For Land and Culture: Book Launch with Peyman Vahabzadeh

Join CCMS on Wednesday, 16 October 2024 for the launch of by Professor Peyman Vahabzadeh. The event will feature a discussion about the text and its significance in histories from below in modern Iran. The discussion will be moderated by Nastaran Saremy from SFU's School of Communication.

This event is cosponsored by SFU's Institute for the Humanities and Department of History.

Peyman Vahabzadeh is Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria. He is the author of Articulated Experiences: Toward A Radical Phenomenology of Contemporary Social Movements (SUNY Press, 2003); A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai Discourse of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 (Syracuse UP, 2010); Exilic Meditations: Essays on A Displaced Life (H&S Media, 2012); Parviz Sadri: A Political Biography (Shahrgon Book, 2015; in Persian); Violence and Nonviolence: Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites (University of Toronto Press, 2019); A Rebel’s Journey: Mostafa Sho‘aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran (OneWorld, 2019); and The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). He is also the editor of Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism (Palgrave, 2017) and the co-editor of Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus (Arbeiter Ring, 2020). He has published nine books of poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and memoir in Persian, and some 70 articles in scholarly and public venues. His works have appeared in English, Persian, German, Kurdish, French and Spanish.

Nastaran Saremy is a Kurdish-Iranian interdisciplinary researcher and critic in the field of cultural and social analysis and aesthetics. She majored in Philosophy and Aesthetics, now doing her PhD in Media and Communication studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her area of interest is revolution and social change, especially the ways in the social praxis is aesthetically composed. In her PhD, she aims to explore how memory practices and mnemonic projects mobilize or constrain social transformation in societies undergoing rapid political change, and thereby shed light on the relationship between the collective memories and social movements. She has presented her works in various conferences worldwide and published works in different journals, books and catalogues, in Farsi and English.

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