Events

KSSO runs a regular series of events, including academic seminar series and social gatherings for students. Some of our past events have included:
  Events :: 2008

  • Seminar: Uprising, suppression, retribution: The Kurdish struggle in Turkey in the twentieth century,  with Dissident Kurdish Author and Journalist Ahmet Kahraman, SOAS University, February 2008

  • Seminar: The Internally Displaced Kurds of Turkey: Ongoing issues of Responsibility, Redress and Resettlement, by Charlotte Alfred, Kurdish Human Rights Project, SOAS University, March 2008

  • Kurdish New Year (Newroz) Celebration,  SOAS University, March 2008

  • Screening of " FRATRICIDE - BRAKUJÎ ", SOAS University, April 2008
  Events :: 2007

  • KSSO assistance with Organising London-Kirkuk conference at SOAS university 2007

  • Screening of "Turtles Can Fly" at SOAS University, February 2007

  • Presenting "Kurdish Contemporary Art and Culture from Iraq" a collaboration work with ArtRole at SOAS University, February 2007

  • Screening of "A Time For Drunken Horses" at SOAS University, March 2007

  • Organising a "Kurdish Cultural Day" at SOAS  University, March 2007

  • Organising a seminar entitled "Pre-Islamic Traditions in Kurdistan:  Zoroastrians and the Roots of Newroz" at SOAS University, March 2007

  • Newroz celebration at institute of education, March 2007

  • organising a seminar entitled "Yezidi traditions in Kurdistan, and their relationship to identity formation" at SOAS University, March 2007

  • Screening of "Vodka Lemon" at SOAS University, April 2007

  • Organising "An open debate about honour killing" in association with Kurdish Women's Right Watch at SOAS University, May 2007

  • Organising a "Series of Seminars on Kurdish Studies" at SOAS University, May 2007

  • Screening of "Blackboard" at SOAS University, May 2007

  • Refugee Re-Think at university of Sussex in Brighton

  • Participation in "Let's celebrate sanctuary" events in south bank, London, June 2007

  • End of Term party at SOAS university, June 2007

  • Starting of Term party , October 2007

  • Screening of "Crossing the Dust" at SOAS, December 2007

  • Christmas party, December 2007
  Events :: 2006

  • Newroz Celebration at SOAS 2006

  • Kurdish Summer Night 2006

  • Dance performance and KSSO information stand at Medway Council Multicultural Festival, 2006

  • KSSO (AGM) and anniversary Party at SOAS University 2006

  • KSSO New Year Party
  Events :: 2005

  • Participation in STAR (Student Action for Refugees) conference in Nottingham, 2005 (see http://www.star-network.org.uk)

  • Parliamentary meeting on Solidarity with Student in Kurdistan at Whitehall, London, 2005.

  • Cross-cultural celebration of Nawroz, including representatives of the Zoroastrian and Baha’i faiths, at St. Ethlenburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace (see http://www.stethelburgas.org)