Konferansa Xebatên Kurdî - Kürt Çalışmaları Konferansı 2

The book you have is II. It consists of the presentations made at the Kurdish Studies Conference and the forum section. II. Kurdish Studies Conference was held on 7-8 June 2014 at Boğaziçi University İbrahim Bodur Auditorium with the contributions of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey Representation.

The book was published in Kurmanji and Turkish.

For his contributions, Prof. Mesut Yeğen, Asst. Assoc. Dr. Bülent Küçük, Asst. Assoc. Dr. Seda Altuğ, Dr. We would like to thank Bilgin Ayata, Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, Namık Kemal Dinç and Ronayi Önen.

Contents

Opening

Asst. Assoc. Dr. Bulent Kucuk

Prof. Dr. Fikret Adaman

İbrahim Gürbüz

Opening Speeches

Dr. İsmail Beşikci

Prof. Dr. Hamit Bozarslan

Session I

Social History of Kurds in the Ottoman Period

Moderator: Asst. Associate Professor. Seda Altuğ

Asst. Assoc. Dr. Janet Klein (University of Akron): The Construction of Minority in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians and Kurds

Dr. Yavuz Aykan (Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies): Sunni Political and Legal Constructs: On the Construction of Kurdistan as Dar'ül-harb in the Ottoman Period (unpublished)

Zozan Pehlivan (Queens University): Thoughts of a Rebellion: The Shrinking of Local Authorities and the Building of State Power (unpublished)

II. Session

Politics of Everyday Life

Moderator: Dr. Scholar Ayata

Welat Ay (Boğaziçi University): Kurds' Reading of Autonomy in the Axis of Daily Life and Kurdistanization of Space (could not attend)

Asst. Assoc. Dr. Hişyar Özsoy (University of Michigan-Flint): Fighting with the Dead: Death-Life Dialectics in Kurdistan as a Struggle for Counter-Sovereignty

Onur Günay (Princeton University): Fragmented Subjectivities: Between Desire and Repentance Kurdish Workers in Istanbul (unpublished)

III. Session

Memory, Culture and Literature

Moderator: Ronayi Önen

Dr. Ruken Şengül (University of Texas Austin): "Şehr-i Kadim" Archive in Diyarbakır in the 2000s: On the Desire for Historicity, Nostalgia and Masculinity (unpublished)

Asst. Assoc. Dr. Engin Sustam, Sociology, Ph.D, EHESS, Paris

A brief history of Contemporary art in the Kurdish field: Trauma and Political Aesthetics

Remezan Alan (Mardin Artuklu University)

On the Impossibility of Apoliticization of Kurdish Literature

June 8, 2014

Session I

Local Governments, Decentralization and Politics

Moderator: Asst. Associate Professor. Bulent Kucuk

Dr. Naif Bezwan (Mardin Artuklu University)

The Ancient Contradiction of the Almighty Center: The Unstoppable Rise of Decentralization Dynamics in Turkey

Dr. Derya Bayır

Türkiye, Kurds and the legal limits of the right to self-determination

Asst. Assoc. Dr. Çetin Gürer

Democratic Autonomy: A Civic Heterotopia

Last episode

Forum