Spring 2025 Seminar Series: Deep Struggles – Memory of Violence, Aftermath of Revolutions and Political Activism in Diaspora

16th January, 5:00–7:00pm

Speaker: Omar Al-Ghazzi, LSE

Title: Anti-Ottoman Meta-History and Gendered Imaginaries of Sovereignty in Syria

30th January

Speaker: Alice Wilson, University of Sussex

Title: Book Discussion: Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counter-Histories in Southern Oman

6th February

Speaker: Hassan Ould Moctar, SOAS

Title: Book Talk: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania

6th March

Speaker: Deniz Cenk Demir, Stanford University

Title: From Germany to the UK: Diasporic Activism, the Kurdish Question, and International(ist) Solidarity

10th March

Speaker: Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University

Title: Book Talk: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora

13th March

Speaker: Althea Rivas, SOAS

Title: Understanding Global Blackness: Indigeneity, Reparations and the Post-colonial State