The Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran

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The Intellectual Heritage of Iranian Jews in Judeo-Persian (Lecture in Persian)

Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar (UCLA)
Sunday, June 5, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music (Lecture in English)

Lecture by Mina Khanlarzadeh (Northwestern University)
Monday, May 16, 2022
3:00 PMtimezone

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The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music (Lecture in Persian)

Lecture by Mina Khanlarzadeh (Northwestern University)
Sunday, May 15, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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The Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Lecture in Persian)

Lecture by Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania)
Sunday, May 1, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran (Panel in Persian)

Panel with Ahmad Nader Nadery, Homeira Qaderi, and Farah Karimi
Sunday, April 10, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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The Fall of Reza Shah: Book Talk with Shaul Bakhash (Lecture in English)

Book talk by Shaul Bakhash.
Monday, April 4, 2022
3:00 PMtimezone

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"Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty" - A Film Screening and Panel Discussion (in Persian)

Film in Persian with English Subtitles/Panel Discussion in Persian
Sunday, March 13, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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On the Importance of Centering Erased Black and Afro Iranian Histories from Iran and the Diaspora (Panel in Persian)

Panel discussion with the Collective for Black Iranians
Sunday, February 27, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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Iranian Cultural Identity and the Politics of Religious Nationalism (Lecture in English)

Lecture by Ali Banuazizi
Monday, February 14, 2022
3:00 PMtimezone

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Iranian Cultural Identity and the Politics of Religious Nationalism (Lecture in Persian)

Lecture by Ali Banuazizi
Sunday, February 13, 2022
11:30 AMtimezone

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Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran

Panel with Ahmad Nader Nadery; Homeira Qaderi; and Farah Karimi
Sunday, December 12, 2021
11:30 AMtimezone

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Women, Public Spaces, and Social Participation in Iran (Lecture in Persian)

Lecture by Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi
Sunday, November 7, 2021
11:30 AMtimezone

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Economic Challenges: The Politics of Water and Gender (Panel in Persian)

Panel with Reza Ghorashi (Stockton University), AghaKouchak (University of California, Irvine), and Roja Fazaeli (Trinity College Dublin)
Sunday, October 31, 2021
11:30 AMtimezone

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Health & Public Health Policy: Political & Social Changes (Panel in Persian)

Panel with Sahar Motallebi (Lund University); Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Virginia Tech); and Mohammad Ali Kadivar (Boston College)
Sunday, October 24, 2021
11:30 AMtimezone

About the Organizer

Dr. Nayereh Tohidi

Dr. Nayereh Tohidi is Professor Emeritus in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department and founding director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. Professor Tohidi is a visiting scholar at the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Please visit Dr. Tohidi's CSUN Faculty Page for more information.

Podcasts

Democracy and the Idea of Nonviolence in Contemporary Iranian Politics
A lecture in Persian by Ramin Jahanbegloo (Author)

Iran's Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
A Lecture in Persian by Hashem Pesaran (USC and University of Cambridge)

The Constitutional and Legal Status of non-Shiites in Iran
A lecture in Persian by Houchang-Esfandiar Chehabi (Boston University)

World, the Text and the Wonderful Life: The Pioneering Spirit of Early Persian Poetry
A lecture by Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Maryland)

Honor and Rights: the Politics of Love in Iran
A lecture in Persian by Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Legal Anthropologist, SOAS, London)

Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
A lecture in Persian by Peyman Vahabzadeh (University of Victoria)

Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture in Persian by Abbas Amanat (Yale University)

Iran and the Rise of the 21st Century Intellectuals
A lecture in Persian by Ata Hoodashtian (Institut Canadien de Management)

The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy
A lecture in Persian by Dr. Mansour Farhang (Bennington College)

A Book Talk by Kambiz Navai on “Khesht o Khial: An Interpretation of Iranian Islamic Architecture”
A book talk in Persian by Kambiz Navai (Shahid Beheshti University)

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