Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities

Joanna Bocheńska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Director of the Section of Kurdish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Poland. From 2013 to 2018, she headed the research project, How to make a voice audible? Continuity and change of Kurdish culture and social reality in postcolonial perspectives (www.kurdishstudies.pl). Her main interests include ethics, Kurdish classical and modern literature, Middle Eastern cinema and art. She is also a translator of Kurdish literature and a photographer (www.joannabochenska.com).

• 1. Introduction (Joanna Bocheńska, Renata Kurpiewska-Korbut, Karol Kaczorowski, Marcin Rzepka, Krzysztof Lalik, Artur Rodziewicz).- 2. Between Honour and Dignity: Kurdish Literary and Cinema Narratives and Their Attempt to Rethink Identity and Resistance (Joanna Bocheńska).- 3. The Socio-Political Role of Modern Kurdish Cultural Institutions (Renata Kurpiewska-Korbut).- 4. Countering Othering: Social Negotiations of Identity among New Kurdish Migrants in Istanbul (Karol Kaczorowski).- 5. Translation, Power and Domination: The Postcolonial Explorations of the Bible in the Kurdish Context (Marcin Rzepka).- 6. Ethnic and Religious Factors of Chaldo-Assyrian Identity in an Interface with the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan (Krzysztof Lalik).- 7. The Nation of the Sur: The Yezidi Identity between Modern and Ancient Myth (Artur Rodziewicz).