Dr Shilan Fuad

(2 December 2022) Paper: UN Aspirations of Gender Equality: Examining their work in Iraqi Kurdistan. Gender, War, and Security Conference. Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark.

(15 October 2021) First Diaspora Kurdish Conference in Dusseldorf. Kudish-Academy (KURD- AKAD).

(26 July 2021) Paper: Kurdish Jewish Diaspora in the West: A Historical Perspective. IASFM Working Group (History of Forced Migration and Displacement), Ghana International Conference.

(14 May 2021) Paper: Female politicians,artists and academics, their emerging power in the Global South and the diaspora. Intenational Conference Women's Movements and Activism organized, Cambridge's Wolfson College Interdisciplinary Research Hub on Gender.

(17 April 2021) Paper: Academics in diaspora: building bridges. International Symposium, Kurdish Academy in Germany.

(9 April 2021) Paper: Kurdish Women’s Role in Modern Society: Love, Struggle and Gendered Resistance. For the Kurdish Women’s Studies Network, International Conference on Kurdish Women’s Studies (University Toronto, Canada).

(6 April 2021) Paper: Kurdish Female Politicians: Developing a Voice in Southern Kurdistan and the Diaspora. International Studies Association (ISA),64 th Annual Convention (US).

(8 March 2021) Paper: Kurdish Women’s Socio-Cultural and PoliticalEngagement. Seminar title: Women’s Strive for Freedom. United Kingdom Kurish Akademy (KURD-AKAD).

(18 December 2020) Paper: Kurdish Women’s Poetry: Red Rain Over Kurdistan. For the Kurdish Women’s Studies Network, International Conference on Kurdish Women’s Studies (University Toronto, Canada).

(18-20 June 2020)Paper: Stepping Forward and Back: Women’s Rights in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the Post-Saddam Period. For the “4th International Conference on Kurdish Studies” Conference, held at the University of Exeter (UK), Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

(24 September 2019). Paper: The Jewish Diaspora in the Middle East: The Case of Iraqi Kurds. For the “Jews in Diaspora: A Study of the Jewish Diaspora experience in the Middle East after the Establishment of the State of Israel” Conference, held at the University of Vienna’s Department of Judaistik Studies.

(25 June 2019). Paper: Sectarianism, Self-determination, and the Kurdish Quest for Statehood. For the “3rd International Kurdish Studies: Shifting Dynamics of the Kurdistan Question in a Changing Middle East” Conference, held at the University of Middlesex (UK), Department of Politics and Law.

(26 February 2019). Paper: Identity and Struggle between Kurds and Arabs. For the “Disputed Territories” Conference, held at Exeter University and Birmingham University (UK), with the Economic & Social Research Council. Keynote speaker Professor Gareth Stansfield.

(6 December 2018). Paper: Diaspora and Homeland: Identities, Ideas and Policies in Transition. For the “Politics, Policies and Diplomacy of Diaspora: New Directions in Theory and Research” Conference, held at Coventry University (UK), Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.

(22 July 2018). Paper: The Kurdish Narrative: Struggle, Conflict and Cultural Commitment. For the “World Congress for Middle Easter Studies” Conference, held at the University of Seville.

(23 June 2018). Paper: The Kurdish Resistance Against the Majority Power through Cultural Commitment. For the “Everyday Resistance of Kurds and Palestinians: Countering Domination via Nonviolent Means” Conference, held at Coventry University (UK), Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.

(5 October 2017). Paper: Kalila wa Dimna: Stories, Animals, and Textual Transmission (in Italian). For the “Animal Worlds, Textual Worlds” Conference, held at the University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, School of Modern Languages, in cooperation with Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

(20 September 2017). Paper: The Kurdish Narrative Discourse: Cultural Diversity, Identity and Diaspora. For the “Researching the Middle East: Homogeneity, Diversity, Interdisciplinarity and Decoloniality” Conference, held at Durham University (UK), School of Government and International Affairs.

(31 August – 1 September 2017).Paper: The One Thousand and One Nights in Nagib Mahfuz’s Play The Devil Preaches. For the “One Thousand and One Nights: Comparative Perspectives on Adaptation and Appropriation” Conference, held at the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews (UK).

(6 July 2017). Paper: A Journey through Syrian Civilization Introducing a Multifaceted Identity into German Culture. For the “BRISMES Annual Conference: Movement and Migration in the Middle- East”, held at the University of Edinburgh (UK).

(16 June 2017).Paper: Kurdish Literary Works in the West: its Social and Political Expressions. For the “Kurdish Migration” Conference, held at the University of Middlesex (UK).

(19 May 2016). Paper: Albertine Peri: The Imprisoned Scheherazade in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. For the “Scheherazade in Classical, Modern and Postmodern Worlds” Conference, held at the University of Sheffield (UK).

(17 November 2015). Paper: The Tale of the 1002nd Night of Josef Roth: Echoes from the Oriental One Thousand and One Nights (in Italian). For the “Medieval Reception in 20th Century German Literature” Conference, held at the University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna.

(11 October 2014). Paper:Rafik Schami’s Damaskus, the Taste of a City: Memories of Ancient and Modern Damascus Culture in Modern Germany. For the “Literary and Culinary Arts” Conference, held at the University of Gießen (Germany).

(5 March 2014). Paper: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Fly off the Mediterranean Shore in Search of the Lost World. For the World Literature and Theoretical Perspectives interdisciplinary seminar, held at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

(17-18 February 2014). Paper: Pier Paolo Pasolini: Fly off the Mediterranean Shore in Search of the Lost World (in Italian). For the “Reception of the Mediterranean as tool to Understand the Modern Crisis: Sohn-Rethel, Kracauer, Benjamin, Junger” Conference, held at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

(15-16 October 2012). Paper: Utopian Journey of the Soul Towards the Last Temple (in Italian). For the “Space and Time: A Cultural Project” Conference, held at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

(1-2 October 2013). Paper:The Myth of the Soul’s Journey in Ibn Sinā (in Italian). For the “Myths and Tricks, Reception and Rereading of Mythologies” Conference, held at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

(19 May 2012). Seminar: The Journey of Alexander the Great in the Literatures of Islam (in Italian). Held at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.

(26 April 2012). Paper: The Conflict in William Shakespeare’s Othello: Its Reception and Reworking in Arabic Works of the Twentieth Century (in Italian). For the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: The Notion of Conflict” Conference, held at The British Institute of Florence.

Conference Organization

(9 April 2021) Kurdish Women’s Studies Network Panel Organizer/Moderator, title: Kurdish Women:

Challengers and Catalyzers of Gender Resistance (University Toronto, Canada).

 

Expert Briefing

(15 December 2021) How Kurdish Women are Democratizing and transforming the Middle East – A Lioness

is also a Lion (Geneva Centre for Security Policy).

 

Selected Talks and Lectures

 

• The Islamic Women’s Role in the Middle-East and Diaspora – University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna – Department of Literature and Foreign Languages – 14 October 2019.
•   Kurdish Women's Action Against FGM and Honour Killing in Diaspora – University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna – Department of Literature and Foreign Languages – 19 December 2019.

The minorities’s Role in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A overview on modern time – University Carlo Bo of Urbino – 5 November 2018.

 

Seminars

 (6 December 2022) How Kurdish Women are transforming the Middle East, Department of Law, University of Middlesex