Fwd: This Thursday @ Stanford: Panel Discussion on, “Cultural Identity and Heritage Language: The Case of Iranian Diaspora.”
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Date: Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Subject: [iranianevents] THIS THURSDAY: Panel Discussion on, “Cultural Identity and Heritage Language: The Case of Iranian Diaspora.”
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Dear Friends,
Please review the following event sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters:
Panelists: Shervin Emami, Leyla Farzaneh, Golijeh Golarai and Yalda Modabber
Moderator: Abbas Milani
Date and time: Thursday, May 29, 6:30pm
Venue: Jordan Hall, Building 420, Room 041
A Panel Discussion on: “Cultural Identity and Heritage Language: The Case of Iranian Diaspora.”
Event in English
Free and open to the public
Shervin Emami, Persian Language and Literature Lecturer, Stanford Language Center.
Shervin Emami is Persian Language and Literature Lecturer in the Stanford Language Center. She is completing her dissertation, titled “Persian Contemporary Magical Realism through the Lens of Allegorical and Mystical Writings in Persian Classical Literature,” at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her M.A. in Middle Eastern History from California State University-Fullerton, and her M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from UCLA. Before arriving at Stanford, she taught at UCLA, University of California-Irvine, and University of California-Berkeley.
Leyla Farzaneh, an Iranian-American teenager.
Leyla is a senior in the Berkeley International High School program at Berkeley High School. She was born in San Francisco to an Iranian father and an American mother. Although she did not learn Farsi as a child she has connected to her heritage by volunteering at Golestan and teaching herself the language.
Golijeh Golarai, Senior Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
Golarai has a longstanding interest in neuroplasticity, and is currently using magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral methods to investigate the neural mechanisms of high-level vision and its development during childhood and into adulthood. She is particularly interested in how social and emotional information, are perceived and processed in children and how the structure and function of the brain is continuously shaped by a drive towards social and emotional communication. Her research is relevant to understanding basic mechanisms of brain development, the interaction between nature and nurture and a wide range of questions in understanding factors that impact children’s wellbeing and education.
Her formal training in basic cellular neuroscience and neural plasticity provide a solid foundation for her current research.
Yalda Modabber, Director of Golestan Kids, a Persian language immersion school and non-profit organization.
Yalda, is a former molecular immunologist, and later, consultant to for-profit and non-profit organizations. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yalda moved to Iran as a kindergartner and returned to the U.S. at the age of 9 years. As an undergraduate, she majored in Psychology, with an emphasis on Child and Developmental Psychology, finishing a dual degree in Experimental Psychology and Human Biology. Yalda went on to pursue a career in biomedical research and spent 8 years at Harvard Medical School, first as a research associate and later as a graduate student. In 2000, Yalda changed her career path and became a consultant for startups, Fortune 50+ corporations and non-profit organizations as a strategist and evaluator.
In 2005, Yalda posted an ad on a local listserve in Berkeley, in search of Persian language child care for her first-born son, then two years old. She received a response from another mother that led to a weekly playgroup and eventually became the non-profit, Golestan. Yalda was hired as Golestan’s full-time Executive Director in 2008. Both of her sons continue to attend the school. As Executive Director, Yalda splits her time between the organization's operations, the school's programming and curriculum, helping other communities start new schools, and producing teaching materials. Through her work with the Golestan Heritage Language Colaborative (Colab), Yalda has worked with hundreds of bicultural families struggling to teach their heritage language(s) to their children. She has worked with parents of Iranian decent, as well as Taiwanese, Italian, Brazillian, Spanish, Russian, Mexican, German, and French.
Abbas Milani, Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution.
Professor Milani is the Director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Milani is the author of "Modernity and Its Foes in Iran" (Gardon Press, 1998); "The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution" (Mage, 2000); "Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran" in English (Mage 2004) and Persian (Ketob Corp. 2004); "The Myth of the Great Satan" (Hoover Institution Press, 2010). His latest book is "The Shah" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English. His articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including The Washington Quarterly, the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Hoover Digest, Iranshenasi, the Journal of the Middle East, Middle East Journal, and the New York Review of Books.
For additional information, please visit our website: Iranian Studies Program
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