Displacement marks our times, but Kurdish
displacement precedes
the global refugee crisis of the 2010s.
Moreover, the Kurdish case is not singularly a consequence of recent war
situations along the Turkish and Syrian border and involves a long history of
displaced generations in more complicated ‘warzones’. This workshop tackles warzones and its
ripples in Turkey and beyond including the diaspora here in the US.
DELAL
AYDIN (Institute for Turkish Studies
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), "Kurdish Youth Politics under the Shadow
of State Violence."
DILAN
OKCUOGLU (American University, School of International
Service in Washington, DC.), "Local and Transnational Mobilization of
the Kurdish Movement in Turkey.”
HAYDAR
DARICI (American University, School of International
Service in Washington, DC.), "Becoming Another: Youth, Alterity, and
Insurrection in Kurdistan."
NAZAN
BEDIRHANOGLU (Wellesley College, MA), "The Making of Kurdish Diaspora in the United States."
UTKU BALABAN (Amherst
College, MA), Chair & Discussant.
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Sponsored by the History Department and Allbritton Center