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By spishbin, May 22, 2018 12:00 am

Ba Salam, 

Please join us this week at the last Persian Circle at the University of Chicago of the academic year for a talk in Persian entitled:

The Contemporary Revival of the Aryan Discourse in Iran and the Diaspora
-Dr. Afsaneh Kalantary

پدیده معاصر احیای گفتمان < آریایی > در ایران و دیاسپورا
دکتر آفسانه کلانتری

Address:

Thursday 24th May
5:00-6:30pm
Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick Hall #218)
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

Afsaneh Kalantary is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the City Colleges of Chicago. She has previously taught at Loyola University, Chicago and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Cultural Anthropology as well as an M.S. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Psychology with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship (i.e. Summa Cum Laude).  As a Fulbright grantee in Berlin, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the Iranian exile community, and wrote an account of her ethnographic research entitled: “Exilic Yearnings and Diasporic Homes: An Ethnography of Memory, Place, Race and Gender among Iranian Exiles in Berlin, Germany.”

پنجشنبه ۲۶ مه  ۲۰۱۸
ساعت: ۵:۰۰ تا ۶:۳۰

افسانه کلانتری در رشته انسان شناسی تحصیل کرده وهم اکنون در سیتی کالج شیکاگو تدریس می کند. اوقبلأ در دانشگاههای لایولا درشیکاگو و دانشگاه ایالتی کالیفرنیا درسانتا کروزتدریس میکرده است.

او مدارک فوق لیسانس ودکترا در انسان شناسی  وهمچنین فوق لیسانس در روانشناسی اجتماعی را از دانشگاه ایالتی کالیفرنیا در سانتا کروز دریافت کرده است و فارغ التحصیل ممتازلیسانس روانشناسی از دانشگاه ایالتی کالیفرنیا در برکلی است.

تز دکترای او بر پایه تحقیق میدانی وی با ایرانیان  تبعیدی درشهربرلن آلمان و به عنوان محقق فولبرایت  نوشته شده واو چکیده مشاهداتش را « آرزوهای تبعید واسکان دردیاسپورا: تحقیقی میدانی درمورد حافظه تاریخی؛ مکان؛ نژاد وجنسیت درمیان ایرانیان تبعیدی در برلن آلمان» نامیده است.

Be Omid-e Didar,
Shaahin

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By spishbin, May 14, 2018 8:57 pm

Ba Salam,

Please join us this week at the University of Chicago’s Persian Circle for a talk in Persian entitled:

“Docademia Journey-Bringing Voices of Marginalized Communities LIVE in University Classrooms!”

– Dr. Nassim Abdi

Address:
Thursday 17th May
5:00-6:30pm
Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick Hall #218)
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

Nassim Abdi, Ph.D. is an educator and scholar-activist. After completing a degree in journalism at the University of Tehran, she moved to the United States in 2003. A day after her arrival, she started her graduate school journey in Educational Leadership Master’s program at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) and then continued with International Education Policy doctoral program at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. Upon graduating with a focus on social justice and alternative education, Nassim taught a variety of humanities subjects such as international studies and women’s studies at UMD, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne, and Worcester State University. While teaching, she helped carry out a survey of 150 faculty, students, and department chairs. The survey confirmed what she had suspected all along – that universities across the United States lacked visual educational materials featuring the views of grassroots activists on important global issues. To address this need, Nassim co-founded Docademia LLC, a social enterprise which takes the messages of activists-documentarians from around the world and uses them as seeds for educational discussions in classrooms.

An impact-driven, Chicago-based startup, Docademia uses independent documentaries to bring social justice discussions to life in classrooms. Please join us at the Persian Circle this Thursday at 5pm to learn more about Nassim’s journey with Docademia and the important work they do in bringing the voices of marginalized communities into American classrooms!

Be omid-e didar,

Shaahin