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The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents
Marlene Schäfers
Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology, University of Utrecht
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Marlene Schäfers is Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the impact of state violence on intimate and gendered lives, voice, memory, and representation, and the politics of death and the afterlife in the context of modern Turkey and the Kurdish regions. Among others, her work has been published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her monograph Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey is forthcoming in 2022 with the University of Chicago Press.
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