List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2008-04-14

Dear friends,

The Central Library of Utrecht is exposing a collection of my photos taken from both Iran and Holland from April 14 till May11 2008 in its main ground floor, 1st floor and 2nd floor hall.

The theme of the exhibition is construction and culture and their interactions. Most of the photos were picked by the library's art department.



Photo exhibition title: hometown x 2

Photographer: Bamshad Houshyani

Address: Oudegracht 167, Utrecht, the Netherlands, free entrance.

please see the exhibition flier here: http://bamihoo.googlepages.com/PhotoExhibitionBamshad.pdf



Opening hours of the library: http://www.bibliotheek-utrecht.nl/nl/home/Bibliotheek_Utrecht/openingstijden



Some more info in Dutch: http://www.bibliotheek-utrecht.nl/nl/home/Actueel/2008-van-maand-tot-maand/april-2008?objectid=3DBB5B80-DF80-978F-819545B83430EB19


Best wishes,

Bamshad

http://www.flickr.com/bamshad



p.s. photos are fore sale

bamihoo@gmail.com>

The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today

a public event
The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today
The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today

A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto
Monday, April 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran and studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris. He is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science, Massey College Scholar at Risk, and Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics, at the University of Toronto. He has been a researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and, in 2006-07, was the Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India. Among his twenty books in English, French and Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1992); Penser la Nonviolence (UNESCO, 2000); Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (2004); India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India (2007); and The Clash of Intolerances (2007).

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This lecture is part of the Center's Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.



Cost: Free
Special Instructions

Lecture will be presented in English.

For more information please contact

Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes