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Speaker: Ali Mirsepassi (New York University)
Chair: Hassan Hakimian (London Middle East Institute, SOAS)
This talk will focus upon specific “imaginative” shifts about Iran as a modern nation. I will discuss two important historical periods in fashioning the social imaginary of modern Iran by discussing two intellectual’s debates in each period: A scholarly debate, in the 1930s, around Persian Erfan and the French philosopher, Henry Bergson, and the “ideological” public debate on reconciliation of Islam and Marxism, in late 1970s. My presentation will explore a clear shift from a modern and cosmopolitan vision of Iran, in the post-Mashruteh period, to a new national social imaginary defined in terms of religious identity and national tradition. I will argue that this shift was a more unified and national narrative about the Iranian nation shared by a substantial majority of Iranians across political and cultural ideologies and sensibilities, including secular and religious and oppositional and the ruling elites.
Photo: A view of Elizabeth (later Keshavarz) Boulevard in Tehran from Valiahd Sq. (later Valiasr Sq.) in the mid 1970s (East to West view) (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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