Dear members, Dear interested persons
Hereby we send you our quarterly newsletter.
Board meetings
Board meetings took place on 1 July and 10 September. Another meeting was hold via Skype on 12 July.
Regional meetings
We didn’t have any regional meeting during summer time.
Conferences 2018
Conference in NRW will took place on 27 January 2018 in Cologne under the headline „Kurds in context of (de-)escalation in the Middle East – approaches of conflict and peace research“ in cooperation with Volkshochschule Köln and Kurdish Center for Public Relations Civaka Azad. Speakers are i.a. political scientist Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder from university of Bonn, politic scientist Mahir Tokatlı from University of Bonn, sociologist Dilar Dirik from University of Cambridge, Adem Uzun as member of KNK executive board and Prof. Mithat Sancar, HDP MP and law professor/legal scholar. Our conference in Frankfurt will be hold on 14 April 2018 under the
topic „Genocides in the Middle East and Paths to Reconsiliation“. You will find further information in our next newsletter.
Pan-European widening of the network
Founding congress of Network of Kurdish academics in Switzerland will be hold on 16 December 2017. Due to increasing interest to our network in other European countries, a group worked out a concept for European wide organisation and network widening. We are convinced of the necessity to unify academic power and perspectives on Pan-European level.
European network meeting of Kurdish institutes and academic organizations
In this context we invited Kurdish institutes and academic organizations to a European network meeting in November 217. 18 of 23 invited organizations confirmed their participation. We are looking forward to an effective meeting, and hope to lay the foundation for a prospective
and future-oriented networking of the important players.
Pan-European networking of academics
In the context of Pan-European networking we will hold our third meeting with Kurdish academics from different European countries, all of them PhD’s / PhD candidates and research associates at universities.
European networking of Kurdish politicians
We are organizing a network meeting with Kurdish politicians from different European countries on 8 December 2018 in the European Parliament in cooperation with Europe bureau of People’s Democratic Party HDP.
German PolitikArt
We are working on an German edition of PolitikArt, Weekend magazine of daily newspaper Yeni Özgür Politika. Main topics will be the academics for peace, their working fields and hungerstrike of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça.
Workshop Migration
The first workshop in cooperation with a university will take place on 7 October. In cooperation with the InZentIM and working group migration of Duisburg-Essen University we will discuss about problems, power and perspectives of Kurdish migrants in Germany.
Soft skill seminaries
We offer a seminar about PowerPoint and one about project application. You will find detailed information on our homepage.
Honorary Award
Our first Honorary Prize for outstandig scientific research and civic-society engagement will be awarded to Prof. Dr. Celile Celil and Prof. Dr. Noam Chomsky. Prof. Celil was speaker at our founding congress in 2009. With his speech he set the tone for our networking. The Award
ceremony will take place at Rautenstrauch- Joest- Museum – cultures of the world.
We invite you to become member and activist of our network.
Executive Board