Conference Locations

• Koya University

  Venue

  Koya University.

  University Park, Danielle Mitterrand Boulevard, Koya KOY45
  Kurdistan Region, Iraq

   

  • The Presidency Hall-1 (PH1)
    

    The Presidency Main Hall would host the conference opening and closure ceremonies. (The Presidency of Koya University Building, Ground Floor)

  • The Presidency Hall-2 (PH2)
    

    This hall is at the Presidecy Building-Ground Floor and is dedicated for paper-sessions: PS.1, PS3, PS.5.

  • The Presidency Hall-3 (PH3)
    

    This hall is at the Presidecy Building-Ground Floor and is dedicated for paper-sessions: PS.2, PS4, PS.6.

  • Coffee Break
    

    The coffee breaks will be at the lobby of the Presidency Halls.

Conference Schedule

2023-02-20

09:00 AM

• Registration

10:30 AM

• Opening Ceremony

11:00 AM

• Keynote Speeches: 

  Keynote Speeches by:

  Rasem Badran, Dar Al-Omran (DAO), Jordan

  Ghada Al-Silq, DOCOMOMO, Iraq

12:30 PM

• Lunch

02:30 PM

• Parallel Paper Sessions: 

  PS1: Heritage, Reconstruction and Politics

  Chair: Jorge Correia, University of Minho, Portugal

  EAHN Representative

  Hall: Presidency Hall2 (PH2)

  Representing heritage and power

  Ula Abd Ali Khalel Merie, University of Babylon, Iraq

  On the edge: How the Istanbul canal project threatens the water heritage of the city

  Nesrin Erdogan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey;

  Orcun Sena Saracoglu^, Orta Doĝu Teknik Üniversita, Ankara, Turkey

  Architects’ attitudes toward heritage during the reconstruction phases from postwar planning to recent times: Plymouth, Coventry, and Canterbury

  Dlara Naqi, University of Kent, UK

  Towards a cultural heritage reconstruction strategy in the ancient city of postwar Aleppo

  Ligia Nunes, Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP), Portugal;

  Yara Aboasfour, Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP), Portugal

  Q&A Discussion and the Closure of Session

   

  PS 2: Heritage: Documentation, Maintenance, and Management

  Chair: Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University, USA

  Representative of Columbia University

  Hall: Presidency Hall3 (PH3)

  HBIMM: Advanced management of Syrian architectural rural heritage

  Salah Hajismail, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey

  A new project for the archaeological site of Sarqala (KRG, Iraq): Combining research, preservation, enhancement, and public archaeology

  Luca Colliva, Missione Storico Archeologica Italiana in Kurdistan (MiSAK), Università di Bologna, Italy;

  Salih Mohammed Sameen, Garmian Antiquities Directorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  The misused maintenance in heritage buildings conservation

  Mohammed Al-Hasani, Ministry of construction, housing &Municipalities, Iraq

  Repurposing cultural heritage buildings as tourist attractions

  Nareen Rauf, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Q&A Discussion and closure of session

04:30 PM

• Coffee Break

2023-02-21

09:00 AM

• Registration

10:30 AM

• Keynote Speech: Abdullah Khorsheed, The Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH), Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

11:00 AM

• Parallel Paper Sessions: 

  PS3: Heritage and Urban Threats

  Chair: Belgin Turan Özkaya, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

  EAHN Member

  Hall: Presidency Hall2 (PH2)

  Heritage and the challenge of losing buffer-zone: Mawlawi street

  Karzan Jalal Saadoon, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Raz Saeed faraj, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Van Sardar Namiq, Tishk International University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Sarhand Khalid Rasul, Alumni of Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Exploring the potential resiliencies of traditional urban fabric: Bazaar area in Sulaimani

  Hoshyar Qadir Rasul, Sulaimani Polytechnic University (SPU), Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Wafa Anwar Sulaiman, Duhok University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  The impact of urban extensions on heritage buildings: Al-Al-Bayt University in Baghdad

  Shaymaa Alkubaissy, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  The effect of the architectural intervention on the deformation of the heritage urban scene: Sulaimani city

  Yousor Muhammad, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Raz Saeed Faraj, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Q&A Discussion and closure of session

   

  PS4: Heritage in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas

  Chair: Panayotis Tournikiotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  EAHN Vice-President

  Hall: Presidency Hall3 (PH3)

  War Aesthetics

  Nerma Cridge, Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK

  Landscapes of culture, heritage, and conflicts in the Swedish Million Programs

  Chero Eliassi, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden

  Beirut’s heritage fabric after the explosion and the cultural fight for existentiality

  Paula Abu Harb, Wormhole Architecture, BBHR20 member, Lebanon

  Post-Anfal villages: Koya city hinterland after the dark ages

  Lenka Starkova, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

  Q&A Discussion and closure of session

01:00 PM

• Lunch

03:00 PM

• Parallel Paper Sessions: 

  PS5: Heritage, Memory, and Identity

  Chair: Wezha H. Bayz, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Head of the Department of Architectural Engeneering

  Hall: Presidency Hall2 (PH2)

  Koshks as key features of the threatened architectural identity of Old Mosul City

  Ali Haider Al-Jameel, Nawroz University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Eman Khalid Al-Moula, University of Mosul, Iraq

  Rana Mahfoodh Hamid, University of Mosul, Iraq

  Mosul's brick minarets: The Al-Hadbaa Minaret, distinguished features

  Mumtaz Aldewachi, University of Mosul, Iraq

  Tangible and intangible links between heritage places in Koya city

  Zamwa Radha Mohammed, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Raz Saed Faraj, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Nomadic pastoralism in the KRG: Intangible cultural heritage in danger

  Michaël Thevenin, URMIS - Paris University, IFPO (French institute of the Near East), France

  Q&A Discussion and closure of Session

   

  PS6: Koya Old Town: Heritage and Restoration

  Chair: Sahar Al-Qaisi, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Director of the Heritage Conservation Research Program (HCRP)

  Hall: Presidency Hall3 (PH3)

  Architecture as a manifestation of prosperity and order: Ottoman built environment in Koya

  Karel Novacek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

  Hemin Naman Kawes, Koya Department of Antiquity Service, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Trade buildings as witnesses of cultural exchange: The Mahmud Agha Khan, Koya and the Qaisariya al-Khayyatin, Erbil

  Anne Mollenhauer, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

  The Mahmud Agha Khan in Koya: Reflections on the limits and potentials of a restoration project

  Andreas Hoffschildt, Architectural Office of Klessing Hoffschildt Architects, Germany

  Koya Department of Antiquity Service, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  The deteriorated heritage buildings in Koya: The case of the local, late Ottoman khan of Mahmood Agha

  Ayat Qasim, Alumni of Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Sahar izzat, Alumni of Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Vian Namiq, Alumni of Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  Q&A Discussion and closure of session
  

05:00 PM

• Keynote Speech: Panayotis Tournikiotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

05:30 PM

• Closing Ceremony