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1396 بهمن 13 هعهج - 1485 هراهش / 25 لاس
DRS FEREIDOUN AND KATHARINE MIRHADY
E N D O W E D L E C T U R E I N I R AN I A N S T U D I E S
The Imaginary Invention of a Nation:
In touch with Iranian diversity
Iran in the 1930s and 1980s
Ali Mirsepassi is Professor of Middle Eastern
You are invited to attend the 16 annual Drs Studies and Sociology at the Gallatin School,
th
Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady Endowed New York University. His teaching and
research interests include social theories of
Lecture in Iranian Studies. modernity, Iranian intellectual history, politi-
cal Islam, modern Islamic thought, and
Speaker: Ali Mirsepassi sociology of religion. Mirsepassi is the author
New York University of Political Islam, Iran and Enlightenment (2011), Democracy in
Modern Iran (2010) and Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modern-
ization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (2000). His latest monograph,
Thursday, 8 February 2018, 7 PM Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of
Ahmad Fardid (2017), offers an account of the rise of political Islam
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Room 1900 in modern Iran by following the intellectual journey of the philoso-
Vol. 25 / No. 1485 - Friday, Feb 2, 2018 This lecture is free and open to the public. “This book [Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought] is a
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Campus
pher Ahmad Fardid.
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fascinating account of one of the most enigmatic intellectuals of
modern Iran, the father of the idea of Westoxication. It offers an
analytical frame whose implications go beyond Iran, disclosing
As seating is limited, reservations are recommended.
how such anti-modern thinking is linked to the ideas of European
Please register online at
luminaries such as Heidegger, Corbin, and Foucault. A meticulous
Asef Bayat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
37 www.sfu.ca/history/events.html example of scholarship.”
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