How can we understand the complex dynamics of gender and bodily strategies in the context of forced migration? As part of the CMES Seminar Series, Sinem Kavak, researcher at the Center for Sustainability Studies at Lund University (LUCSUS) and a research affiliate at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, visited CMES on 21 November. She shared experiences of women and gender minorities in Turkey and Lebanon, exploring how refugees navigate patriarchal and homophobic landscapes in their first countries of asylum and how these landscapes impact on their vulnerabilities, choices, and opportunities for secondary mobility.
The CMES Research Seminar is the main collective seminar at CMES. Lund University researchers and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of relevance for the Middle East.
There are now two remaining CMES Seminars this Fall Semester:
5 December. UN’s Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda in the Middle East: Can Youth Participation in Peacebuilding Withstand Authoritarian Co-optation? With Adam Almqvist (CMES, Lund University)
19 December. A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Meir and Hayyawi Sawda’I and the History of an Iraqi Jewish Cinema Business. With Pelle Valentin Olsen (History, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen)
See the full CMES Seminar Series Programme here.