[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: Reception and Author Talk for Afsaneh Najmabadi, Thursday 2/20, 6:00pm

[Michael M. J. Fischer]

Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran.  Arguing that transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of proceduralism, negotiation of legal categories, and state formation, Afsaneh Najmabadi challenges the lumping of transsexuals and homosexuals as identical human rights issues, and argues that poorly targeted universalistic campaigns can damage the conditions of life for the people they are intended to help.  She works refreshingly at the level of real lives, jurists, and psychiatrists.



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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

cordially invites you to an

Author Talk & Reception

with

Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History
and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

February 20, 2014, 6:00-8:00pm • Reception to follow
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street

<http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3576>[Description: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/files/najmabadi-cover-106px.jpg]<http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3576>Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran<http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3576>
An author talk with Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University. Moderated by Michael M.J. Fischer, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, MIT.







A limited number of free copies of Professing Selves will be available on a first come, first served basis to Harvard students attending this talk (please have your Harvard ID available).

Contact: Sarah Meyrick, CMES Outreach Director, smeyrick at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:smeyrick at fas.harvard.edu>
Link: http://bit.ly/1l7PpN8

This talk is part of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Program Spring 2014 Book Launch Series.<http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3575>

As a Title IV National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The content of these events does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.

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