Tijdlijn Halleh Ghorashi

Tijdlijn Halleh Ghorashi

@Mahdis-Nikou
Columns & essays

Women’s rights activists protesting for a democratic Iran counteract armed police on the streets with non-hierarchical leadership, a rhizomatic network, transnationality and flash mobs.

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Lectures

The timing of the exhibition Evin with Love1 at ISS fits in so well with what is going on in Iran at this moment. The outrage and bravery in Iran currently is distinctive in many ways:

1) Many call the movement a feminist movement, led by women who do not accept the deep humiliation inflicted on them by the Islamic Republic anymore;

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Other

Halleh Ghorashi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Jeroen Kluck (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and Hergen Spits (University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC) will receive the Impact Award 2021 this year. Every year the Impact Award is presented to renowned researchers or research groups who make a meaningful contribution to society.

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Other

In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has become a global pandemic. In the meantime, millions of people have become infected, and even more have been impacted by the socio-economic measures taken to contain the pandemic. While the virus itself does not discriminate based on age, race, income, or immigration status, these categories still determine who is more likely to get infected, recover or die from the virus, as well as be most impacted by the socio-economic measures taken to contain it.

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TEDxTalk, The Changed - Conditions of Critical Thinking

Why is power so often only discussed in terms of positions of force and suppression? Through engaging examples, Halleh Ghorashi illustrates the power of narratives and images. Halleh Ghorashi is Professor of Diversity and Integration at the VU University Amsterdam. She has published extensively on topics such as identity, cultural diversity, and emancipation with a particular focus on the narratives of identity, (forced) migration and belonging.

The Refugee Academy

Started in 2016, the Refugee Academy is an initiative of Halleh Ghorashi & Elena Ponzoni that aims to build a bridge between science and society around refugee issues by contributing to improving the social conditions for sustainable integration and inclusion of refugees.

The Refugee Academy strives to achieve this by creating new and closer connections as a platform between social initiatives, policy, scientific research and the perspectives of refugees themselves. This is based on the conviction that a combination of an inclusive approach with long-term capacity sharing is necessary to achieve real impact.

The Refugee Academy is currently funded with a small funding from the university. The award of the Brouwer Prize for Science and Society to this initiative means on the one hand recognition for the work done, and on the other hand the opportunity to further expand the activities of the Refugee Academy.