Dunya Verwey

Curriculum Vitae

Name:
Anna Dunya Maria Verwey

Career

1997 – today: Museum Geelvinck Foundation, Amsterdam (Board, since 2013)
– curator for two or more exhibitions per annum
– curator of annual exhibitions abroad (1998-2004)
– concert programmer weekly Geelvinck Salon (since 2005)
– editor weekly e-newsletter (since 2008)
– festival programmer Geelvinck Festival (since 2011)
– cultural projects with Suriname, Bashkortostan, Oman, United Nations &c.

1995 – 2013: International Dialogues Foundation, The Hague, project-manager (part-time)
projects:
– position of Kurds in Turkey
– position of Muslim-women in the West

1989 – 2014: Stichting Nederland – Turkije, Board

1979 – 1995: Ministry of Interior, Dept. for Minority Policy, staffmember (beleidsmedewerker)
projects:
– integration of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
– equal rights and anti-discrimination measures
– European Conventions on minorities and human rights (Strasbourg)
– position of Islam in western societies

1976 – 1978: IKON TV: producer of documentary tv-programs on minority issues

1973 – 1975: Tibetan refugee projects in Switzerland (Rikon), Leiden Ethnology Museum

1970 – 1973: activist women’s liberation movement, one of the four co-initiators of ‘Dolle Mina’; co-initiator Cinemien

1969: student activist, Maagdenhuis occupation

Education

1966 – 1976: University of Amsterdam, Cultural Anthropology
main topics and specialisation:
– migration-studies on the Balkan
– ethnicity in multicultural societies
– development issues in India and China
– ethno-cinematography

1959 – 1966: Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden (alpha)

Other activities

– MoWIC, Chair (2022-)

– Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Board (2014-)

– revival feminist activism ‘Dolle Mina‘ (2013)

– Europees Skrjabin Genootschap, Advisor (2012-2016)

– Stichting Keurtuinen Amsterdam, Board (2010-)

– Slow Food Convivium Amsterdam Centrum, Board (2008-)

– Koninklijke Industrieele Groote Club, Amsterdam, Art & Culture Committee

– NGO Comprehensive Dialogue among Civilizations, Board (2003-)

– Maecenas World Patrimony Foundation, United Nations, Board (1999-)

– Stichting Democratische Media Rusland, Board (1997-)
(project: support Dept. Journalism, University Novgorod, Russia)

– Dutch Dragon Boat Association, Board (1990-2007)

– Middle Eastern Women’s Network