Virtual: Panel II – Embodied Bodies, Non-normativity, and Power Dynamics in Modern Iranian Literature and Film

This webinar is part of the series, “Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and Diaspora: A Symposium in a Series of Panels.”

Register in advance: go.unc.edu/Iran

From their mundane to their sublime forms, love and desire have played a central role in various discourses in modern Iran. From romantic epics to ghazals, and from arranged marriages to white marriages, and from companionate love to contemporary cohabitations, desire is undoubtedly one of the most important theoretical topics for scholars. This symposium brings together a range of scholars from different disciplines focusing on modern Iran to analyze the wide variety of ways in which love and desire have been represented, imagined, and discursively constructed.

– “Shirin’s Equal, Leyli’s Rival: Allusion, Embodiment, and Archetypal Stand-off in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad”

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, associate professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford

– “Race Against Time: Racial Temporality and Sexuality in Modern Iran”

Alexander Jabbari, Farzaneh family assistant professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Oklahoma

– “Negotiating (Un)Desirability: Non-Normative Bodies and the Patriarchal Economy of Power in Modern Iranian Fiction and Film”

Mostafa Abedinifard, assistant professor without Review of Persian Literary Culture and Civilization, University of British Columbia

– Panel Chair and Discussant: Dr. Ellen McLarney, Duke University

Register in advance: go.unc.edu/Iran

For more information, please contact Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute associate professor in Persian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, yaghoobi@email.unc.edu

Co-Sponsors: The American Institute of Iranian Studies, UNC Persian Studies Program, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Associate Dean of Global Affairs, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Department of History, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Department of Geography, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Iranian Cultural Society of North Carolina, The Library Collections’ Horner-Jarrahi Speaker Series, Countering Hate Initiative