She Who Tells a Story Faculty Panel
Date
Thu April 9th 2015, 4:30 - 6:00pm
Event Sponsor
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Cantor Arts Center, Humanities Center, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, Stanford Global Studies Division
Location
Cantor classroom (next to Cool Cafe)
Three leading scholars discuss the intersection of poetry and photography as they relate to the Cantor's special exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.
- Attiya Ahmad, Stanford Humanities Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University, "Refracted Images: The Ordinariness of Middle Eastern Gendered Photography in Socio-Historical Context"
- Dominic Brookshaw, Senior Research Fellow in Persian and Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford, "Telling Stories: The Female Voice in 19th and 20th Century Persian Poetry"
- Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, "Women Writing Ordinary Lives"
IMAGE: Shirin Neshat (Iran, b. 1957),Roja, 2012. Gelatin silver print with India ink. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund and Francis Welch Fund. Photography © 2014 MFA, Boston
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