“Berkeley Lecture Series” presents:
A Talk by Daryoush Ashouri, prominent Iranian writer
Topic: The Abortive Birth of a Modern Nation: The Constitutional Revolution in Iran and its Aftermath
Daryoush Ashouri has served as a visiting professor and lecturer of Persian language and literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Oxford University, and of political philosophy and political sociology at the University of Tehran.
He is the author of ”An Introduction to Sociology”, “Modernity and Us”, “Dictionary of Philosophy and Political Science”, “Political Encyclopedia” among others. He is also a translator of works by Nietzsche, William Shakespeare and Nicola Machiavelli.
Date: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 110 Barrows Hall