SIP Presents Tradition and Modernity in Iran: A Historical Perspective by Dr. Abbas Milani July 1st, 7:30PM
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Dr. Abbas Milani
PRESENTATION DATE/TIME:
Friday, July 1st, 2005, 7:30pm (registration 7:00 PM)
Admission: Guests $15, SIP members $10
Light Refreshments
Location: FAZ Restaurant, Ballroom, 1108 N. Mathilda Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1206, 408-752-8000
Event Information: 408-506-5353
Presentation:
Tradition and Modernity in Iran: A Historical Perspective. Iran has been for the last 200 years in the throws of battle in the cultural, political and economical arenas between tradition and modernity. We live in an age when definitions of tradition, modernity and Iran are undergoing profound changes. What are these changes and what do they portend for the future.
Hoover Fellow Abbas Milani is a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. In addition, Dr. Milani is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. His expertise is U.S./ Iran relations, and Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Milani was raised in Iran and educated in the U.S. He was an assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978 and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Abbas Milani
Abbas Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. In addition, Dr. Milani is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
Abbas was a professor of history and political science and chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University and a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Milani was an assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978 and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977.
Milani is the author of The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Mage, 2000); Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (Gardon Press, 1998); Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (Mage, 1996); On Democracy and Socialism, a collection of articles coauthored with Faramarz Tabrizi (Pars Press, 1987); and Malraux and the Tragic Vision (Agah Press, 1982). His latest book is Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran (Mage 2004). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English.
Milani's articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Hoover Digest, Iranshenasi, the Journal of the Middle East, Middle East Journal, the New York Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has been interviewed for radio and television, appearing on the BBC, CNN, KQED, Radio France, Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe, Radio and Television of Iran, and Voice of America.
He is a member of the American Association of Political Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Association of Iranian Studies.
Milani received his BA in political science and economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and his PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii in 1974.
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Dr. Abbas Milani
PRESENTATION DATE/TIME:
Friday, July 1st, 2005, 7:30pm (registration 7:00 PM)
Admission: Guests $15, SIP members $10
Light Refreshments
Location: FAZ Restaurant, Ballroom, 1108 N. Mathilda Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1206, 408-752-8000
Event Information: 408-506-5353
Presentation:
Tradition and Modernity in Iran: A Historical Perspective. Iran has been for the last 200 years in the throws of battle in the cultural, political and economical arenas between tradition and modernity. We live in an age when definitions of tradition, modernity and Iran are undergoing profound changes. What are these changes and what do they portend for the future.
Hoover Fellow Abbas Milani is a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. In addition, Dr. Milani is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. His expertise is U.S./ Iran relations, and Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Milani was raised in Iran and educated in the U.S. He was an assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978 and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Abbas Milani
Abbas Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. In addition, Dr. Milani is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
Abbas was a professor of history and political science and chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University and a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Milani was an assistant professor in the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978 and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977.
Milani is the author of The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Mage, 2000); Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (Gardon Press, 1998); Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (Mage, 1996); On Democracy and Socialism, a collection of articles coauthored with Faramarz Tabrizi (Pars Press, 1987); and Malraux and the Tragic Vision (Agah Press, 1982). His latest book is Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran (Mage 2004). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English.
Milani's articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Hoover Digest, Iranshenasi, the Journal of the Middle East, Middle East Journal, the New York Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has been interviewed for radio and television, appearing on the BBC, CNN, KQED, Radio France, Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe, Radio and Television of Iran, and Voice of America.
He is a member of the American Association of Political Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Association of Iranian Studies.
Milani received his BA in political science and economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and his PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii in 1974.
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