Event co-hosted by LSE Gender and LSE Middle East Centre.
On the occasion of the publication of Dr Nazanin Shahrokni’s book Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation (University of California Press 2020) and of the 41st anniversary of the Iranian revolution in February 2020, the LSE Gender Studies Department and the Middle East Center invite you to a conversation moderated by Professor Deniz Kandiyoti, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at SOAS.
In this conversation, Dr Nazanin Shahrokni, Assistant Professor of Gender, Development and Globalisation at LSE, offering an inquiry into gender politics and women’s rights in post-revolutionary Iran, and Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Lecturer in Comparative Political Theory at Goldsmiths, examining the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran, reflect on the trajectories and transformations of the Islamic Republic over its 40 years.