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Global 1979: Producing Spaces for Revolutionary Armed Struggle

The spring 2021 lecture Series on Global '79 explores the global processes which shaped the making of the Iranian revolution. The revolution’s global character cannot be understood except in terms of a circulatory system of flows of people and ideas between Iran, the West, Middle East, Asia, and those in Latin America. The invited speakers and discussants will highlight the multiplicity of…

Global 1979: Geographies and Places of the Iranian Revolution

The spring 2021 lecture series on Global '79 explores the global processes which shaped the making of the Iranian revolution. The revolution’s global character cannot be understood except in terms of a circulatory system of flows of people and ideas between Iran, the West, Middle East, Asia, and those in Latin America. The invited speakers and discussants will highlight the…

COVID-19 in Iran: A Conversation on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Public Health in Iran

A panel of interdesplinary scholars will discuss the medical and sociopolitical aspects of the current crisis of COVID-19 in Iran. They will explore similar public health instances in the modern history of Iran. The conversation will situate COVID-19 in the sociohistorical, political, medical, and cultural contexts in which the discipline of public health has emerged and has been interpreted and…