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CMEIS Lecture Series: Arash Davari
February 20, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Dr. Arash Davari, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, will give a talk on “Human Rights Guerrillas: Iran between Global 1968 and Global 1979.”
The event is going to take place on:
Feb 20, Monday, 5:30-7 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium.
(P.S. Parking is available at the McCauley Deck after 5pm.)
Arash Davari is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His writings have appeared in Political Theory,Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, andRadical Philosophy, among other venues. He is the recipient of awards from the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has held residential fellowships at centers in Brandeis University and Princeton University. His first book manuscript reappraises debates in political theory about self-determination, revolution, and the extraordinary through reconstruction of the discursive conditions that made the 1979 revolution in Iran possible.
This event is co-sponsored by: History Department, Clein Family Initiative on Global History, and Carolina Seminar on Transnational and Modern Global History.
Yusuf Sezgin, Assistant Coordinator/Rapporteur of the CMEIS Lecture Series, 2022-2023
On behalf of Professor Cemil Aydin, Coordinator of the CMEIS Lecture Series, 2022-2023