Past Event

The Feminist Futures Speaker Series is eager to present: Deprovincializing Kurdish Contentious Politics: Forced Migration and Activism across Kurdistan, Turkey, and Europe, a presentation by Dr. Gülay Kilicaslan that will take place on March 8, 2023 (10am-11:30am). This presentation will be hybrid and made available via Zoom, as well as in person at 4050 Nicol Building.

Looking at the two recent episodes of mass displacement of Kurds (the 1990s and the mid-2010s) carried out by the Turkish state, Gülay’s talk will shed light on how forced displacement influences the dynamics of political mobilization in Kurdish contentious politics. Drawing on two years of ethnographic, archival, and activist research in Northern Kurdistan, Turkey, France, Germany, and Switzerland, she will discuss the transformative role of forced displacement and migrant activism for anti-colonial social movements in achieving scale shift, self-rule and decolonization.

Feminist Futures 2023 with Gülay Kilicaslan

About the Speaker:

Gülay Kilicaslan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her writings on Kurdish forced migrants, the Kurdish freedom movement, migrant agency, decolonial feminisms, gender-based online violence and digital feminist activism have appeared in scholarly edited books and journals. Her current research projects include a study about the impacts of forced displacement of Kurds on the dynamics of Kurdish political mobilization in Northern Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe, as well as a separate project that comparatively explores the resettlement experiences of Yezidi genocide survivors and their mobilization strategies in Germany and Canada.

About the Feminist Futures Speaker Series:

The Feminist Futures Lecture Series offers presentations of current feminist research being carried out by faculty associated with the Institute. Drawing from the rich interdisciplinary, intersectional research environment that marks past work and frames future endeavors, the Feminist Futures Lecture Series continues the development of critical intellectual and political spaces and knowledge-building around gendered issues. In this friendly but critically engaged space, you are invited to connect with a community of scholar-activists associated with the Feminist Institute of Feminist Transformation at Carleton University.

To join virtually via Zoom click here:

https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92544628082 

Meeting ID: 925 4462 8082