Speakers

• Mina Yazdani
• Eastern Kentucky University

• Talk Video (English)

• Talk Video (Persian)

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  Born in Iran, Mina Yazdani was completing her medical studies at Shiraz University when the Islamic Revolution broke out in 1979. She was dismissed from the university, in 1981, during the Cultural Revolution, for her religious beliefs. She then studied via correspondence with Indiana University and earned her BGS. In 2004 She moved to Canada where she received an MA in Religion and Culture from Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, and subsequently, her PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her PhD dissertation is titled Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941. She is currently an Assistant Professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University. Among her publications are a monograph dealing with the social history of the Qajar period as well as a number of articles including, "The Confessions of Dolgoruki: Fiction and Masternarrative in Twentieth-Century Iran," Iranian Studies, vol. 44, no.1(January 2011): 25-47.