The Mossavar-Rahmani Center is excited to usher in another semester of events! All events will take place from 12:15PM to 1:15PM in Robertson Hall, Room 001. Events will include a boxed lunch upon registration. All events listed are free and open to the public.
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Wednesday Seminar Series
Spring 2024
February 7
“Colorful” Marriages: Making Cohabitation Palatable in Iran
Maral Sahebjame, Princeton University
February 14
Facing Satan: The Iranian Revolution and Its Demons
Alireza Doostdar, University of Chicago
February 21
Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century
Amir Hosein Pourjavady
February 28
Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics
Sahar Sadeghi, Muhlenberg College
March 6
The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran
Golnar Nikpour, Dartmouth College
March 27
Julia Hartley, University of Glasgow
April 3
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
Narges Bajoghli & Vali Nasr, Johns Hopkins University SAIS
April 10
Morteza Motahhari and the Rise of New Theology in Iran
Ata Anzali, Middlebury College
April 17
An Old War for New Purposes: Contemporary Sacred Defense Cinema and Iran's Divided State and Society
Niki Akhavan, The Catholic University of America
April 24
Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta, Edmonton
May 1
Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East
Arang Keshavarzian, New York University