Middle Eastern Studies Program, Human Rights Program, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Economics Program, Division of Social Studies, and Dean of the College Present
"Life-Affirming Endurance": Decolonial Feminisms in Iran and Beyond
Monday, October 29, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 102
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Catherine Z. Sameh
University of California, Irvine
The anti-colonial thrust of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Iran has been narrated largely through key male theorists and politicians, primarily Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Shariati. Decolonial scholarship tends to resurrect this voice through its often uncritical and romanticized engagement with Shariati as the sole anti-colonial voice of Iran. Inviting attention to Iranian women’s rights activists as theorists in their own right, this talk will elaborate an alternative decolonial voice, one characterized by decoloniality’s very commitment to gendered analysis and unrelenting challenge to binary ways of thinking.University of California, Irvine
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102