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The Changing Concept of the 'Intellectual' in Iran Today

A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto

Monday, April 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran and studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science, Massey College Scholar at Risk, and Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics, at the University of Toronto.  He has been a researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and, in 2006-07, was the Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India.  Among his twenty books in English, French and Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1992); Penser la Nonviolence (UNESCO, 2000);  Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (2004);  India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India (2007);  and The Clash of Intolerances (2007).

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This lecture is part of the Center's Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.

 

Cost: Free

Special Instructions

Lecture will be presented in English.

For more information please contact

Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes