Iranian Women Writers: A Moderating and Modernizing Force

When: Wednesday, March 25, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Where: Atrium, Stamp
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33233
RSVP: http://bahai.umd.edu/events/milani2015
Description: Join Farzaneh Milani as she presents on Iranian Women Writers: A Moderating and Modernizing Force. Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. Nelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and former Director of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. She is a past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies in America and a Carnegie Fellow. Milani has published several books including ‘Words, not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement’, over one hundred articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwords in Persian and English.