Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
Book Panel
Speakers
- Narges Bajoghli, Johns Hopkins University
- Discussant, Nahid Siamdoust, Yale University
When
Monday, March 23, 2020
5-7pm
Where
Richard Ettinghausen Library at the Hagop Kevorkian Center
50 Washington Square South
NYC 10012
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic is an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran’s citizens were not alive at the time of the 1979 Revolution. Now entering its fifth decade in power, the Iranian regime faces the paradox of any successful revolution: how to transmit the commitments of its political project to the next generation? New media ventures supported by the Islamic Republic attempt to win the hearts and minds of younger Iranians. Yet members of this new generation—whether dissidents or fundamentalists—are increasingly skeptical of these efforts.
Narges Bajoghli is an award-winning anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker. She is the Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate of the Anthropology Department at NYU. Narges’ academic research is at the intersections of media, power, and military in the Middle East. Specifically, her research mainly focuses on regime cultural producers in Iran and is based on ethnographic research with Basij, Ansar-e Hezbollah, and Revolutionary Guard media producers. The resulting book, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, was published by Stanford University Press in September 2019.