Seminar on ‘Future of Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Perspectives on Aspiration and Ambition

Posted by Janroj in Calender, News on 25. Feb, 2010 | No Comments

[ March 20, 2010; 17:00 to 18:30. ] Seminar on ‘Future of Kurdistan Region of  Iraq: Perspectives on Aspiration and Ambition’

Speaker: Ms Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman of Kurdish Regional Government High Representative to the UK and Chairman of the Kurdistan Development Corporation (KDC)

Date/time: 20^th March 2010 at 5:00pm

Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Organised by Kurdish Studies and Students Organisation (KSSO) and Kurdish Society at SOAS (KSSOAS)

Seminar on Green Movement and National Minorities in Iran

Posted by KSSO in Calender on 30. Jan, 2010 | Comments Off

[ February 26, 2010; 18:00 to 20:00. ] Seminar: Green Movement and national minorities in Iran

Seminar Abstract

The recent resistance against the Islamic regime and cry for freedom in Iran, labelled as ‘the Green Movement’, has taken the focus of attentions.  It all started when the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009, was disputed by the two defeated candidates, Mir Hussein Mousavi and the former speaker of parliament and senior cleric, Mehdi Karroubi. In the past seven months despite increased security, official warnings and often brutal crackdowns on opposition figures, journalists and ordinary demonstrators, mass protests have increasingly taken place.  In fact, the continued mass protests across the country, despite harsh security measures, turned the Green Movement into a nationwide uprising against the regime.

In this speech, Said examines the weight of the national minority communities in the politics of the Green Movement. He argues that the right national minorities in Iran has received little attention in the recent oppositional movement. Read More…

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 Hardi
Chair:  Dr Umut Erel

Research on images of the Kurdish identity in London

Posted by KSSO in Calender, Community, Research on 22. Dec, 2009 | No Comments

[ November 13, 2009; 18:00 to 20:00. ]

We as a research team are doing a research project on ‘Influences of identity, community and social networks on ethnic minority representation at work’ at London Metropolitan University and focusing on Kurdish people in Hackney, Indian people in Ealing and Caribbean people in Lambeth.

We are looking for 20  Kurdish individuals (with different age, gender, education and occupation background) to participate in a focus group and to interpret the social and cultural meanings of 10 photographs of Kurdish everyday life in London including identity, community and work.

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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

Human Rights Violations in Turkey, the Kurds and the EU

Posted by KSSO in Calender, Campaigns, News on 04. Dec, 2009 | No Comments

[ December 10, 2009; 19:00 to 20:00. ]

Urgent! Change of speaker

We regret to inform you that there has been a change of speaker for the seminar on Thursday 10th December 2009. Mr Akin Birdal, a human rights lawyer and senior DTP politician, has postponed his UK visit due to the threat of a ban of his political party, the pro-Kurdish DTP, by Turkish the Constitutional Court. In his place, Medeni Kırcı, a member of the DTP Foreign Affairs Committee will be speaking. The meeting will be chaired by Prof. Mary Davis. We apologize for this short notice and look forward to see you at our seminar, these recent developments will be addressed at the seminar too.

Speaker: Mr Medeni Kırcı, member of the DTP Foreign Affairs Committee

Chaired by Prof Mary Davis

Date: 10th December 2009 at 7:00 pm

Venue: G50 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG