The Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Rojava, in collaboration with the University of Bremen and CSCUNES (Centre for Solidarity and Cooperation with the Universities of North and East Syria) has organised its Summer School in June 2022.

The third lecture of the Summer School is titled "Decolonization through Democratic Technologies: Explorations in Art and Mechatronics at the University of Rojava".    

The speakers are Dani Ploeger, University of London, and teachers form the Art and Mechatronic Departments of the University of Rojava.  

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 14 June, from 17:00 to 19:00 Rojava Time (16:00-18:00 CET, 10:00-12:00 EST).

The lecture can be followed by registering on Zoom at this link:  

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IvCGBLkZRK2kCb9DjMOenA

The Summer School

The Summer School opened on 9 June and will run till 23 June. The rich program of lectures and seminars is titled “Decolonisation in Kurdistan and beyond: Theory, Methodology, Practice”.

The Summer School celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution and has two forms of sessions: closed seminars between MA students at the University of Rojava and the University of Bremen and public seminars and workshops with speakers from diverse backgrounds of scholarship and activism on decolonization around the world. There will be simultaneous English-Kurdish interpretation for the public seminars.