The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series: Women Poets
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The Woman I Want: Performing the Writings of Zandokht, 1906-1951 (in Persian)
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents its Lecture Series: Women Poets with Gita Hashemi, Independent Artist.
Blurring the boundaries of artistic practices through constant experimentation, Toronto-based Gita Hashemi works in installation, performance, video, internet art and image-text, as well as curating and writing about culture and art. Hashemi's work is centered on marginalized histories and contemporary politics, often with an eye on woment's experience.
Co-sponsors: Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies; Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations; Department of History; Department of Historical Studies; Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies-UTM; Cinema Studies Institute; Centre for Comparative Literature; Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity; Department of English (Ryerson University), and Iran Namag: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/3hjVoEo
Convenors: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca), Khatereh Sheibani (sheibani.yorku.ca), Leila Pourtavaf (lpourtav@yorku.ca), Azita Taleghani (azita.taleghani@utoronto.ca), or Arshavez Mozafari (a.mozafari@utoronto.ca)