BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Asian Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Asian Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210814T1055Z-1628938545.3975-EO-52504-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260907T075349Z CREATED:20210811T182611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T184836Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211006T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211006T183000 SUMMARY: Virtual Book Talk with Shahla Haeri: The Unforgettable Queens of I slam: Succession\, Authority\, Gender DESCRIPTION: The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC is hosting a virtual book talk featuring author Dr. Shahla Haeri in discussion of her book The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authority\, Ge nder. Moderated by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (University of British Columbia)\, t he session will include a discussion of Dr. Haeri’s book\, followed by a Q& A […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:


The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC is ho sting a virtual book talk featuring author Dr. Shahla Haeri in discussion o f her book The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authority\, Gender. Moderated by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (University of British Columb ia)\, the session will include a discussion of Dr. Haeri's book\, followed by a Q&A session with two panelists Professor Ali Banuazizi (Boston College ) and Professor Emeritus Nayereh Tohidi (California State University\, Nort hridge). The event is sponsored by the UBC Department of Asian Studies.

Date & Time:
October 6 | 5pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
< strong>Location: online via Zoom
This talk will be presented in English.
Free & open to the public. Click the link below to regi ster for the event.

Registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_MQ8K_bDAT1mSJSMZwZ_Ijg

About the speaker

Shahl a Haeri is a former director of the Women’s Studies Program at Boston U niversity\, Shahla Haeri is one of the pioneers of Iranian Anthropology\, a nd has produced cutting-edge ethnographies of Iran\, Pakistan and the Musli m world. Her landmark books include her classic ethnography\, Law of De sire: Temporary Marriage\, Mut’a\, in Iran (1989/2014) translated into Arabic and reprinted frequently\, highlighting the tenacious but secretive custom of temporary marriage in Iran\; No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women (2002/2004)\, widens the ethnographic sco pe to make visible lives of educated and professional Muslim women. Her mos t recent book\, The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authori ty\, Gender (Cambridge University Press) is a groundbreaking book on t he extraordinary lives and legacies of a few remarkable Muslim women sovere igns from across cultures and Islamic history. Dr. Haeri’s academic and cre ative oeuvre include directing a video documentary\, Mrs. President: Wo men and Political Leadership in Iran (2002\, 46 min.) focusing on six women presidential contenders during the Iranian presidential election of 2 001. She is the recipient of many fellowships\, grants\, and postdoctoral f ellowships.

Discussants:

Ali Banuazizi\, Boston Colle ge

Ali Banua zizi's scholarly interests include political cultures of the Middle Eas t\; comparative study of religion\, civil society\, and politics in the Mid dle East\; and Iran’s social history and contemporary domestic politics and foreign relations. Professor Banuazizi is currently the Director of the Pr ogram in Islamic Civilization and Societies (ICS) and Chair of the Internat ional Studies Academic Advisory Board at Boston College. He is a past Presi dent of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the International So ciety for Iranian Studies (ISIS). He has held visiting appointments at Prin ceton\, Harvard\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, M.I.T.\, and Oxford Univ ersity.

Nayereh Tohidi\, California State University\, Northr idge

Nayereh Tohidi is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Gender & Women Studies at California State University\ , Northridge. Currently\, she is the founding Director of the Middle Easter n and Islamic Studies at CSUN and also a Research Associate at the Center f or Near Eastern Studies of UCLA where she has been coordinating the Bilingu al Lecture Series on Iran since 2003. Professor Tohidi earned her MA and Ph .D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS (with Hono rs) from the University of Tehran in Psychology and Sociology. She is the r ecipient of several grants\, fellowships and research awards\, including a year of Fulbright lectureship and research at the Academy of Sciences of th e Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan\; post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Univ ersity\; Stanford University\; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\; the Keddie-Balzan Fellowship at UCLA\; and an NEH grant to devel op the MEIS Program at CSUN. She has held visiting positions at Universitie s of Iowa\, Minnesota\, Harvard\, UCLA\, and USC.

Moderator

< strong>Hessam Dehghani\, University of British Columbia

Hessam Dehghani is a n Assistant Professor of Teaching\, Persian Language and Culture. He obtain ed a first Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehra n\, Iran\, with a dissertation titled “Interpretation and Literary Theory: From Structuralism to Ricoeurian Hermeneutics” (2011). In 2019\, he earned a second Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston College\, where he was a Fellow at the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy (2014-2018). His dissertati on\, “The Topology of Community in Aristotle: a Phenomenological Approach\, ” offers a phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s formulation of a “just c ommunity” and its appropriation in Islamic thought.

 

A bout the book

The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authority\, Gender

Shahla Haeri

In this landmark study\, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of sever al Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political system s of their times. Their stories illuminate the complex and challenging impe ratives of dynastic succession\, electoral competition and the stunning suc cess they achieved in medieval Yemen and India\, and modern Pakistan and In donesia. The written history of Islam and the Muslim world is overwhelmingl y masculine\, having largely ignored women and their contributions until we ll into the 20th century. Religious and legal justifications have been syst ematically invoked to justify Muslim women's banishment from politics and p ublic domains. Yet this patriarchal domination has not gone on without seri ous challenges by women - sporadic and exceptional though their participati on in the battle of succession has been. The Unforgettable Queens of Islam highlights lives and legacies of a number of charismatic women engaged in f ierce battles of succession\, and their stories offer striking insights int o the workings of political power in the Muslim world.

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