MERIP, BRISMES, SESAMO Iran Event Series 

We are pleased to be partnering with MERIP and SeSaMO for a series of events centring Iran. This joint activity aims to maximize our outreach work with the support of MERIP and SeSaMO.

Our first event, titled Iran in Context Part I: Gender and Revolution discusses the role of women and the gendered politics of the 1979 revolution in Iran, and maps the changes and continuities since then until now. It asks, what kind of long-term consequences have had the mobilisation of revolutionary women and political organisations leading to the revolution in the Seventies, the Iran-Iraq war in the Eighties, the continuous and diverse forms of women’s activism,  and the current war? Reflecting on colonialism, political economy, imperialist feminism and transnational solidarity, our speakers Manijeh Moradian and Nazanin Shahrokni will help us read the politics of gender and revolution in Iran and beyond in the course of the past decades. 

On par with BRISMES' Outreach and Pedagogy events, the events will be recorded using Zoom's interface. It will be published in a video (BRISMES) and audio (MERIP) format once edited. 

Speakers

• Manijeh Moradian (Barnard College)
• Nazanin Shahrokni (Simon Fraser University)

Hosts

• Sabiha Allouche (University of Exeter/Chair of BRISMES' Outreach and Pedagogy Committee)
• Paola Rivetti (Dublin City University/SeSaMO and Brismes)
• James Ryan (Rowan University/ MERIP Executive Director)

Future Events in the Series include

• Politics and Counter-Politics in contemporary Iran (date tbc) 
• Oil, the Environment, and Political Economy of US Foreign Policy in the Gulf (date tbc)