Thursday, November 13th, 12 noon-2 pm
Pyle Center 313
Speaker: Golnar Nikpour (Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College)
Facilitated by Nevine El Nossery (Professor of French; Director of the Middle East Studies Program)
The establishment and expansion of the modern prison system in Iran in the 20th and 21st centuries have led to an enduring and elemental transformation in Iranian lives and social and political worlds. This talk traces the making of the carceral state in Iran, the resulting incarceration of millions of people over several decades, responses by Iranians and non-Iranians alike to these new prisons, and the global links inherent to this expansive state project.
Golnar Nikpour is a scholar of modern Iran and Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. From 2015-2017, Nikpour was a Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the A.W. Mellon Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation, and her writing has been published in numerous scholarly and public venues. Her first book, entitled The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran, is out now on Stanford University Press.
Co-sponsored by: Global History of Now Program, Department of History, Middle East Studies program, Department of Political Science, Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice and the Center for the Humanities