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The ethnography of West Africa, especially the social experiences of European governance of migration, youth, gender, the moral economy.

I specialise in the Arabic and Hebrew dance songs of al-Andalus [muwashshah and zajal] 1100-1350, and their possible overlaps into the musics of Early Europe. Migrant musics. For many years I worked as an activist around the motor industry [Ford and FIAT]. Migrant labour and new class compositions. I am a translator of the theoretical writings of the Italian revolutionary movement (A. Negri et al]. I am currently working on a major project of the musics of the Kurdish migrant communities in France and elsewhere. With a special interest in establishing Music Rooms in all places where migrants and refugees are aggregated “The Music Room Project”.

Research Area: Historic environment planning and management, the urban regeneration through heritage assest conservation and utilization and urban landscape.
Date of Appointment - March 2017 - January 2018

Research Area: information structure of the Korean language
Date of appointment: September 2017 - February 2018

Research Area: Influences of Joseon royal archives on cultural trends during the late Joseon period, Joseon literati's self-reflection represented in the literary discourses of the early twentieth century. 
Date of Appointment: February 2017-February 2018

Research Area: Transition of celadon ewers used for alcoholic beverages in the Koryo Dynasty, Korean food culture and art history.
Date of Appointment: February 2017 - February 2018

Research Area: Creation of the “Third World” and the Korean Peninsula in the post-WWII (1945-1955)
Date of appointment: 1 June 2017 - 31 March 2018

Research Area: Searching the Soul the Soul of Language through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics: The Construction of a Korean Emotion Vocabulary DB
Date of Appointment: June 2017 - June 2018

My primary research interest concerns the process of literary production under authoritarian states. I have completed my doctoral project on the dialectic of literature and power with a specific focus on post-revolutionary Iran. My current project addresses the same question throughout the history of Persian literature.