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Samuel Jordan Center in the News مرکز مطالعات ايرانشناسی سموئل جردن دانشگاه کاليفرنيا، ارواين SAMUEL JORDAN CENTER IN THE NEWS In the past academic year a number of visitors and speakers came to the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture. We were fortunate to host authors, filmmakers, scholars and musicians who deal with the Iranian world at our center. We were also busy with new publications which the center now directly oversees, as well as collaborations with other universities and foundations. New graduate students have also come to UC Irvine to study the Iranian world in various disciplines such as comparative literature, film, and history. In the five years that the Center has been active Iranian Studies has grown tremendously, with students and faculty involved in research and study about Iran and beyond. Volume 2—Fall 2010 Iraj Afshar during his visit to the Center for Persian Studies in 2010 with the faculty and the graduate students. LECTURES, CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS LECTURES What did the Greeks know about the capital cities of the Persian Empire? An Archeologist's Perspective from the Homeland. Ali Mousavi Continued on pg. 2 LECTURES Continued On February 2, 2010 Dr. Ali Mousavi, Curator of Ancient Iran & Near East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art spoke on the major capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, namely those of Babylon, Ecbatana, Susa and Persepolis. An Encounter and Dialogue with Ostad Hossein Alizadeh On February 11, 2010 the Center hosted Hossein Alizadeh who is considered one of the most important figures in contemporary Persian music. Dr. Hossein Omumi chaired the discussion. This program was followed by a concert at the Barclay Theater with an unforgettable night of Classical Persian music. RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO: Satyagraha in Iran: Is Nonviolence Possible? On February 19, 2010 the Center hosted one of the important Contemporary Iranian philosophers and intellectuals, Ramin Jahanbegloo. Dr. Jahanbegloo spoke on the idea of non-violence and the lessons India could teach the Iranian world in terms of diversity and peace. Politics of Development of the Steel Industry in Iran On April 8, 2010 Masoud Rafi spoke about the history and development of the Steel Industry in Iran, as part of the Center’s research project on the history of science, industry, and forms of knowledge production in Iran. Continued on pg. 3 Lectures, continued from pg. 2 Unnatural Enemies: The Riddle of Iran-U.S. Relations On May 20, 2010 the Center in collaboration with the Center for Research on International and Global Studies, the Center for the Study of Democracy, Department of Political Science and the International Center for Writing and Translation hosted Roger Cohen, New York Times foreign correspondent and the last foreign journalist to leave Iran after the June 2010 Presidential elections. Roger Cohen & Nasrin Rahimieh The Decipherment of The Sasanian Inscriptions and Cracking the Cuneiform Code: The 3rd-century Sasanian High Priest Kerdir and His Defense of The Faith J. Rose, M. Morony, P.O. Skjærvø, N. Rahimieh, T. Daryaee & Y. S.-D. Vevaina On June 2 and 3, 2010 the Center hosted P. Oktor Skjærvø, Agha Khan Professor in Iranian Studies at Harvard Uni- versity for two lectures. He spoke on the history of scripts used in ancient Iran and the decipherment of the cunei- form script. This was followed by another talk on the Zoroastrian priest Kerdir who lived in the third century CE and made a heavenly journey. CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS The Alborz School The Center began its first major conference in the Fall on October 10, 2009 on the history of the Alborz School in Tehran. The participants and papers included: Thomas M. Ricks, Independent Scholar, “Presbyterian Mission Education and Centers of Modernism: The Case of Alborz (American) College of Tehran;” John Lorentz, Shawnee State University, “Educational Development in Iran: The Pivotal Role of the Mission Schools and Alborz College;” Michael Zirinsky, Boise State University, “Inculcate Iran: Opening a Dialog of Civilizations in the Shadow of God and the Alborz;” Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego, “The American College of Tehran, 1929- 1931: A Memorial Album;” Kamran Safamanesh, Independent Scholar, “Iran A History of the Alborz High School and Its Architectural Development;” Houchang Chehabi, Boston University, “Diversity at Alborz;” Farzin Vahdat, Vassar College, “Alborz High School and the Process of Rationalization in Iran;” Homa Katouzian, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford “Alborz and Its teachers;” Bahram Bayani, Independent Scholar, Iran “Mohammed- Ali Modjtahedi: Life and Work;” Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Senior Principal, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., “Modjtahedi and the Founding of Arya-Mehr University of Technology.” The proceedings of the conference will be published in a special issue of Iranian Studies, the Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies. Iran After the June 12, 2009 Elections On October 28, the Center convened a panel discussion on the recent presidential elections in Iran. The panel was co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Center for Research on International and Global Studies. The speakers included: Touraj Daryaee, Associate Director, Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, “The Green Movement in Iran: Aims and Aspirations;” Mateo Farzaneh, History Department, UC Santa Barbara “Khuzestan: Mousavi, Bread, and Sand Storms;” and Fariba Taghavi, Political Science, CSU Long Beach, “The Rise of the neo-conservatives and the Eclipse of the Old Guard in Iran.” The panel was chaired by Deborah Avant, Director of the Center for Research on International and Global Studies and the discussant Bernard Grofman, Director, Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine. Continued on pg. 5 Conferences & workshops continued from pg. 4 Women in Iran: Continuities and Discontinuities of Context Hassan Eshkevari, Khodadad Rezakhani, Nasrin Rahimieh, Touraj Daryaee & Nayereh Tohidi On January 15, 2010 the Center hosted Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari and a group of scholars to discuss the lives and history of women in Iran. The speakers included: Touraj Daryaee, Howard Baskerville Professor of Iranian History & Associate Director of Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, UCI, “Women in Pre-Islamic Iranian History;” Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari, “Women’s Rights in Islam;” Nayereh Tohidi, Professor of Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge & Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, “Muslim Feminism and Democracy Movement in Iran;” and Nasrin Rahimieh, Masseh Chair and Director of Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture & Professor of Comparative Literature, “Women in Literary and Cultural Production.” Workshop on History and Culture of Late Antique Iran Parvaneh Pourshariati lecturing Continued on pg. 6 Conference & workshops continued from pg. 5 On February 26, 2010 with the generosity of Dr. Keyvan Safdari and Haleh Emrani a workshop was convened on the idea of Late Antiquity and Iran. The invited guest was Parvaneh Pourshariati of Ohio State University. Other participants included: Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine); Michael Morony (UCLA); Thomas Sizgorich (UC Irvine); and Jennifer Rose (Stanford University). These talks were followed by a Round-Table Discussion which included Dr. Gre- ory Areshian (UCLA); Kevin Van Bladel (USC), and Khodadad Rezakhani (UCLA) among others who were present. The Islamic Revolution and Academic Research: Three Generations of American Ethnographic Work On May 10, 2010 the Center in collaboration with University of California, Irvine’s Center for Ethnography, headed by George Marcus (Anthropology, UCI), organized a one-day workshop to discuss three generations of American ethnographic work before and after the revolution in Iran. The participants included: Michael Fischer (MIT), Margaret Mills (OSU), Fereydoun Safizadeh (Boston University), Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University), Arlene Dallalfar (Lesley College), Narges Erami (Yale University), Taraneh Hemami (CA College of the Arts), Mazyar Lotfalian (UCI), Philip Grant (UCI), Janet Alexanian (UCI), Orkideh Behrouzan (MIT), and Talieh Rohani (MIT). The goal was to study how strategic knowledge emerged as a result of the severing of diplomatic ties between Iran and the United States. FILM SCREENINGS There were several film screenings including Abbas Kiarostami’s film Ten on December 3, 2009 in the series entitled Cinema Across Borders. Shirin Neshat was present in a dialogue with Simon Leung about her projects, including her latest film, Women without Men on April 5, 2010. As a special guest, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad was present and a number of her films including two documentaries on women’s shelter in Tehran and another on the June Presidential elections in Iran and a also her film entitled Under the Skin of the City were screened on May 6 & 7, 2010. She also engaged in a discussion about her films. The Farhang Foundation along with the UC Irvine Film and Video Center generously supported this event.. Finally on May 22, 2010 Hamid Rahmanian’s The Glass House about Iran’s underclass in Tehran was screened. THE PERSIAN CENTER AT THE NEW HUMANITIES GATEWAY BUILDING The Center for Persian Studies moved to its new home at the Humanities Gateway Building and is now at its permanent home at a wing of the building. The centre has twelve offices, a conference room, a library and lounge along with other facilities. Several rooms in the building now have names associated with Iran and have been generously supported by donors and supporters of the Center. These include the library (Lida Jahangiri), the screening room (McCormick), a colloquium room (Rollestone) and a state-of-the art auditorium (Alborz), jointly supported by Dr. Fariborz Maseeh and Alborz alumni. OSTAD HOSSEIN OMUMI AND PERSIAN MUSIC AT UC IRVINE UC Irvine is the only university in the United States to have a chair in Persian music which is held by the master, Dr. Hossein Omumi. He performs twice a year at the Barclay Theater for the lovers of Persian music. On February 11, 2010 he invited Hossein Alizadeh who engaged in a dialogue about Classical Persian music in the twentieth century and where it is headed.
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