Conference in Hamburg - SPOT
Conference in Hamburg - SPOT
Challenging Capitalist Modernity – Alternative Concepts and the Kurdish Quest" is the title of the three-days conference which will take place at the university of Hamburg on 3, 4, 5 February.
Three days in which discuss theoretical and practical efforts for an alternative way of life. This conference will provide an opportunity to catch up with the transformation of the Kurdish society and movement as well the alternatives they propose.
The program is full and speakers range from Norman Paech to Antonio Negri (author of Empire), from Immanuel Wallerstein to Achin Vanaik, from Nuray Mert to Muzaffer Ayata, from Wolf-Dieter Narr to Ferda Cetin.
In recent years, the Kurdish freedom movement has developed and transformed itself away from the traditional ways of its Marxist-Leninist national liberationist roots. This conference aims to place and open the transformation and search for an alternative of the Kurdish movement and society with that of the global discussions and quests. It also hopes to be an international exchange at an academic level about the worldwide theoretical and practical efforts to intervene against the capitalist normality. This will also – but not only – be about the Kurdish example.
All speeches and discussions will be translated simultaneously into English, German, Turkish and Kurdish (Kurmanji).
In order to register yourselves please send an email to [email protected]. You can find further information and the program at www.networkaq.net.
The conference is organized by the Network for an Alternative Quest:
KURD-AKAD – Network of Kurdish Academics • YXK – Association of Students from Kurdistan • Kurdistan Report • Informationsstelle Kurdistan (ISKU) • Cenî – Kurdish Women's Bureau for Peace • International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan–Peace in Kurdistan”.
The conference is supported by by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples, France), Mouvement de la Paix (Peace Movement, France), LAIKA Verlag (publishing house).
Media partners, il manifesto and Junge Welt.
Three days in which discuss theoretical and practical efforts for an alternative way of life. This conference will provide an opportunity to catch up with the transformation of the Kurdish society and movement as well the alternatives they propose.
The program is full and speakers range from Norman Paech to Antonio Negri (author of Empire), from Immanuel Wallerstein to Achin Vanaik, from Nuray Mert to Muzaffer Ayata, from Wolf-Dieter Narr to Ferda Cetin.
In recent years, the Kurdish freedom movement has developed and transformed itself away from the traditional ways of its Marxist-Leninist national liberationist roots. This conference aims to place and open the transformation and search for an alternative of the Kurdish movement and society with that of the global discussions and quests. It also hopes to be an international exchange at an academic level about the worldwide theoretical and practical efforts to intervene against the capitalist normality. This will also – but not only – be about the Kurdish example.
All speeches and discussions will be translated simultaneously into English, German, Turkish and Kurdish (Kurmanji).
In order to register yourselves please send an email to [email protected]. You can find further information and the program at www.networkaq.net.
The conference is organized by the Network for an Alternative Quest:
KURD-AKAD – Network of Kurdish Academics • YXK – Association of Students from Kurdistan • Kurdistan Report • Informationsstelle Kurdistan (ISKU) • Cenî – Kurdish Women's Bureau for Peace • International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan–Peace in Kurdistan”.
The conference is supported by by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples, France), Mouvement de la Paix (Peace Movement, France), LAIKA Verlag (publishing house).
Media partners, il manifesto and Junge Welt.
