We cordially invite you to the next lecture in the Tudástér series:

Date & Time: Wednesday, 18 November, 2026, 12:00

Venue: Krajkó Room, 2 Egyetem Street, Szeged 6722

Title: Surviving „The Game”: Do Crows and Cats Talk? Psychological Insights on Resilience, Coping, and Shared Spaces in a Refugee Camp in Bosnia

Speaker: Islam Sargi, PhD Student

İslam Sargı earned his PhD in  Contemporary Comperative History from the University of Szeged in 2023, focusing his dissertation on the Kurdish issue. In June 2026, he completed a second Master’s degree, in Religious Studies, at the same university, with a thesis examining memory, counter-memory regimes, and religion in Turkey. Alongside his academic research, he has three years of prior experience volunteering as a teacher for disadvantaged children and refugees in Turkey. Currently, he is a senior student in the Psychology undergraduate program at the University of Szeged. His primary research interests include necropolitics, political violence, minorities, migration, and contemporary Middle Eastern and Balkan history and politics.

The lecture will be held in English. Please find a short abstract below:

Can two completely different worlds find a common language when survival is the only option? Drawing from my personal experience as a final-year psychology student volunteering in a Bosnian transit camp, this presentation explores the hidden psychological dimensions of „The Game”: the perilous border-crossing attempts made by refugees. Step beyond language barriers to uncover how extreme scarcity, complex coping mechanisms, and raw human resilience shape the rules of forced coexistence.