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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, November 16, 2023 12:00 pm to 2
 :00 pm \n Online via Zoom \n\nSpeakers \nIda Meftahi, Assistant Professor
 , Boise State University \n\nDescription: \nThe Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali
  Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, the Invisible East
  Programme, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of O
 xford jointly present 'In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep ng Tehran's La
 lehzar District, 1880-1960' on Thursday, November 16, 2023, at 12:00 p
 .m. Toronto/ 5:00 p.m. UK.Conveners: Arezou Azad & Mohamad TavakoliAbstrac
 t: Once deemed the Champs-Élysées of Tehran, Lalehzar district is often c
 herished as the birthplace of Iranian urban modernity and cosmopolitan cul
 tural production. What's more, its close proximity to major governmental 
 institutions and foreign embassies made the street a strategic zone where 
 urbanity intersected with geopolitics. Between 1880 and 1960, this area w
 as the frontline of competing diplomatic and soft-power foreign ventures a
 s well as national and international conflicts at the ground level. This s
 ession will discuss the strategies and challenges of building a new collec
 tion based on extensive multidimensional and international archival resear
 ch on various aspects of Lalehzar. Furthermore, it will showcase the ways
  in which this new multilayered archive facilitates a close sociohistorica
 l understanding of World War II as it unfolded in this district, while un
 veiling a major diplomatic discord between Iran and (among) the respective
  Allied governments.Bio: Ida Meftahi is an assistant professor of Middle E
 astern history at Boise State University, where she teaches a range of in
 terdisciplinary courses on Middle Eastern and Iranian history and culture.
  She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto's Department of Near and M
 iddle Eastern Civilizations. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Ins
 titute for the Arts and Humanities at Pe\nsylvania State University (2013-
 14), as well as a visiting assistant professor of contemporary Iranian cu
 lture and society at the University of Maryland (2014-2019). Meftahi speci
 alizes in the history of modern Iran, emphasizing the intersections of po
 litics, gender, and performance (in its broader Goffmanian sense). She h
 as presented and published her work in a number of academic forums in diff
 erent areas of the humanities and social sciences in North America, Europ
 e, and the Middle East. Her first book, Gender and Dance in Modern Iran:
  Biopolitics on Stage (2016) received the Association for Iranian Studies'
  prestigious Latifeh Yarshater Award for its original contribution to the 
 field of Iranian women's studies. With a unique approach to embodiment and
  vigorous historiography of understudied realms of urban popular culture,
  Meftahi's work has emerged as a frequent reference for recent academic in
 quiries into urban Iranian cultural history, ethnomusicology, and gender
  studies as well as cinema, theatre, and dance studies. Building on over
  fifteen years of extensive international archival and ethnographic resear
 ch in Iran and around the world, Meftahi is currently working on a second
  book project, tentatively titled 'Tulip Grove, Tehran: Urban Geopolitic
 s, Gender, and Performative Culture in Modern Iran.' The book features a
  detailed historical-anthropological investigation of Tehran's historic La
 lehzar Street and its vicinity between 1880 and 1960. It takes the lens of
  performance studies to the streets and venues of this crucial zone of cul
 tural production and diplomacy. 'Tulip Grove, Tehran' allows for a closer
  exploration of the interrelations of cultural production and spectatorshi
 p, religious and political practices, as well as (face-to-face) social i
 nteractions in light of major historical local and international turning p
 oints.Zoom Meeting Registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register
 /tZIocuuhpz8iEtZ-L4819TcSD47Uh7... * After registering, you will receive 
 a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  \n
 \nCategories \n Seminars \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacul
 tyGraduate StudentsProspective StudentsStaffUndergraduate StudentsGeneral 
 Public
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SUMMARY:In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep Mapping Tehran's Lalehzar Dist
 rict, 1880-1960
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/events/search-urban-geopolitics-de
 ep-mapping-tehrans-lalehzar-district-1880-1960
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