Join Iranian Studies and Dr. Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies at UCSB for lecture “The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil in Iran and Iraq.”
Dr. Mona Damluji’s talk will be based on her recent monograph, Pipeline Cinema, published by UC Press in December 2025. Her book examines the origins of oil-sponsored filmmaking in mid-twentieth-century Iran and Iraq, revealing how wells, pipelines, pumping stations, and refineries emerged as sites of cinematic production and exhibition within the context of the worker-led revolutionary struggle against British...
Lecture: The Interpreter of Desires: Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis Wednesday, March 4th from 4-6pm 340 Stephens Hall Join Iranian Studies and Dr. Farshid Kazemi, Adjunct Lecturer in Film Studies at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University for lecture “The Interpreter of Desires: Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis.”
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Iranian Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Performance-Lecture: On Speculation and Closure Monday, March 16th from 4-6pm 340 Stephens Hall Join Iranian Studies and Morehshin Allahyari, Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art at Stanford University for performance-lecture “On Speculation and Closure.”
In this performance-lecture, Allahyari explores how colonial histories and technological practices can unsettle the notion of closure and at times openings in the afterlives of displaced cultural objects. Drawing on her research into digital colonialism, archives, and storytelling, Allahyari proposes speculation as both...
