Newsletter Q2-2022

Dear friends,

Dear members, 

We are pleased to send you the latest newsletter. 

Board meetings 

This quarter, meetings were held on 11.04, 18.05, 21.06 and 25.06. 

EmPOWERing ANTI-racism focus series 

Three events took place as part of our thematic series: 

– Diversity Talk “Diversity and Participation: Lived Participation in the Context of Migrant Self-Organisations – Light and Shadow of Summits and Advisory Boards” with Memet Kılıç, Chairman of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council, and Günay Darıcı, Executive Director of the Association of Parents from Kurdistan. 

– Seminar “Turkish Ultranationalism in Germany” with Dr. Nikolaus Brauns, journalist and historian 

– Seminar “Kurdish protest, Kurdish leader and Kurdish land: Shaping opinions through media language” with Dastan Jasim, PhD student at GIGA 

Networking meeting on Kurdology / Kurdish studies at a university

On 13.05.22 we exchanged views with the Kurdish Institutes of Brussels, Germany and Switzerland as well as the Association of Kurdish Teachers in Europe and Yekmal on the topic of Kurdology / Kurdish studies at universities. 

Mentoring 

We have decided to tackle the important topic of mentoring and have formed a working group. This group met on 05.04, 25.04 and 31.05. 

Instagram Talks

This quarter we held 4 talks. Our guests were the educational initiative Ferhat Unvar, the member of the Bundestag Gökay Akbulut, the PhD student Şermin Güven as well as İlyas Isen and Cemil Koçgiri from the World Music Academy Mainz. 

Mother tongue in focus 

On 10.09 we will organise an event on the topic of “Language and Identity” in cooperation with the psycholinguistic laboratories of the Technical University of Dortmund. Detailed information will follow soon.