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THE PEOPLE RELOADED: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future
Friday, February 11, 2011 7:00-10:00 p.m. Room 6-120, MIT (182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge) open to the public MIT Co-Sponsors: History, Anthropology, STS (Science, Technology, and Society), CMS (Comparative Media Studies), and CIS (Center for International Studies) On the 32nd anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, a panel discussion about the state of Iran, with Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi (authors of "The People Reloaded" http://www.mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493 ), as well as Stephen Kinzer, Michael Fischer, Sohrab Ahmari, moderated by Golnoush Niknejad (Editor of Tehran Bureau). February 11 is the anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, and thus an ideal occasion to take stock of where the Islamic Republic stands 32 years on... from its establishment. It has also been a year and a half since the emergence of the Green movement, the most significant oppositional force to have appeared in the theocratic state's history. About the panelists: - Stephen Kinzer is Visiting Professor of International Relations at Boston University and a columnist for The Guardian. His books include All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003), Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006), and Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future (2010). - Michael Fischer teaches anthropology at MIT. His books include Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution (1980), Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (1990), Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry (2004), and Anthropological Futures (2009). - Sohrab Ahmari is co-editor of Re-Orient, a forthcoming anthology of essays by young Arab and Iranian reformers, and a frequent contributor to The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Tehran Bureau, and the Huffington Post. A law student at Northeastern University, he is a member of the American Islamic Congress' New England Council. - Kelly Golnoush Niknejad is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tehran Bureau, a "virtual" bureau connecting journalists, Iran experts and readers all over the world, in partnership with the PBS public affairs series FRONTLINE. Her work includes reporting for the Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, and Foreign Policy. - Nader Hashemi teaches Middle East and Islamic politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (2009) and co-editor, with Danny Postel, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011). - Danny Postel is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran (2006) and co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011). He is the editor of The Common Review, a contributing editor of Logos, and Communications Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice.For more information, contact: Prof. Michael Fischer 617-253-2564 [email protected] ________________________________________________________
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