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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: An Undefined Line Between Celebration and Mourning in Post-Revolutionary Iran Monday, April 16, 2018 Using some key concepts in Bruce Lincoln's Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11 (Chicago, 2003), this talk will examine commemorations of violent events in modern Iranian and sacred Shi’a history (such as the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Iran-Iraq War, and martyrdom of the family of the Prophet Muhammad). It reviews both Iranian and American reporting of holidays marked in the Islamic Republic of Iran to ask how the presentation of commemorations (especially in calendars, media, rituals) uses careful rhetoric and historical contextualization to walk the fine line between celebration and mourning or blur the line between nationalism and religious practice. Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 204 Sponsor: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program Contact: Shai Secunda. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-6822 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/physics/events/