Archive 2013-2018
In the archive we present news published between 2013-2018. Most of the events were organised in the scope of the research project How to Make A Voice Audible. Continuity and Change of Kurdish Culture and of Social reality in Postcolonial Perspectives funded by the National Science Centre-Poland within the SonataBis Programme.
Kurdystan. Perspektywy Badawcze
New book on Kurdish studies in Polish language: Kurdystan. Perspektywy badawcze (Kurdistan. The research perspectives), ed. by Marek Hałaburda and Marcin Rzepka, Scientia Plus, Kraków 2018
Conference on Genocide and the Yezidi genocide of 2014
As partners of the event we would like to invite you to the Conference on genocide which commemorates the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on 9 December 1948. There will be the meeting with the Yezidi survivors and activists taking place in the scope of the conference. 6-7th December 2018.
Kurdish stories
We have pleasure to introduce the new book: Opowieści Kurdyjskie Meli Mahmuda Bajazidiego i Augusta Kościeszy-Żaby (Kurdish stories of Mela Mahmud Bayazidi and August Kościesza-Żaba), Księgarnia Akademicka, Orientalia Polonica, Kraków 2018. The book was edited by Joanna Bocheńska and Marcin Rzepka.
PhD by Abdullah J. Fatah
We are very happy to announce the discovery of the first PhD written on Kurdish subject by a Kurd, Abdullah Jalal Fatah and defended at the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University in 1978. The thesis was written in Polish language under the guidance of prof. Józef Chałasiński. It's title was Problemy rozwoju i upowszechniania kultury kurdyjskiej w Iraku (Developement and dissemination of Kurdish culture in Iraq). At the beginning Fatah studied at Łódź University and then he moved to Warszawa.
Kurdish Dengbêjs in Kraków
We have pleasure to invite you to the International Festival of Street Theatres 'Ulica' that is taking place in Kraków and hosts Kurdish Dengbêj i.e. bards and storytellers from Diyarbekir. You will have the opportunity to listen to the kilams by Dengêja Feleknas, Dengbêj Hesenê Şilbê and Êmerê Êntaxê.
Time: 5,6,7 and 8 July, 4.00-6.30 pm.
Place: Czajownia, Józefa Street 25, Kazimierz
The Role of the Kurds in the Middle East
We have pleasure to invite you to the conference The Role of the Kurds in the Middle East that will take place in Warsaw on the 14th of May. You can find the program below.
Place: Collegium Civitas
Time: 9.00-17.00
Kurdish language in Turkey
We have pleasure to invite you to the lectures by Dr Nurettin Beltekin and Dr Necat Keskin from Mardin Artuklu University on the situation of Kurdish language in North Kurdistan/Turkey.
Time: May 9, Wenesday, 2.45 pm.
Place: Institute of Oriental Studies, r. 210, Mickiewicza 2
Fritillaria Kurdica 19-20
New, the last issue of our bulletin is out and available under the link. In Issue 19-20 of the bulletin, we present articles in English, Kurdish and Polish. This is the last issue of the bulletin since 2013 to be published within the scope of the project How to make a voice audible? Continuity and change of Kurdish culture and of social reality in postcolonial perspective, as the project ended on 19 February 2018.
Let There Be Light!
We have pleasure to invite to Warsawa to the photo exhibition by Artur Rodziewicz entitled Let There Be Light! The Cosmogonic Festival of The Yezidis from Iraqi Kurdistan. The exhibition is a part of our project and was previously presented in the Kraków Public Library.
Place: Asia and Pacific Museum
Time 28.03. - 06.05.2018
Witold Rajkowski's Photographs
We have pleasure to invite to the exhibition Middle East and North Africa Through the Lens of Witold Władysław Rajkowski: photographs from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s’ organised by dr Antoni Kosowski in the Kraków Public Library.
Place: Rajska 1, III floor, attic gallery
Time: March 27 - April 26
dr Farangis Ghaderi's lecture
Section of Kurdish Studies of the Jagiellonian University has pleasure to invite to the seminar Poetics of Modernity: Revisiting Modern Kurdish Poetry by Dr Farangis Ghaderi (Exeter University) 25.01.2018, Thursday, 4.30 p.m. r. 402 Institute of Oriental Studies Mickiewicza street 3
Mehmet Dicle in Kraków
We have plaeasure to invite to the meeting with Mehmet Dicle, the Kurdish writer from Bakur, entitled Kurdistan and Turkey in focus of Kurdish modern literature. The meeting will take place in a bookstore cafe Bonobo (Księgarnia Kawiarnia Podróżnicza), Kraków Mały Rynek 4.
Muslim Lovers and Non-Muslim Beloveds
The Section of Kurdish Studies has pleasure to invite you to the lecture by Dr J. Andrew Bush from the New York Abu Dhabi University: Muslim Lovers and Non-Muslim Beloveds in Sorani Kurdish Poetry, 1820-1935
Thursday 30.11.2017, 4.30 p.m., r. 402, Institute of Oriental Studies, Mickiewicza 3
Fritillaria Kurdica 18
New issue of our bulletin is out. In the 18th number of our bulletin we present two articles in Polish language. The paper by Adam Martofel focuses on the Russian engagement in Syria in relation to the Kurdish issue in Rojava. Jakub Mirowski offers an overview of the 20th century Kurdish peace and reconciliation efforts in Turkey. The bulletin is available under the link.
Exhibition by Gökmen Önay
Kraków Public Library and The Section of Kurdish Studies of the Jagiellonian University have pleasure to invite you to the photo exhibition by Gökmen Önay entitled Allah stworzył Kurdów żeby góry nie były samotne /Allah Kürtleri yarattı dağlar hali kalmasın diye/ Allah Kurd afirandine ji bo ku çiya tenê nemînin/Allah created the Kurds so that the mountains won’t be desolate, Place: Kraków Public Library, Rajska 1, Time: 05.10.-13.11.2017.
Fritillaria Kurdica.Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 17
We have pleasure to present the new issue of our bulletin Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 17 which is available under the link. In the 17th issue of our bulletin we publish the papers in English and Kurdish languages that were presented during the conference Uncovering The Past Towards the Future, Uniting Experiences and Values. Kurdistan in Western and Eastern Research Tradition which took place in Kraków, at the Jagiellonian University between 24-26.10.2016. The main aim of the conference was to bring together scholars in Kurdish studies from Kurdistan as well as from the West and the East.
meeting with Mr Hêmin Hawrami
On behalf of the Section of Kurdish Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Jagiellonian University we would like to invite you to a meeting with Mr Hêmin Hawrami, the foreign affairs specialist of Mr Mesud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Thursday, June 1, 2017, 1.30 pm., room: 325/326, Mickiewicza 3, III floor, Kraków.
The Christians in Kurdistan - exhibition
We have pleasure to invite you for the photo exhibition by Krzysztof Lalik Between home and tent. The Christians in Kurdistan which have been opened in the Kraków Public Library, Rajska street 1, second floor. The exhibition is organised in the scope of our research project.
Fritillaria Kurdica.Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 16
We have pleasure to present the new issue of our bulletin Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 16 which is available under the link. The 16th issue of our bulletin consists of two texts which offer an insight to reality and culture of Yezidis and the Kurds living outside Kurdistan – in Transcaucasia and Khorasan.
Manual
We have the pleasure to inform that the Manual summerising the project Ez mafê xwe dizanim! I know my rights! has been just published and is available on the Kurdish Institute of Brussels website.The project ran from October 2014 to September 2016 in the scope of Erasmus Plus program and was carried out by the Kurdish Institute in Brussels (Belgium), Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), Pro Humanitate in Cologne (Germany) and Kurdî Der in Amed/Diyarbakır (Turkey).
Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no.15
In the 15th issue of our bulletin we present the Polish translation of four short stories by Mehmet Dicle, the young Kurdish writer from Bakur (North Kurdistan/Turkey) currently living and working in Istanbul. The first collection of Dicle’s short stories, entitled Asûs and written in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish language, was published in 2005 and was followed by Nara (2010) and Ta (2013). Despite their being small volumes, these three books established him as a leading figure among the younger generation of Kurdish writers from Bakur. The Polish translation of Dicle’s works was done by Joanna Bocheńska, who is also the author of the English foreword. The issue is available under the link.
Photos from the international conference - 2016
We are glad to present you in our gallery photos from the conference 'Uncovering The Past Towards the Future, Uniting Experiences and Values. Kurdistan in Western and Eastern Research Tradition', which was held in October 24-26, 2016, at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
Exhibition
We have pleasure to invite you for the photo exhibition Let There Be Light! by Artur Rodziewicz which is dedicated to the Yezidis from Iraqi Kurdistan. The exhibition is organized in the scope of the research project How to Make a Voice Audible? Continuity and Change of the Kurdish Culture and Social Reality in Postcolonial Perspectives and accompanies the international conference Uncovering The Past Towards the Future, Uniting Experiences and Values. Kurdistan in Western and Eastern Research Tradition that is due to take place at the Jagiellnian University between 24 and 26 October 2016.
Kurdish studies conference
We have pleasure to invite you to the international conference entitled Uncovering The Past Towards the Future, Uniting Experiences and Values. Kurdistan in Western and Eastern Research Tradition, which will be held between 24-26.10.2016 in the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University. The program is available in the file below.
Our team delegation at conference in Brussels
Between 22nd and 24th September a delegation from the Section for Kurdish Studies of Jagiellonian University took part in celebration of the Kurdistan Cultural Week in Brussels organised by the Kurdish Institute in Brussels. The JU delegation was composed of three scholars: dr Renata Kurpiewska-Korbut, Krzysztof Lalik and Karol Kaczorowski.
New issue of our bulletin
The new 13th and 14th (double) issue of our bulletin is published in English language. Four articles were written by the members of our research project and four other are guest publications or prepared in the scope of other research projects. The bulletin is available under the link.
Meeting with scholars from Mardin Artuklu University
The Section of Kurdish Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies Jagiellonian University has pleasure to invite you for the meeting with academics from Mardin Artuklu University
May 18, 5.00 p.m. Institute of Oriental Studies, Mickiewicza Street 3, room 404New (double) issue of our bulletin
We have pleasure to present the new issue of our bulletin Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies No. 11-12, which is available under the link Current double issue of our bulletin is published in English and Polish languages. We present two English articles and a Polish translation of interviews taken in July 2015 with representatives of Kurdish cultural institutions in Turkey. All the articles are part of the research project.
Call for abstract to our International Conference
The conference: Uncovering The Past Towards the Future, Uniting Experiences and Values.Kurdistan in Western and Eastern Research Tradition will take part in 24-26.10.2016 in Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. The conference will be held in memory of August Kościesza-Żaba, the Polish-Russian diplomat and researcher and Mela Mahmud Bayazidi the Kurdish clergyman who according to Żaba “was his teacher and collaborator” in collecting, translating and commenting on Kurdish texts. We invite presentation ins English, Kurdish and Russian languages.
New book on Religions of Kurds in Polish
We have a pleasure to present a new book published in Polish language:
Karol Kaczorowski. Religie Kurdów - jezydyzm, Ahl-e Haqq, alewizm. Katowice: Sacrum 2015.
You can see more details in the section of our website devoted to Kurdish Studies in Poland.Our project in Rudaw TV
Dr Joanna Bocheńska, director of the project "How to make a voice audible? Continuity and change of Kurdish culture and social reality in postcolonial perspective"(www.kurdishstudies.pl),orking in the Department of Iranian Studies in the Institute of Oriental Studies of Jagiellonian University (Kraków), have recently been a guest in Kawa Emin's "Hevpeyivin" (interview) program in Kurdish television channel Rudaw. Dr Bocheńska have spoken (in a sorani dialect of Kurdish language) on the topic of long history of Kurdish-Polish relations and both traditions and current projects connected with Kurdish Studies in Poland. She visited the studio of Rudaw during her stay in Autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq (Southern Kurdistan) where she participated in Gelawej culture festival in Suleymaniya during October 18-24th. The program was emitted on Tuesday 12.1.2015, it is available through the following link.
Report and photos from the last field research
We are pleased to present you a report from the scientific expedition to Northern Kurdistan, held in April, 2015, composed of participants from Poland, Belgium, Germany and Northern Kurdistan. The report was prepared by Mr Krzysztof Lalik who thanks Ms Olga Sewiłło and Mr Oskar Podlasiński for their contribution in collecting all relevant information about the expedition. Report is available in Articles section. By cliking on following URL-links you can read the first, second and third part of the report and photos in the gallery.
Photos from the last conference available
Here in gallery we are presenting photos from the conference 'Kurdistan and its inhabitants: perspectives of research', held in Kraków in October, 26-27, 2015
New issue of our bulletin
We have pleasure to present the new issue of our bulletin Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 10, which is available under the link. In the 10th issue of our bulletin we present the Polish translation by Dorota Słapa of selected poems and short stories written by Kurds in Persian from Kurdistan and Iran.
New issue of our bulletin
We have pleasure to present the new issue of our bulletin Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 9, which is available under the link.
Sculptures by Seywan Saeedian
We would like to invite you to the Seywan Saeedian's studio in Diyarbakir where his sculptures are presented. Seywan is a Kurdish artist born in Mahabad. He studied in Tehran, then moved to Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan). Now he is living and working in Diyarbakir (North Kurdistan, Turkey). The pictures were taken in summer 2015 by Joanna Bocheńska and are availablein our gallery.
New issue of our bulletin
We have pleasure to present the new issue of Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 7-8. This time it is multilingual and consists of articles in English, Russian and Kurdish (Sorani). The bulletin is available under the link, down the page, in pdf form.
Photographic Journey Among The Kurds in Warsaw
We have pleasure to invite you for the photo exhibition by Chris Kutschera entitled Photographic Journey Among The Kurds. 40 years of history in images which will take place at the Warsaw University, between 05.03-30.03.2015, Auditorium Maximum, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28. The exhibition is organized in the scope of the research project How to make a voice audible? Continuity and change of Kurdish culture and of social reality in postcolonial perspectives financed by National Science Centre of Poland.
Another new book
We have pleasure to present another book on Kurdish issue published in Polish language:
Renata Kurpiewska-Korbut, Społeczność międzynarodowa wobec Kurdów irackich (The International Community Towards the Iraqi Kurds), Księgarnia Akademicka 2014
New book
We have pleasure to present a new book published in Polish language:
Marcin Rzepka, Konfesyjność przekładu. Kulturowa historia kurdyjskich tłumaczeń Biblii (Cultural History of the Bible Translations into Kurdish Language), UPJPII, Kraków 2013
Nomination for Kurdish fairy tales
The Kurdish Fairy Tales published in Polish translation by Joanna Bocheńska (Opowieści Dengbeżów. Baśnie i bajki kurdyjskie ze zbiorów rodziny Celil, Namas Poznań 2014) and illustrated by Paulina Krajewska were nominated for the book of the year award of Polish Section of IBBY (International Board on Books for Youngsters) in the category of best illustrations.
Kurdish Literature. Between Borders, Past and Modernity
We have pleasure to invite you for the international seminar entitled Kurdish Literature. Between Borders, Past and Modernity wich will be held in Michał Bobrzyński Hall of Collegium Maius on October 21.
Photographic Journey Among The Kurds
We have pleasure to invite you for the photo exhibition by Chris Kutschera entitled Photographic Journey Among The Kurds. 40 years of history in images which will take place in the Kraków Public Library at Rajska street, between 16.10.-10.11.2014. The exhibition is organized in the scope of the research project How to make a voice audible? Continuity and change of Kurdish culture and of social reality in postcolonial perspectives financed by National Science Centre of Poland.
Solidarity with Kobani
Along with Kurdish Studies Network we call for action to support Kobani in Rojava (Western Kurdistan/Syria).
The humanitarian crisis caused by the Islamic State (IS) continues to terrorize and displace hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. The autonomous canton of Kobani is now bearing the brunt of the IS’s attacks as the international community has mostly been watching. The city has been under siege for three weeks. Despite fierce resistance by the defenders of the town, the advance of the IS forces towards Kobani is threatening to set off another massacre similar to that of Shengal. As scholars working on issues related to the Kurds and other peoples of Kurdistan, we are profoundly concerned about yet another imminent humanitarian crisis and stand in solidarity with the people of Kobani. We urgently call on the coalition forces against the IS and the broader international community to take immediate action to prevent an impending disaster by supporting the Kurds in their fight for self-defense.
Frittilaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no.6
The new issue of our bulletin has been published. This time it is devoted to contemporary Kurdish poetry.
Estetîk û etîk
Estetîk û etîk. Dîmena exlaqî ya edebiyata nûjên (Aesthetic and Ethic. The Ethic Dimention of Modern Literature) the seminar of dr Joanna Bocheńska will take place in Diyarbakir's Ikinci Yeni cafe on Sunday 13th of July, at 9 p. m.
Frittilaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no.5
We have pleasure to present the new issue of our e-zine Frittilaria Kurdica.Bulletin of Kurdish Studies no. 5. This time it consists of Polish and Kurdish language articles which are the result of our reaserch project. The e-zin is available here.
Kurdish Fairy Tales in Polish Translation
Kurdish fairy tales from Calils' family archive has been published in Polish translation by Joanna Bocheńska with illustrations by Paulina Krajewska. The book was translated in the scope of Małopolska Regional Agency Knowledge and Practice project (2011) and published by Namas Publishing Hause with the support of Jagiellonian University (Faculty of Philology). It is the the first direct translation from Kurdish (Kurmanji dialect) to Polish which has been published as a book. The fairy tales consist of preface, footnotes and notes on Kurdish storytellers as well as of illustrations. This way they are adressed both for reserchers and young readers.
Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies. no. 3,4
We have pleasure to present the new - 3 and 4 - issue of our Kurdish Studies Bulletin.
It is available here
Art and Artists in Northern Kurdistan
Section of Kurdish Studies of Jagiellonian University and The Regional Public Library in Kraków would like to invite you to the presentation by Bariş Seyitvan Li Bakurê Kurdistanê Huner û Hunermend (Art and Artists in Northern Kurdistan) which will take place on Wenesday, 26 March 2014, 17.00 in the Arteteka building of The Regional Public Library in Kraków Rajska 12
New issue of our bulletin
The second number of our Bulletin of Kurdish Studies has been published. The second issue is devoted to the contemporary Kurdish literature. This time it is adressed to the Polish reader because it consists of Polish translations of Kurdish stories and poems done by Joanna Bocheńska.
Promotion of the book
We have the pleasure to invite you for the promotion of the book by Andrzej Pisowicz, Andrzej Bartczak and Farhang Muhammad Gramatyka kurdyjska sorani, wariant używany w Erbilu (Grammar of Sorani Kurdish spoken in Erbil) published by Księgarnia Akademicka (Kraków 2012). The meeting will be held in the Kurdish Center for Information and Documentation on the 11th of December.
Our research project in Stêrk TV
On the 8th of December dr Joanna Bocheńska took part in the Hassan Ghazi's Rawêj Program of the Kurdish Stêrk TV based in Brussel. In the one hour Kurdish language talk show she talked about the history of Kurdish studies in Poland and about the research project How to Make a Voice Audible? Continuity and Changes of Kurdish Culture and of Social Reality in the Postcolonial Perspectives.
Our research trip to Kurdistan
Between June 19 and July 27, 2013 we were in Kurdistan conducting our research in Diyarbakir, Mardin, Bazit (Doğubayazıt), Istanbul (Turkey) and Hawlêr/Erbil (Iraq).
Seminar and Kurdish language lessons
In new academic year 2013/1014 we invite You for our seminars: Kurdish Studies in Postcolonial Perspective and Kurdish (Sorani) lessons.
Seminar
Kurdish Studies in Postcolonial Perspectives
The Diverse Heritage of Yezidi Tradition
Yezidis were amongst those inhabitants of the Middle East who for a long time but especially in 19th and 20th centuries had suffered a great deal due to the colonial policies of different powers. They were held in contempt as a religious minority, worshippers of the devil and then as the Kurds too when the national and chauvinistic policy dominated the region. In spite of this difficulty and forced exile their diverse heritage of beliefs, thoughts, ethic and aesthetic values hidden in oral tradition of religious texts and folklore seems today one of the richest sources of interest and inspiration not only for Kurdish writers, poets, politicians and activists but foreign non Kurdish scholars too.
First Issue of our Bulletin
The first issue of our bulletin Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies has been published.
Door to Paradise
Iraqi Kurdistan From a Different Perspective
Photography exhibition
by Joanna Bocheńska
Jagiellonian University Museum, 21.03.-30.04.3013