Second International Conference on Kurdish Studies



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Second International Conference on Kurdish Studies

‘The Kurds and Kurdistan: Considering Continuity and Change’


Exeter, 6-8 September 2012

Panel List Version 3 last updated 13th July.

PANEL LIST

  1. PLENARY SESSION: Welcome and Keynote addresses from Prof Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin) and Prof Zeynep Gambetti (Boğazici University, Istanbul)

2. Convened by ANDREA FISCHER-TAHIR: “Translocal knowledge circulation and political change in contemporary Kurdistan”

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Thomas Schmidinger

University of Vienna

"Knowledge circulation through academic exchange"

Eva Savelsberg

European Centre for Kurdish Studies, Berlin

"Elect your mukhtar! Arguments for a shift in promoting democratic change trough knowledge circulation – the example of the Syrian-Kurdish youth movement"

Karin Mlodoch:

Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin

"‘Thinking outside our own pain’ – Women Anfal survivors from the Germyan area, Kurdistan-Iraq, in exchange with German memorial sites on the victims of the Nazi-regime and the Holocaust"

3: Convened by DAVID ROMANO: “The Kurdish Issue: Barrier or Key to Democratization?"

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

David Romano

Department of Political Science
Missouri State University

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Mehmet Gurses

Florida Atlantic University

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Rob Lowe

Middle East Centre, London School of Economics

“The turmoil in Syria and uncertain change for the Kurds”

4: Convened by SALIH AKIN: LINGUISTICS 1

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Moslih A. Saeid

University of Duhok, Kurdistan



Language Change and the Process of Lexicon Borrowing in Kurdish

Katharina Brizic

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Kurdish in Vienna: Change as the Only Continuity

Mehmet Şerif Derince

Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research

Heterogeneity as a Norm: Kurdish Children in Focus

Yaron Martas & Salih Akin

University of Manchester & University of Rouen

A Survey of the Kurdish Dialect Continuum

5. ANTHROPOLOGY



Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Veronica Buffon

University of Exeter

A gender perspective on traditional healing practices and biomedicine: changes and continuities in Diyarbakır province

Nerina Weiss

Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark


Changing Stories: The Torture testimonies of Kurdish activists in Turkey and Denmark


Ulrike Flader

University of Manchester

Everyday Resistance Practices among the Kurdish Population in Turkey

Izaddin Rasool

Bangor University, Wales


Female Suicide in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq


6. HISTORY

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Djene Bajalan

St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford

The Kurdish münevver and the ‘Young Turk’ Revolution of 1908: The Apogee of ‘Kurdish Ottomanism’

Metin Atmaca

Freiburg University

Centralizing the Periphery of the Empire: Tanzimat and the case of Baban Emirate

Hassan Ghazi

Independent researcher

Kurdistan Mission

Ercan Çaglayan

Muş Alparslan University

The Zaza Kurds in the Early Republican Era (1923-1950)


7. Convened by SALIH AKIN: LINGUISTICS 2



Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Ergin Opengin

University of Paris III, France and University of Bamberg, Germany

Person Marking in Central Kurdish: Person, Role and Other Factors In Clitic/ Affix Interactions

Amir Sharifi

California State University

The Sociolinguistics of the Kurdish Diasporic Community in California

Jaffer Sheyholislami

Carleton University, Canada

Kurdish in Iran: A Case of Restricted and Controlled Tolerance"

Yazgül Şimsek

Potsdam Universität / Germany

"Evidence for the Category “Word” In Kurdish Writing of Kurdish-Turkish-German Trilingual Children in Germany










8. LAW AND SOCIETY

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Latif Tas

Queen Mary, University of London

Kurdish customary law in practise

Derya Bayir

Queen Mary, University of London

Representations of the ‘Kurds’ by the Turkish Judiciary

Brigitte Jelen

Bahcesehir University in Istanbul

Foreign Kurdish Brides in Turkey

Umut Yildirim

Sabanci

University,

Istanbul


The Noble Savage Overthrown: Limits of Urban Multiculturalism?

9.SPACE AND IDENTITY



Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Boris James

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Nationales (Paris)

The Construction of a Kurdish Political Space in the Middle Ages: Kurdish ‘in-betweenness’, border culture and state “ethnic engineering

Fuat Dundar

Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes

How to Measure Ethnic and Civic Nationalism: The Kurdish Case

Rojda ALAÇ

EHESS - Paris

Defining boundaries in everyday parlance: Remarks on the definition of Kurdish region

Lydia Shanklin Roll

University of Kentucky

Kurdish Concepts of Identity as an Alternative to Identities Imposed by the Turkish State: A Case Study

10. POLITICS IN TURKEY

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Salima Tasdemir

University of Exeter

Kurdish Women’s Political Activism in Turkey: Feminization of pro-Kurdish Party Politics?

Omer Tekdemir

Durham University

The Dimension of Agent, Structure and Superstructure: The transformation of counterhegemonic Kurdish political culture through ‘European of position’ in Turkish public sphere

Cengiz Gunes

Open University

Explaining Kurdish Nationalist Mobilisation in Turkey: Hegemony, Myth and Violence

Naif Bezwan

King`s College London

Mapping the AKP Policy towards Kurdish Identity and Representation

11. LITERATURE I

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Saman Hassan

University of Exeter

A Historical Perspective on Kurdish Women’s Poetry

Ozlem Galip

University of Exeter

Minority Literature: Towards Counter-Hegemonic Discourse

Laurent Mignon

St Antony’s College
University of Oxford

Redefining Literary History: The Challenge of Kurdish Multilingualism

Behrooz Chamanara

Iranian studies department

George August University




Kurdish Shah-name and its religious implications

12. DIASPORA

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Gamze Nazan Bedirhanoglu

State University of New York at Binghamton/Ankara University

One nation, two Diasporas, multiple Imaginations

Guldive Luqman

Independent Journalist and Researcher

Change of Nature of Intergenerational Communication and Cultural Transmission among female member of Kurdish Community in French Suburbs Creil and Nogent sur Oise

Jordi Tejel Gorgas

Department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva)

Advice from the Past: the KSSE and the “Kurdish revolution”, 1961-1974

Dr Ipek Demir

University of Leicester

Constructing a Diasporic Battle space in London: the Case of Kurds from Turkey

13. LITERATURE II

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Farangis Ghaderi

University of Exeter

The Emergence of modern Kurdish Poetry: a discursive analysis

Kave Ghadery

Payam-e Noor University

Translation, a Gateway to the Development and Reformulation of Short Story in Kurdish Literature; a Polysystem Approach

Mahroo Rashidirostami

University of Exeter

State Monolingualism and the Linguistic Displacement of Kurdish Writers: a postcolonial study of Ali-Ashraf Darvishian’s autobiographical novel Salhaye Abri (Cloudy Years)

Jonna Bochenska

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Old and new? Kurdish contemporary writers in search for values

14. OMARKHALI : “Religious Minorities and Political Changes in Kurdistan” I

Chair: Khanna Omarkhali



Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Andrew Palmer

University of Muenster

The relations between the monastery of Mor Gabriel and the surrounding Kurdish villages


Irene Dulz

European Technology & Training Centre, Erbil

The Yezidis’ Struggle for Participation in Iraqi Kurdistan

Khanna Omarkhali

Georg-August University, Göttingen,


Current Changes in the Yezidi System of Transmission of Religious Knowledge in the Light of Political Developments


Sebastian Maisel

Grand Valley State University

One community, two identities: Syria’s Yezidis and the struggle of a minority to survive



15. POLITICS AND THE KRG

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Renata Kurpiewska-Korbut

Jagiellonian University, Poland

“The Kurdistan Region in Iraq as a new actor on the international political scene”

Arzu Yilmaz

Ankara University/

Duhok University



“Brakuji xılas bu”: An Analysis on KDP-PKK Relations

Zheger Hassan

University of Western Ontario

Using and Abusing History: The Case of Halabja


Ismail Erdem

University of London

Understanding the changing institutional contexts and the endogenous dynamics of the nation-building process in Iraqi Kurdistan

16: JANROJ KELEŞ: MIGRATION AND DIASPORA

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Papers



Janroj Keles

London Metropolitan University

Diaspora, social network and labour market: Precarious Kurdish workers in London

J. Holgate

London Metropolitan University

Visual sociology and Diaspora: Visualising an invisible diasporic ‘community’s everyday life

L. Kumarappan

London Metropolitan University

Mediated homeland politics and transnational ethnic audiences: The case of Kurdish and Turkish migrants

17. OMARKHALI: “Religious Minorities and Political Changes in Kurdistan” II

Chair: Khanna Omarkhali

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Mojan Membrado

Institut des Langues Orientales (INALCO)

Gender and Religious Legitimacy: Recent Developments in the Ahl-e Haqq Communities

Shahrokh Raei,

Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen

Khāksār order in Kermanshah in the last five decades


Michiel Leezenberg

University of Amsterdam


The end of heterodoxy? Political and realignments of the Shabak and the Kakais in post-Saddam Iraq


18. SOCIETY IN THE KURDISH AUTONOMOUS REGION

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Diane E. King

University of Kentucky

Interrogating Politicking in the Kurdistan Region

Krzystof Lalik

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Development of Educational Policy of Authorities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Miriam Hevi Amin

Linköpings University


The Development of Welfare and Social Work in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Midst of State-Building and Transition Processes

Ahmad Soma

University of Vienna

Civil Society in Iraqi-Kurdistan – the influence of NGOs on democratization

SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER



19. THE POLITICS OF CHANGE

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Cemal Ozkahraman

University of Exeter

“Social Development” of Southeastern Anatolia Project: A Significant Element in Turkish Security?

Jason E. Strakes

Ilia State University


Beyond the Arab-Kurd Dichotomy: Competitive State–Building Strategies in the Republic of Iraq 1970-2010





20. CULTURE AND CHANGE

Presenters

Affiliation

Titles of Abstracts

Dr Kadri Yildirim

Mardin Artuklu University

Kurdish Studies at Higher Education Level in Turkey: Challenges and Opportunities

Sabir Birot

University of Leeds

Translation and Ideology: a Study of the Kurdish Media

Parvaneh Rezaee & Sue-San Ghahremani Ghajar

Al-Zahra University

“Kurdish the Language of Grandparents Stories, Losing its Place to English and Persian, Languages of Young Generation”

Hossein Kordnejad




Demographic changes and development of Kurdish nationalisms

21: PLENARY SESSION: SUMMING UP

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