AUK’s CPHS Contributes to Global Dialogue on Kurdish Migration and Identity

Berlin, Germany – On September 24, 2025, Dr Jiyar Aghapouri, Associate Professor of International Studies & Director of the Center for Peace and Human Security (CPHS) was the invited speaker at the International Workshop “Locating Diaspora in Kurdish Studies: Migration, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge,” hosted by the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin. The one-day workshop, organized by the postdoctoral scholar Dr. Haci Cevik, brought students and scholars together to examine how migration, exile, and statelessness shape Kurdish identity, memory, and political imagination. As part of a panel on “Transnational Networks, Activism, and Memory in the Kurdish Diaspora,” Dr. Aghapouri delivered a talk titled “Intersectional Dynamics of Kurdish Diaspora,” engaging students and scholars in discussion on the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and diverse diaspora activism. The program also featured an opening talk by Prof. Bahar Baser from Durham University and a closing speech and roundtable led by Prof. Mehmet Gurses the Director of Kurdish Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, underscoring the workshop’s focus on positioning diaspora studies as central to Kurdish Studies—a conversation to which AUK’s Center for Peace and Human Security was proud to contribute.