Photo Exhibition: Experiences of Kurdish Migrants in London

Posted by KSSO in Calender, Community, News, Research, Seminar on 11. Jul, 2010 | No Comments

[ July 16, 2010; 17:00 to 19:00. ] Images of working lives: Experiences of Kurdish migrants in London

Photo Exhibition

Organized by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University

Date: Friday 16th- 23rd July 2010 ( Exhibition opening reception 5pm on Friday 16th July 2010)

Venue: RenkArt Centre, 86 Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington N16 7PA

Images of working lives is an exhibition held as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project conducted by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University to highlight the working conditions of an ‘invisible’ community, Kurdish Diaspora, in London. Read More…

Seminar on Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

Posted by Janroj in Calender, Seminar on 26. Apr, 2010 | No Comments

[ May 4, 2010; 17:00 to 19:00. ] Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

Speaker: Dr  Konrad Hirschler of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Date and Time: 4th May 2010, @ 5:00pm

Dr Hirschler will talk on the Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s and especially the ways in which it constructs, defines and reworks Kurdish national identity. Read More…

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…

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

Posted by KSSO in Calender, Community, News, Seminar on 10. Feb, 2010 | No Comments

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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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. ]

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...
A brief visual history of the social and architectural transformation in cities of South Kurdistan

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