Chris Houston and Onur Günay did anthropological research in Istanbul amongst Kurdish migrants, Islamic groups, and Sufi orders twenty years apart. In this talk, they will reflect upon surprising continuities and ruptures between state discourses and policies towards Islam and Kurds.

In the past decade, informal addiction treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico. Run and utilized by low-income communities, these centers utilize captivity, coercion and violence as instruments for recovery.

Screening and discussion of The Trial (with English subtitles).