Seminar on Kurdistan in Iraq – progress and challenges

Posted by Janroj in Calender, Community, News, Seminar on 14. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment

[ March 20, 2010; 17:00 to 19:00. ]

Seminar on Kurdistan in Iraq – progress and challenges

Speaker: Ms. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman of Kurdistan Regional Government’s High Representative to the UK

Chair: Dr. Konrad Hirschler, Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East, SOAS  Read More…

Seminar on Green Movement and National Minorities in Iran

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

Speaker: Dr  Said Shams
Date and Time: 26th February 2010, @6:00
Venue: B111,SOAS 10 Thornhaugh Street WC1H 0XG,  London
Organized by Kurdish Studies and Students Organisation (KSSO) and Kurdish Society at SOAS(KSSOAS)

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.   Read More…

BSA Theory Study Group Symposium on ‘Understanding Diaspora: The Case of Kurds in London’

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BSA logo‘Understanding Diaspora: The Case of Kurds in London’ BSA Theory Study Group Symposium, organised in association with the Department of Sociology, University of Leicester
14 May 2010, University of Leicester

Organised by Ipek Demir (Leicester University)

Speakers:
Dr Umut Erel, RCUK Academic Fellow, Open University
Janroj Keles, London Metropolitan University
Dr Ibrahim Sirkeci, European Business School, London
Latif Tas, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Issa Tozun, London Metropolitan University
Dr Ipek Demir, University of Leicester
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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

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Seminar: Gender, Memory, and Political Discourse: The case of Anfal surviving women

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[ January 21, 2010; 19:00 to 21:00. ]

choman HardiSpeaker: Dr Choman Hardi
Chair:  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...

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. ] images

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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