Story possibility

As promised, I will let you know of any notices I receive about speeches or important meetings on campus that you may want to consider covering for one of your story assignments. An Iranian speaker will be on campus tomorrow. Details below from Lucien Stone:


Please join us for the sixth event of “Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film
Series” on Thursday, February 5, 2009. Prof. Hamid Dabashi will give a
presentation entitled, "The World Is My Home: On the Poetics of
Cosmopolitanism."

Currently Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of
eighteen books on a wide array of topics including Islamic philosophy and
theology, Iranian cinema, post-colonialism, and philosophy of art. Most
recently he has published: Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of
Terror (Transaction Publishers, 2008); Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting
the Empire (Routledge, 2008); Iran, A People Interrupted (New Press, 2007);
Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker (I.B. Tauris, 2007); and
Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema (Mage Publishers, 2007).

His lecture will begin at 5:00 PM in the Oak/Redbud Room (MUC).

This event is free and open to the public. Please announce to your classes and
encourage students to attend.

For more information about this speaker and the rest of the program for
the “Cosmopolitan Iran” series, please visit our website:

http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/philosophy/cosmopolitan_iran.shtml

Please take this opportunity to become more educated about Iran. Lovejoy
Library currently has a selection of materials about Iranian culture on
reserve, including books, films and music CDs. Also, the University Bookstore
is carrying many of the published works of our guest speakers, as well as other
selected materials about Iranian culture, which will be sold at several of our
speaking engagements and at the University Bookstore throughout the academic
year.

This series has been made possible through generous contributions made by
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Excellence in Undergraduate
Education (EUE) program, the Department of Philosophy, and Student Housing.

Thank you,
Lucian

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Lucian Stone
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Campus Box 1433
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL 62026-1433
618.650.2246
lustone@siue.edu