The Ever Changing Identity of Iranians, Turaj Atabaki, Apr 10, 2011
“ Berkeley Lecture Series” Presents:
A Talk by Dr. Touraj Atabaki,
Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia,
Leiden University, Netherlands
Topic: “The Ever Changing Identity of Iranians”
Dr. Touraj Atabaki holds the endowed chair of ‘Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia’ at the School of the Middle Eastern Studies of the Leiden University and works as the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in charge of the Department of the Middle East and Central Asia . He studied theoretical physics (BSc,MSc) and history at the National University of Iran and the University of London and received his MA and PhD at Utrecht University .
Dr. Atabaki is the author of Iran in the 20th Century. Historiography and Political Culture (2009); The State and the Subaltern. Society and Politics in Turkey and Iran (2007); Iran and the First World War: A Battleground of the Great Powers (2006); Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernisation Under Atatürk and Reza Shah (2004), among others.
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 20 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Lecture in Persian