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By omalley, January 21, 2016 8:17 am

Please join us on Tuesday, January 26th for a talk with Mateo Farzaneh / متئو فرزانه based on his new book The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani:

Shiite Clerics and Political Modernization in Iran / علمای شیعه و تجدد سیاسی در ایران

In this book presentation, Prof. Farzaneh will discuss the role of Islamic jurisprudence in political reform in Iran. Throughout the 1800s, Iran was challenged to politically modernize in order to undo the failed policies of its corrupt/absolutist monarchical system. Introduction of Western-style constitutionalism by secular Iranians brought about the establishment of the Islamic world’s first parliament in Iran in 1906. However, that was the beginning of a long struggle between the proponents and the opponents of rule of law as a new political reality. Mullah Muhammad Kazim Khurasani led a group of high-ranking Iranian Shiite clerics living in Iraq and began a transnational clerical movement in support of constitutionalism with the objective to sever the political influence of Muslim clerics and leaving “modern” politics to the elected parliamentarians. This talk is based on Prof. Farzaneh’s new book, The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani (Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Tuesday, January 26th, 4:30 pm
Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick #218)
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

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By omalley, January 16, 2016 9:09 am

Jan 12: Afsaneh Kalantary: “Understanding the Confluence of Iranian Immigrant Women’s Heterogeneous Identities”

Jan 19: Saeed Ghahremani: “Laughter in the Time of Coup d’État: The Less-Known Iraj Pezeshkzād”

Jan 26: Mateo Farzaneh: “Shiite Clerics and Political Modernization in Iran”

Feb 2: Gil Stein: “Persian in Cyrillic: Cultural heritage in Tajikistan” (in English)

Feb 9: TBA

Feb 16: Siavash Sabetrohani

Feb 23: TBA

Mar 1: Maryam Taghavi

Mar 8:  Ali Mousavi

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By omalley, January 12, 2016 8:20 am

Afsaneh Kalantary
افسانه کلانتری

Understanding the Confluence of Diasporic Iranian Women’s Heterogeneous Identities
فهم تلاقی هویت های اجتماعی ناهمگون زنان ایرانی در دیاسپورا

January 12th, 4:30 pm
Farouk Mustafa Memorial Seminar Room
Pick Hall, #218
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

In this talk, I intend to problematize the hegemonic discourse on diasporic Iranian women prevalent in host societies and the Iranian literature and media in diaspora.  This discourse depicts Iranian women as a relatively homogenous group with similar aspirations.  In this discourse the Iranian women’s heterogeneity and the intersections of their socio-cultural, ethnic, class, gender, racial and other variegated identities, and lived experiences of discrimination are thus elided.
هدف من در این گفتار به چالش کشیدن  گفتمان غالب ومسلط دراکثر جوامع میزبان ودر ادبیات مهاجرت و رسانه های دیاسپورای ایرانیدرمورد زنان ایرانی دردیاسپوراست که آنان را همچنان به عنوان یک گروه نسبتا متجانس و همگون با آمال و آرزوهایی مشابه به  تصویرمی کشد و پیچیدگی، تلاقی و در هم تنیدگی هویت ها ولاجرم تبعیض های  اجتماعی، فرهنگی، طبقاتی، قومی، جنسیتی و غیره‌ی آنان را نادیده می گیرد.