Iran – A Feminist Revolution and Beyond
A MERGE discussion in cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and Bolangoo
Panel Discussion
Tuesday 7.2.2023
19:00 (CEST)
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A collaboration between HAU Hebbel am Ufer, MERGE – Migration and the Middle East at Humboldt University and Bolandgoo.
After months of insurrection and violent state repression, we can name the women’s uprising in Iran a revolutionary movement. The murder of Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a young Kurdish woman in custody by the hijab police, triggered this revolution. Yet social dynamics and contentious politics that have affected the unfolding events are not reduced to the hijab – mass strikes, ethnic minority and enviromental justice struggles play a significant role. In Germany and beyond this is still not sufficiently addressed. In the fourth edition of the HAU series “On Violence”, the author and filmmaker Chowra Makarmi, the scholar and Kurdish activist Kamran Matin, and the feminist activist and scholar Nina Vabab, will tackle on the underrepresented intersectional accounts of the Iranian revolution and discuss its different dimensions of violence.
Panelists:
Chowra Makarmi is a filmmaker, author, and anthropologist born in Iran, raised and living in France. She is from a family of political prisoners executed in the 1980s in Iran, which directly impacted the choice of her long-term ongoing research project on state violence in the Islamic Republic, as well as her written and visual works. In 2011, she published “Aziz's Notebook: At the Heart of the Iranian Revolution,” based on her grandfather’s memoirs, in French, and in 2019 she released her feature documentary, “Hitch: an Iranian History.” She is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. |
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Kamran Matin Kamran Matin is a Kurdish-Iranian writer and political commentator, and an Associate Professor of International Relations at Sussex University (Brighton, UK) where he teaches international history, international theory, and Middle East politics. His current research focuses on nationalism, nation-formation, non-Western colonialism, limits of post-/de-colonial theory, and the “Kurdish Question” in the Middle East. He is the author of “Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change” (Routledge, 2013) and numerous articles and op-eds on Kurdish and Iranian politics, and co-editor of “Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée” (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016), and of Palgrave’s “Minorities in West Asia and North Africa” (MWANA) series. He is also the director of Centre for Advance International Theory (CAIT).
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Nina Vabab |
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Moderator: Bahar Noorizadeh is an Iranian-Canadian artist, writer and filmmaker who looks at the relationship between art and capitalism. Her research investigates the histories of economics, cybernetic socialism, and activist strategies against the financialization of life and the living space. Her work has appeared at the German Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennial 2021, Tate Modern Artists' Cinema Program, Transmediale Festival, Berlinale Forum Expanded among others. Noorizadeh has contributed essays to e-flux Architecture, Journal of Visual Culture, and Sternberg Press; and forthcoming anthologies from Duke University Press and MIT Press. She is pursuing her work as a PhD candidate in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. |