Krzysztof Lalik

In 2001 he graduated from the Marketing and Management Department at University of Science and Technology in Krakow; he completed two kinds of studies in the field of Cultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University: in 2006 he was granted MA degree in Middle and Far Eastern Studies and in 2007 MA degree in Ethnic Relations & International Migrations. At present he is a PhD student at the Department of Middle and Far East Studies of Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

The title of his PhD thesis that is being prepared is The Analysis of Ethnic Relations Between Kurds and Assyrians in Ankawa – district of Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. His research and studies is particularly focus on national, political and ethnic changes and relations between various ethnic groups in Kurdistan, especially the Iraqi Kurdistan over last decades. Between 2006 and 2012 he worked in the Kurdish Centre for Information and Documentations in Krakow. He participated in organizing many ventures devoted to Kurdish issue.

He gave lectures at many conferences such as: ‘Second International Conference on Kurdish Studies’ at the Exeter University in Great Britain (September 2012), festival SLOT Fest ‘TOURcja’ (Kraków, November 2012), the conference ‘Nationalism, Religion and Democracy’ (Jagiellonian University, May 2012), conference ‘Arab Awakening: sources, chances and dangers’ (Kraków, June 2011), Second International Humane Session (Kraków, June 2010), conference ‘Nationalism, Ethnicity and multiculturalism in the Middle East’ (Jagiellonian University, May 2010), conference „Freedom, Creativity, Enslavement” (the Pedagogic University In Cracow, January 2010), the international conference „The Kurds and the Iraqi Kurdistan at the turn of the 20th and 21st Century (the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, March 2008) and other conferences and seminars. He was co-organizer or co-author of many exhibitions about migrants, ethnic and religious minorities, such as: The Centre for Refugees in Turin’ (under the international project M3 - Minorities-Migrants-Mobilities; ‘Albo Tak’, Cracow, May-June 2010), “The Muslims in Poland. The Tatars and the Kurds” (under the international project M3; in “Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna” in Cracow, May-June 2010), „Mój Kraków-My Kraków” (the international project M3; in “Kawiarnia Naukowa”, Kraków, December 2009), „Hawler, Kurdystan” – photos of Adam Musiał (at the Jagiellonian University in April-May 2007); ‘The Iraqi Kurdistan’ (Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, October 2007).

contact: krzysztof.lalik@kurdishstudies.pl