The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979

When:
Thursday, May 08, 2025 7:30p -
9:00p

Where:
NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
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naasr National Association for Armenian Studies and Research

Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
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Presenting the 4th Annual Vartan Gregorian Memorial Lecture at NAASR.


With the newly published The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979 (Stanford Univ. Press, 2025), Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran’s central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.

Engaging broader considerations around modernization, nationalism, and feminism, this book makes a conceptually rich contribution to how we think about the history of women and minoritized peoples. Berberian and Grigor read archival, textual, visual, and oral history sources together and against one another to challenge conventional notions of “the archive” and transform silences and absences into audible and visual presences.


Dr. Houri Berberian is Professor of History, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, and Director of the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on late nineteenth/early twenti-eth-century transimperial Armenian history, especially revolutionary move-ments and women and gender. Her books include Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911 (2001) and the multiple award-winning Roving Revolutionaries (2019). 


A reception and book signing will follow the program.

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