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

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

Kurdish Book Fair

Posted by KSSO in Calender, Community on 18. Sep, 2009 | 1 Comment

[ September 25, 2009 10:00 to September 26, 2009 17:00. ] The Kurdish Book Fair will be taking place on 25th-26th September at Stoke Newington Library Gallery and within the surroundings of the ‘Human Writes and Kurds’ exhibition (Friday 25th – 10am-5pm; Saturday 26th – 10am-5pm).

Sivan Perwer and Aynur Dogan concert in London

Posted by KSSO in Calender, Community on 16. Sep, 2009 | 1 Comment

[ September 27, 2009; 18:00 to 22:00. ] Sivan Perwer and Aynur Dogan will be holding a concert at the Hackney Ocean Music Venue. Cevdet Bağca will also be performing.