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2009/10 Academic Year: The Suad Joseph Lecture Series in Iranian Studies All lectures at: ARC Ballroom A, UC Davis Campus Reception at 6:00pm followed by lecture at 7:00pm Fall Quarter: Tuesday October 27th , 2009 9 “Sex-in-Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran” A Public Lecture By: Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University Afsaneh Najmabadi teaches History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her last book, Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. She is currently working on Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran, and on Genus of Sex: How Jins Became Sex in Iran. Prof. Najmabadi and a team of Qajar historians received a NEH grant to develop a comprehensive digital archive and website that will preserve, link, and render accessible primary source materials related to the social and cultural history of women’s worlds during the reign of the Qajar dynasty (1785 – 1925) in Iran. Winter Quarter: Tuesday March 9th , 2010 “Naming Iranians: The Introduction of Family Names in Iran” A Public Lecture By: Dr. Houchang Chehabi Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University Houchang Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History. (Licence, Universite de Caen; Diplôme, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; MA, PhD, Yale University). His specialization is Middle Eastern Politics and Cultural History, International Law. Professor Chehabi has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and UCLA, and has held Alexander von Humboldt and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). He has also co-edited Politics, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (1995) and Sultanistic Regimes (1998). Professor Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations. Spring Quarter: Tuesday May 19th , 20100 “Interplay of Image and Idea in Persian Poetry: In Search of New Ways of Conceptualizing the Persian Literary Tradition” A Public Lecture By: Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. For nineteen years he was Professor of Persian language and literature and Iranian culture and civilization at the University of Washington. He has studied in Iran and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 1979, and has taught English and comparative literature and translation studies, as well as classical and modern Persian literature at the University of Tehran, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas. Professor Karimi-Hakkak is the author of nineteen books and over one hundred major scholarly articles. He has contributed articles on Iran and Persian literature to many reference works, including The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Iranica, and The Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. His works have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, and Persian. He has won numerous awards and honors, and has served as President of the International Society for Iranian Studies and several other professional academic organizations. Sponsorship: The Suad Joseph Lecture Series in Iranian Studies is made possible through generous donations by Bijan and Forozan Bijan, Masud and Tahereh Monfared, Javad and Shirin Rahimian. The series launches the development of Iranian Studies within the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program. It is co-sponsored by the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, Cultural Studies, History, and Women and Gender Studies For Questions please email: [email protected] or call 530-754-4926 | Website: MESA.UCDAVIS.EDU .