Azar Nafisi: The Saving Power of Literature
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The Scripps College Humanities Institute presents:
(as part of the spring 2004 series "Life Stories")
"The Saving Power of Literature"
Azar Nafisi
Visiting Professor and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of the
Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
When: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:15 p.m.
Where: Hampton Room, Malott Commons, Scripps College
Info: Humanities Institute at 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (909) 621-8326
Website: http://www.scrippscol.edu/~dept/huminst/
This event is free and open to the public. Reception and book signing following talk.
Azar Nafisi, a best-selling writer and international activist on behalf of women’s rights and democracy, speaks and writes from her life experience as a college professor in Iran during and after the 1979 Islamic revolution. Her most recent work, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003) combines autobiography and criticism to offer what one reviewer called, “an eloquent brief on the transformative power of fiction” and art. Nafisi is currently professor of literature at the Johns Hopkins University, specializing in the study of Iran, Middle East culture, and human rights, and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She was formerly a professor at Tehran and Allemeh Tabataba’i Universities in Iran. Her first book was Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels.
This event is part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute's spring 2004 program "Life Stories." Why are memoirs and biographies so popular? Why do we want to read them? Why do people want to write them? What do these works tell us about individuals and about time and place, narrative and identity? Throughout the semester, we will examine different examples of life writing, including biographies and autobiographies, in written form and on film. These works address the construction of the self and the self in relation to family, culture and history. They also explore the relationship between memory and truth. The spring 2004 program "Life Stories" draws on a range of disciplinary and experiential perspectives—the expertise of historians and filmmakers, critics and activists, immigrants and exiles, anthropologists and artists.
Claire D. Bridge
Program Administrator
Scripps College Humanities Institute
The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities
claire.bridge@scrippscollege.edu
(909) 621.8326
Reviewed/approved by 7rooz-ahmad.
The Scripps College Humanities Institute presents:
(as part of the spring 2004 series "Life Stories")
"The Saving Power of Literature"
Azar Nafisi
Visiting Professor and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of the
Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
When: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:15 p.m.
Where: Hampton Room, Malott Commons, Scripps College
Info: Humanities Institute at 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (909) 621-8326
Website: http://www.scrippscol.edu/~dept/huminst/
This event is free and open to the public. Reception and book signing following talk.
Azar Nafisi, a best-selling writer and international activist on behalf of women’s rights and democracy, speaks and writes from her life experience as a college professor in Iran during and after the 1979 Islamic revolution. Her most recent work, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003) combines autobiography and criticism to offer what one reviewer called, “an eloquent brief on the transformative power of fiction” and art. Nafisi is currently professor of literature at the Johns Hopkins University, specializing in the study of Iran, Middle East culture, and human rights, and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She was formerly a professor at Tehran and Allemeh Tabataba’i Universities in Iran. Her first book was Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels.
This event is part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute's spring 2004 program "Life Stories." Why are memoirs and biographies so popular? Why do we want to read them? Why do people want to write them? What do these works tell us about individuals and about time and place, narrative and identity? Throughout the semester, we will examine different examples of life writing, including biographies and autobiographies, in written form and on film. These works address the construction of the self and the self in relation to family, culture and history. They also explore the relationship between memory and truth. The spring 2004 program "Life Stories" draws on a range of disciplinary and experiential perspectives—the expertise of historians and filmmakers, critics and activists, immigrants and exiles, anthropologists and artists.
Claire D. Bridge
Program Administrator
Scripps College Humanities Institute
The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities
claire.bridge@scrippscollege.edu
(909) 621.8326
Reviewed/approved by 7rooz-ahmad.
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