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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nepotism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:پدیدهٔ خویشاوند سالاری در جمهوری اسلامی ایران\nNepotism in the Islamic Republic of Iran\nSunday\, June 1\, 2025 | 4:00-6:00 PM Pacific | Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nAlternate live stream via Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/91262030653 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on June 1 to join.) \n \nIn 1962\, Leonard Binder\, a keen observer of Middle Eastern politics\, noted that “nepotism is a strict family obligation in Iran.” More recently\, Assef Ashraf described the Qajar state as a “familial state.” During the Pahlavi dynasty\, the dominant influence of the “thousand families” in Iranian affairs was evident. Even the massive social revolution of 1979 did not alter Binder’s astute observation about nepotism\, which persisted in the Islamic theocracy that followed. Post-revolutionary Iran’s political landscape remains significantly influenced by informal institutions and kinship ties. This talk will focus on one such primordial network: family ties. Drawing on a longitudinal study of over 2\,800 members of the political elite in the Islamic Republic\, the speaker has compiled the most extensive list of familial connections. He argues that understanding the dynamics of post-revolutionary politics in Iran requires recognizing (a) the significant role of informal politics and (b) the kinship and marital ties of officeholders\, beyond a simple focus on embedded formal institutions and political structures. \nAbout the Speakers\nDr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously\, he was a Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech (2019-2022) and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University (1992-2019). He is the author of Tarashidam\, Parastidam\, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani (Tehran\, 2010) and Iranian Intellectuals and the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press\, 1996); co-author of Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (Syracuse University Press\, 2018); and editor of Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft (Syracuse University Press\, 2013). His articles have appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East\, Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East\, International Third World Studies Journal and Review\, Iranian Journal of International Affairs\, Iranian Studies\, Foreign Service Journal\, Journal of Peace Research\, Middle East Economic Survey\, and Syracuse Law Review.Dr. Boroujerdi has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, a fellow of the American Council on Education\, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visiting scholar at UCLA\, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington\, D.C.)\, and a Co-PI of Iran Data Portal. \n  \n  \nDr. Ali Akbar Mahdi will serve as a discussant following the lecture.  He is emeritus professor of Ohio Wesleyan University and currently teaches sociology at California State University\, Northridge.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nepotism-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Fallen in the Whirlwind: The Odyssey and Destiny of Iranian Victims of Stalinist Great Repression in the Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:فتادگان در گردبا: گفتاری درباره سرگذشت و سرنوشت قربانیان ایرانی سرکوب‌های فراگیر استالینی در شوروی\nFallen in the Whirlwind: The Odyssey and Destiny of Iranian Victims of Stalinist Great Repression in the Soviet Union\nSunday\, May 18\, 2025 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rBjt0ANzRrSrmOOM7chltg \n \nThis talk introduces a new monograph that explores the lives of Iranian political activists and migrant workers who sought refuge in the Soviet Union during the 1930s\, only to become victims of the Stalinist purges. Drawing from unpublished documentary sources\, the presentation examines the roles these individuals played in the international communist movement\, as well as their contributions within industrial labor\, political activism\, and literary circles. It addresses significant gaps in the historical narratives of Stalinism\, the international communist movement\, and Iranian-Soviet relations\, offering fresh insights into this critical chapter of history. \nAbout the Speakers \nTouraj Atabaki is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus\, holding the Chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. He has coordinated several major projects\, including Practicing Modernization in Turkey and Iran and Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry\, 1908-2008. He has also contributed to the international project The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labor Relations\, 1500-2000 and participated in research on Migration and Repression in Iran and the Soviet Union as well as Soviet Political Migrants in Iran in the 1920s and 1930s. Atabaki’s extensive body of work includes numerous authored and edited volumes\, such as Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in 20th Century Iran; Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah; Iran and the First World War: Battleground of the Great Powers; The State and the Subaltern: Modernization\, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran; and Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora. His most recent books are Fallen in the Whirlwind: The Odyssey and Destiny of Iranian Victims of Stalinist Great Repression in the Soviet Union and Toiling for Oil: A Social History of Petroleum in Iran (Cambridge University Press). \n  \n  \n  \nLana (Svetlana) Ravandi-Fadai\, Ph.D.\, is a senior researcher and the Head of the Eastern Cultural Center at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences\, a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities\, and a senior researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Lana grew up in Baku\, in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan\, during the relatively quiet Brezhnev years of the 1970s. As it has been for centuries\, Baku was a cosmopolitan city\, a cultural crossroads of which she was very much a part\, her father having immigrated from Iran. This environment sparked her interest in the different ethnicities and religions of the Persianate world\, their syncretic culture and interaction with modernity\, in particular with ideologies such as Communism. Dr. Ravandi-Fadai’s book\, Political Parties and Organizations of Iran (2010)\, traces the formation of modern political parties in Iran from the early 20th century to the present\, and was chosen out of 700 new publications as runner-up for Best Book of the Year on Political Science and the Middle East by the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was a contributor to the quadralingual book Storied Land: Kurdish Culture Through the Eyes of Russian Scholars (2014) and co-authored The Past and Present of Religious Mentoring in Shia Islam (2017) about the institution of marja’ taqlid. Her upcoming book\, Victims of Their Faith\, co-authored with Dr. Touraj Atabaki\, traces the fates of Iranian communist revolutionaries in the first half of the 20th century.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-fallen-in-the-whirlwind-the-odyssey-and-destiny-of-iranian-victims-of-stalinist-great-repression-in-the-soviet-union/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran
DESCRIPTION:The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran\nMonday\, April 28\, 2025 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iPW7un5RTfySMm-7Eicfrg \n \nThis book talk will focus on a social movement that brought new characteristics to the fore\, not only in Iran\, but also in the Muslim world. It was probably the first genuine\, global\, and extensive feminist movement in Iran ever\, and perhaps in the Muslim world. This is not to deny that women have played a significant role in social movements in many Muslim countries since the nineteenth century. But within these movements\, women were not in the vanguard\, did not become the main actors\, did not express their feminist demands in clear opposition towards the powers that be\, and men did not follow them en masse. The anthropological characteristics of the Mahsa Movement (or the Movement “Woman\, Life\, Liberty”) are analyzed throughout this book in what seems to be its major characteristic\, namely rejecting the Islamic Regime’s machoistic ideology of martyrdom and proposing instead a culture of Joy and Happiness\, in which women play a central role\, notably by freeing their body from the yoke of the imposed veil. \nAbout the Speaker \nFarhad Khosrokhavar is a retired professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris\, France. His academic interests are in social movements in Iran\, mainly after the Islamic Revolution; the Arab Revolutions of 2010–12; Jihadism in Europe with a particular focus on France; and philosophical foundations of social sciences. He has published around 40 books\, mostly written in French and English\, with translations of these works appearing in many other languages including Italian\, German\, Spanish\, Kurdish\, and Arabic. He has also authored around 100 articles in French\, English\, and Persian\, with German\, Italian\, Spanish\, Arabic translations. He was a Rockefeller Fellow (1990)\, a Yale Visiting Scholar (2008)\, and a Harvard Visiting Scholar (2009). His most recent books include: Le nouveau jihad en Occident (2018); Jihadism in Europe\, European Youth and the New Caliphate (2021); Iran\, La jeunesse démocratique contre l’Etat prédateur (2023); and Revolt Against Theocracy\, The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran(2024).
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-mahsa-movement-and-the-feminist-uprising-in-iran-2/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran
DESCRIPTION:جنبش مهسا و قیام فمینیستی در ایران\nThe Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran\nSunday\, April 27\, 2025 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HxPN8qGWQuSbj1Y1WO9TRQ \n \nThis book talk will focus on a social movement that brought new characteristics to the fore\, not only in Iran\, but also in the Muslim world. It was probably the first genuine\, global\, and extensive feminist movement in Iran ever\, and perhaps in the Muslim world. This is not to deny that women have played a significant role in social movements in many Muslim countries since the nineteenth century. But within these movements\, women were not in the vanguard\, did not become the main actors\, did not express their feminist demands in clear opposition towards the powers that be\, and men did not follow them en masse. The anthropological characteristics of the Mahsa Movement (or the Movement “Woman\, Life\, Liberty”) are analyzed throughout this book in what seems to be its major characteristic\, namely rejecting the Islamic Regime’s machoistic ideology of martyrdom and proposing instead a culture of Joy and Happiness\, in which women play a central role\, notably by freeing their body from the yoke of the imposed veil. \nAbout the Speaker \nFarhad Khosrokhavar is a retired professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris\, France. His academic interests are in social movements in Iran\, mainly after the Islamic Revolution; the Arab Revolutions of 2010–12; Jihadism in Europe with a particular focus on France; and philosophical foundations of social sciences. He has published around 40 books\, mostly written in French and English\, with translations of these works appearing in many other languages including Italian\, German\, Spanish\, Kurdish\, and Arabic. He has also authored around 100 articles in French\, English\, and Persian\, with German\, Italian\, Spanish\, Arabic translations. He was a Rockefeller Fellow (1990)\, a Yale Visiting Scholar (2008)\, and a Harvard Visiting Scholar (2009). His most recent books include: Le nouveau jihad en Occident (2018); Jihadism in Europe\, European Youth and the New Caliphate (2021); Iran\, La jeunesse démocratique contre l’Etat prédateur (2023); and Revolt Against Theocracy\, The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran(2024).
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-mahsa-movement-and-the-feminist-uprising-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T150000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?
DESCRIPTION:Calendar and Identity:\nWhy did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?\nMonday\, April 7\, 2025 at 3:00pm\, Bunche Hall 10383 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95885037418 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 3:00pm on April 7 to join.) \n \n\n\n\nSince the end of the Sasanian era\, the Persian solar calendar—and the associated rite of Norouz—has endured and grown to become a significant feature of Iranian\, and to some extent the Persianate\, cultural identity. With Hijra as its starting point but based on vernal equinox\, it is a unique solar time reckoning throughout the Muslim world and beyond. This talk explores the circumstances that allowed its survival and adoption as a national calendar of Iran at the turn of the 20th century. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAbbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983\, he has taught history of early modern and modern Iran\, Shi’ism\, modern Middle East\, and the Persianate world at Yale. He has authored eight books\, most recently Iran: A Mod-ern History (Yale University Press\, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London\, 2021). He has edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles\, encyclopedia entries\, and op eds. His forthcoming books include A Study of the Solar Calendar and Iranian Identity (2024 in Persian); A Study of Historiography and Reconstruction of National Identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); A New Biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld\, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press\, 2025); and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press\, 2026). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series Sources for the Study of the Persianate World.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-calendar-and-identity-why-did-the-persian-solar-calendar-survive-for-1400-years-and-become-an-important-feature-of-iranian-identity-2/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?
DESCRIPTION::گاهشماری و هویت\nچگونه تقویم خورشیدی ایران ۱۴۰۰ سال پایدار ماند و نماد بارزی از هویت ملی شد؟\n\nCalendar and Identity:\nWhy did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?\nSunday\, April 6\, 2025 at 4:00pm\, Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/97895439218 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 6 to join) \n  \n\nSince the end of the Sasanian era the Persian solar calendar\, and the associated rite of Nowruz\, endured as became a significant features of Iranian\, and to some extent the Persianate\, cultural identity. With Hijra as its starting point but based on vernal equinox\, it is a unique solar time reckoning throughout the Muslim world and beyond. This talk explores the circumstances that allowed the survival and its adoption as a national calendar of Iran at the turn of the 20th century. A book of the same title is in the press.  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAbbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983\, he has taught history of early modern and modern Iran\, Shi’ism\, modern Middle East\, and the Persianate world at Yale. He has authored eight books\, most recently Iran: A Mod-ern History (Yale University Press\, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London\, 2021). He has edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles\, encyclopedia entries\, and op eds. His forthcoming books include A Study of the Solar Calendar and Iranian Identity (2024 in Persian); A Study of Historiography and Reconstruction of National Identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); A New Biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld\, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press\, 2025); and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press\, 2026). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series Sources for the Study of the Persianate World.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-calendar-and-identity-why-did-the-persian-solar-calendar-survive-for-1400-years-and-become-an-important-feature-of-iranian-identity/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T150000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\nMonday\, March 10\, 2025 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JkEcn_S1Rvqmdvgfwe68Fw \n\n\n\n \nThe Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\, ratified after the 1979 Islamic Revolution\, stands as the country’s foundational legal framework\, requiring all subsequent laws to align with its principles. The revolution itself was propelled by widespread calls for social and political reform\, with significant factions advocating for democracy\, human rights\, and gender equality. Iranian women played a prominent role in this movement\, underscoring the aspirations for a more inclusive and equitable society. While the constitution reflects these revolutionary demands by enumerating freedoms and rights modeled after Western constitutions\, it also incorporates elements of Islamic jurisprudence. This duality emerged from the influence of conservative religious factions\, who\, after helping to overthrow the monarchy\, swiftly consolidated power post-revolution. In this talk\, I will examine the provisions within Iran’s constitution that pertain to women’s rights\, focusing on how these provisions intersect with religious and secular legal systems. I will also explore the real-world impact on women’s personal and professional lives\, highlighting the challenges of extreme gender-based oppression under the current system. Finally\, I will discuss pathways for reform and envision how future constitutional efforts can avoid the missteps that have perpetuated inequality for over forty years. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nPegah Banihashemi is currently a JSD candidate at the University of Chicago Law School\, where she also completed an LL.M. in 2022. Pegah is currently working on the history of the formation of the Iranian Constitution both before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In this project\, she will explore the problems of implementing the constitution in Iran. Part of Pegah’s project is dedicated to the issue of comparing constitutions among different countries. Pegah began her undergraduate studies focusing on French literature in Iran where reading the works of French philosophers and thinkers piqued her interest in the field of law. She completed a second Bachelor’s of Law\, after which\, she earned a Master’s and LL.M. in International Commercial Law and Private Law at Shahid Beheshti University\, achieving a first rank and defending her thesis in international arbitration. In Britain\, she worked on human rights research\, commentary\, and advocacy\, focusing on death sentences\, immigration law\, and women’s and children’s rights in Middle Eastern and Sharia Law. She has worked extensively in the analysis of international law and international human rights and is a regular expert legal analyst with many global media outlets and non-profits. She has also taught several legal courses on topics including women\, economics\, and the law\, human rights advocacy\, and students’ and teachers’ rights.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-womens-rights-and-the-constitution-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-2/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:زن در قانون اساسی ایران  \nWomen’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\nSunday\, March 9\, 2025 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pM3LdrXXSriCfDMGfzVg8w \n\n\n\n \nThe Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\, ratified after the 1979 Islamic Revolution\, stands as the country’s foundational legal framework\, requiring all subsequent laws to align with its principles. The revolution itself was propelled by widespread calls for social and political reform\, with significant factions advocating for democracy\, human rights\, and gender equality. Iranian women played a prominent role in this movement\, underscoring the aspirations for a more inclusive and equitable society. While the constitution reflects these revolutionary demands by enumerating freedoms and rights modeled after Western constitutions\, it also incorporates elements of Islamic jurisprudence. This duality emerged from the influence of conservative religious factions\, who\, after helping to overthrow the monarchy\, swiftly consolidated power post-revolution. In this talk\, I will examine the provisions within Iran’s constitution that pertain to women’s rights\, focusing on how these provisions intersect with religious and secular legal systems. I will also explore the real-world impact on women’s personal and professional lives\, highlighting the challenges of extreme gender-based oppression under the current system. Finally\, I will discuss pathways for reform and envision how future constitutional efforts can avoid the missteps that have perpetuated inequality for over forty years. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nPegah Banihashemi is currently a JSD candidate at the University of Chicago Law School\, where she also completed an LL.M. in 2022. Pegah is currently working on the history of the formation of the Iranian Constitution both before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In this project\, she will explore the problems of implementing the constitution in Iran. Part of Pegah’s project is dedicated to the issue of comparing constitutions among different countries. Pegah began her undergraduate studies focusing on French literature in Iran where reading the works of French philosophers and thinkers piqued her interest in the field of law. She completed a second Bachelor’s of Law\, after which\, she earned a Master’s and LL.M. in International Commercial Law and Private Law at Shahid Beheshti University\, achieving a first rank and defending her thesis in international arbitration. In Britain\, she worked on human rights research\, commentary\, and advocacy\, focusing on death sentences\, immigration law\, and women’s and children’s rights in Middle Eastern and Sharia Law. She has worked extensively in the analysis of international law and international human rights and is a regular expert legal analyst with many global media outlets and non-profits. She has also taught several legal courses on topics including women\, economics\, and the law\, human rights advocacy\, and students’ and teachers’ rights.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-womens-rights-and-the-constitution-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A with Mohammad Ehsani\nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95549537236 \nThe Water Will Take Us (2022)\n(Persian with English subtitles) \n \nIn the spring of 2019 Iran experienced a near apocalypse event that went by almost unnoticed by the world. Widespread flash flooding affected large parts of the country over the course of one month\, leading to major damages countrywide and leaving the already impoverished population in utter disarray.  The film is a  look at how years of mismanagement\, poor spatial planning and climate change are impacting civil society in Iran. \nLady Urmia (2013)\n(Persian with English subtitles) \n \nThe film is a poetic documentary about Lake Urmia\, in the northwest of Iran\, which is drying up completely. The environmental catastrophe will affect also neighboring countries such as Iraq and Turkey. The film is narrated in the voice of the lake itself\, crying for help and trying to gain international attention to its suffering. \nAbout the Director \nMohammad Ehsani\, an Iranian independent filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association and IDA. He has made several award-winning documentary and fiction films\, such as The Lovers: The Victims\, Tabriz: Images from the Forgotten World\, Enamel Dome\, Lady Urmia\, Once Hamoun\, Karun\, When the Woodpeckers Leave\, and The Water Will Take Us. Ehsani’s films deal with historical drama and social environmental issues in Iran.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-film-screening-and-director-qa-with-mohammad-ehsani/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250112T133000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: A Comparative Analysis of and Proposition on the Process of Transition to Democracy in Iran
DESCRIPTION:تحلیلی مقایسھ ای و راھبردی در باره فرایند گذار به  دموکراسی در ایران\n\n\n\n\nA Comparative Analysis of and Proposition on the Process of Transition to Democracy in Iran\nSunday\, January 12\, 2025 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Pacific \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NsgynB3eTcC5gMAFoEixAQ \n \n\n\n\n\nOver the past few decades\, democratic movements in many countries have successfully overthrown autocratic regimes and established democratic governments. In some cases\, these transformations occurred suddenly\, driven by dramatic mass uprisings and nonviolent civil resistance\, as seen in the Philippines in 1986\, Czechoslovakia in 1989\, Serbia in 2000\, and Tunisia in 2011. In other instances\, such as Portugal and Romania\, the initial change was marked by sudden and violent revolutions\, followed by a more gradual and peaceful transition to stable democracy. However\, in most cases\, democratic change has been achieved through a more gradual and incremental process\, as exemplified by Argentina\, Brazil\, South Korea\, Taiwan\, Hungary\, Chile\, Croatia\, Uruguay\, Ghana\, Guyana\, Kenya\, and others. While it is impossible to predict with certainty when and how democracy will emerge in Iran\, the experiences of other nations offer valuable lessons. Additionally\, Iran’s unique structural and historical characteristics play a crucial role in understanding its potential pathways. This talk will explore these issues\, providing a comparative analysis of the possible trajectories for Iran\, their defining characteristics\, and the challenges they may present. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\nHadi Zamani is an economics PhD graduate from the University of London and has worked for more than thirty years in private and public sector institutions in the United Kingdom. He has participated in numerous international projects in Western and Eastern Europe\, Asia\, and Latin America for private companies\, governments of the concerned countries\, The European Union\, the development banks of Europe\, Asia and Latin America\, and the World Bank. In addition to teaching at the universities of London and Glasgow\, his work experience includes the positions of economic advisor at “Marsh McLennan” and “Halcrow”\, management of two investment funds in the UK\, and economic advisor at the British Ministry of Transport (DfT). In the case of Iran\, Hadi’s interest lies in the areas of political economy and economic development. He has published several books and articles in this field in Persian\, including Democracy and Sustainable Economic Development; The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions; Economic Development and National Security; Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization; Obstacles to the Formation of Modern State and Economic Development in Iran; and The Curse of Oil. Hadi’s books\, articles\, and interviews in Persian are available on his website “www.hadizamani.com” and his social media pages.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-a-comparative-analysis-and-proposition-on-the-process-of-transition-to-democracy-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Left\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:چپ ، دموکراسی، و اقتدارگرایی در ایران: در مقایسه ای بین المللی \nThe Left\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective \nSunday\, December 8\, 4:00-6:00 PM Pacific\, Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92237337565 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on December 8 to join.) \n \nIn this talk\, I will focus on the relationship between the Left and democracy in Iran. To understand the development of the Iranian Left over the past century\, we should first briefly outline how leftist movements after Marx evolved along three main trajectories\, how these paths ended\, and what renewal trends emerged thereafter. A relevant comparison to Iran is the experience of Latin American countries and the routes taken by the Left there. Following this introduction\, I will provide a historical overview of the different strands of the Left in Iran\, from the Constitutional Revolution (1906) to the present. Next\, I will address the successes\, setbacks\, and failures the Left has encountered along this journey. Finally\, I will discuss the problems\, challenges\, and opportunities facing the Left in Iran today. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Alireza Behtoui is a professor of sociology at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University in Stockholm\, Sweden. His research expertise includes Sociology of education\, political sociology and social movements\, sociology of elites\, race\, and ethnicity. He has published numerous scientific articles in English-language journals\, books in Swedish and popular scientific articles in Persian on these topics. He is currently on sabbatical at the University of California\, Berkeley. His latest writings have addressed the challenges against democracy building in Iran from a comparative perspective.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-left-democracy-and-authoritarianism-in-iran-an-internationally-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T133000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Socio-Economic Stratification\, Labor Issues\, and the Labor Movement in Iran
DESCRIPTION:قشر بندی اجتماعی-اقتصادی، مسائل کارگری و جنبش کارگران در ایران\n\n\n\n\nSocio-Economic Stratification\, Labor Issues\, and the Labor Movement in Iran\nSunday\, June 2\, 2024 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CpBto5YGT-WkGYFOwtwB5Q \n \n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari \nDiscussant \nTouraj Atabaki \nنقش کارگران بیکار و ناپایدارکار در جنبش‌های اعتراضی ایران ۱۴۰۲-۱۳۹۶ ( ۲۰۱۷-۲۰۲۳) \nThe Agency of Unemployed and Precarious Workers in the Protest Movements of Iran 2017-2023 \nAzam Khatam \nبحران اقتصادی وعدم استقلال معیشتی و زیست ِی زنان جوان ایران: از انطباق تا اعتراض \nEconomic Downturns and the Failure to Launch among Young Women in Iran: Adaptation\, Protest and in-between \nMohammad Safavi \nتاثیر سیاست ھای اقتصادی-اجتماعی حکومتی بر کارگران و ھمگرایی جنبش کارگری با دیگر جنبش ھا \nThe Impact of the socio-economic policies of the state on workers and convergence of the labor movement with other movements \nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari is a retired faculty of sociology at California State University\, Northridge. He has published ten books and numerous articles. His first book\, Why Iran Lagged Behind and the West Moved Forward\, has been published 19 times in Iran. His article “Religion and Development Revisited: Comparing Islam and Christianity with Reference to the Case of Iran” in the Journal of Developing Societies has been named one of “The 50 Most-Frequently-Read Articles.” As a public intellectual\, he is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTouraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following positions at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam\, he joined Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia. Atabaki’s research encompasses historiography\, social history of labor and subaltern studies in 20th century Iran\, the Ottoman empire\, and Turkey\, as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications with Cambridge University Press are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge. Atabaki’s major publications and research projects can be found on: https://socialhistory.org/en/staff/touraj-atabaki. \n  \n  \n  \nAzam Khatam is a Research Affiliate at The City Institute\, York University. She completed her PhD in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in 2015. Dr. Khatam has previously worked as a urban planner and sociologist in Tehran in the 1990s and 2000s. Her publications include “Struggles over defining the moral city: Islam and urban public life in Iran\,” in Herrera and Bayat (eds.) The Making of Muslim Youths: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North; “The Space Reloaded: Publics and Politics on Enqelab Street in Tehran\,” in Sharp and Panetta (eds.) Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings\, Beyond the Square. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMohammad Safavi was born in Abadan\, Iran. In 1975\, he was hired as a project-based worker in the construction sector of the “Iran-Japan Petrochemical Company” in the town of Jarrahi (Besat) in the province of Khuzestan. That is where he became a Labor activist; an active member (1978-1980) of the “Independent Syndicate of the Seasonal Workers of Abadan Region.” During the Iran-Iraq war\, he was working as a project-based worker in the construction section of the Power Field of Esfahan. He left Iran in 1980s\, and after his emigration to Canada\, he started working as a baker in 1988 in a large industrial baking company (Canada Bread). For 15 years he served as a workers’ representative in the Committees for Safety\, Security\, and Hygiene. He had also become a member of the Union of the Automobile Workers (CAW)\, and the Union of Food Workers (UFCW1518)‌.  Safavi has published several articles in Persian and English on labor issues in journals such as Women’s View\,  Feminist School\, and Kar-Mozd. His article on “The formation of the seasonal and project-based workers in Abadan” was published in the book Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice\, edited by Peyman Vahabzadeh\, 2016.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-socio-economic-stratification-labor-issues-and-the-labor-movement-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights\n\nMonday\, May 20\, 2024 I 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QUtvGrfQTl2ZcaQhcdlJ1Q \n \n\n\n\n\nThis presentation appraises US-Iranian diplomacy through race relations and human rights. Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonial rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many writers\, some with socialist leanings\, watched with interest political happenings in formerly colonized states. These conflicts were often rooted in experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality. At the same time\, the Iranian state also engaged with some of these themes and expanded its diplomatic relations with a range of countries in the Global South. Although state-to-state ties between Iran and America were strengthened during the two decades preceding the 1979 revolution\, social dissent also grew strident. The debate on human rights gave voice to these concerns as Iran’s politicians and writers reflected on the legacy of human rights and reassessed the country’s ties to the United States and the West. Race relations provided an unanticipated and often missed opportunity for collaboration. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\nFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University. Dr. Kashani-Sabet’s first book\, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation\, 1804-1946\, analyzes the significance of land and border disputes to the process of identity and nation formation\, as well as to cultural production\, in Iran and its borderlands. She has worked extensively on the histories of disease\, science\, and reproductive politics. She has also published articles on disability\, hygiene\, humanism\, and quarantines in the context of the Persianate world. Her new book\, Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran\, 1800-1988 (Cambridge University Press) analyzes the ties between America and Iran not only through international diplomacy\, but also through cultural and social history\, with a focus on race\, gender\, and ethnic relations. It draws on a wide array of sources in Persian and English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-heroes-to-hostages-us-iran-diplomacy-through-race-relations-and-human-rights-2/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:قھرمان یا گروگان : تاریخ روابط آمریکا و ایران از دیدگاه مسائل نژادی و اجتماعی\nHeroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights\n\nSunday\, May 19\, 2024 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aieHlTjSSJa2-tL__Bf22g \n \n\n\n\n\nThis presentation appraises US-Iranian diplomacy through race relations and human rights. Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonial rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many writers\, some with socialist leanings\, watched with interest political happenings in formerly colonized states. These conflicts were often rooted in experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality. At the same time\, the Iranian state also engaged with some of these themes and expanded its diplomatic relations with a range of countries in the Global South. Although state-to-state ties between Iran and America were strengthened during the two decades preceding the 1979 revolution\, social dissent also grew strident. The debate on human rights gave voice to these concerns as Iran’s politicians and writers reflected on the legacy of human rights and reassessed the country’s ties to the United States and the West. Race relations provided an unanticipated and often missed opportunity for collaboration. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\nFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She completed her M.A.\, M.Phil.\, and Ph.D. in history at Yale University. Dr. Kashani-Sabet has worked extensively on the histories of disease\, science\, and reproductive politics. She has also published articles on disability\, hygiene\, humanism\, and quarantines in the context of the Persianate world. Her new book\, Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran\, 1800-1988 (Cambridge University Press) analyzes the ties between America and Iran not only through international diplomacy\, but also through cultural and social history\, with a focus on race\, gender\, and ethnic relations. It draws on a wide array of sources in Persian and English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-heroes-to-hostages-us-iran-diplomacy-through-race-relations-and-human-rights/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240310T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Reflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman\, Life\, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally Panel
DESCRIPTION:“نگاھی سنجش گرانھ بھ اثرات داخلی و بین المللی جنبش “زن، زندگی، آزادی\n\n\n\n\nReflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman\, Life\, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally \nSunday\, March 10\, 2024 I 11:30 AM | Zoom \nRegistration Required \n\n\n\n\n \nFarzaneh Bazrpour \n(Journalist\, Iran International) \n“Iranian Newspapers’ Diversion from the Official State Clichés because of Mahsa’s Movement” \nAzadeh Momeni \n(Post-Doctoral Fellow at Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies\, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations\, University of Toronto) \n“Intersection of Art and Politics: From The American Women’s Suffrage Movement to Arab Spring to Iranian “Woman\, Life\, Freedom” Movement” \nHoma Hoodfar \n(Concordia University\, Canada ) \n“Woman\, Life\, Freedom: A Political Watershed in the Iranian Protest Culture” \nSaeed Paivandi \n(University of Lorraine\, France) \n“A Critical Analysis of the Woman\, Life\, Liberty Movement” \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers \nFarzaneh Bazrpour has worked as a journalist for 13 years\, after being forced to flee Iran in 2009 due to her political beliefs. She served as an editorial member of JARAS website and was an activist in the Green Movement. In Malaysia in 2010\, she launched RASA TV channel\, featuring a one-hour news program on satellite TV.  RASA TV was a grassroots effort\, funded by contributions from many individuals from inside and outside of Iran. Unfortunately\, it was shut down in 2012\, prompting her move to Norway. Ms. Bazrpour holds a BA in Political Sciences from Beheshti University and studied for an MA in International Relations at Allameh Tabatabaee University\, both in Tehran. While in Norway\, she pursued an MPhil in Sustainable Development\, focusing on natural resource management at the Norwegian university of science and technology (NTNU). She has also worked as a freelance journalist.   In October 2022\, she relocated to the United States as press analyzer and now collaborates with Iran International TV channel at their Washington studio. \n  \n  \nAzadeh Momeni holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University\, Ottawa\, Canada. She has studied International Relations\, Foreign Policy Analysis\, Middle East Politics\, Women’s Studies\, Quantitative Methods\, and Electoral Politics. She has about 15 years of combined experience in both academia and non-academic environments as a researcher\, policy analyst\, and policy advisor. Her collaborations extend to UNODC\, UNICEF\, and Amnesty International with contribution to global policy initiatives. Azadeh is also a painter. She has contributed artistically to the community\, messaging socially and politically relevant themes through her works. Some of her paintings were displayed at different exhibitions and galleries including Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa\, Public Service Alliance of Canada in Ottawa\, Gallery 1313 in Toronto\, and Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. Her recent project examines the intersection of Art and Politics with a focus on the “Woman\, Life\, Freedom” movement in Iran. \n  \n  \n  \nHoma Hoodfar is a Professor of Anthropology\, Emerita\, at Concordia University\, Montreal. Her field-based research and expertise are in political economy and legal anthropology; focusing on reproductive rights; Afghan women and youth refugees in Iran and Pakistan; women in formal and informal politics; hijab and dress codes as political institutions; gender and citizenship; Muslim women’s sports as politics; and gender and the public sphere in Muslim contexts. Describing herself as an academic in the service of civil society\, Professor Hoodfar has also been actively involved in the Research for Advocacy and Publication Division of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Network’s whose mission is to promote gender equality and plural democracy\, since the 1980s.  Her books include Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts WLUML (2015); Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance (edited with Anissa Hellie) London: Zed Books (2012); Electoral Politics: Making Quotas work for women (co-authored with Mona Tajali) London: WLUML (2011); The Muslim Veil in North America: issues and debates (edited with Sajida Alvi\, and Sheila McDonough) Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press (2003); Between Marriage and the Market\, Berkeley: University of California Press (1997); Development\, Change\, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household (edited with Diane Singerman) Indiana University Press (1996\,);and numerous articles based on her different research projects. \n  \nSaeed Paivandi has been working as a full Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lorraine\, Nancy\, France since 2011. Prior to this\, he was associated as a senior faculty with the University of Paris 8 (1996-2011). Paivandi holds Habilitation (HDR)\, Ph.D. and MA degrees in Sociology of Education from University of Paris and MA in Sociology from University of Tehran. His areas of research and specialization include Sociology of Education. Part of his research focuses on the Iranian education system in a comparative perspective and the experience of the Islamization of schools and universities in Iran since 1979. At the same time\, he worked on social movements in Iran and studied the role of intellectuals. His latest article\, “Unaccomplished Protest Movements in Iran and the Challenge of Building a Collective Imaginary of Political Change””(Freedom of Thought Journal\, n° 13\, 2023) is a critical review of the social movements of the last 15 years in Iran.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-reflections-on-various-aspects-and-impacts-of-woman-life-freedom-movement-in-iran-and-internationally-panel/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 3\, 2024 I 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM | ONLINE ONLY \nLive stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94371748384 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 3:30pm on March 3 to join.) \nForugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time is a lyrical portrayal of the tumultuous life and works of a renowned poet\, filmmaker\, actor\, and painter\, Forugh Farrokhzad\, through dramatic readings\, archival footage\, photos\, paintings\, manuscripts\, interviews with scholars\, critics\, and poets. In addition\, Farrokhzad’s poems are visually explored and interpreted through images that\, in comparable ways\, depict the emotional anguish of Farrokhzad’s poetic universe and artistic life. Her life was her poetry\, and her poetry was her life. \nForugh Farrokhzad is considered one of the greatest Iranian women-modernist poets and filmmakers. Half a century ago\, Farrokhzad made a landmark\, award-winning documentary film\, symbolically called it The House Is Black. Decades later\, it is still relevant\, beautiful\, and intensely moving. Her stunning poetry stretches the boundaries of hope\, love\, freedom\, and humanity. \nShe made the experience of being a woman in a patriarchal society a central issue of her poetry and fighting for women’s rights at a time when all odds were against her and long before the feminist movement came along. This project is dedicated to her memory\, as she lives in our hearts and remains with us through the brilliance of her work and her voice: “It is only the voice that lives on.” \nAbout the Director and Panelists \nHassan Fayyad is an alumnus of UCLA’s film school and a former Member of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Iranian Ministry of Culture and Arts)\, the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Tehran)\, and the College of Cinema and Television (National Iranian Radio and Television). Mr. Fayyad has also taught Cinema and Theatre Arts at UCLA\, Oxnard College\, and Pacific Art Center. He is the first Iranian Lecturer who designed and taught a course about Iranian Cinema at UCLA called “The Poetics and Politics of Iranian Cinema: Pre- and Post-Islamic Revolution.” In addition to teaching Cinema and Theatre Arts in Iran and America\, he has written and translated several books and numerous articles on arts and literature.  He is currently working on his documentary trilogy: Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty\, Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time\, Ebrahim Golestan: Of Time Bygone. \n\n\n\nNahid Kabiri is a contemporary poet and writer born in Iran. She graduated in Social Sciences from the University of Tehran. Her poetic passion and love for story-telling began to show and dominate her life at a young age. Like others grounded in the quilt of her native land\, she was charmed by the rich poetry of Hafez and Khayam. Later\, she became captivated by the poetry of contemporaries\, such as Nima\, Shamloo\, and Farokhzad – aspiring to compose her own poetry. Her poetry crackles with a kaleidoscope of life\, love\, and human tragedy tinged with an exquisite sense of her native culture. Her poetry is impatient of limits and travels into the unknown. Through her intensity of vision\, imaginative feat\, and generous sampling\, she never fails to construct vivid\, dramatic scenes\, singling out the facets most influential in creating the portrait of her native land. She has published twelve poetry collections\, four novels\, and six short stories. Two of her novels\, ‘Shooting in Buckhead’ and ‘Persian Bride and the Honeymoon cruise\,’ have been translated into English and are available on Amazon. Kabiri has been active in the world poetry movement since 2011. She has been invited to the World Poetry Festivals convened in Barcelona\, Medellin\, Zurich\, Dubai\, Istanbul\, Mallorca\, and Atlanta over the last ten years. Her poetry has since been translated into English\, Spanish\, German\, Italian\, Arabic and Kurdish. \n\n\n\nSoheila Saremi is a scholar\, teacher\, poet\, author\, editor\, and translator. She earned her Ph.D. in Persian Language and Literature from Tehran University\, Iran. She has taught Persian literature\, language and culture at different universities for years. She has published various articles and books on the field. As a teenager and in her early youth her poems were published in Javanan Magazine (mostly in the 70s)\, and later in different anthologies. Her poetry collections include Taghvim (The Calendar\, spring 2003); In Gorbe-ye Tārik (This Dark Cat: containing two books\, fall 2013); Mālikhuliā-ye Gol (Flower Melancholy\, fall 2014); and Az Abr-Pāre-hāye Zagros (From the Zagros Clouds\, spring 2022). Her last collection\, The Tired Geography\, is under publication. Some of her poems have been translated into Bosnian and English. \nSahba Shayani is Lecturer in Persian Language at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to teaching at UCLA\, he was Senior Lecturer in Persian Language at the University of Oxford from 2015-2022. Shayani received his PhD from UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His dissertation focused on the role of women in classical Persian Epic Romances\, particularly in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh\, Gorgani’s Vis o Ramin\, and Nezami’s Khosrow o Shirin. \nMandana Zandian graduated from Shahid Beheshti Medical School in 1997. She worked as a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for 20 years\, specializing in research on aggressive forms of advanced cancers. Dr. Zandian is also a published poet and author actively collaborating with “Rahavard” quarterly journal. Her books include Omid o Azadi (Hope and Liberty) on the life and works of Iraj Gorgin (Los Angeles\, 2012)\, Baz-khani-e Dah Shab (The Ten-Nights Revisited) (Los Angeles\, 2014)\, and Ehsan Yarshater in Conversation with Mandana Zandian (Los Angeles\, 2016.) She also edited Yaddashtha (Diaries)\, a collection of notes written between 1986-2012 by Dr. Ehsan Yarshater for the journals Irannameh and Iranshenasi (Washington DC\, 2021). Zandian’s most recent collection of poems is titled Seda-ye Saye-haye Ham Boodim (Our Voice Echoed the Shadows of all) (Los Angeles\, 2019). Zandian is also the host and producer of a podcast on Persian Literature titled “A Window of Freedom.” Her latest book is titled Persian Cypress and the Booms of Modernity\, in Conversation with Abbas Milani (Los Angeles\, 2023).
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-forugh-farrokhzad-a-journey-along-the-line-of-time-film-screening-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Reza Shah's Exile in Mauritius
DESCRIPTION:تبعید رضا شاه بھ موریس\n\n\n\n\nReza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius\nSunday\, February 25\, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92711078735 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 25 to join.) \n \nبعد از کناره گیری رضا شاه در سال ۱۹۴۱ انگلیسیها او و اکثر خانواده سلطنتی را به جزیره موریس در اقیانوس هند تبعید کردند. مقامات جزیره، که یک مستعمره بریتانیا بود، کوشش کردند در حد امکاناتشان از خانواده سلطنتی به خوبی پذیرایی‌ کنند. ولی‌ رضا شاه خود را یک زندانی میدانست و دچار افسردگی و بیماری جسمی‌ شدید بود. بعد از هفت ماه به اتفاق همسر و فرزندانش به افریقای جنوبی رفت و همانجا جان سپرد. در این سخنرانی جزئیات مسافرت و زندگی‌ خانواده و تعاملشان با اهالی جزیره مورد بحث قرار میگیرد. \nAbout the Speaker \nHouchang Chehabi is a professor of international relations and history emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of four books\, most recently Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran. He has also edited or co-edited a dozen books and written numerous articles and book chapters.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-reza-shahs-exile-in-mauritius/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T133000
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SUMMARY:Applying for Jobs and Life After the Dissertation
DESCRIPTION:Join NELC faculty Dr. Cate Bonesho\, Dr. Kara Cooney\, and Dr. Bill Schniedewind for a workshop and discussion of applying for jobs and life after the dissertation. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”137″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/life-after-the-dissertation/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Bilingual Lecture Series,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Iranian,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Pourdavoud Center,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180610T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180610T183000
DTSTAMP:20180524T190840Z
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SUMMARY:"Untaken Paths"- Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening of Untaken Paths (2017\, 106 min\, English subtitles) from director Tahmieh Milani will be followed by a panel discussion. \nAbout the Film: Legendary feminist filmmaker Tahmineh Milani is no stranger to stories of women’s marital struggles. Untaken Paths\, her fourteenth feature\, tells the story of a young woman in love who marries against the wishes of her family. She is challenged when her nascent marriage is thrown into trouble because of the couple’s roots in different social strata. The film explores issues including domestic violence and women’s resistance. \nPanel discussion by: Poet\, writer\, literary\, and film critic\, Partow Nooriala\, Clinical Psychologist\, Dr. Nelly Fardnoody-Zahiri\, and Family Law Specialist\, Abbas Hadjian. See flyer for more information. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/untaken-paths-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T180000
DTSTAMP:20180509T172003Z
CREATED:20180509T171850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T172003Z
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SUMMARY:Is There a Persian Literary History? Twentieth-century Journals and the Formation of Literary Criticism
DESCRIPTION:Aria Fani (UC Berkeley) \nThis talk will consider the role of early twentieth-century Persian-language journals in institutionalizing what we know as Persian literary history today in Iran and Afghanistan. The focus of the talk will be Mohammad Taqi Bahar’s journal Daneshkadeh\, and in particular ‘Abbas Eqbal-Ashtiyani’s series titled “Tarikh-e adabi” (Literary history\, 1918-1919). Once we investigate the ways in which literary journals have helped to forge and institutionalize Persian literary history\, they will emerge not just as a byproduct of literary modernization\, but as one of its main sites of power and literary production. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/is-there-a-persian-literary-history-twentieth-century-journals-and-the-formation-of-literary-criticism/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180422T180000
DTSTAMP:20180416T174857Z
CREATED:20180410T000841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T174857Z
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SUMMARY:The Frankfurt School\, Authoritarianism\, Fundamentalism and Cosmetics: From 1920s Germany to Contemporary Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Janet Afary (UC Santa Barbara) \nThere is very little information on the romantic and sexual behaviors of young Muslim contemporaries in the Middle East\, or among immigrant communities in the West. However\, Facebook has provided us with a new tool\, which permits a better understanding of young Muslim practices from Algeria and Egypt to Iran and Pakistan. In this lecture\, two questions will be addressed: is there’s a link between authoritarianism and the desire to control women’s bodies? Furthermore\, is there a connection between authoritarianism and Islamic religious fundamentalism\, similar to a correlation that recent studies in the US and Canada have confirmed between Christian fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism? \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-frankfurt-school-authoritarianism-fundamentalism-and-cosmetics/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180408T180000
DTSTAMP:20180404T171352Z
CREATED:20180205T201517Z
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SUMMARY:Panel on Environment and Sustainability (in Persian)
DESCRIPTION:Following the lectures of the speakers\, there will be a period for Q & A. \nAmir AghaKouchak (UC Irvine)\nAnthropogenic Drought and the Notion of Water-Bankruptcy\nخشکسالی انسانی و مقوله ورشکستگی آبی \nThe presentation focuses on Iran currently experiencing serious water and environmental problems. Droughts coupled with increasing water demands and over-abstraction of surface and groundwater resources have escalated the nation’s water situation to a critical level. We argue that while climate change has played a role\, the primary drivers of the current water problems is water bankruptcy. This problem\, at least in theory\, can be addressed by re-establishing the balance between the natural water supply and human water needs through demand management and/or developing additional water resources \nAzadeh Tabazadeh (Stanford University)\nCurrent and Future Concerns of Air Pollution and Climate Change in Iran\nآلودگی هوا و تغییرات اقلیمی در ایران:  نگرانی های کنونی و چشم انداز آینده \nDesertification and rapid urbanization without sound regulatory environmental polices are two main factors that contribute to severe air pollution episodes in Tehran\, Ahvaz and many large cities in Iran. The process by which air pollution forms in metropolitan areas will be discussed as well as why such episodes have become more severe in Iran in recents decades. Causes and effects of global climate change will be discussed with emphasizes on how such changes will likely affect Iran’s  future weather patterns\, mean surface temperature\, average precipitation\, and sea level rise. \nMohsen Mesgaran (UC Davis)\nAgricultural and Environmental Issues in Iran\nچالش های کشاورزی ایران در تولید غذا برای جمعیتی رو به افزایش \nThis presentation will provide an overview of the dynamics of agricultural production in Iran and its future food demands based on recent projections of population growth\, then it will explore whether the land and water resources of Iran can meet the projected future food requirements of Iran and highlight technological and ecological solutions that can help improve both the productivity and sustainability of agriculture in Iran. \n[Event featured image from scoop.it]\n  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/panel-on-environment/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T180000
DTSTAMP:20180205T201443Z
CREATED:20171211T210938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T201443Z
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SUMMARY:Why and How Iranian Identity has become so Politicized? (Lecture in Persian)
DESCRIPTION:Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse) \nIn this presentation\, Mehrzad Boroujerdi\, Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies\, will address such issues as the central tenants of Iranian identity\, attempts to refine it\, and the current challenges and controversies regarding this contested notion. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-identity-become-politicized-lecture-persian/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T180000
DTSTAMP:20180130T164301Z
CREATED:20171129T221943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T164301Z
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SUMMARY:In Search of Modern Iran (Lecture in Persian)
DESCRIPTION:Abbas Amanat (Yale) \nIn this book talk given in Persian\, Abbas Amanat discusses the challenges and rewards of writing about a half millennium of history in his recently published book: Iran: A Modern History  (Yale University Press\, 2017). \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/in-search-of-modern-iran-lecture-in-persian/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T160000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181233Z
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SUMMARY:Computers and Challenges of Writing in Persian
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English by Behrooz Parhami (UCSB). November 20\, 2017.  \nThe Persian script has presented some difficulties\, ever since printing presses were introduced in Iran in the 1600s. The appearance of typewriters created additional problems and the introduction of digital computers added to the design challenges. These difficulties persisted\, until high-resolution dot-matrix printing offered greater flexibility to font designers and the expansion of the computer market in the Middle East attracted investments on improving the Persian script for computers. Nevertheless\, certain peculiarities of the Persian script have led to legibility and aesthetic issues to persist in many cases. In this talk\, I will enumerate some of the features of the modern Persian script that made it a poor match to implementation on modern technologies and review the challenges presented by\, and some of the solutions proposed for\, each new generation of computer printers. Interestingly\, the same features that make legible and pleasant printing and displaying difficult also lead to challenges in automatic text recognition. I will conclude with an overview of current state of the art and areas that still need further work. \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/fifty-years-poor-penmanship-computers-struggled-learn-persian-script-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171119T180000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181255Z
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SUMMARY:Computers and Challenges of Writing in Persian
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian by Behrooz Parhami (UCSB). November 19\, 2017. \nThe Persian script has presented some difficulties\, ever since printing presses were introduced in Iran in the 1600s. The appearance of typewriters created additional problems and the introduction of digital computers added to the design challenges. These difficulties persisted\, until high-resolution dot-matrix printing offered greater flexibility to font designers and the expansion of the computer market in the Middle East attracted investments on improving the Persian script for computers. Nevertheless\, certain peculiarities of the Persian script have led to legibility and aesthetic issues to persist in many cases. In this talk\, I will enumerate some of the features of the modern Persian script that made it a poor match to implementation on modern technologies and review the challenges presented by\, and some of the solutions proposed for\, each new generation of computer printers. Interestingly\, the same features that make legible and pleasant printing and displaying difficult also lead to challenges in automatic text recognition. I will conclude with an overview of current state of the art and areas that still need further work. \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/fifty-years-poor-penmanship-computers-struggled-learn-persian-script/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171009T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171009T160000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181525Z
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SUMMARY:What Kind of Wine did Rudaki Fancy?
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 09\, 2017. \nOne of the earliest Persian poets\, Rudaki (859–941)\, employed the word wine within a wide semantic register in his poems. However\, his unicity is most manifest when the process of wine making is depicted within a highly allegorical poem entitled “Mother of Wine.” Through contextual\, historical\, and discursive analyses\, it is argued that this poem—written in the form of a qasideh—was composed for the purpose of being performed for an audial audience\, and thus reflected the conscious cultural discourse of the Samanids (819–999 – the first Iranian dynasty following the Arab conquest of Persia)\, who deemed themselves heirs to past\, pre-Islamic grandeur\, and sought to connect both in content and form (here the performativity of the poem) with the Sasanian empire (ca. 224–651). \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/kind-wine-rudaki-d-941-like/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg. Rm 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T180000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181542Z
CREATED:20170830T181910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T181542Z
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SUMMARY:Sexuality and Cultural Change in Iranian Cinema
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 8\, 2017.\n \nThe history of Iranian cinema adequately reflects the construction of gender in Iran. But the expression of sexuality is a problematic notion on a number of levels. In western societies\, the preoccupation with human sexuality prompted reflection about human physiology\, gender identity\, and ethical considerations\, resulting in the perception of sex as ontologically separate from mere reproduction\, eventually facilitating sexual expression. In traditional segments of Iranian society\, sex outside of marriage for women was deemed synonymous with sin. Analyzing movies from the pre- and post-revolutionary eras\, a case is made that Iranian cinema\, albeit tributary to socio-political tribulations\, has also been a major agent for change\, and partially responsible for the reification of gender and sexuality as central points of contention among different social players in Iran. Whereas in the pre-revolutionary period\, the presentation of the feminine\, the female body\, and sexuality was linked to a greater westernization project\, and resulted in a backlash in more traditional segments of society\, in the revolutionary era\, those representations were confronted with the new Islamic codes of morality\, which all filmmakers were forced to respect. \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/sexuality-cultural-change-presentation-gender-iranian-cinema/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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