Negar Mottahedeh: Elemental Beyzaie (Beyzaie Conference)

Negar Mottahedeh presents her paper "Elemental Beyzaie" as a part of a conference celebrating Bahram Beyzaie’s 10 year anniversary at Stanford University.

The conference was held July 29 and 30, 2021. For more information please visit: https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/beyzaie-conference

Negar Mottahedeh is a Professor of the Humanities at Duke University. Her research on film, social media, and social movements in the Middle East has been published by Stanford University Press, Syracuse University Press, Palgrave, and Duke University Press and in WIRED magazine, Salon.com, The Hill and The Observer. Dr. Mottahedeh’s work on the global culture of memes and selfies has been featured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and at TEDx. Her most recent book is titled "Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran." Drawing on the cassette recordings of the American feminist Kate Millett during her post-Revolution trip to Iran in 1979, the book performs as the feminist's retrospective guide to the Iranian Revolution and the Iranian women's movement (Stanford University Press, 2019). Negar holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.

The Iranian Studies Program is grateful to Mehran Taslimi and Shidan Taslimi for their support of this conference. Part of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts.

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