Seminar: The Challenges of Existence in Ignored Studies: The Kurdish Case (København)

**The event will take place in english**

Copenhagen University and Roskilde University cordially invite you to the one-day conference: “The Challenges of Existence in Ignored Studies: The Kurdish Case”

The conference participants consist of both scholars who have faced the consequences of their academic stand towards the Kurdish question and researchers who have met personal and social challenges regarding their research.

There are two keynote speakers, Nazan Üstündağ and Engin Sustam. Both lost their academic positions in Turkey and were subjected to a legal investigation because they signed the Academics for Peace Petition emphasizing a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue in 2016. They are now among many others who have been forced to live in exile to continue their academic researches because of their signature on the petition.

Program

First session -13.00-14.30

Mustafa Kemal Topal: (Doctoral Researcher, Roskilde University):
Kurdish Self-censorship and Criminalization of Research

Anne Sofie Schøtt: (Ph.D., Royal Danish Defence College):
Kurdish Transnational Activism and Legal Restrictions in Denmark

Nazan Üstündağ (Ph.D., Academy in Exile and IIE-Scholar Rescue Fund in Berlin):
The Uncomfortable Union of Activism and Scholarship

Coffee & Cake Break 14.30-15.00

Second session – 15.00-16.30

Hasret Çetinkaya ( Doctoral Researcher, National University of Ireland, Galway):
Researching Kurds: Entanglement, Friendship, and the State

Özlem Has: (Doctoral Researcher, Copenhagen University):
A General Overview: The Trials of Academics for Peace in Turkey

Engin Sustam (Assoc. Prof, University of Paris 8):
Authoritarian Government in Turkey and “Telling the Truth” in the University Space against the War

When & where?
The event will take place on Monday, October 28th at the University of Copenhagen.
Room: 15A.0.13
Address: KUA (South Campus), Karen Blixens Vej 4, 2300 Copenhagen S.

Registration
The conference is free for everyone and no registration is needed. But the number of participants will help us with arrangements. Feel free to send an email to [email protected] if you consider joining.

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