Concert: Persian and Kurdish music in Oxford
Posted by Janroj in Calender, Community, News on 22. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
Date and Time: Sunday, 7 February 2010, @7:00pm
Venue: The Wheatsheaf, at 129 High St, Oxford, OX1 4DF
Seminar: Gender, Memory, and Political Discourse: The case of Anfal surviving women
Posted by Janroj in Calender, News, Research, Seminar on 15. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
[ January 21, 2010; 19:00 to 21:00. ]
Speaker: Dr Choman HardiChair: Dr Umut Erel Date and Time : 21rst January 2010,@7:00 pm Venue: B111, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) Read More...
A brief visual history of the social and architectural transformation in cities of South Kurdistan
Posted by Janroj in Calender, News, Seminar on 05. Dec, 2009 | No Comments
[ December 4, 2009; 19:00 to 20:30. ] Speaker: Parwez Z abihi
Date and Time: 04 December 2009 at 7:00
Venue: B104 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
(SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Following first KSSO seminar on urban regeneration in South Kurdistan in November 2008 at SOAS, Parwez has been continuing his research to document visually the important social and architectural transformation in Arbil, Slemani, Kerkuk,Koya, Dehuk and Sharazoor/Halabja.
He will present his recently conducted visual documentation on the social and architectural transformation in cities of South Kurdistan and talk about the current urbanization policy of the Kurdish local and national government
The sixth Kurdish Film Festival London 20th – 30th November 2009
Posted by Janroj in Community, News on 11. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
The sixth London Kurdish Film Festival (LKFF) will start from 20th November. The full programme and lots more information is on the London Kurdish Film Festival website http://www.lkff.co.uk/index.html
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
The festival is coming soon and London Kurdish Film Festival Organising Committee needs your help. They need people to help them for smooth running of the festival programme at the venues. If you live in London and are free between 20-30 November you might be the one they need. Your help needed for following:
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
