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Speakers: Dr Nader Hashemi, University of Denver, and Danny Postel, The Common Review
Tuesday 7 June 2011
18:30 - 20:00
Room G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE
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In the aftermath of a stolen presidential election in 2009, pro-democracy protests rocked the Islamic Republic of Iran leading to the emergence of the Green Movement. This democratic movement prefigured the 2011 Arab democratic revolts by virtue of its root causes, its core grievances, its nonviolent orientation, its 'secular' democratic aspirations and the central role played by internet-savvy young people. Why did the Green Movement fail, despite its earlier manifestation, while similar democratic movements in Tunisia and Egypt have been largely successful? This lecture answers this question via a comparative analysis of democratic struggles and authoritarian regimes in the Muslim world.
Nader Hashemi is an Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and previously was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Global Institute. His intellectual and research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, in particular debates on religion and democracy, secularism and its discontents, Middle East and Islamic politics, democratic and human rights struggles in non-Western societies and Islam-West relations. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor with Danny Postel of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future| (Melville House, 2011). www.naderhashemi.com|
Danny Postel is the co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011) and the author of Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism |(2006). He is a Contributing Editor of the online journal Logos |, a former Senior Editor of the online magazine openDemocracy |and a former staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The American Prospect, Tehran Bureau, the New Humanist, Critical Inquiry, and other publications. He is Communications Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice |, a Chicago-based organization that campaigns for the rights of low-wage workers.
This lecture is open to all and registration is not required.
Admission is on a first come first served basis.