Join us for the final session of our 2026 summer study series hosted in collaboration with City Kurds and the Kurdish Gender Studies Network. The topic of this session will focus on the roles that cultural assimilation, linguicide, and educational resistance played in the colonization of Kurdistan.

It is not required to have attended previous study sessions in order to attend later ones, we are excited to welcome both new and returning faces.

You will find the study session readings below. Please RSVP in order to receive the Zoom call link, as well as event details and updates.

• Required Readings

  • Farangis Ghaderi and Joanna Bocheńska: "Challenging Assimilation and Marginalisation: the Case of Kurdish Language"

  • Soleimani, Kamal, and Ahmad Mohammadpour: “Life and Labor on the Internal Colonial Edge: Political Economy of Kolberi in Rojhelat."

  • Farangis Ghaderi : “Archiving Resistance: A Conversation with Dr Omar Sheikhmous”

• Further Readings

  • Joanna Bocheńska and Farangis Ghaderi: ‘Gan qey bedenî yeno çi mana’ (What the Soul Means for the Body): Collecting and Archiving Kurdish Folklore as a Strategy for Language Revitalization and Indigenous Knowledge Production