Abstract
Frequently compared to New York’s Broadway and Paris’s Champs-Élysées, Lalehzar, Tehran’s historic entertainment district, and its vicinity (which I collectively dub Tulip Grove, Tehran), was surrounded by the Iranian parliament as well as a multitude of government offices, foreign embassies, diplomatic ventures, and missionary schools, along with a number of chapels, mosques, and synagogues. In the first half of the twentieth century, this strategic location turned Tulip Tehran into an unparalleled cosmopolitan public zone on Iranian soil which not only cultivated new modes of political, artistic, and business practices and social interactions and cultural exchanges between foreign nationals and the larger Iranian society, but also became the site of the most significant political events of modern Iran. This talk will focus on the ways in which a close spatio-temporal examination (deep mapping) of this multilayered microcosm of modern Iran, combined with archival research, oral history, and visual and performance analysis, will help recovering alternative bottom-up narratives of Iranian politics, society, and culture.
Original language | American English |
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State | Published - 13 Apr 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies Seminar Series - Toronto, Canada Duration: 13 Apr 2018 → … |
Conference
Conference | Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies Seminar Series |
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Period | 13/04/18 → … |
EGS Disciplines
- Cultural History
- Islamic World and Near East History