The Flame Within

Author Manijeh Moradian in Conversation with Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai

In This Flame Within, Manijeh Moradian recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls “revolutionary affects” from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes “affects of solidarity” that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association’s legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.

Manijeh Moradian will be joined by Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai to discuss her new book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022).

Thursday, December 1
6:00 p.m. EST
BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center
Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
RSVP preferred here

This event is free and open to all. More event information here.