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Digital (Hi)Stories from the Past, Innsbruck 10-12 July 2018

Programm

Tuesday July 10th

History and Anthropology

10:00 – 10:15 Introduction (Brigitte Truschnegg, Cinzia Pappi, Wali Ahmad)

10:15 – 10:30 ASK Project, Dr. Cinzia Pappi (University of Innsbruck)

10:30 – 10:45 Pastoral Transhumance in the Region of Koi Sanjaq, Michael Thevenin, MA (IfPo Erbil)

10:45 – 11:00 Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 11:45 Orality as identity – The importance of Kurdish oral history and a project to study koya regions oral tradition and history, Prof. Haidar Lashkri Khidr (Koya University)

11:45 – 12:00 Oral History: A Balance between Daily Life and Historical Conflicts, Prof. Brigitte Truschnegg (University of Innsbruck)

12:00 – 12:15 Examples of Visual Anthropology, Dr. Ludovica Fales (West London University)

12:15 – 12:30 Discussion

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Round Table: Future Common Projects. Research Questions, Collection of Oral Data, and Digitalization of the Oral Sources.

Wednesday July 11th

Meeting with the Director of the Institute of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and other professors affiliated to it. Trip to the Stift Stams (Innsbruck).

Thursday July 12th,

Archaeology and Recent History

10:00 – 10:15 Introducing the Scientific Cooperation between Innsbruck and Palacky University, Olomouc (Cinzia Pappi, Karel Novacek)

10:15 – 10:30 Medieval Koya, Prof. Karel Novacek (Palacky University. Olumouc)

10:30 – 10:45 Landscape Archaeology of Modernity: resettlement patterns and population movements in a view of remote sensing data, Dr. Lenka Starkova (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen)

10:45 – 11:15 Discussion

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11: 30 – 12:30 Discussion, Planning ASK 2018, Teaching Programm University of Koya (Cinzia Pappi, Karel Novacek, Haidar Lashkri Khidr, Wali Ahmed)

Organized with the support of the Austrian Embassy Amman, the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, the International Relation Office of the University of Innsbruck (Austria).

 

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Workshop on Oral History

The ASK Project Team is happy to announce that the Institute of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies of the  University of Innsbruck will host, with the support of the Austrian Embassy in Amman and the International Relation Office of the University of Innsbruck, a workshop on Oral History.

His Excellence the Austrian Ambassador Dr. Michael Desser visiting the Project House in Koya (Iraqi Kurdistan) in April 2017.

Interviews with the people of Koya have proven to be an indispensable part of our fieldwork. A small group of archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and documentary filmmakers will gather in Innsbruck to discuss the prospects of constructing a multi-medial archive of oral sources related to recent developments of the cultural landscape of the region of Koya/Koi Sanjaq.