Minoo Moallem
"Political and Cultural Citizenship: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation in Iran"
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
4:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201
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Co-sponsored by OSU Women in Development, Department of Women's Studies, and Middle East Studies Center.
Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of Califorina-Berkeley.
She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (University of California Press, 2005); co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State (Duke University Press, 1999), and guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on Iranian Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees.
Moallem has recently ventured in digital media. Her online project "Nation-on-the Move" (design by Eric Loyer) was recently published in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (special issue on Difference, Fall 2007).
She is currently working on a book manuscript on the commodification of the nation through consumptive production and circulation of such commodities as the Persian carpet; a research project on gender, media and religion; and a project on Iran-Iraq war movies and masculinity.
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Minoo Moallem
Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
University of Califorina-Berkeley
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