February 05, 2007
Bowling
Green, Ky. - Dr. Azar Nafisi, author of the national bestseller “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books,” will visit Western Kentucky University next week as part of the 2006-07 Cultural Enhancement Series.
Dr. Nafisi’s lecture, “The Republic of the Imagination,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at Van Meter Auditorium. Admission is free. A book signing will follow the lecture.
“Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books” electrified readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
Dr. Nafisi taught literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and Allameh Tabatabai where she conducted workshops for women students on the relationship between culture and human rights. These workshops in turn formed the basis of a new human rights curriculum in Iran.
Dr. Nafisi left Iran in 1997 and is a visiting professor and the director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., where she teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics. Nafisi has written for The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Her lecture is co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program’s Catherine Coogan Ward Visiting Professorship.
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For information, contact Mina Doerner at (270) 745-5204.
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