Seminar on Presences and absences in stories about racism and disadvantage
Posted by Janroj in Calender, Seminar on 09. Oct, 2009 | 2 Comments
[ October 22, 2009; 18:00 to 20:00. ]
Speaker:
Dr Maja Cederberg, Lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Politics and Sociology, Oxford Brookes University
Chair: Dr. Umut Erel of Open University
Date: 22nd Oct 09 @ 7:00
Venue: G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
This paper engages with debates surrounding the use of biographical narrative interviews in the social sciences. It draws on narrative interviews with different groups of migrants in Sweden, and focuses particularly on how the migrants narrate experiences of racism, discrimination and disadvantage.
Seminar on Citizenship and ethnic identity formation: The case of the Kurds in Syria
Posted by Janroj in Calender, Seminar on 05. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
[ October 8, 2009; 19:00 to 21:00. ] Speakers:
Mr. Robert Lowe, Research Fellow, Manager of Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Mr. Amed Semo, Independent Researcher and Medical Doctor
Chair: Mr. Janroj Keles, Research Fellow, London Metropolitan University
“The Kurdish political and cultural movement in Syria has lacked prominent historical reference points. Compared to Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and Iran, those in Syria have a shorter ‘national story’ “Mr. Robert Lowe
“more than 150,000 and now increased to more than half a million, Kurds, who had been living in their own homeland, being stripped of their Syrian nationality certificate, thereby depriving them of the basic human right of surviving and prospering in their own country”. Mr. Amed Semo
