Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Diversity and Social Conflict

Folashade Ajayi

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Name
Folashade Ajayi
Email
ajayimir (at) cms.hu-berlin.de

Visiting address
Universitätsstraße 3b , Room 331
Phone number
(030) 2093-66610
Mailing address
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Interests

Folashade is interested in the broad field of race and gender equality, migration and integration politics and debates, anti-racism and anti-discrimination, feminism, gender mainstreaming.

 

Education

MA in Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin (since 2016)

08/2017 (accepted): Kosmos Summer University “The Constitutive Powers of Migration. Refugees and the transformation of migration societies”, Humboldt University Berlin and Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research

 

BA in Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin (2016)

Thesis title: On the instrumentalization of gender based violence in the German asylum debate

10/2015: Capacity building workshop "How to Counter Right Wing Populism and Extremism in Europe", Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Brussels

09/2014 - 01/2015: Semester Political Science, Université Libre Brussels

05/2014: EUROFORT workshop on European Integration, Princeton University, New Jersey

 

Curriculum Vitae

08/2017 (accepted): AGORA – Young feminist summer school organized by the European Women’s Lobby, Brussels

Since 05/2017: Elected staff council member, Humboldt University Berlin

Since 03/2016: Teamer, Initiative Ufuq.de, Berlin

08/2015 - 09/2015: Intern in the research department at Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, Berlin

02/2015 - 03/2015: Intern in the policy department at European Network Against Racism (ENAR), Brussels

Since 10/2013: student assistant at Department of Diversity and Social Conflict, Humboldt University Berlin

 

Publications

2016:  Translation from French original text by Leyla Dakhli (with Julia Gerlach): Islamwissenschaften als Kampfsport: Eine französische Debatte über die Ursachen dschihadistischer Gewalt [Islamic Studies as Martial Arts: A French Debate on the Causes of Jihadist Violence] URL: http://www.ufuq.de/islamwissenschaften-als-kampfsport/

 

2015: Conclusions and Recommendations. Capacity Building “How to Counter Right Wing Populism and Extremism in Europe”, Heinrich Böll Foundation EU, 24.12.2014. URL: https://eu.boell.org/en/2015/12/24/capacity-building-conclusions-and-recommendations-how-counter-right-wing-populism-and

 

2015: Buchzusammenfassung „The Headscarf Debate - Conflicts of National Belonging“ in Gender Bulletins, Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. URL: https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/publikationen/gender-bulletins/bulletin-info/bulletin-51-gesamt-formatiert_mitdeckblattundimpr.pdf

 

2014: „Verhandelt wird, wer dazu gehört“ http://mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/zusammenfassung-buch-the-headscarf-debates-kopftuchdebatten-yurdakul.html

 

Awards

Since 03/2017: Mentee, Mentorship Program for Outstanding Women, Cusanus Foundation

 

05/2016 – 06/2016 Humanity in Action fellow of the 2016 program ‘A New Europe? Reactions to a Continent in Crisis’ in Copenhagen, Denmark and Athens, Greece

 

05/2014: Grantee, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences and Princeton University (Princeton-Humboldt strategic partnership)

 

Since 04/2013: Fellow of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Funding of Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts Social Science

 

Panel discussions

02/2016: Panel discussion ‘B(l)ack to the Future. European Citizens of African Descent’, organized by the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna. URL: http://www.kreisky-forum.org/cal/1530/2016_2/public-events-2.html