On May 24, 2022, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi and CGDS Research Fellow Dr. Twana Hassan met with Dr. Salah S. Ali, the advisor to the Minister of Endowment and Religious Affairs. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a work-plan for a collaboration between CGDS and...
CGDS visiting scholar Dastan Jasim’s fieldwork trip in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ends this month and she will return to Germany where she is a Doctoral Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. In her fieldwork, she started a randomized household survey...
On May 15, 2022, CGDS visiting scholar Dastan Jasim gave a presentation on her Ph.D at the Choman Cultural Center in the city of Choman. She discussed the purpose, challenges, and outcomes of her fieldwork. The Center is known to many as a unique meeting space for the...
On 29 May 2022, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi, along with Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies, were hosted by the British Consulate-General of Erbil. With Political Officer Mr. Salar Amin; Mr. Oliver Dixon, Head of the Iraq Team; and Mr. James Charlton, Head of the...
On May 18th, 2022, Dr. Choman Hardi met with fourteen IB English Language and Literature students from the International School of Curitiba in Curitiba, Brazil. The students were studying her first poetry collection Life For Us (Bloodaxe 2004) as part of their course and were excited for the...
On the 4th of April 2022, Ms. Alina Jabbari, CGDS Visiting Scholar and former Jan Warner Visiting Scholar hosted two guest speakers through Zoom, Sipan Salim and Peshmerge Morad, in her class, “National Identity and Diaspora Politics” (IST 399). They were invited to present and share their experiences...
