News / Posts from History http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/ Reason Carleton College, 2012 Professor Thabiti Willis: Masquerades Exhibit, https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/viz/exhibitions/current_and_upcoming/masquerades2/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:25:51 -0600 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/?story_id=810814 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:00:00 -0600 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/?story_id=691374     Behnaz Mirzai, historian of modern Iran, teaches Middle Eastern history, Brock University. Areas of specialization: comparative and cross-cultural studies, ethnicity, slavery, gender, social, economic and religious interactions in the Middle East. Current book manuscript for publication: "Slavery, the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Emancipation of Slaves in Iran 1828-1928," is based on doctoral dissertation. Co-editor of Slavery, Islam and Diaspora (with Ismael Musa and Paul Lovejoy), Africa World Press, 2009. Articles include: "African Presence in Iran: Identity and its Reconstruction," in Traites et Esclavages: Vieux Problemes, Nouvelles Perspectives? (Société française d’Histoire d’Outre-mer, 2002); "The 1848 abolitionist Farmân: a Step Towards Ending the Slave Trade in Iran," in Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Routledge, 2005); "The Slave Trade and the African Diaspora in Iran," in Monsoon and Migration: Unleashing dhow synergies (ZIFF, 2005); "Le commerce des esclaves africains dans l’Iran du XIXe siècle" in Jean-Marc Masseaut, (ed.), De l’Afrique à l’extrême Orient (Les Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire, 2006); "The Trade in enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran" in Kiran Kamal Prasad and Jean-Pierre Angenot (eds.), TADIA - The African Diaspora in Asia: Explorations on a Less Known Fact (Jana Jagrati Prakashana, 2008); “Emancipation and its Legacy in Iran: an Overview”, in The Cultural Interactions Resulting from the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Arab Islamic World, (UNESCO, 2008); "Qajar Haram: Imagination or Reality" in Slavery, Islam and Diaspora (Africa World Press, 2009). See also http://www.brocku.ca/humanities/departments-and-centres/history/faculty-staff/behnaz-mirzai Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:30:00 -0600 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/?story_id=691156 Afro-Iranian Lives is a documentary produced and directed by Dr. Behnaz Mirzai. Born and raised in Iran, Mirzai moved to Canada in 1997, where she studied slavery and the African Diaspora in Iran. Since then, she has conducted extensive research in European and Iranian archives, fieldwork and interviews in Iran, and published numerous academic articles resulting in this documentary. The movie explores the history of the African slave trade as well as African cultural tradition in Iran, and pays particular attention to socio-economic activities, performances and rituals of the descendants of African slaves in rural and urban communities in the provinces of Sistan va Baluchistan, Hurmuzgan, and Khuzestan. Mirzai’s aim was to visualize the lives of Afro-Iranians, who were widely scattered throughout southern regions along the Persian Gulf, and at the same time could preserve and blend African cultural heritage with local religious and traditional elements. By producing this documentary, she intended to demonstrate both the diversity of Iranian society as well as the reconstruction of a new identity of African communities in Iran. "A fascinating documentary on a fascinating subject. Afro-Iranian culture has been largely neglected by both black diasporic studies and Middle Eastern studies, but no longer. Behnaz Mirzai's film explains the historical background of Afro-Iranian culture, originally a legacy of the slave trade, and then proceeds to show us some of its intimate and personal aspects, including the startling zar possession ceremonies." - Dr. Barry Keith Grant, Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture, Brock University Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:00:00 -0600 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/?story_id=691158 YOU are cordially invited to attend "BIKE AND BOOTS," a delightful and fun presentation by Hunter Knight and Kate Trenerry, co-winners of the 2010 Ted Mullin Prize Fellowship. Junior History majors are especially encouraged to attend. Please also visit https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/MullinMemorialFellowship2010/ to find out how to apply for this amazing History prize fellowship for historical research and summer travel project support.  EVERYONE IS ALSO INVITED TO SHARE FREE DELICIOUS HISTORY DEPARTMENT REFRESHMENTS and great enthusiasm!!! PLEASE MARK YOUR January 2011 CALENDARS: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. in Leighton Hall, Room 304.  Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:00:00 -0600 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/?story_id=687416 South Asian History tenure-track position announcement, deadline Nov. 1, 2010 Return to Dean of the College job listing.  Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:57:58 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/?story_id=675741