Speakers

• Homa Katouzian
• University of Oxford

• Talk Video (English)

• Talk Video (Persian)

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  Homa Katouzian is a social scientist, historian and literary critic. He is the Iran Heritage Research Fellow, St. Antony's College and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He is also editor of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies. He obtained all his university degrees in England and taught Economics at the Universities of Leeds and Kent at Canterbury (UK) until 1987 when he obtained voluntary retirement to pursue his interests in the field of Iranian studies. He was a fellow of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2001, Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, Spring 1990, Visiting Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1985, Economic Consultant, UNCTAD, UN, Geneva, 1982, etc. He has published widely in English and Persian. His most recent English publication is The Persians, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (Yale University Press, 2010).