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Lecture Series

● ISG's Past Lecture :

● Iran's experience with the forces of modernity

● Speaker: Dr. Farzin Vahdat

● Date & time: October 16, 2004

● Location:

ISG's Next lectures

ISG's Past lectures

● Can Water Diplomacy Enable a New Future for the Urmia Lake?

● History and Science in Iran At the Turn of the Last Millennium

● Explaining Divergent Outcomes of the Arab Spring: The Significance of Gender

● Sexuality and Youth Alienation in Modern Iran: Focusing on Temporary Marriage in Shia Islam

● Edutainment as a possible facilitator for Iranian social development:
A Review of Bringing Systems Thinking to Iranian Schools through Games and Stories

● The consequences of socio-cultural changes in Iran

● The Ethnic Identities of Contemporary Iranians

● Was Mashroute A British Plot?

● Legislative Modifications of the Law of Marriage and Divorce in Post-Revolutionary Iran

● Institutional and social problems of the young scientific community in Iran

● BITTER FRIENDS, BOSOM ENEMIES: IRAN, THE U.S., AND THE TWISTED PATH TO CONFRONTATION

● Transport and Trade in Greater Central Asia

● The Power of a Cliché: Representing Iranian Women

● تيرگيهاي فرهنگي ما

● Modern Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architecture

● انتخاب نام خانوادگی و الغای القاب در اواخر دوران قاجار و اوایل سلطنت رضا پهلوی

● Challenges facing Iranian women after the revolution

● Acculturation of Iranian Immigrants

● Caspian Sea: Iran and Her Neighbors

● Ethnic conflicts in Iran - An overview

● The rise of the Rushanfekr (Intellectual) in the Constitutional

● Sustainable Development in the Muslim World

● Censorship and Iranian Contemporary Literature (in Persian)

● Arms and Armor from Iran; The bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period

● Character as Destiniy; Towards a Biography of the Shah (in Persian)

● Blogger's War, How Iranian Expatriates fight for freedom of speech

● Israel and Iran - Ideological Foes or Strategic Rivals?

● The Brief History of Science, Superstitions and Pseudo-Science in Iran

● HIV/AIDS history in Iran: long time denial to breaking the silence

● Bam: Thousand of Open Opportunities

● The Great Historic Challenge: Empowering Youth in Iran

● What happened to the China Model? (Future of Economic Reforms in Iran)

● Iran's experience with the forces of modernity

● One Hundred Years of Women's Rights Struggle in Iran (1904-2004): A Chronology

● Iran's Azari population and relationships with Azerbyjan and Turkey

● Siqeh (Temporary Marriage) and Women's rights

● Hoveyda and the issue of Modernity in Iran

● Rethinking Persian Modernity (English)