Other – Berkeley Lectures Series

A Man of the Theater: Survival as an Artist in Iran, Nasser Rahmaninejad, Feb 23, 2020

Nasser Rahmaninejad started his theater career in 1959 in Iran. In response to the authoritarian cultural policies and censorship of the Shah’s regime, he founded the independent MEHR theatre group in 1966, which later became the “Iran Theatre Association”. It continued its artistic work, until it was closed down by the Shah’s secret police in 1974. Sentenced to twelve years in prison and ultimately freed by the 1979 revolution, he resumed his theater work, but was soon forced into exile. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Subjectivity and Territoriality in the Soviet Memoirs of Tudeh Party Emigres, Khashayar Beigi, Aug 26, 2018

Khashayar Beigi has received his PhD in anthropology from UC Berkeley with a specialization in psychological anthropology. His dissertation, Hospitality at Thresholds, explores anthropological modes of territoriality spanning from hospitality to exilic and traumatic subjectification of lived territory in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia.

خودی و ناخودی: حکایت دیروز و امروز و همیشه, Homa Sarshar, May 25, 2016

Homa Sarshar was born in Shiraz on 1946, and raised in Tehran. From 1964 to 1978, she worked as a correspondent, reporter, and columnist for Zan-e Ruz weekly magazine and Kayhan daily newspaper in Iran. During this period, she also worked as a television producer, director, and talk-show host for National Iranian Radio & Television. In 1978, Sarshar moved to Los Angeles where she resumed her career as a freelance journalist, radio and television producer, and on-air host. In 1982 as the co-producer, writer, and talk-show host of Omid Radio she co-founded a daily AM radio broadcast for the Los Angeles based Iranian immigrant community. Since 1993 Sarshar has been a trusted advisor by the Human Rights Watch the Hellman/Hammett grant program for writers all around the world who have been victims of political persecution and are in financial need. Throughout her 49-year career with Iranian and Iranian-American print, radio, and television, Sarshar has done more than 1500 interviews and has produced and anchored as many radio and television programs.

Public Forum About Berkeley Lecture Series, Jan 27, 2008

Come see & hear everything you want to know about BLS. We would very much appreciate your input. Your participation is essential in our journey. A 15 minutes clip of previous speakers and presentations will be shown. Looking forward to a spirited discussion.