Fall 2014 (download poster)
3 October @ 12:00pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Farzin Vahdat, Independent Scholar
“Theorizing the Revolution of 1979 in Iran”
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8 October @ 7:00pm | Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Film Screening: Fifi Howls from Happiness directed by Mitra Farahani (Iran, 2013)
Discussant: Abbas Amanat, History, Yale University
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17 October @ 12:00pm | William L. Harkness Hall Room 207, 100 Wall Street
Pamela Karimi, Art History, UMass Dartmouth
“Domesticity, Consumer Culture, and Modernity in Iran”
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14 November @ 12:00pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Mike Shuster, former foreign correspondent for NPR
“Covering the World for NPR: from the Berlin Wall to the Invasion of Iraq and the Turmoil in Iran”
Co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism
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5 December @ 12:00pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Assef Ashraf, History, Yale University
“Governing the Guarded Domains: The Politics of Land in the Early Qajar State”
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Spring 2015 (download poster)
3 February @ 11:30am | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Pasha M. Khan, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
“The Shahnamah in India, between History and Romance”
Co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
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20 February @ 12:30pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Saghar Sadeghian, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of History, Yale University
“Tabriz New Catholic Church: A Construction of Urban Constitutional Crisis (1906-1912)”
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27 March @ 12:30pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Niloofar Haeri, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
“Private Prayer and Congregational Poetry: An Ethnography of a Group of Women in Iran”
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10 April @ 12:30pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Farzin Vejdani, Department of History, Ryerson University
“Writing History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture”
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24 April @ 12:30pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Mirjam Künkler, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
“Female Religious Authority in 20th Century Iran”
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27 April @ 7:30pm | Luce Hall Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Soraya Tremayne, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
and Mohammad Mehdi Akhondi, Avicenna Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
“Creating Iranian Life in a Petri Dish: The Legal, Ethical, Medical, and Moral Implications of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)”
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