Sevil Çakır

Sevil Çakır holds a PhD in Middle Eastern studies from Leiden University. Her research interests include migration, social and political movements, gender, women’s movements, and the Middle East. She has published on various topics such as activism in exile, Kurdish migrant women in Germany, and women’s movements in Iran and Turkey. From 2018 to 2023, she worked as a research associate and lecturer at the Center for Methods of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen, where she taught courses on social movements in the Global South, gender, research methods, and feminist methodologies.

Session

  • Politics and Activism in Exile: Navigating Resistance at the Crossroads

    * Delal Aydın– Moderator * Hişyar Özsoy (Politico-theme Keynote) – On Precarity, Survival and Agency in Exile * Mustafa Şener – The Latest Wave of Political Migration from Turkey to Germany (2015-2022) * Sevil Çakır – The Kurdish Women’s Social and Political Engagements in Berlin and the Kurdish Diaspora * Latife Akyüz & Bilge Cömert […]