A War Launched to Erase both the Culture and Future of the Iraqi people

International Seminar on the assassination of Iraqi Academics and Health Professionals

Madrid (Spain) Saturday 22 April
Place: Escuela Julián Besterio, Calle Azcona, 53

 

Program

 

FIRST SESSION

10:30 a.m.: Opening
Participants: Angel Gabilondo Pujol, Rector of the Autonomous University of Madrid, José Manzanares, Director of Escuela Julián Besteiro, and Joan Garcés, lawyer *).

Introducing: Carlos Varea, coordinator of the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq.

10:50 a.m.: The assassinations of Iraqi educational and health professionals during the occupation of Iraq: Presentations of the international campaign.
Participants: John Catalinotto, representative of International Action Center in the U.S.A.; Dirk Adriaensens, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells Tribunal, Belgium.

Introducing: Jesús de la Roza, Confederación STEs-Intersindical trade union.

11:30 - 11:45 a.m.: BREAK

[Meeting with mass media]

11:45 a.m.: Inaugural Conference
"Occupation and sectarianism in Iraq" presented by Pedro Martinez Montávez, who holds the Emeritus Chair in Arabic at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Introducing and moderating: Jose Luis Gordillo, professor of Philosophy at the Law University of Barcelona and representative of its Rector, Màrius Rubiralta.

SECOND SESSION

12:30 p.m.: The assassinations of Iraqi educational and health professionals: Testimonies and evaluation of their impact on Iraqi society and the future of the country
Participants: Ian Douglas, Visiting professor at the University of Nahah (Palestine), U.K.; Eman A. Khamas, journalist and writer, ex- director of Occupation Watch, Baghdad, and member of the Women Will Association; Ali Abdulah, university professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Baghdad; Salem Wasfi, medical surgeon in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, General University Hospital in Baghdad.

Introducing and moderating: Carmen Ruiz Bravo-Villasante, Chair in Arabic and director of the Arabic and Islamic Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

2:15 - 4:00 p.m.: LUNCK BREAK (****))

SECOND SESSION (Cont.)

4:00 p.m.: The assassinations of Iraqi educational and health professionals: Testimonies and evaluation of the impact on the Iraqi society and the future of the country
Participants: Eman A. Khamas, journalist and writer, ex- director of Occupation Watch, Baghdad, and member of the Women's Volunteer Association; Ali Abdulah, university professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Baghdad; Salem Wasfi, medical surgeon in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, General University Hospital in Baghdad; and Ismael Kaidar Jalili (Mosul, Iraq), consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Chair and Secretary General of National Association of British Arabs (NABA) former President of Iraqi Medical Association UK and of the British Arab Medical Association and existing Executive Council Member of the latter - Iraq / UK)

Order of interventions

Introducing and moderating: Joachim Guillard, coordinator of the German Tribunal on Iraq.

5:00 - 5:15 p.m.: BREAK

THIRD SESSION

5:15 p.m.: Conference closing
"The plunder and destruction of the Heritage of Humanity in Iraq," with Joaquin M. Cordoba Zoilo, professor in the Department of Ancient History and co-director of the Center of Higher Learning on Ancient Egypt and the Near East at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Introducing and moderating: Manuel Raposo, coordinator of the Portuguese Session of the International Tribunal on Iraq, Portugal.

6:00 p.m.: Conference closing
The commitment to the Iraqian people under occupation: for a sovereign future in an democratic and integrated Iraq
Participating: Rosa Regás, writer and General Director of the National Library, and Pedro Martinez Lillo, Vicerector of the University Extension and Cooperation with the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Introducing: Jaume Botey, professor of the History Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and representative of its Rector, Lluís Ferrer.

6:20 p.m.: End the conference and leave for the commemorative demonstration on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the II Spanish Republic.

 

- End the conference and leave for the commemorative demonstration on the occasion of the 75^th Anniversary of the II Spanish Republic.

 

 

Organizers:

Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq: http://www.iraqsolidaridad.org

BRussells Tribunal : http://www.brusselstribunal.org

International Action Center : http://www.iacenter.org

 

With the cooperation of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)

and the support of Escuela Julián Besteiro and the National Library

 

Entrance free /Simultaneous translation

Available information and support for lodging at: iraq@nodo50.org

 

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