| 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
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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
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Thomas Schmidinger
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University of Vienna
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"Knowledge circulation through academic exchange"
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Eva Savelsberg
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European Centre for Kurdish Studies, Berlin
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"Elect your mukhtar! Arguments for a shift in promoting democratic change trough knowledge circulation – the example of the Syrian-Kurdish youth movement"
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Karin Mlodoch:
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Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin
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"‘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"
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3: Convened by DAVID ROMANO: “The Kurdish Issue: Barrier or Key to Democratization?"
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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David Romano
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Department of Political Science
Missouri State University
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Mehmet Gurses
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Florida Atlantic University
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Rob Lowe
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Middle East Centre, London School of Economics
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“The turmoil in Syria and uncertain change for the Kurds”
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4: Convened by SALIH AKIN: LINGUISTICS 1
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Moslih A. Saeid
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University of Duhok, Kurdistan
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Language Change and the Process of Lexicon Borrowing in Kurdish
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Katharina Brizic
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Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Kurdish in Vienna: Change as the Only Continuity
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Mehmet Şerif Derince
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Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research
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Heterogeneity as a Norm: Kurdish Children in Focus
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Yaron Martas & Salih Akin
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University of Manchester & University of Rouen
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A Survey of the Kurdish Dialect Continuum
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5. ANTHROPOLOGY
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Veronica Buffon
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University of Exeter
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A gender perspective on traditional healing practices and biomedicine: changes and continuities in Diyarbakır province
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Nerina Weiss
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Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark
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Changing Stories: The Torture testimonies of Kurdish activists in Turkey and Denmark
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Ulrike Flader
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University of Manchester
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Everyday Resistance Practices among the Kurdish Population in Turkey
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Izaddin Rasool
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Bangor University, Wales
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Female Suicide in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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6. HISTORY
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Djene Bajalan
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St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
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The Kurdish münevver and the ‘Young Turk’ Revolution of 1908: The Apogee of ‘Kurdish Ottomanism’
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Metin Atmaca
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Freiburg University
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Centralizing the Periphery of the Empire: Tanzimat and the case of Baban Emirate
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Hassan Ghazi
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Independent researcher
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Kurdistan Mission
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Ercan Çaglayan
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Muş Alparslan University
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The Zaza Kurds in the Early Republican Era (1923-1950)
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7. Convened by SALIH AKIN: LINGUISTICS 2
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Ergin Opengin
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University of Paris III, France and University of Bamberg, Germany
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Person Marking in Central Kurdish: Person, Role and Other Factors In Clitic/ Affix Interactions
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Amir Sharifi
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California State University
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The Sociolinguistics of the Kurdish Diasporic Community in California
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Jaffer Sheyholislami
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Carleton University, Canada
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Kurdish in Iran: A Case of Restricted and Controlled Tolerance"
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Yazgül Şimsek
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Potsdam Universität / Germany
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"Evidence for the Category “Word” In Kurdish Writing of Kurdish-Turkish-German Trilingual Children in Germany
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8. LAW AND SOCIETY
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Latif Tas
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Queen Mary, University of London
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Kurdish customary law in practise
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Derya Bayir
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Queen Mary, University of London
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Representations of the ‘Kurds’ by the Turkish Judiciary
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Brigitte Jelen
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Bahcesehir University in Istanbul
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Foreign Kurdish Brides in Turkey
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Umut Yildirim
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Sabanci
University,
Istanbul
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The Noble Savage Overthrown: Limits of Urban Multiculturalism?
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9.SPACE AND IDENTITY
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Boris James
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Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Nationales (Paris)
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The Construction of a Kurdish Political Space in the Middle Ages: Kurdish ‘in-betweenness’, border culture and state “ethnic engineering
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Fuat Dundar
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Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes
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How to Measure Ethnic and Civic Nationalism: The Kurdish Case
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Rojda ALAÇ
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EHESS - Paris
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Defining boundaries in everyday parlance: Remarks on the definition of Kurdish region
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Lydia Shanklin Roll
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University of Kentucky
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Kurdish Concepts of Identity as an Alternative to Identities Imposed by the Turkish State: A Case Study
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10. POLITICS IN TURKEY
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Salima Tasdemir
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University of Exeter
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Kurdish Women’s Political Activism in Turkey: Feminization of pro-Kurdish Party Politics?
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Omer Tekdemir
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Durham University
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The Dimension of Agent, Structure and Superstructure: The transformation of counterhegemonic Kurdish political culture through ‘European of position’ in Turkish public sphere
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Cengiz Gunes
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Open University
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Explaining Kurdish Nationalist Mobilisation in Turkey: Hegemony, Myth and Violence
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Naif Bezwan
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King`s College London
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Mapping the AKP Policy towards Kurdish Identity and Representation
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11. LITERATURE I
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Saman Hassan
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University of Exeter
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A Historical Perspective on Kurdish Women’s Poetry
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Ozlem Galip
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University of Exeter
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Minority Literature: Towards Counter-Hegemonic Discourse
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Laurent Mignon
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St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
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Redefining Literary History: The Challenge of Kurdish Multilingualism
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Behrooz Chamanara
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Iranian studies department
George August University
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Kurdish Shah-name and its religious implications
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12. DIASPORA
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Gamze Nazan Bedirhanoglu
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State University of New York at Binghamton/Ankara University
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One nation, two Diasporas, multiple Imaginations
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Guldive Luqman
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Independent Journalist and Researcher
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Change of Nature of Intergenerational Communication and Cultural Transmission among female member of Kurdish Community in French Suburbs Creil and Nogent sur Oise
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Jordi Tejel Gorgas
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Department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva)
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Advice from the Past: the KSSE and the “Kurdish revolution”, 1961-1974
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Dr Ipek Demir
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University of Leicester
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Constructing a Diasporic Battle space in London: the Case of Kurds from Turkey
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13. LITERATURE II
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Farangis Ghaderi
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University of Exeter
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The Emergence of modern Kurdish Poetry: a discursive analysis
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Kave Ghadery
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Payam-e Noor University
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Translation, a Gateway to the Development and Reformulation of Short Story in Kurdish Literature; a Polysystem Approach
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Mahroo Rashidirostami
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University of Exeter
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State Monolingualism and the Linguistic Displacement of Kurdish Writers: a postcolonial study of Ali-Ashraf Darvishian’s autobiographical novel Salhaye Abri (Cloudy Years)
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Jonna Bochenska
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Jagiellonian University, Poland
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Old and new? Kurdish contemporary writers in search for values
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14. OMARKHALI : “Religious Minorities and Political Changes in Kurdistan” I
Chair: Khanna Omarkhali
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Andrew Palmer
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University of Muenster
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The relations between the monastery of Mor Gabriel and the surrounding Kurdish villages
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Irene Dulz
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European Technology & Training Centre, Erbil
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The Yezidis’ Struggle for Participation in Iraqi Kurdistan
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Khanna Omarkhali
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Georg-August University, Göttingen,
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Current Changes in the Yezidi System of Transmission of Religious Knowledge in the Light of Political Developments
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Sebastian Maisel
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Grand Valley State University
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One community, two identities: Syria’s Yezidis and the struggle of a minority to survive
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15. POLITICS AND THE KRG
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Renata Kurpiewska-Korbut
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Jagiellonian University, Poland
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“The Kurdistan Region in Iraq as a new actor on the international political scene”
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Arzu Yilmaz
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Ankara University/
Duhok University
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“Brakuji xılas bu”: An Analysis on KDP-PKK Relations
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Zheger Hassan
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University of Western Ontario
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Using and Abusing History: The Case of Halabja
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Ismail Erdem
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University of London
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Understanding the changing institutional contexts and the endogenous dynamics of the nation-building process in Iraqi Kurdistan
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16: JANROJ KELEŞ: MIGRATION AND DIASPORA
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Papers
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Janroj Keles
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London Metropolitan University
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Diaspora, social network and labour market: Precarious Kurdish workers in London
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J. Holgate
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London Metropolitan University
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Visual sociology and Diaspora: Visualising an invisible diasporic ‘community’s everyday life
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L. Kumarappan
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London Metropolitan University
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Mediated homeland politics and transnational ethnic audiences: The case of Kurdish and Turkish migrants
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17. OMARKHALI: “Religious Minorities and Political Changes in Kurdistan” II
Chair: Khanna Omarkhali
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Mojan Membrado
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Institut des Langues Orientales (INALCO)
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Gender and Religious Legitimacy: Recent Developments in the Ahl-e Haqq Communities
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Shahrokh Raei,
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Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
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Khāksār order in Kermanshah in the last five decades
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Michiel Leezenberg
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University of Amsterdam
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The end of heterodoxy? Political and realignments of the Shabak and the Kakais in post-Saddam Iraq
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18. SOCIETY IN THE KURDISH AUTONOMOUS REGION
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Diane E. King
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University of Kentucky
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Interrogating Politicking in the Kurdistan Region
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Krzystof Lalik
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Jagiellonian University, Poland
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Development of Educational Policy of Authorities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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Miriam Hevi Amin
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Linköpings University
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The Development of Welfare and Social Work in Iraqi Kurdistan in the Midst of State-Building and Transition Processes
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Ahmad Soma
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University of Vienna
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Civil Society in Iraqi-Kurdistan – the influence of NGOs on democratization
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SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
19. THE POLITICS OF CHANGE
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Cemal Ozkahraman
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University of Exeter
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“Social Development” of Southeastern Anatolia Project: A Significant Element in Turkish Security?
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Jason E. Strakes
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Ilia State University
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Beyond the Arab-Kurd Dichotomy: Competitive State–Building Strategies in the Republic of Iraq 1970-2010
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20. CULTURE AND CHANGE
Presenters
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Affiliation
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Titles of Abstracts
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Dr Kadri Yildirim
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Mardin Artuklu University
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Kurdish Studies at Higher Education Level in Turkey: Challenges and Opportunities
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Sabir Birot
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University of Leeds
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Translation and Ideology: a Study of the Kurdish Media
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Parvaneh Rezaee & Sue-San Ghahremani Ghajar
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Al-Zahra University
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“Kurdish the Language of Grandparents Stories, Losing its Place to English and Persian, Languages of Young Generation”
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Hossein Kordnejad
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Demographic changes and development of Kurdish nationalisms
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21: PLENARY SESSION: SUMMING UP
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