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...
On the 9th of May Ms. Alina Jabbari, CGDS Visiting Scholar and former Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, hosted the award winning Kurdish-Dutch filmmaker Beri Shalmashi in her class, “National Identity and Diaspora Politics” (IST 399). This online guest lecture was part of the final section of the course,...
On May 13, 2022, Dr. Choman Hardi participated in a panel discussion titled ‘Gender Justice and the Global Backlash’ in London School of Economics and Political Science. The other panelists were Ms. Hannah Bond, Prof. Bina D’Costa, Dr. Fiifi Edu-Afful, and Dr. Angelika Rettberg. The discussion was facilitated...
