Endowed Lecture in Iranian Studies Lecture
Drs. Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady
Date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Link: www.sfu.ca/history
 Dr. Farzaneh Milani
is Professor of Persian and Women's Studies and Director of Studies
in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. The past President
of the Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies, Dr. Milani is a
leading authority on the contemporary literature of Iranian women and
a poet of distinnction.
Her publications include Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of
Iranian Women (Syracuse University Press, 1994) and A Cup of
Sin: The Poetry of Simin Behbahani (I.B. Taurus, 1999).
She is currently preparing an overview of Iranian gender, tentatively
titled Remapping the Cultural Geography of Iran: Women, Mobility,
and Power.
You are invited to attend the Drs. Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady Endowed Lecture
in Iranian Studies.
When the Rose speaks and the Nightingale Listens:
Iranian Women Writers at Home and Abroad
Dr. Farzaneh Milani
University of Virginia
Thursday 20 October 2005, 7:00 pm
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Room 1900
Simon Fraser University Vancouver
Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street
- This lecture is free and open to the public.
- Seating is extremely limited and reservations are required.
- For reservations please call 604.291.5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca.
Reservations will be held until 6:45.
- The lecture is sponsored by the Department of History, Simon Fraser University (www.sfu.ca/history).
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