ICGC is hosting "A Matastasizing Foreign Policy? Civil Rights, Education, and Transnational Citizenship under the Iran Sanctions Regime". This talk will be presented by Roozbah Shirazi on Friday, April 12th at 12 noon in 537 Heller Hall.
ICGC Brown Bag
"A Metastasizing Foreign Policy? Civil Rights, Education, and Transnational Citizenship under the Iran Sanctions Regime"
Presented by: Roozbeh Shirazi, Postdoctoral Associate,
Comparative & International Development Education and College of Education and Human Development
-The Iran Sanctions program is a focal point of U.S. foreign policy towards Iran. Often lauded as an alternative to military action, the sanctions have become increasingly strict during the Obama Administration, and are being used to pressure the Iranian government to stop uranium enrichment for its nuclear program. Thus far, the sanctions have not yet yielded intended effects: the Iranian government has not ceased enrichment, and there are growing reports of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Iran. Less examined are the lived experiences and transnational effects of the Iran sanctions, which increasingly target Iranian nationals and US citizens of Iranian origin both inside and outside of Iran. This presentation examines how an increasingly mobile discourse of "Iran sanctions" has implication for education, development, civil rights, national identity, and citizenship. As this is a work "under construction," the aim is to elicit critical discussion reflection on theoretical and methodological next steps.
Friday, April 12, 2013
12:00 noon, 537 Heller Hall
