Sunday 19th January 2025
10:30 to 17:00
Kurdish Community Centre, 11 Portland Gardens, London, N4 1HU

A day of education, solidarity and building community against the assaults on the Kurdish people – from war in Kurdistan to criminalisation in Britain. We’re holding this day school at the Kurdish Community Centre as a direct response to recent intimidation and attempts to marginalise this vital community hub.

Please book to attend here.

10:30 – 11:00 Welcome

11:00 – 12:00 Kurdistan as an International Colony: Global Power and Resistance

  • Keynote: Nik Matheou, University of Edinburgh
  • Discussants: 
    • Dalia Gebrial, King’s College London
    • Akram Salhab, Queen Mary University of London

Break 12:00 – 12:15

12:15 – 13:30 Criminalisation and Counter-terrorism in Britain: 21st Century Imperialism

  • Chair: Becka Hudson, Birkbeck University
  • Adam Elliot-Cooper, Queen Mary University of London
  • Iida Käyhkö, Royal Holloway University of London
  • Stephen Knight, University of Oxford

Lunch 13:30 – 14:30

14:30 – 15:45 The Kurdish Freedom Movement and a Democratic Solution: Beyond the False Choice 

  • Chair: Mai Taha, London School of Economics
  • Simon Dubbins, Unite the Union
  • Mohammed Elnaeim, Decolonial Centre
  • Elif Sarican, Kurdish Women’s Movement
  • Joshua Virasami, Artist, writer and organiser

Break 15:45 – 16:00

16:00 – 17:00 Rally: How Do We Resist? Building Collective Solidarity Against State Violence

 

Speakers from the Kurdish Women’s Movement, the Palestine movement, internationalist struggle, trade unions, and more.