"Sickness of the Revolution: Loss, Fetishism, and the Im-possibility of Politics" A Talk by Dr. Milad Odabaei
Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Date and Time: March 30, 2022 | 2:00 PM-3:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010
Event Details
Please join us on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 2:00 - 3:30 PM PST in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010 for a talk titled "Sickness of the Revolution: Loss, Fetishism, and the Im-possibility of Politics” by Dr. Milad Odabaei (Princeton).
The lecture focuses on loss that reflects on the monumentalization of the 1979 revolution and the impossibility of mourning and politics. It is centered around a dream of parricide by a daughter of a revolutionary, and 1986 film by Mohsen Malkhmalbaf.
Milad Odabaei is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley in May, 2018. His research and teaching bring together critical and anthropological approaches to the study of translation and transmission of knowledge as well as religion and politics in the theorization of modern Iran. At Princeton, Odabaei is working on his first book manuscript, The Outside: Translation and Iranian Travails of Learned Politics, which offers a historical and anthropological reflection on the translation of European social thought in post-revolutionary Iran. Before going to Princeton, he held a 2018-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University.
This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture in collaboration with UCI Department of Comparative Literature.