Past events

Current events can be found here.

When	Description	Location
26 February 2026	In Conversation with Burhan S枚nmez, acclaimed novelist and President of PEN International	Newman Green LT (E)
12 February 2026	'Touching Freedom' Screening	IAIS Building/LT2
29 January 2026	Panel Discussion on Rojava	IAIS Building/LT2
12 February 2025	CKS Film Screening :'Agneta, the Swedish Peshmerga'	IAIS Building/LT1
1 November 2024	Touching Freedom: Centre for Kurdish Studies Event - The Siege of Kobani	IAIS LT1 and 2
23 October 2024	Film screening- Centre for Kurdish Studies - 'What the Mountain Remembers' and 'Cineholic'	IAIS LT1 and 2
13 March 2024	The Emerging Field of Kurdish Gender Studies	IAIS Building/LT1
28 February 2024	Visiting Speaker CKS- Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey	IAIS Building/LT1
19 February 2024	'Kak Satar': a Militant Visual Archive of Kurdish Resistance	IAIS Building/LT1
31 January 2024	Kurdish Literature as World Literature	IAIS Building/LT1
24 January 2024	Archiving and Documenting Resistance: A Conversation with Dr Omar Sheikhmous	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
29 November 2023	Film screening: 'Angels of Sinjar'	IAIS Building/LT1
23 November 2023	The Centre for Kurdish Studies	IAIS Building/LT1
10 March 2023	Kurdish Film Screening and Talk with Directors/ Centre for Kurdish Studies	IAIS Building/LT2
2 February 2023	Visiting Speaker: Professor llario Meandri and Dr Giulia Ferdeghini	IAIS Building/LT1
7 December 2022	Uncovering Kurdish Women芒鈧劉s Voices in the Archives : Dr Farangis Ghaderi	IAIS Building/Seminar 1
22 March 2022	Book Launch : "Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities", edited by Stephen Hunt, Lexington Books, 2021.	IAIS Building/LT1
10 November 2021	Book Launch - Dr. Allan Hassaniyan (Exeter)	IAIS Building/LT1
30 June 2021	POSTPONED AUISxExeter Talks: Curating Kurdishness, Arts, Culture, and the Archive in Kurdistan and Beyond	Online
22 June 2021	Oral tradition, language, and Kurdish art	Online
21 June 2021		Online
18 June 2021	Book Launch : Women's Voices from Kurdistan: A Selection of Kurdish Poetry	Online
16 June 2021	POSTPONED: AUISxExeter Talks: Curating Kurdishness, Arts, Culture, and the Archive in Kurdistan and Beyond	Online
14 June 2021	Conversations about Kurdistan and Palestine, Rurality, rural lives, and alternative futures	Online
8 June 2021	Kurdish Translations of World Literature	Online
2 June 2021	AUISxExeter Talks: Curating Kurdishness, Arts, Culture, and the Archive in Kurdistan and Beyond	Online
25 May 2021	Kurdish Translations of World Literature	Online
24 May 2021	Conversations about Kurdistan and Palestine, Rurality, rural lives, and alternative futures	Online
29 April 2021	Panel Discussion: 'Translation and Language Revitalisation: Global Kurdish Literature'	Online
26 April 2021	Conversations about Kurdistan and Palestine, Rurality, rural lives, and alternative futures	Online
20 April 2021	Documenting and Archiving Kurdish Heritage, part 4	Online
31 March 2021	POSTPONED: AUISxExeter Talk: Curating Kurdishness: Arts, culture, and the archive In Kurdistan and beyond	Online
17 March 2021	POSTPONED: AUISxExeter Talk: Curating Kurdishness: Arts, culture, and the archive In Kurdistan and beyond	Online
16 March 2021	Documenting and Archiving Kurdish Heritage, part 3	Online
10 March 2021	AUISxExeter Talk: Curating Kurdishness: Arts, culture, and the archive In Kurdistan and beyond	Online
24 February 2021	AUISxExeter Talk: Curating Kurdishness: Arts, culture, and the archive In Kurdistan and beyond	Online
10 February 2021	AUISxExeter Talk: Curating Kurdishness: Arts, culture, and the archive In Kurdistan and beyond	Online
3 February 2021	AUISxExeter Talk: Curating Kurdishness: Arts, culture, and the archive In Kurdistan and beyond	Online
18 - 20 June 2020	CANCELLED: 4th International Conference on Kurdish Studies 18-20 June 2020	IAIS Building/LT1
7 February 2020	Visiting Speaker: Dr Kamran Matin - Kurdish Politics of Class and Nation in Post-Revolutionary Iran	IAIS Building/LT1
21 January 2020	Visiting speaker: Amr Taher Ahmed -The Kurdish Mahdinanah: Popular or Classical Poetry?	IAIS Building/LT2
8 November 2019	The Poetics of Kurdish Resistance	IAIS Building/LT1 & 2
2 October 2019	AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain	IAIS Building/LT1
27 September 2019	Translation! Festival 2019: Languages in Motion	RAMM, Exeter Library, Exeter Phoenix
13 May 2019	Professor Richard Foltz (Concordia University) presents "What is the meaning of 'Tajik'?"	IAIS Building/LT1
26 - 27 February 2019	Managing Intra-State Territorial Contestation: Iraq芒鈧劉s Disputed Territories in Comparative Perspective	Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET
16 January 2019	Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University & al-Qasimi Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, 樱花动漫) presents "Is There a Discernible Islamic(ate) Civilization?"	IAIS Building/LT1&2
7 November 2018	Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS) presents "'Between the Rainbow and the ISIS Flag': Feminist Dilemmas and Complexities"	IAIS Building/LT1
23 March 2018	Film Screening of 'Vereroz' and Q&A with film director Piran Baydemir	IAIS Building/LT1
26 June 2017	"Return to Kurdistan" by Richard Wilding	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, The Street
1 June - 1 September 2017	"Return to Kurdistan" by Richard Wilding	Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, The Street