About the Authors and Editors / Verzeichnis der AutorInnen und HerausgeberInnen Soma Ahmad, Free Reasearcher Fields of specialization: political sciences, development studies, arab studies. Zeynep Arslan, University of Vienna, Austria Researcher (post doc); fields of specialisation: identity politicis and identity building processes, nationalism, group dynamics, minority approaches, hierachy mechanisms, hegemony politics and subalternity, gender studies, women’s studies, intersectionality approaches, postcolonial studies, postmodernism, democratisation processes and dynamics, ethnicity and confession/faith, Alevisms, Alevities and Alevi politics, and Zaza language and ethnicity researches. Şükrü Aslan, University of Mimar Sinan, Turkey Professor of Sociology; Fields of research: migration and sociology of ethnicity. Editor of the first omnibus volume about Dersim Herkesin Bildiği Sır in (Dt. Das Geheimnis, das alle kennen) right after der First International Dersim Symposium in 2010 (Dt. Erstes internationales Symposium zu Dersim); Further publications and editions: Les Quartıers Populaıres Et La Vılle (Dt. 2010); Dersimi Parantezden Çıkarmak (Dt. Dersim nicht mehr unter Anführungszeichen zu setzen; 2013); Türkiye’nin Etnik Coğrafyası: Anadil Haritaları (Dt. Die ethnische Geographie der Türkei: Karten der Erstsprachen; 2015). Katharina Brizić, University of Freiburg, Germany Professor of Multilingualism Studies and research fellow at the Mercator Foundation, Germany; fields of specialisation: multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and language biographies; academic success and social inequality; transnational migrations and diasporas; music and oral narration; collective memory, conflict and social cohesion in postmodern societies. Mustafa Dehqan graduated from the University of Tehran with a BA in History and a MA in Historical Linguistics. His last works include: “A Kurdish Garshuni Poem by David of Barazne”, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (2014), a co-authored article with Alessandro Mengozzi; and Index to Sharaf-nāma (Îndeksa Șerefnameyê) (Istanbul, 2015). Mehmet Emir, born in Turkey, migrated to Austria at the age of 16 and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Vienna. He works as photographer, social worker, journalist and theater actor/director. His research is focused mainly on the ethnology of music. Vural Genç, earned his BA from the Inonu University and his MA from Mimar Sinan University. In 2014, he graduated from the University of Istanbul with a PhD in History. His main works include İranlı Tarihçilerin Kaleminden Çaldıran Savaşı 1514 (Istanbul, 2011) and a co-authored book with Cihangir Gündoğdu entitled

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Dersim'de Osmanlı Siyaseti (Istanbul, 2012). Recently published: Why Was Sharaf Khan Killed?; An Unknown Epistle of Idrīs-i Bidlīsī: Risāla dar ‘Ilm-i Qiyāfat; Kurds as Spies: Information-Gathering on the 16th-Century Ottoman-Safavid Frontier. Agnes Grond, University of Graz, Austria Researcher (post doc) and university lecturer; fields of specialisation: musicology, linguistics, foreign and second language acquisition, with a particular focus on German in Austria; urban multilingualism; multilingualism and language minorities in Turkey and in the diaspora; and language contact. Kâzım Gündoğan, documentary film production director: İki Tutam Saç – Dersimin Kayıp Kızları 2010 (En. Zwei Locken Haarbüschel: Die verlorenen Töchter Dêrsims); Hay Way Zaman 2013 (Dt. Ach die Zeit); Vank’ın Çocukları 2016 (En. Die Kinder des Vank); author and field researcher. Hovsep Hayreni, worker in Belgium. Non-graduated historian, fields of specialisation: History and ethnology of Dersimi Armenians, Armenian identity and trauma analyses, sociological and demographic analyses about Armenians in Turkey. Recently published works: Yukarı Fırat Ermenileri 1915 ve Dersim (Dt. Die ArmenierInnen von Fırat 1915 und Dersim; 2016). 1915 Bağlamında Kürt-Ermeni Tarih Muhasebesi ve Güncel Tartışmalar (Dt. Das Verhältnis zwischen den KurdInnen und den ArmenierInnen und Aktuelle Diskussionen in Verbindung mit 1915; 2015). Petr Kubalek, is a Czech-Slovak translator, interpreter, and transliteration specialist.; fields of specialization: eschatology of Yezidism; history of Kurdish Studies; Arabic spoken as a non-native language by Iraqi Kurds. He has also written on eschatology in Yezidism and the history of Kurdish Studies. His research has been used in documentary films Believers in Angel Peacock (2004) and Return To Halabja: The Legacy Of Chemical Weapons (2018). Hajan Majid, Free Reasearcher in Hewlêr and Vienna Fields of specialization: political sciences, Kurdish Studies. Christoph Osztovics, Free Researcher (prae doc); fields of specialisation: political sciences, development studies, Kurdish Studies. Thomas Schmidinger, University of Vienna, Universities of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg and Upper Austria, Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology, Vienna, Austria; Senior resercher, secretary general of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdish Studies; fields of specialisation: political science and cultural anthropology, Kurdish Studies, Iraqi Kurdistan, Rojava/Syria, Sinjar/Iraq, jihadism. Maria Anna Six-Hohenbalken, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and University of Vienna, Austria; Senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences; lecturer at the University of Vienna; president of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdish

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Studies; fields of specialisation: social and cultural anthropology, genocide and memory studies, Kurdish Studies. Henriette Raddatz, BA in archeology, fieldwork in the Caucasus and Central Asia. MA in ‘Islamwissenschaft’. Strong interest in migration studies with focus on former soviet republics and the role of Islam in society. Hüseyin Tunç, local politician and political activist from Turkey/Dêrsim. From 2014 bis 2017 Co-President of the Dêrsim local government of the pro-kurdish Pupil’s Democratic Party (Tr. Halkların Demokratik Partisi, HDP) and member of the local government in Dêrsim. Activist and former leader of the Labour Party (Tr. Emek Partisi, EMEP) in Turkey, co-founder of the Peace Parliament (Tr. Barış Meclisi) and the Peoples' Democratic Congress (Tr. Halkların Demokratik Kongresi, HDK) Writer of essays and articles with the focus about international labour relations, class theories and relations, mass movements, solidarity approaches and equality issues. Uğur Ümit Üngör, is Associate Professor at the Department of History at Utrecht University and Research Fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His main areas of interest are state formation and nation formation, with a particular focus on mass violence. He is currently leading an NWO-funded research project on paramilitarism and completing the monograph Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019). Areshpreet Wedech, studied German Philology and South Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. She is currently working on her dissertation on the Sikh community in Austria.

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