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Stanford Iranian Studies Program

Stanford Iranian Studies Program

The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies fosters the interdisciplinary study of Iran as a civilization. Each academic year, the Program offers undergraduate courses related to Iran in such disciplines as language, literature, economics, and political science. It provides a wealth of events for scholars, students and the general public, which include conferences, symposia, forums, lectures and performances. Listen to one of our podcasts or check out our youtube channel to discover

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01:14:37

Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion and Babak Payami: An Open Wound...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/10/13

October 13, 2022Speakers: Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion and Babak PayamiThe Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies held a special screening of award-winning director Babak Payami’s new documentary "752 Is Not a Number" about the unprecedented downing of a passenger flight leaving Tehran airport by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The film follows Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion’s struggles with grief and his fight for justice after losing his wife and daughter on flight PS752. Dr. Esmaeilion read

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Book Talk: The Battles of a Judge with Dr. Hamid Najafi

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/09/29

September 29, 2022Speaker: Dr. Hamid NajafiDr. Hamid Najafi discusses his new book "The Battles of a Judge." The book was written by Dr. Najafi and his late father, Dr. Hossein Najafi.From 1946 to 1979, Hossein Najafi served at the Justice Ministry of Iran. He started in an entry level judicial position after law school and rose to lead the Justice Department as a minister during the most tumultuous months of the Iranian Revolution. The book is his firsthand recollection of the legal cases and

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55:45

Nobody's Periphery: Pahlavi Iran and the Arab-Israeli...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/05/31

May 31, 2022Speaker: Arash Azizi"Pahlavi Iran, alongside Turkey, was a rare case of a Muslim-majority state to have consistent relations with Israel. Much of existing literature often discusses this as an aspect of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s Policy of Periphery. But the Shah’s relations with Israel were in line with his foreign policy conception of “National Independent Policy” and part of a careful balancing act that aimed to stake out a unique place for Iran in the global Cold War

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53:00

The Reconfiguration of Iran's Political Elite: Rising...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/05/19

May 19, 2022Speaker: Saeid GolkarAyatollah Khamenei is replacing the Islamic Republic's old cohort of specialists with newly indoctrinated technocrats, preparing the regime for a swift succession. In addition, reconfiguration of political elites is shifting the power equilibrium in the Islamic Republic, facilitating greater coordination between deep and visible states.Saeid Golkar is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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01:26:47

Ehsan Yarshater's Yaddashtha: Reflections on Iranian...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/04/22

April 8, 2022Speakers: Mahnaz Afkhami, Ali Banuazizi, Mandana ZandianScholars reflect on Ehsan Yarshater's remarkable contributions and lasting impact on the study of Iranian history, literature, culture, and the arts. Dr. Yarshater (1920-2018) was Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies at Columbia University, the founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Iranian Studies, and the founding editor of the Encyclopædia Iranica. In 2016, he was awarded the Bita Prize in Persian Arts from the

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01:01:37

The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/04/14

April 14, 2022The Clash of Valuesprovides groundbreaking empirical data to demonstrate how the collision between Islamic fundamentalism and liberal nationalism explains the region’s present and will determine its future. Analyzing data from over 60,000 face-to-face interviews of nationally representative samples of people in seven countries—Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey—Moaddel reveals the depth and breadth of the conflict of values.Dr. Mansoor Moaddelstudies

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01:15:13

The Legacy of Mohammad Mosaddegh with Nicolas Gorjestani

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/03/03

March 3, 2022Speaker: Nicolas GorjestaniMohammad Mosaddegh, Iran's prime minister in the early 1950s, was one of the most consequential national leaders of the twentieth century. Based on his recent book, Nicolas Gorjestani will examine Mosaddegh's life story, resistance strategy, governance, reform record, and overthrow.Mosaddegh locked horns with Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower in 1951-1953 over the nationalization of Iran's oil industry. In the event, Mosaddegh was

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55:36

One Hundred Years of Extraterritoriality and...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2022/02/22

February 25, 2022In the age of imperialism Iran was one of only a handful of non-Western states that maintained their sovereignty. However, as in other places such as the Ottoman Empire, China, and Siam, this sovereignty was punctured by unequal treaties that granted certain Western powers extraterritorial rights. These rights were justified by the absence of a rational legal system that would safeguard the rights of foreigners. To regain full sovereignty, therefore, Iranians had to give themselves

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54:31

Film screening: "Immigrant Stories: Iranian-Americans...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/11/12

November 12, 2021The film screening of Immigrant Stories: Iranian-Americans of Silicon Valley was followed by a conversation with the film's co-directors, Nima Naimi, Alireza Sanayei, and Julian Gigola.About the documentary:Iranian Americans have achieved remarkable success across all professional fields, with many recognized internationally for their outstanding contributions.This film tells the first-hand immigration stories of severalIranian-Americans, covering 3 generations and over a dozen

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01:08:00

Global 1968, the Death of Takhti, and the Birth of...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/11/05

October 15, 2021Naghmeh Sohrabi and Arash DavariThis talk reconstructs rumors and demonstrations in 1968 around the death of Gholamreza Takhti, Iran's beloved gold-winning wrestling champion, recentering them in the history of the 1979 revolution and the global 1960s. The account of the demonstrations provided here explains a mobilization tactic used to great effect in the lead up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution: the staging of protests on the fortieth day of mourning. Locating this tactic in 1968,

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55:00

On Ebrahim Golestan: An Inquiry into "Tide and Mist"

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/11/05

November 5, 2021Speaker: Sahand AbidiSahand Abidi is an essayist and critic. He studied drama at the fine arts faculty of Tehran University. He worked as a playwright, dramaturge, assistant director and actor in theatre, and taught courses on the history of theater. He has worked in different capacities on numerous films, documentaries and plays. Many of his essays on aspects of modern Iranian theatre, cinema, and literature (on Beyzaie, Chubak, Golestan, Kimiai, Nalbandian, etc.) have been

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Image and Words in the Films and Stories of Ebrahim...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/10/22

October 22, 2021Speaker: Ameneh YousefiAmeneh Yousefi was born in Hamedan city in Iran. She received her Doctoral in Persian Literature from the University of Karaj. She has done several auditorial, visual and animated projects as an author for Local National Broadcasting. She currently teaches Persian Literature in Ganjname University in Hamedan City and is researching the representation of intellectual figures in ten contemporary Persian novels. Her talk covers the inter-textual relations between

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01:12:15

White Torture: The Infamy of Solitary Confinement in...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/10/21

September 29, 2021Narges Mohammadi in conversation with Darius Rejali and Abbas Milani.Narges Mohammadi is Deputy Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC). She was elected as President of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Peace in Iran, a broad coalition against war and for the promotion of human rights. She has campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran and was awarded the Per Anger Prize by the Swedish government for her human rights work in 2011.

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01:01:00

SGS Summer Film Festival: Cafe Transit

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/08/11

August 11, 2021Speaker: Fereshteh SadreorafaeiFereshteh Sadreorafaei was born in Tehran, Iran in 1962. From a young age, she attended the Children and Adolescents' Intellectual Development Center. There, she studied theater and puppetry and staged several puppet shows. From 1974-1976, she was a student at Pars National Ballet under the supervision of Abdullah Nazemi.Due to the Iranian Revolution and closure of universities, she was unable to acquire a university education. During which time she got

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President Carter's Handling of the Iranian Revolution...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/07/21

July 18, 2021Kai Bird discusses President Jimmy Carter's interaction with Iran as a part of his new book, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter" (Crown, 2021). More about the book: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political

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52:06

The Nonviolent Revolution of Iranian Women Writers: A...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/06/29

June 24, 2021 Professor Farzaneh Milani discusses Iranian women writers and the Iranian women’s movement with Professor Abbas Milani. The conversation is a part of the on-going series on the Iranian women’s movement. Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. Nelson Professor of Iranian and Gender Studies and Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. She is the former Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and past Director of Women,

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Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/06/05

May 27, 2021 Literary research premised on sensory studies challenges above all the monopolization of modern Persian literary criticism by socio-political discourses, which generally rely on content-based approaches constructing "committed readings" of literary production. "Committed readings" circumscribe the significance of the literary by allowing the text to only be a site of resistance and calls to action, thus foreclosing opportunities for alternative readings. Sensory studies challenge the

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The Economic Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/06/05

May 20, 2021 This study estimates the joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq, on Iran’s per capita Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP,’ constant 2010 US$) for the period 1978–1988, during the revolution/war. Professor Mohammad Reza Farzanegan uses a synthetic control approach, whereby a synthetic Iran is constructed as a weighted average of other Middle East and North Africa (‘MENA’)/Organization of the Petroleum Exporting (‘OPEC’) countries to match the average level of some key per

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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/06/05

May 6, 2021 Kian Katouzian discusses her life as a working woman in Iran, participating in the opposition against the Shah and then against Khomeini before leaving Iran for a life of exile in France. She discusses the feelings of loneliness and disorientation while living in exile. She earned a master’s degree in education in Iran in the 1960s, was a professor of history and geography for more than twenty years, and was head of a high school. She was the editor-in-chief of "Jonbeche," a newspaper

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55:51

Translating Ulysses into Persian: A Century of...

Stanford Iranian Studies Program ·

2021/05/04

April 22, 2021 Translating a work that employs inventive literary techniques is an already arduous task, however, negotiating with a system of imposed censorship makes the process of translating and publishing increasingly more intricate. In this talk, Akram Pedramnia explores the challenges of translating modernist works, like "Lolita," "Tender is the Night," as well as "Ulysses," under a system of imposed censorship and discusses the methods she employs to evade it. Akram Pedramnia is an

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