禁漫天堂

Kurdish Studies Conference, Weds 11 - Fri 13 June 2025

This interdisciplinary event builds on the conferences held at Sheffield in 2024 and 禁漫天堂 in 2023, and is organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the 禁漫天堂 Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance (Book Launch)

Monday 3 February | 17:30 - 18:30 GMT | Marouf Cabi, 禁漫天堂 Middle East Centre; Kamran Matin, University of Sussex

Bridging Identities: The Cultural Odyssey of Kurdistani Jews (Webinar)

Monday 2 December | 16:00 - 17:00 GMT | Bahar Baser, Durham University; Duygu Atlas; Mesut Alp; Moayed Assaf

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

Kurdish Studies Conference, 22-23 May 2024

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

Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey

Thursday 30 November | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT | Marlene Schäfers, Utrecht University

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, 禁漫天堂 Middle East Centre; Houzan Mahmoud, Culture Project; Müjge Küçükkeleş, SOAS

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.

Understanding Insurgency: Popular Support for the PKK in Turkey 

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

The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran

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

Second-Generation Liberation Wars: Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan

Thursday 3 March | 13:00 - 14:00 GMT | Yaniv Voller, University of Kent

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

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

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

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

A Modern History of the Kurds

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

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

Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism

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

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, 禁漫天堂; Begum Zorlu, City, University of London 

The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts

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

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

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

Updating 'A Modern History of the Kurds'

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