Speaking & Events
2010
MAY 2010
Tuesday 25th May
The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic Conference,
Wednesday 5th May
On Rage,
APRIL 2010
Thursday 29th April
A talk at Bard College's Human Rights Project,
Monday 19th April
"Islam and a Just World Order,"
Friday 16th April
Literature, Law, and Islam: Dante’s Inferno,
Friday 9th April
Keynote at Religion in Scholarship Symposium,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Wednesday 7th April
Art & Art History Lecture: "The Media, Iran, and the US,"
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
March 2010
Tuesday 30th March
“The Iranian Green Movement: Historical Roots and Future Prospects,”
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th March
The Future of Secularism and the Public Role of Religion in Post-Islamist Iran challenges,
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Monday 22nd March
"Women of Bahram Beyzai'i's Cinema,"
Sunday 21st March
The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran
Saturday 6th March
Music of Resistance / موسیقی مقاومت (photos of event available
here and
here)
A Benefit Concert for Week in Green with Shahin Najafi
Santo's Party House, New York City, NY
Thursday 4th March
Demands for Free Press and Free Speech Drive Unrest in Iran,
February 2010
Friday 5th February
What is Middle Eastern Cinema?
Thursday 4th February
Post-Orientalism: Said and After
JANUARY 2010
Saturday 16th January
Historical Materialism Conference: 2nd North American Conference,
2009
December 2009
Monday 7th December
Dec. 7th/16 Azar (۱۶ آذر ): Iranian University Students Day,
November 2009
Wednesday 18th November
Mohammad Bakri and Palestinian Cinema,
Columbia University, New York City
October 2009
Friday 2nd October
Towards ‘the Dignity of Difference’,
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Saturday 17th October
"How to help the Civil Rights Movement in Iran",
University of Houston, Houston, TX
September 2009
Tuesday 2nd September
The Tragedy of the Left: 30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran,
The Brecht Forum, New York City, NY
Tuesday 22nd September
Who Speaks for Middle East? Haifa Zangana & Hamid Dabashi in Conversation,
The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, New York City, NY
August 2009
Saturday 29th August
Iran 2009 Election: Precursors, Observations, and Consequences,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Wednesday 19th August
Iran: the Coup of 1953 and the Movement of 2009,
Columbia University, New York City
July 2009
Saturday 25th July
Global Day of Action,
United4Iran, Times Square, New York City
Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th July
Hunger Strike in Support of the Iranian People and for the Release of Political Prisoners,
United Nations Building, New York City
June 2009
Thursday 25th June
Iran Un-interrupted: A Discussion with Professor Hamid Dabashi,
7pm at Alwan for the Arts, New York City
Saturday 20th June
Hamid Dabashi, Mohsen Kadivar, & Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
A meeting in support of our brave people in Iran
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Altschul Auditorium (Room 403), Columbia University, New York City
March 2009
Wednesday 18th
Donya Khaneh ye man ast: Jahani Shodan Honar va Farhang e Iran (in Persian),
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Monday 16th
Amir Naderi and Ramin Bahrani: Two Generations of Iranian Filmmakers in New York,
UC Davis, Davis CA
Friday 13th
The World is my Home: Contemporary Iranian Artists abroad,
California State University, Fresno, CA
Friday 13th
A Talk on Marziyeh Meshkini's "The Day I Became a Woman",
California State University, Fresno, CA
Friday 13th
Gaza and the Emerging Politics of the Region under President Obama,
Reedley Peace Center, Reedley, CA
February 2009
Thursday 5th
The World is My Home: On the Poetics of Cosmopolitanism,
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
January 2009
Thursday 8th
Prelude to Kiarostami's Meditative Camera,
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday 6th
Obama's Iranian Problem,
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Friday 2nd
Iran Through the Lens of History,
MIT, Cambridge, MA
+ 2008
November 2008
Monday 17th
Cicero's Podium Debate Series: Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations?,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Saturday 8th
Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims: An Edward Said Conference,
Columbia University, New York City
October 2008
Tuesday 28th
Launch of "Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire",
Book Culture, New York City
Friday 24th
Keynote Lecture for launch of The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication:
"Narration and Aberration: Once upon a Time, Palestine..."
SOAS, University of London, UK
Saturday 18th
Historians of Islamic Art Association's International Symposium: "Iranian Cinema in Context",
HIAA, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Friday 10th
Palestine Center Annual Conference:
"The U.S. and the Arab World: An Assessment of American Policy in the Middle East"
The Jerusalem Fund, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday 8th
International Scene Lecture Series: "The Question of Iran"
Hofstra University, Long Island
June 2008
Sunday 15th
Visual Representations of Iran,
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
May 2008
Saturday 3rd
Keynote Speech on Islamic Cosmopolitanism,
Hartford Seminary, CT
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
+ 2007
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
May 2007
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
April 2007
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
March 2007
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 Interruptedin 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
February 2007
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.
January 2007
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
+ 2006
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
+ 2005
December 2005
Thursday 8th
On Poetic Implosion in Rumi’s Mathnavi
The International Conference on Rumi
Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus
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