{"id":323,"count":2,"description":"Farzaneh Milani is \u00a0Raymond J. Nelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures\r\n\r\nFarzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in Comparative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1979. Her dissertation, \u201cForugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective\u201d is a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of the All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year in 1999.\r\n\r\nMilani has published over 100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwords in Persian and in English. She has served as the guest editor for two special issues of Nimeye-Digar<\/em>, Persian Language Feminist Journal<\/em> (on Simin Daneshvar and Simin Behbahani), IranNameh<\/em> (on Simin Behbahani), and Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies<\/em> (on Simin Behbahani). She has written for the New York Times<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em>, Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, Ms. Magazine<\/em>, Readers Digest<\/em>, USA Today<\/em>, and N.P.R.\u2019s All Things Considered<\/em>. She has presented more than 250 lectures nationally and internationally. A former director of Studies in Women and Gender, Milani was\u00a0also a\u00a0Carnegie Fellow (2006-2007).\r\n\r\nAbstract:<\/strong>\r\nDoes modernity have a gender? What about theoretical discourses on Iranian modernity? Would our definition of modernity, our identification of its markers, makers, and shapers differ if we were to include in our analysis women\u2019s experiences and the literary texts produced by women? Focusing on the life and work of <\/span><\/span>Forough<\/span><\/span> Farrokhzad<\/span><\/span>\u2014a self-consciously modern poet\u2014avoiding gender reversals and binary oppositions, this presentation examines <\/span><\/span>Farrokhzad\u2019s<\/span><\/span> significant contribution to Iranian modernity\u2014her refusal\u202f<\/span><\/span>to\u202f<\/span><\/span>respect ancestral silences, her recasting of the private story of a female individual as public history, claiming ownership of her body and responsibility for her liberated sexuality, and a relentless search for truth, voice, visibility, and mobility.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>","link":"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/","name":"Farzaneh Milani","slug":"farzaneh-milani","taxonomy":"artist-guest","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFarzaneh Milani Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farzaneh Milani Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farzaneh Milani is \u00a0Raymond J. Nelson Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in Comparative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1979. Her dissertation, \u201cForugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective\u201d is a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of the All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year in 1999. Milani has published over 100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwords in Persian and in English. She has served as the guest editor for two special issues of Nimeye-Digar, Persian Language Feminist Journal (on Simin Daneshvar and Simin Behbahani), IranNameh (on Simin Behbahani), and Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies (on Simin Behbahani). She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Magazine, Readers Digest, USA Today, and N.P.R.\u2019s All Things Considered. She has presented more than 250 lectures nationally and internationally. A former director of Studies in Women and Gender, Milani was\u00a0also a\u00a0Carnegie Fellow (2006-2007). Abstract: Does modernity have a gender? What about theoretical discourses on Iranian modernity? Would our definition of modernity, our identification of its markers, makers, and shapers differ if we were to include in our analysis women\u2019s experiences and the literary texts produced by women? Focusing on the life and work of Forough Farrokhzad\u2014a self-consciously modern poet\u2014avoiding gender reversals and binary oppositions, this presentation examines Farrokhzad\u2019s significant contribution to Iranian modernity\u2014her refusal\u202fto\u202frespect ancestral silences, her recasting of the private story of a female individual as public history, claiming ownership of her body and responsibility for her liberated sexuality, and a relentless search for truth, voice, visibility, and mobility.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tirgan Festival 2019\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"CollectionPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/\",\"name\":\"Farzaneh Milani Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Farzaneh Milani\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/\",\"name\":\"Tirgan Festival 2019\",\"description\":\"Tirgan Summer Festival\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Farzaneh Milani Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/farzaneh-milani\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Farzaneh Milani Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019","og_description":"Farzaneh Milani is \u00a0Raymond J. 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