Assyrian Culture in the Middle East and in Diaspora
Fadi Davood from the University of Toronto presented "Of Patriarchates and their place in Assyrian Identity." Alda Benjamen from the University of Pennsylvania Museum & Smithsonian Institution presented "Between Negotiation and Resistance: Baghdadi Assyrian intellectuals (1970s-1980s)." Eden Naby presented "Preservation of Aramaic through Word and Music." Third of three sessions in a daylong symposium. Speaker Biography: Fadi Davood is a lecturer at the University of Lakehead in Ontario, Canada. Speaker Biography: Alda Benjamen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Penn Cultural Heritage Center, and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, in the Office of the Undersecretary for Museum and Research. She works as a historian specializing in cultural heritage documentation and preservation. Benjamen completed her Ph.D. in Modern Middle Eastern History recently at the University of Maryland, College Park. Speaker Biography: Eden Naby is an Assyirian-Iranian-Assyrian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the Assyrian village of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7668
