Iran: Past and Present (lecture series)

We are pleased to see that the same movement is happenning among Iranian Students in other universities as well. We are trying to gather a list of programs of the same nature happening at other universities here:

Iran Awareness Week: Iran Graduate Student Association (ISGA) at the Univerity of Michigan

Program Description

In the wake of recent global attention towards Iran, the Persian Student Association (PSA) at Stanford, in collaboration with the Muslim Student Awareness Network (MSAN) and Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (CJME), is holding a series of educational programs with the goal of educating the student community about cultural, historical and political issues related to Iran. The series includes five programs held on five consecutive Sundays starting April 17, 2005 focusing on the following subjects:

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April 17, 2005, Jordan Hall: Room 420-040, 5:30-7:00pm
- Theme: Iran's cultural legacy and its role in Western consciousness.
- Program: Lecture on Wisdom from the Land of Sophie: A Brief Account of Iran's Contribution to Civilization.
- Speaker: Abbas Milani, Research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution; and visiting professor in the Department of Political Science, Stanford University.
- Stanford Daily article on this event.
April 24, 2005, Graduate Community Center, 5:30-7:00pm
- Theme: Life in contemporary Iran.
- Program: Persian dinner and lecture on Life in Iran Today: An Anthropological View.
- Speaker: William Beeman, Professor of Anthropology; Theatre, Speech and Dance; and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University
- Stanford Daily article on this event.
- Download the presentation's slides (PDF file, 2.8MB)
May 1, 2005, Jordan Hall: Room 420-040, 5:30-7:00pm
- Theme: The 1953 US-British coup in Iran.
- Program: A lecture on Iran's Perilous Path to Self Determination and Democratic Rule.
- Speaker: Shahram Aghamir, KPFA radio, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa.
May 8, 2005, Jordan Hall: Room 420-040, 5:30-7:00pm
- Theme: Contemporary Iran.
- Program: Short lectures and discussion on Politics in Contemporary Iran.
- 1. Iran: the political identities of a paradoxical republic.
    Speaker: Kaveh Ehsani, Research Scholar at University of Illinois in Chicago; and member of the editorial boards of the quarterly journals Goftogu (Tehran) and Middle East Report (Washington DC).
  2. Reform movements and media in Iran.
    Speaker: Abbas Milani, Research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution; and visiting professor in the Department of Political Science, Stanford University.
  3. Women and religious minorities in Iran.
    Speaker: Nayereh Tohodi, Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at California State University (Northridge) and Research Associate at Center for Near Eastern Studies of UCLA.
May 15, 2005, Jordan Hall: Room 420-040, 5:30-7:00pm
- Theme: History of Iran-US relations and Iran's nuclear.
- Program: A lecture on Iran-US Relations and Iran's Nuclear Program.
- Speaker: Mansour Farhang, Professor of Political Science at Bennington College and Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations after Islamic Revolution.

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