Seminar on:

Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Iran :
Realities and Policy Issues, Past and Present

Friday, May 22, 2009, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Bunche Hall 6275, UCLA, Los Angeles , CA 90095 , US

Panel One: Chaired by Janet Afary, UCLA

Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar

"Modernity and Religious Identity in Early Twentieth Century Iran "

Arash Khazeni, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College

"The Steppe and the Sown: The Turkmen and the Horse Trade of Nineteenth-Century Central Eurasia ."

Comment by Professor Nikki Keddie, UCLA, based on her posted article, at nikkikeddie.com, “The Minorities Question in Iran”

Panel Two: Chaired by Afshin Matin-Asgari, CSULA

Rasmus Christian Elling, Visiting Scholar, New York University :

“Representations of ethnic identity in contemporary Iran "

Asghar Schirazi, Visiting Scholar, Harvard

“Ethnic Conflicts in Iran”

Nayereh Tohidi, Professor, CSUN

“Ethnic and Religious Minority Politics in Iran”

Closing Remarks: Professor Nikki Keddie, UCLA

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Central Asia Initiative, Department of History, the CNES

Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran , and

the Keddie-Balzan Fund