The Kurdish Question and the Public Role of Academia: Challenges, Limits, and Opportunities
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Date
Thursday, 18 January 2024
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Location
Online (Webex)
SeSaMO webinars on Research and the Middle East
A series designed to provide a regular space for dialogue, debate, and self‑reflection on Middle Eastern studies in Italy and beyond.
Programme
- Date & time: 18 January 2024, 16:00
- Title: The Kurdish Question and the Public Role of Academia: Challenges, Limits, and Opportunities
- Talks:
- Zilan Diyar (journalist) – Between academia and resistance, toward an ethics of knowledge
- Fabiana Cioni (independent researcher) – Nomadic research with women in Bakur and Rojava
- Francesco Ventura (University of Florence) – Importing the Middle East, importing criminalisation?
- Federico Venturini (University of Udine) – For research on the Kurdish question free from ignorance and prejudice
- Discussant: Giuseppe Acconcia (University of Padua)
Webex link: https://unito.webex.com/meet/rosita.diperi