Wendelmoet Hamelink
Dr Wendelmoet Hamelink is a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research (STK) of Oslo University where she works on the project ALCITfem and is also involved in teaching. She has an MA and PhD in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology from Leiden University, the Netherlands. After her PhD she received a grant from the Max Weber foundation for research on cultural memories of Armenians originating from eastern Turkey, followed by a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship with which she carried out the project IMEX, Images in Exile. The project looked at gender and representation of Kurdish women who recently settled in Scandinavia as a consequence of the Syrian war. The book about this project is in preparation, in cooperation with professor Besime Sen from Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, and with photo journalist Iffit Qureshi. Her methodological and theoretical perspectives consist of narrativity and oral history research, gender and migration, musical anthropology, conflict-studies and nationalism, morality and post-colonial theory. She has long-term fieldwork experience in many countries in the Middle East, Europe and Africa and she speaks Kurdish and Turkish. Her book The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation (Brill 2016) investigates the lyrics, life stories, and live performances of Kurdish singers that offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics, and everyday life in borderlands.
Contact: a.w.hamelink@stk.uio.no
