Category: History

The fate of secular thought in the amendment to the constitutional law of the Mullahs and intellectuals, Kazem Kardavani, Sep 17, 2023

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کاظم کردوانی، جامعه شناس (از “مدرسه مطالعات عالی علوم اجتماعی – پاریس “) و پژوهشگر و دارای نشان نخل های آکادمیک وزارت آموزش ملی و تحقیقات و فناوری فرانسه، استاد سابق دانشگاه، عضو و دبیر سابق کانون نویسندگان ایران، دبیر سابق کنفدراسیون جهانی دانشجویان ایرانی، عضو مؤسس و دبیر “شورای بازنگری در شیوه ی نگارش خط فارسی”، عضو مؤسس “کمیته دفاع از حقوق قربانیان قتل های زنجیره ای” است. علاوه بر شرکت مستمر در فعالیت های فرهنگی واجتماعی ایرا ن وی سرمقاله نویس و عضو هیئت تحریره ی نشریه های مستقل سیاسی، اجتماعی، و فرهنگی (جامعه سالم، آدینه، کلک، ترجمه و …) بوده است. وی همچنین در حوزه های زبان وادبیات ومسایل اجتماعی وسیاسی ایران به کارهای پژوهشی پرداخته است و پژوهش های منتشر شده او از جمله درباره آثار مارسل پروست، آندره مالرو، آل احمد، شاملو، اخوان ثالث است.

Pouya Alimagham, The Limits of Empowerment: Women, Gender, and Revolution in Iran’s Green Uprising, June, 27, 2021

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Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East. He specializes on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant, focusing on such themes as revolutionary and guerrilla movements, imperialism, representation and Orientalism, “Political Islam” and post-Islamism, and the intersections therein.

His dissertation, titled: “Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprising,” was the 2016 winner of the Association for Iranian Studies’ Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award, which is presented biannually. In the study, he argued that the Green Uprising in 2009 was a culmination of a decades-long history that constituted a post-Islamist paradigm shift in Iran. He harnessed wider regional history as well as Iran’s own revolutionary past in order to underscore his thesis. The manuscript was published in expanded form with Cambridge University Press in 2020. His other articles and book chapters (some in progress) cover the Arab Spring, Iranian protest music, women in Middle East revolutions, sectarianism, and the psycho-history of post-9/11 discourse.

The Great Massacre of 1988: Causes and Consequences, Nasser Mohajer, March 7, 2021

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Nasser Mohajer is an independent scholar of modern Iranian history. He has authored many books and written numerous articles on contemporary Iran, including on the prison systems of both the Pahlavi dynasty and the Islamic Republic, women’s movements for equal rights and histories of the Iranian left. He currently resides in Paris and works with Noghteh Resources on Iran.

Iran and the Christian Missionary Experience in the Safavid Period: Between Tolerance and Refutation, Rudi Matthee, May 23, 2019

Professor Matthee teaches Middle Eastern history, with a research focus on early modern Iran and the Persian Gulf. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999), and The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900, (2005); co-edited, with Beth Baron, Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000); and co-edited, with Nikki Keddie, Iran, and the Surrounding World, 1501-2001: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics (2002).

Why “Iran: A Modern History?”, Abbas Amanat, Feb 17-18, 2019

Abbas Amanat (B.A., Tehran University; D. Phil., University of Oxford) is Willaim Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale Univerity. He has taught and written about early modern and modern history of Iran, Muslim world, the Middle East and the Persianate world for more than three decades. His principal book publications include Iran: A Modern History; Az Tehran ta ‘Akka: Babiyan va Baha’iyan dar Asnad-e Dowran-e Qajar; Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian; Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896; Persian translation: Qebleh-e ‘Alam; Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850.

Evolution of the Two-party System in America and its Impact on the Presidential Election. Massud Alemi, Oct 16, 2016

Massud Alemi is a bilingual writer/translator currently living in Maryland. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and emigrated to the United States for higher education in 1977. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 provided the excuse he needed to study history. He’s been preoccupied with the roots of the Islamic revolution in the country of his birth, a preoccupation that led him to writing. He graduated from George Mason University in Virginia, and went on to get an MBA. His debut novel, Interruptions, was published in 2008. He most recently translated into Persian The Federalist Papers, “the most instructive treatise we possess on federal government,” according to Alexis de Tocqueville. He included in this volume a translation of the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

Workshop, Fakherddin Azimi, Jun 27, 2016

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).

Religious Revival and Civil Society in post- Reza Shah Iran, Fakherddin Azimi, Jun 26, 2016

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. …

Seminar on Iran, Islam and modernity. Abbas Milani. April 10, 2016-4parts

seminar on Iran, Islam and modernity. Abbas Milani. Part I. April 10, 2016 The seminar, conducted in Persian, will first inquire into the nature of modernity, debates in Iran and in the west about its origins, desirability and constituent elements, followed by a discussion of the rise of Shiism, its…

Flight into Darkness – A Political Biography of Shapour Bakhtiar, Hamid Shokat, Jan 25, 2015

Hamid Shokat is a prolific writer of political history. He has published “Background on the Transition to the One-Party System in Soviet Russia, 1917-1921”, “The Lost Years – From the October Revolution to Lenin’s Death”, “History of the Confederation of Iranian Students” in two volumes, and four volumes in a series of books titled “An Inside Look into the Iranian Left Movement – Conversations with Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani, Iraj Kashkuli, Koroush Lashaii and Mohsen Rezvani”, “The Political Biography of Ahmad Qavam” (Qavam-os-Saltana), one of the most controversial and pivotal figures of Iran in the twentieth century and most recently “Flight into Darkness – A Political Biography of Shapour Bakhtiar”, The last Prime Minister of Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Ahmed Kasravi’s Status in Iran’s Modern Historiography, Alireza Manafzadeh, Oct 19, 2014

علیرضا مناف زاده دارای دیپلم تحصیلات عالی در رشتۀ تاریخ و جامعه‌شناسی از دانشکدۀ عالی علوم اجتماعی پاریس است. وی مقاله‌های زیادی دربارۀ ایران و فرانسه به فارسی در مجله‌هایی مانند “ایران نامه” در آمریکا و “نگاه نو” در ایران چاپ کرده است. او چندین کتاب به زبان فارسی ترجمه کرده و همچنین دو کتاب به نام های “احمد کسروی، مردی که می‌خواست ایران را از تاریک اندیشی برهاند” و “ساخت و پرداخت هویتی در ایران” به زبان فرانسه به چاپ رسانده ‌است. درحال حاضربا بخش فرانسوی «رادیو بین‌المللی فرانسه» کار می‌کند و مقاله‌های او در آنجا به چاپ می رسد و هرهفته نیز یک برنامۀ دوزبانه (فارسی و فرانسه) برای این رادیو درزمینۀ مسائل فرهنگی و تاریخی و فلسفی تهیه می‌کند.

On the Occasion of the Publishing of “Seyyed Zia”, Sadreddin Elahi, Nov 11, 2012

Dr. Sadreddin Elahi in conversation with Dr. Abbas Milani. On the Occasion of the Publishing of “Seyyed Zia”
Dr. Sadreddin Elahi, veteran writer, critic, researcher, translator, poet is one of Iran’s most prominent journalists, and one of the first writers of serialized fiction in Iran. He was the founder and editor of “Keyhan Varzeshi” established in 1955. He taught Journalism in The College of Communication Sciences in Iran, and he is one of the initiators of the modern style of conversational dialogue in newspaper journalism. He is also an outstanding field reporter as his reports from the Algerian War for Independence demonstrated. Dr. Elahi is the author of “Ba Saadi dar Bazercheh Zendeghi”, “Doori-ha va Delghiri-ha”, “Naghde Bee Ghash – Collected Conversations of Sadreddin Elahi with Parviz Khanlari”. Dr. Elahi’s new book is based on his extensive interviews with Seyyed Zia. The book includes much new information on Seyyed Zia and other prominent participants in the coup d’état of Esfand 1299 (February 1921).

Kasravi and Secular Critique of Shi’ism, Mohamad Amini, Nov 20, 2011

This lecture is about the historical confrontation among secular thinkers, such as Kasravi, and the dominant interpretation of Shiite Islam, and also addresses the concurrence of the government and the opposition in suppressing any critical assessment of religious fanaticism by intellectuals.

Mr. Amini is the author of State & Religion in Iran, published in 1980 in Tehran, and most recently Shi’ism (Shi’i-gari) Ahmad Kasravi, Kasravi and Secular Critique of Shi’ism. He is also the author of numerous articles on secularism, modernity, ethnicity and socio-political issues of Iran and the Middle East. Mr. Amini is a regular guest on weekly radio and television programs.

Lecture in Farsi

Eminent Persians The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979

Dr. Abbas Milani is the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, Encounters with Modernity, On Democracy and Socialism, and Tales of two Cities: a Persian Memoir.

Status of Women in Pre-Islamic Iran, Dr. Freshteh Davaran, Oct 9, 2005

Dr. Freshteh Davaran has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies. She has taught Persian Language and Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, De Anza College and Diablo Valley College. She has translated “Daisy Miller” and “The Europeans” by Henry James and “Herzog” by Saul Bellow and is the author of numerous articles in Persian and English. Dr. Davaran’s presentation will be based on her thesis “Continuity in Iranian Identity: A Study of Andarz and Adab”.