[Sci-tech-public] "The People Reloaded" -panel discussion on Iran, Feb. 11

[Judy Spitzer]

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>>                         THE PEOPLE RELOADED:
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>>                 The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future


>Friday, February 11, 2011
>7:00-10:00 p.m.
>Room 6-120, MIT
>(182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge)
>open to the public
>
>MIT Co-Sponsors: History, Anthropology, STS (Science, Technology, and
>Society), CMS (Comparative Media Studies), and CIS (Center for
>International Studies)
>
>
>On the 32nd anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, a panel discussion
>about the state of Iran, with Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi (authors
>of "The People Reloaded" http://www.mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493 ),
>as well as Stephen Kinzer, Michael Fischer, Sohrab Ahmari,
>moderated by Golnoush Niknejad (Editor of Tehran Bureau).
>
>February 11 is the anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, and
>thus an ideal occasion to take stock of where the Islamic Republic
>stands 32 years on... from its establishment. It has also been a year
>and a half since the emergence of the Green movement, the most
>significant oppositional force to have appeared in the theocratic
>state's history.
>
>About the panelists:
>
>- Stephen Kinzer is Visiting Professor of International Relations at
>Boston University and a columnist for The Guardian. His books include
>All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East
>Terror (2003), Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from
>Hawaii to Iraq (2006), and Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future
>(2010).
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>- Michael Fischer teaches anthropology at MIT. His books include Iran:
> From Religious Dispute to Revolution (1980), Debating Muslims:
>Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (1990), Mute Dreams,
>Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the
>Transnational Circuitry (2004), and Anthropological  Futures (2009).
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>- Sohrab Ahmari is co-editor of Re-Orient, a forthcoming anthology of
>essays by young Arab and Iranian reformers, and a frequent contributor
>to The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Tehran Bureau, and the Huffington
>Post. A law student at Northeastern University, he is a member of the
>American Islamic Congress' New England Council.
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>- Kelly Golnoush Niknejad is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tehran
>Bureau, a "virtual" bureau connecting journalists, Iran experts and
>readers all over the world, in partnership with the PBS public affairs
>series FRONTLINE. Her work includes reporting for the Los Angeles
>Times, TIME Magazine, and Foreign Policy.
>
>- Nader Hashemi teaches Middle East and Islamic politics at the Josef
>Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He
>is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a
>Democratic  Theory for Muslim Societies (2009) and co-editor, with
>Danny Postel, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the
>Struggle for Iran's Future (2011).
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>- Danny Postel is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran
>(2006) and co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded: The
>Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011). He is the
>editor of The Common Review, a contributing editor of Logos, and
>Communications Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice.
>
>>      For more information, contact:
>>      Prof. Michael Fischer
>>      617-253-2564
>>      mfischer at mit.edu
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