“Berkeley Lecture Series” presents:
A Talk by Dr. Janet Afary, Purdue University
Topic: The Crisis of Democracy in Iran and the Heritage of the Constitutional Revolution
Dr. Janet Afary received her M.A. from the Department of Literature of Tehran University and her Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor . She is an Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Purdue University . Dr. Afary is author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (N. Y.: Columbia UP, 1996), which was also translated and published in Iran (Bisotoun, 2000) and co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005). She was awarded year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS). She is currently President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA, 2004-2006). She was also past-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA) and President of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS-MESA, 2004-2005)
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 110 Barrows Hall
Lecture in English