Iranian Modernity Symposium - Department of Near and Middle

University of Toronto
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
8 Iranian Modernity Symposium 8
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Friday, 10 April 2015, 1:00-6:00 p.m.
200B, Bancroft Building, Bancroft Ave
1:10 p.m. Tribal Modernity: Rural and Nomadic Response to Pahlavi Reforms
Sheragim Jenabzadeh
1:30
Prototypes of Modernity: An Analysis of Refashioning Iran
Emilie Terebessy
1:50
“A Philosophy of the Future?”: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
2:10
Islamism vs. Democratic Modernity: A Matter of European Roots? Critquing Ali Mirsepassi’s Philosophies of Hope and Despair
Ahsan Moghul
Ian Costa
2:30
The Modern Prince: Gramsci, the White Revolution and the First
UN Human Rights Conference
Sabrina Guerrieri
2:50
Sunset to Noonset: Resetting Clocks in Early 20th Century Iran
3:10
“Donkeys in Lions’ Skins”: Jalal al-Ahmad and the Case of Westoxication
3:30
Who Is Western Is Strong: Cyrus Schayegh and “Science” of Modernity
3:50
“Avoid At All Costs Involvement Prejudicing Neutrality”:
American Medical Missionaries in Iran and the Second World War
Delbar Khakzad
Yousef Mosaddeghi
Joud Al Korani
Lydia Wytenbroek
4:10
The “Coup” That Was Not, the Coup That Became
Dr. Shahram Kholdi, Western University
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