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The Iranian Political Crisis: Duke and UNC Perspectives
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The June 2009 Iranian presidential election sparked demonstrations, violence, and persistent calls for democratic reform in Iran. This is a panel discussion about the elections and the protests that followed. On the panel are Mark Emamian, Duke Department of Physics; Mohsen Kadivar, a visiting scholar and cleric from Iran in the Department of Religion; Charles Kurzman, an Iran expert at UNC’s Department of Sociology; and Negar Mottahedeh, from Duke’s Literature and Women’s Studies Departments. The panel will be moderated by Timur Kuran, a professor of Economics and Political Science at Duke.
Presented by the Duke Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center.
For more information, please call (919) 668-1955 or write to disc@duke.edu.
Details
- Date:
- September 3, 2009
- Time:
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12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Event Tags:
- Iran, UNC, Political Crisis, Iranian Politics, Middle East
Venue
- Rare Book Room – Perkins Library
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411 Chapel Drive
Durham, NC 27708 United States + Google Map