Tarikhe (Ejtemayi ve Farhangi) Akasi dar Iran
A public lecture by Ali Behdad, UCLA
Sunday, May 11, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
UCLA
Ali Behdad is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of Comparative Literature Department at UCLA. He has published widely on a broad range of issues ranging from Literary and Cultural Theory to European Representation of the Middle East, and from US Immigration History to 19th Century Photography of/in Iran. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1994) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (2005). He is currently working on a new book titled Contact Vision: On Modernity and Photography in the Middle East.
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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 Persian.
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
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies
