MATC GLOBAL HORIZONS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS
"DISSIDENT VOICES IN IRAN AND THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL CRISIS"
On Friday, February 23, Madison Area Technical College (MATC) will host a Global Horizons Distinguished Lecture by author Danny Postel, “Dissident Voices in Iran and the Current International Crisis,” to be held at 7 p.m. at the MATC Downtown Education Center (DTEC), 211 North Carroll St., Madison in room D240. The event is free and open to the community.
As NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu states, “They are not just reading Lolita in Tehran. They are also reading Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Jurgen Habermas and Richard Rorty. A Velvet Revolution inspired by Western liberal philosophers is under way in Iran.”
Postel examines this movement and its implications in his recent book, Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism, and will share these perspectives on his visit to MATC. He examines the tensions in modern Iran between traditional Islamic law and a rising student movement that embraces Western liberal principles of freedom of speech and women’s rights. By examining liberalism in Iran, Postel draws attention to America’s own debates over these principles and the international crisis of war and confrontation with Iran.
Postel is senior editor of the London-based magazine Open Democracy and a contributing editor to Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has appeared in The Washington Post Book World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, The Progressive, The American Prospect, Critical Inquiry and Philosophy & Social Criticism, among many other publications. He is a member of the Committee for Academic and Intellectual Freedom of the International Society for Iranian Studies and is currently co-editing a book of dialogues between the Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji and western philosophers to be published in 2008.
This lecture is sponsored by the MATC Global Horizons Distinguished Lecture Series, an initiative in international and intercultural education for the campus and community. For more information, contact Dr. Geoff Bradshaw at (608) 246-6165 or gbradshaw@matcmadison.edu.
MATC is one of the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System’s 16 colleges. It provides “real world smart” education through a comprehensive curriculum of technical, liberal arts and science, adult basic education and life enrichment studies and activities, as well as customized employee training. MATC offers associate degrees, vocational diplomas and certificates, and non-degree courses in more than 140 programs of study. The college serves all or parts of 12 counties located in south-central Wisconsin and offers instruction through five campuses and numerous community locations throughout the district.
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