Winter Semester
2024-25

OUR COURSES

A University Beyond Borders and Classrooms

As a self-organization of politically persecuted scholars, we seeks new strategies to uphold academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes.

What we do
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Courses

We offer accredited free and open online  courses with an intensive seminar atmosphere in a great variety of academic fields.

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Research

We contribute to knowledge at risk in the trans-disciplinary fields of Peace, Gender and Rethinking the University.

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Publications

We experiment with ways to write and publish collaboratively and open access.

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Recent News

Summer Meeting

This year, we gathered at Engelnest and on the Off University Moodle for our biannual meeting and General Members Assembly …
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Artistic research on “The Journey of Kurdish Women to Berlin”

In May, we were invited to attend a VAHA networking meeting in Berlin. This meeting gave participants the opportunity to meet …
Poster for 'Kulaktan Kulağa Voicing Voices' on August 8, 2024, 9:00 PM at cine Fytopolis. Includes images of landscapes, ruins, and a colorful artwork.

Bridging Cultural Localities: Kurdish Cinema on Lesvos Island

This summer, we hosted Övgü Gökçe as a in Mytilene on Lesvos island, together with our partner Siniparxi. During her two-month …

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Ways of Remembering
Memories, Representations, Contexts

The conversation series, Ways of Remembering: Memories, Representations, Contexts, will explore the current state of memory studies, with a particular focus on violent and contested histories, and the various ways in which these histories are represented or silenced. In each session, guest scholars and cultural practitioners from a diverse range of contexts and disciplines will engage in critical conversations about specific cases of memorialisation and cultural representation of difficult pasts.

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Navigating the Path to Transitional Justice in Myanmar

The course, that we organize with the New University in Exile Consortium, is distinct in its singular focus on the enduring conflict in Myanmar and the challenges and endeavors to secure justice for the victims from the transitional period (i.e., the partial civilian government during 2011-2021) to post-coup Myanmar (Feb 2021- present). It provides a comprehensive grasp of transitional justice and its implementation, with a specific spotlight on the prosecution process and a case study of Myanmar. This course is crafted to give participants the knowledge and skills to navigate the intricate terrain of transitional justice in Myanmar despite the legal and political hurdles..

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