Discussion
Discussants
Hossein Bashiriyeh, Syracuse University
Ali Mirsepassi, New York University
When
Thursday, October 12th, 2017
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Where
Richard Ettinghausen Library
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Hossein Bashiriyeh is one of the key political thinkers of post-revolutionary Iran. He is credited with pioneering political sociology in Iranian academic life and was very influential in introducing democratic theories and ideas to a generation of Iranian intellectuals and political figures who later played significant roles in the democratic and reform movement. His two and a half decades as a scholar and mentor in Iran has left indelible marks on successive generations of political science graduates, many of whom have gone on to become academics themselves or have secured policy-making positions in the state bureaucracy.