JUSTICE FOR IMPRISONED KURDISH CHILDREN IN TURKEY
Posted by KSSO in Calender, News on 19. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
[ June 24, 2010; 18:00 to 20:00. ]
You are kindly invited to our forthcoming concert and film screening and seminar in solidarity with imprisoned Kurdish children in Turkey
Talk: Ms Milena Buyum, Campaigner on Turkey for Amnesty International and Mr Ali Has, Lawyer
Concert:Aygul Erce, singer-song writer
Film Screening:‘Taslanan Vicdanlar/Brutal Consciences’ by Cenk Örtülü & Zeynel Koç Turkish and Kurdish with English subtitles, Running time 50 minutes. Read More…
Workshop on “Oral scripture”: the construction of sacred texts of the minority religions of Kurdistan
Posted by Janroj in News on 11. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
“Oral scripture”: the construction of sacred texts of the minority religions of Kurdistan
Tuesday 15 June, 2-6pm, seminar room 1, IAIS, Centre for Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter
The dominance of orality in the performance and transmission of the Yezidi and Yaresan religions of Kurdistan and Western Iran has been the object of scholarly interest for almost two decades. This workshop will provide the occasion for a detailed discussion of the sacred texts of these religions – how their sacrality is constructed, performed and conceived, and what marks them out from other elements of spoken discourse. It will bring together specialists on the two religions and their texts, and on Kurdish discourse (in its various dialects) more generally and reflect their research currently in progress.
The workshop will take the form of an informal round-table discussion, centred around the following presentations Read More…
Vera B. Saeedpour, Scholar and Archivist of the Kurdish Culture, Dies at 80
Posted by KSSO in News on 09. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
“A chance meeting in midlife led to a lifelong interest in an obscure, long-oppressed ethnic group.”
On the 30th of May, 2010, Vera B. Saeedpour, a longtime friend to and scholar on the Kurdish nation died at the age of 80. She spent many years of her life dedicated to highlighting and raising awareness of the plight of the Kurdish nation in the Middle East, as well as helping to preserve Kurdish culture through the establishment of a library and museum.
In 1981 the first Kurdish Program in the United States was established in New York City by Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, widow of Homayoun Saeedpour, a Kurd from Sanandaj in Iran, with the aim of informing Americans of the existence and plight of his people, the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Initially operating under the aegis of Cultural Survival Inc., the Program subsequently established the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America solely to support the Kurdish Library and Museum.
Amanj S. Yarwaessi
Seminar on The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan
Posted by KSSO in Calender, News on 07. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
[ June 7, 2010; 18:00 to 19:30. ] You are kindly invited to attend the forthcoming KSSO seminar and book launch
The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan
Speaker: Carol Prunhuber, journalist and author of the book “The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan”
Seminar abstract
Ms Carol Prunhuber, a Venezuelan author and journalist explores the life of the legendary Kurdish leader, Dr Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in her book titled “The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan”. Read More…
