November 1, 2022
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2022-11-01 19:30:00
Women, Life, & Freedom in Iran : Uprising & State Violence in the Wake of #MahsaAmini
Following her arrest by the morality police on charges of violating mandatory hijab laws, 22-year-old Mahsa Zhina Amini was beaten into a coma while in police custody and died of her injuries on September 16, 2022. Please join us to reflect on her death and the protest uprising that has swept Iran in subsequent weeks. Our panelists will discuss the historical context of the uprising and the extreme state violence and mass arrests that have followed.
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Co-sponsored by the Departments of History, Near Eastern and South Asian Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and The Middle East Studies Center.
Our panelists are:
Dr. Shahla Talebi (Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University) Author of the acclaimed book, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, a memoir of her experience as a political prisoner under the Shah and the Islamic Republic.
Dr. Jaleh Jalili (Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Rice University) Author of “Urban Experience in Tehran: Gender and Class in Public Spaces” (Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies), and “Politics of Veiling in Iran and the Non-Religious Left in the Early 1980s” (The Middle East Journal).
Dr. Amanda Respess, Moderator (Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University- Marion)
The event will also feature voices and commentary on recent events by Iranian students.
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2022-11-01 19:00:00
2022-11-01 20:30:00
Women, Life, & Freedom in Iran : Uprising & State Violence in the Wake of #MahsaAmini
Following her arrest by the morality police on charges of violating mandatory hijab laws, 22-year-old Mahsa Zhina Amini was beaten into a coma while in police custody and died of her injuries on September 16, 2022. Please join us to reflect on her death and the protest uprising that has swept Iran in subsequent weeks. Our panelists will discuss the historical context of the uprising and the extreme state violence and mass arrests that have followed.
REGISTRATION
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History, Near Eastern and South Asian Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and The Middle East Studies Center.
Our panelists are:
Dr. Shahla Talebi (Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University) Author of the acclaimed book, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, a memoir of her experience as a political prisoner under the Shah and the Islamic Republic.
Dr. Jaleh Jalili (Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Rice University) Author of “Urban Experience in Tehran: Gender and Class in Public Spaces” (Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies), and “Politics of Veiling in Iran and the Non-Religious Left in the Early 1980s” (The Middle East Journal).
Dr. Amanda Respess, Moderator (Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University- Marion)
The event will also feature voices and commentary on recent events by Iranian students.
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Following her arrest by the morality police on charges of violating mandatory hijab laws, 22-year-old Mahsa Zhina Amini was beaten into a coma while in police custody and died of her injuries on September 16, 2022. Please join us to reflect on her death and the protest uprising that has swept Iran in subsequent weeks. Our panelists will discuss the historical context of the uprising and the extreme state violence and mass arrests that have followed.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History, Near Eastern and South Asian Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and The Middle East Studies Center.
Our panelists are:
- Dr. Shahla Talebi (Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University) Author of the acclaimed book, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, a memoir of her experience as a political prisoner under the Shah and the Islamic Republic.
- Dr. Jaleh Jalili (Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Rice University) Author of “Urban Experience in Tehran: Gender and Class in Public Spaces” (Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies), and “Politics of Veiling in Iran and the Non-Religious Left in the Early 1980s” (The Middle East Journal).
- Dr. Amanda Respess, Moderator (Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University- Marion)
The event will also feature voices and commentary on recent events by Iranian students.
