Event Series

Kurdish Studies Series

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Past Events and Podcasts

2023-24

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As part of the LSE MEC's Kurdish Studies Series

Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK

Thursday 6 June | 17:00 - 18:00 BST | Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University in Denmark 

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Kurdish Studies Conference, 22-23 May 2024

This interdisciplinary event builds on the inaugural conference at LSE in 2023 and is organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

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Art and Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Feminist Fault Lines, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space

Thursday 5 October | 18:00 - 19:00 BST | Isabel Käser, LSE Middle East Centre; Houzan Mahmoud, Culture Project; Müjge Küçükkeleş, SOAS

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2022-23


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Kurdish Studies Conference, 24-25 April 2023

This conference marked the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Kurdish Studies Series at the Middle East Centre.

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Understanding Insurgency: Popular Support for the PKK in Turkey 

Thursday 27 October | 17:30 - 18:30 BST | Francis O'Connor, Wageningen University & Research

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2021-22


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The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran

Thursday 17 March | 13:00 - 14:00 GMT | Marouf Cabi, Historian

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The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities

Monday 17 January | 13:00-14:00 GMT | Isabel Käser, LSE Middle East Centre

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Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds 

Monday 25 October | 15:00 - 16:00 BST | Cengiz Çandar, Journalist

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2020-21


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A Modern History of the Kurds

Thursday 17 June | 13:00 - 14:00 BST | David McDowall

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Co-organised with the Kurdish Studies Programme, UCF

Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities 

Friday 23 April | 15:30-16:30 BST | Majid Hassan Ali, Ilia State University Georgia; Ohannes Kılıçdağı; Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida; Arzu Yilmaz, University of Hamburg

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Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism

Monday 16 November | 13:00 - 14:30 GMT | Zeynep Kaya, LSE Middle East Centre

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2019-20


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Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field

Thursday 21 November | 16:30 - 18:00 | Bahar Baser, Coventry University; Yasin Duman, Coventry University; Francis O'Connor, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Mark Sinan Winrow, LSE; Begum Zorlu, City, University of London 

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The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts

Thursday 5 September | 16:00 –17:30 | Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist and Independent Researcher

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2018-19


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The Kurdish Women’s Movement: On Revolution, Militarism and Body Politics

Tuesday 4 June | 16:00 - 17:30 | Isabel Käser, Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London

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Islam and Ethnicity in the Kurdish Political Sphere in Turkey 

Monday 17 December | 16:00 - 17:30 | Mehmet Kurt, London School of Economics and Yale University

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Updating 'A Modern History of the Kurds'

Tuesday 23 October | 16:00 - 17:30 | David McDowall

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