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Feminist Lecture Program Collab: IRAN'S ANCIENT FEMINIST HISTORY
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Join The Feminist Lecture Program for a short history of Iran's ancient, hidden, feminist history.

As the world's first female-led uprising continues in Iran, Kamin Mohammadi explores the role of women in the Iranian people's struggle for democracy and sovereignty throughout Iran's ancient history.


Kamin Mohammadi leads us through a tour of Irans hidden feminist history, from the empowered Royal women of Achaemenid Persia to the skilled craftswomen who helped build the famed Persian empire, and the female managers who kept ledgers and paid workers according to their skills. From ancient Persia all the way to the dawn of the modern age in Iran, we will meet some of the women who bust the myth that Irans women have always been second class citizens.

ABOUT OUR LECTURER


Kamin Mohammadi is a prolific author and journalist. Born in Iran, she moved to the UK in 1979. Her journalism has appeared in the British and international press including The Times, the Financial Times UK and China), The Guardian, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Vogue, GQ, Mens Health, GQ Style, The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times of India, The Mail on Sunday, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Markaz Review and Truthdig as well as co-authoring The Lonely Planet Guide to Iran.

Her journalism has been nominated for an Amnesty Human Rights in Journalism award in the UK, for a National Magazine Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors in the U.S and most recently, for two awards by the LA Press Club.

Kamin has authored two books: BELLA FIGURA: HOW TO LIVE, LOVE AND EAT THE ITALIAN WAY (published in 16 countries and in development as a television series); and THE CYPRESS TREE: A LOVE LETTER TO IRAN (Bloomsbury).

Find out more about Kamin: www.kamin.co.uk

UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM

Monday 4th March

Kamin Mohammadi

Iran's Ancient Feminist History


Monday 11th March

Ruth Charnock and Karen Schaller

Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft


Monday 18th March

Lucy Cade

Female Creatives and Spirit Photography in the 19th century

Monday 25th March

Dr Sheree Mack

The Women of the Black British Art Movement


Monday 1st April

Nina-Sophia Miralles

Vogue Magazine: Invention, Erasure, Perversity & Power


Monday 8th April

Rachel Pronger, Lauren Clarke, Camilla Baier

Ink and Paint: The Fantastical Animated Worlds of Mary Blair


Monday 15th April

Lauren Peters

Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry


Monday 22nd April

Ama Josephine

Intimate Ecologies: a Black feminist erotics for interspecies un/worlding


Monday 29th April

Joanna Ebenstein

The Anatomical Venus


Monday 6th May

Elmira Ismukhamedova and Amina Nugumanova

Women in Central Asian art: Preservation of collective heritage and decolonisation

And much more to come in our Summer Term


RECORDING

A recording of the lecture will be sent out by The Feminist Lecture Program after the event finishes, within 2 hours of the end of the class. This email will also contain any resources/reading list the lecturer shares.

Please add [email protected] to your email contacts to ensure you receive the recording as expected.

Please note that the recording will expire 7 days after sending.

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of 20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.

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