Taleghani Lecture Series: "The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race"

Professor Neda Maghbouleh is the winner of the 2018 Ontario Early Researcher Award for her work on racialized immigrants and refugees in North America, and the author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press, 2017).The talk at the annual Taleghani event will be based on the content of this book.

Founded in May 2010, the Dr. Malakeh Taleghani Graduate Endowment in Iranian Studies funds outstanding graduate research in all areas of Iranian studies, including Persian literature, anthropology, history, geography, political science, and music; Iranian art and architecture, and Iranian languages and linguistics. Due to the generosity of family and friends, the endowment has grown tremendously since its creation.

In connection with the endowment, the Taleghani Lecture Series is sponsored by Prof. Simin Karimi and presented by the UA Department of Linguistics. Each year a prominent scholar in Iranian studies is invited to present a public lecture and hold a seminar for graduate and undergraduate students. The goal of the lecture series is to create awareness about various aspects of Iran and the Iranian culture among Americans and young Iranians, an issue that was very close to Dr. Taleghani’s heart