Professor Grigor to speak at UC Berkeley
March 10
Professor Talinn Grigor will speak at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley on a book project that explores the history of Iran’s Armenian women from the beginning of Naser al-Din Shah’s reign in 1848 to the 1979 fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Grigor and her co-author Professor Houri Berberian will present “From Photographic Ethno-type to Red Cross Revolutionaries: Minoritarian Modernism and the Armenian Women of late Qajar Iran” on March 10 at 1 p.m. in 3335 Dwinelle Hall. Their talk analyzes the shifting relationship between Iran’s central nodes of power (absolute monarchy and patriarchy) and its Armenian female subjects (ethnic minorities and women) in Qajar and Pahlavi Iran.