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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.
                      515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

                                                                                      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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