Berkeley Lecture Series presents:
A seminar on Considerations on Religion and Secularity
By Fakhreddin Azimi, Historian
The seminar/workshop will explore a number of key ideas and theories about the emergence and historical development of secularism in the West. Debates about the place of religion in the public sphere and the contours of secularity in the West will be discussed, as well as their implications for Muslim majority countries, particularly Iran. The structural factors that promote or constrain secularity will also be highlighted.
Seminar date: Monday, June 27, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Place: Central Stage
Registration Fee: $50
Berkeley Lecture Series members: $40
Students: Sliding scale
Fakhreddin Azimi is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. His fields of research are the history, politics and culture of modern Iran. He is also interested in social and political theory, the epistemological foundations of historical enquiry, and the contribution of the social sciences to historiography.
He has written widely in both English and Persian, and is the author of the following books:
— The Quest for Democracy in Iran: a Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule
(Harvard University Press, 2008; paperback 2010), which won the Mossadegh Prize of the Mossadegh Foundation, and the Saidi-Sirjani Award, International Society for Iranian Studies, and was a finalist in the Non-Fiction Category for the Connecticut Book Award, Connecticut Center for the Book.
— Iran: The Crisis of Democracy, from the Exile of Reza Shah to the Fall of Musaddiq (New York & London, 1989, revised paperback edition, 2009) translated into Persian as Bohran-e Demokrasi dar Iran, 1320-1332 (revised, with a new introduction, Tehran 1994, 3rd edition, 2008).
— National Sovereignty and its Enemies: Probing the Record of Mosaddeq’s Opponents
(Persian; Tehran 2004, 2010)
–Reflections on Mosaddeq’s Political Thinking: Essays on Iranian History, Politics & political Culture (Persian; Tehran, 2015).
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