Organised by CREAM (the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media at the University of Westminster) and hosted and co-organised by Tate curatorial, the conference Women in Revolt! addressed themes including radical film and political resistance, sound arts and feminism, female-led creative acts of resistance, activism, music and performance, archival practice in exhibition making and alternative models of making and storytelling. Hosted on March 23, Saturday, the conference Performance activating protest, examined different contexts in which performance has been used to explore the politics and power structures of gender. 

Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) held an international conference on The Long Twentieth Century of Kurds and Kurdistan. Organized by Nilay Özok-Gündoğan (Florida State University), Mashuq Kurt (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Jonathan Wyrtzen (Yale University), the conference aimed to provide an interdisciplinary scholarly platform to examine the experiences of Kurds during a time of profound changes that accompanied total war, colonial occupations, shifting territorial borders, and the emergence of new nation-states. İrwen’s work featured in the session Decolonial Aesthetics and Diasporic Kurdish Discernment presented by Vera Eccarius-Kelly (Siena College).

Image: Fatoş İrwen, Duvar – Zaman kayıtları, 2019-2020