Keynote Speakers
The artist Mr. Madhar Jalaladdin Abdulkhaliq known as (Madhari Khalqi)
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In 1957 he started to teach at intermediate school in Saqaz. In 1958 he inhabited in Tehran, where he obtained a Bachelor degree in Physics and a Master in Industrial Management. He worked at Tehran Radio as a translator and broadcaster. Due to the Iranian political situation, he moved to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Southern Kurdistan) in 1983 and then to Europe.
He produced two tapes (albums) of lyrics between1985-1986 in London. He was a member of “The Kurdish Cultural Center” and headed that cultural center for three sessions. He returned to Kurdistan in 2002 and in 2003 he established “The Adan Center” in Suleimaniyah city, which became the foundation of The Kurdish Heritage Institute that works in the fields of culture, minorities, religion followers, indigenous religions, folklore archive and heritages.
Vardan S. Voskanyan
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Was born on January 9, 1972, in Yerevan
Faculty of Oriental Studies (ysu.am)
Education
1989 - 1994: YSU, Faculty of Oriental Studies, student
1994 - 1997: National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ph.D. student
Experience
1997 to present: YSU,Faculty of Oriental Studies, Dept. of Iranian Studies, lecturer
2000-2007: YSU,Faculty of Oriental Studies, Dept. of Iranian Studies, assistant-prof.
2007 to present: YSU,Faculty of Oriental Studies, Dept. of Iranian Studies, associate-prof.
2014 to present: YSU,Faculty of Oriental Studies, Dept. of Iranian Studies, Head of the Department
Academic courses
Pashto, Judaeo-Persian, Ethnic and linguistic panorama of Caspian regions, Ethnic and linguistic panorama of Afghanistan, History and sociolinguistics of the Iranian languages, History of Persian language
Scale of professional interests
Indo-Iranian languages and dialects, Iranian religionsand culture, History of Iran, Near-Еastern ethnic and religious groups, Armeno-Iranica, Armen-Turcica
Professional membership
Editorial board of “Iran-Name”, Armenian Journal of Oriental Studies
Editorial board of “Orientalia”, Proceedings of the Department of Iranian Studies
Editorial board of “Issues of Oriental Studies”, Proceedings of the Faculty of Oriental Studies
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (USA)
Iranology foundation (Iran)
Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (Armenia)
Armenian, Russian, English, Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Azerbaijani,
Ismail Shams
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He was born in Pawa in Iran, 1975. He obtained diploma in the Humanities and Bachelor in History at Tehran University. He was also awarded Master in History of Islamic Iran at Tehran University in 2000 and PhD in the same field in 2005 at Tarbiat Modares University.
Ismael Shams published many books and academic researches about the history of Iran and Kurds:
The books:
An Anthology of Kurdistan documents from the first to the fifth session of the Parliament.
Kurdish History and Folklore.
The Petroleum of the Kermanshah Chiasur
The Global Cholera in Kurdistan and Kermanshah
Academic Researches
An Introduction to Kurdish History Writing
Kurdish Mujahideen in Starkhan Movement
A Documentary Research on Muhabad Situation in the Russian -Ottomanian Conflict during the Final Year of the World War I.
Women in the vision of “Habl Al-Matin” journal.
Mr. Mohammed Ali Qaradaghi
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He was born in Takia Village –Qaradagh district in 1949. He started his study when he was a child and continued only to the 3rd primary stage and then joined religious school. He visited many schools in order to acquire knowledge. Then he traveled to Baghdad to complete his preparatory stage in the (Bab Al-Sheikh) Islamic Institute between1970-1971.
Later on he joins Imam A’Adam College and gets Bachelor degree in the Islamic sciences.
His first work in the field of investigation of poetical works was Waffaee poetical work. His first involvement in manuscript works goes back to 1973 when he first started to work on Mawlawi Doctrine. He also worked on the manuscripts of some other poets including; Waffaee, Jaffaee, and Mawlawi.
He has published over 50 books, one of which is entitled “Revival of the lives of the Kurdish Scientists through their manuscripts”