVISION OF THE TREATY OF LAUSANNE?

How to repair the injustices done to the peoples victimized by Lausanne Treaty and to respond to their aspirations?

Moderator - Kendal NEZAN : President of the Kurdish Institute of Paris

Speakers:

5.45 pm : Cocktail