Folashade Ajayi
- Foto
- Figure Maike Klein
- Name
- Folashade Ajayi
- 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