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September / October 2020
Baskerville Lecture Series
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Baskerville Ambassador of Friendship & Peace
Book of the Month: Islamic Ethics of Friendship
Forthcoming Events
Baskerville Lecture Series
2020-2021
Speaker:
Topic:
Iran in the Early Twentieth Century
Date & Time:
September 28, 2020
12 pm – 1:30 pm (Mountain)
Register:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V1WWoXQaQsKnUXTs1VsICg
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Iran was one of only eight non-Western states that had maintained their sovereignty in the Age of Imperialism. This continued independence was due to it being a buffer between the Russian and the British Empires. Iran’s sovereignty was constantly under threat, and for reform-minded Iranians the only way to keep colonialists at bay was to strengthen the state by giving it a constitution. This was achieved in 1906, but resulted in a civil war in the course of which Russia ended up occupying the northern parts of the country. Events in Iran were influenced by political developments in Europe and in the rest of Asia. In this presentation I will discuss Iran’s situation in the first decade of the twentieth century in the context of international politics.
Today, we have many “Baskervilles” who are the true representatives of America and Iran. Whether as former diplomats, current and retired academics, professionals, artists, filmmakers, athletes, students, or cultural ambassadors, Americans and Iranians have built a lasting foundation for people-to people exchanges and transmission of ideas and expertise for more than a century.
Baskerville Conversations Series recognizes the vital role of civil society exchanges between America & I ran. The mission of the series is to conduct monthly interviews on U.S.-I ran relations, and impact of friendship and societal interactions.
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Virtual Seminar: Panel III – Religio-Political Dimensions of Desire in Modern Iran
Virtual Seminar: Panel III – Religio-Political Dimensions of Desire in Modern Iran
A conversation with Dr. Charles Randall Paul, President & Founder of Foundation for Religious Diplomacy
Connecting America and Iran before the Iranian Revolution of 1979
A conversation with Professor Matthew Shannon, Associate Professor of History, and author of, Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2017. It examines the multiple consequences of Iranian student migration to the United States during the reign of the last Pahlavi shah.
Publications / Reports Iran 2020
A Strategic Alternative to President Donald Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Approach on Iran
Silence Falls on Iran’s Protest Movement
Reviving the revolutionaries: How Trump’s maximum pressure is shifting Iran’s domestic politics
Khamenei and the end of Iran’s hopeless reformist movement
Reengaging Iran A New Strategy for the United States
Iran’s New Parliament Heralds Conservative Consolidation
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Play Politics With the Coronavirus
Iran confronts coronavirus amid a ‘battle between science and conspiracy theories’
How a Christian missionary became the ‘American Lafayette of Iran’
An Open Letter to the Noble People of Iran and America
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