SPEAKING & EVENTS
June 2008
Sunday 15th
Visual Representations of Iran,
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
April 2008
Thursday 17th
Conversation with Faculty and Students,
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
March 2008
Friday 28th
Islam and the Making of Cosmopolitan Cultures,
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Monday 17th
On Empire and (Re)Colonization
Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Monday 10th
Launch of Makhmalbaf at Large
Alwan for the Arts, New York City
September 2007
Friday 28th
Bahman Jalali and the Making of Iranian Aesthetic Modernity,
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Summer and Fall 2007 on Paternity Leave
June 2007
Tuesday 26th – 29th
“The Occasion Instant, the Experiment Perilous: The Predicament of Higher Education in Post-9/11 United States” by Hamid Dabashi
The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Wednesday 6th
7:30pm
At Home in the World: Iranian Cosmopolitan Culture
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Friday 1st
Conversations about Iran: A People Interrupted
Kamal Cultural Foundation, San Diego, CA
Monday 21st
An Evening with Hamid Dabashi
Iranian-American Cultural Association (IACA), Washington, D.C.
Saturday 19th – 20th
Launch of Hamid Dabashi’s new book Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema, followed by a small Iranian film festival
National Gallery of Arts and Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C.
Thursday 17th
Cultural and Social Anthropology Symposium: Politics of Knowledge Production
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Thursday 26th
Panel Discussion on Islam
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Thursday 19th
Reading of Iran: A People Interrupted (12:30-2:00 p.m.)
Middle East Institute, Columbia University, New York City
Tuesday 17th
Conversations about Iran: A People Interrupted
West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Saturday 14th
Keynote Speech by Hamid Dabashi
Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
Thursday 5th
Panel Honoring Marc Nichanian
417 International Affairs Building
Columbia University, New York City
Thursday 5th
On the Iraq War
Columbia University Working Families Party
Barnard College, New York City
Monday 2nd
Iran: A People Interrupted—Meet the author
Labyrinth Books (7p.m.), New York City
Saturday 31st
The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
Wednesday 28th - 29th
Religion and Representation: Comparative Secularism
CCLS Annual Conference, Columbia University, New York City
Saturday 17th
Sunnis and Shiias: The Shared Culture of Iraq and The Trauma of Occupation (3:30-4:30 p.m.)
Peace Actions Coalition
Judson Memorial Church, New York City
Monday 12th
Launch of Hamid Dabashi’s new book Iran: A People Interrupted in New York City
Followed by a screening of the Iranian film Offside
Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York City
Friday 9th-11th
"The Left Movements in the Arab-Islamic World"
Left Forum 2007, New York City
Wednesday 7th
Launch of Hamid Dabashi’s new book Iran: A People Interrupted in Washington D.C.
The event will be covered by C-Span.
Prose and Politics Bookstore, Washington D.C.
Friday 2nd
1) Discussion with Hamid Dabashi about Iranian history (4:15 p.m., Science Library Room 340, Uptown Campus).
2) Film screening: “Divine Intervention” followed by commentary by Hamid Dabashi (7:00 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus).
The New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany, Albany, NY
Monday 5th - 7th
International Seminar on Perso Arabic Threads in Indian Tapestry: Centenary Celebration Year
Department of Arabic and Persian, Calcutta University, India
Friday 2nd - 3rd
Islamic Law in the West: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice Conference
American University Washington College of Law (WCL), Washington, D.C.
Tuesday 23rd
An evening with Palestinian Filmmaker Elia Suleiman, featuring a screening of his film “Divine Intervention” with Hamid Dabashi (8pm in Schermerhorn 501)
The Center for Comparative Literature and Society, MEALAC and Turath, Columbia University, New York City
Friday 5th
Hamid Dabashi introducing the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine’s film “Le Destin” (al-Masir, 1997)
Rubin Museum of Art, New York City
November 2006
Saturday 18th – 21st
Relating Theory and Practice: Thinking and Doing Contemporary Art Ways of Knowledge Production
Documenta 12 Magazines
Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, Austria
Thursday 9th
Defending Civil Liberties and Resisting the Empire
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, Chicago, Illinois
October 2006
Thursday 19th
Child Suicide Bombing and International Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
Thursday 5th
Conversation with Students
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
September 2006
Wednesday 27th
Launching the book Dreams of A Nation: On Palestinian Cinema
Introducing Michele Khleifi’s film Wedding in Galilee followed by a 2-day Palestinian Film Festival
Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Thursday 21st
Re-Reading the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Skidmore College, Saratoga Spring, NY
Saturday 16th
The Role of Expatriate Intellectuals in the Making of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
California State University, Fullerton, CA
August 2006
Thursday 17th
On Palestinian Cinema and On Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven
Danish Cinematheque, Copenhagen, Denmark
June 2006
Saturday 17th
On Transaesthetics
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
April 2006
Tuesday 4th
On Colonial Modernity
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
January 2006
Monday 16th
Retrospective on Amir Naderi
Museum of Cinema, Torino, Italy
December 2005
Thursday 8th
On Poetic Implosion in Rumi’s Mathnavi
The International Conference on Rumi
Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus