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- Friday, 20 October 2006
Bancroft Hall 200B
- St. George Campus of the University of Toronto
- 5 Bancroft Avenue
University of Toronto
Mansour Bonakdarian specializes in British, Middle Eastern, imperial, and transnational history, with a particular focus on Ireland, India, and Iran. He received his Ph.D. in British and imperial history from the University of Iowa in 1991 and is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. Bonakdarian’s publications have appeared in journals such as Iranian Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Radical History Review, and as article-length entries in the Encyclopaedia Iranica and in the form of book chapters, including his essay on “British Suffragists and Iranian Women, 1906-1911” appearing in Ian C. Fletcher, Philippa Levine, and Laura Mayhall, eds. Women’s Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation, and Race (Routledge, 2000). He is the author of Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911: Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent (Syracuse University Press, 2006). His current projects include a collected volume of essays (with Ian Christopher Fletcher) on the First Universal Races Congress (London, 1911); uses of empathy in cross-cultural/cross-racial encounters and epistemologies; and a monograph on the confluences of nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism in India, Iran, and Ireland from 1905 to 1919 (with cross-references to Egypt).
This presentation examines the worldwide resonance and reception of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911 in the framework of contemporary anti-colonial/anti-imperial nationalist movements in some other parts of the world, such as in India and Ireland as well as in Indian and Irish diaspora communities. In addition to highlighting the Iranian participation in cross-national and transnational anti-imperialist “nationalist” solidarity networks and the various forms of assistance extended to Iranian revolutionaries by anti-imperialist nationalist movements in other parts of the world, the presentation explores the multifarious and multivalent consequences of such acts of solidarity. Among other themes, by worlding the Iranian revolution and its manifold accomplishments and disenchantments, the presentation also briefly considers the application and limitations of concepts of “globalization” and “cosmopolitanism” in regards to the emergent Iranian discourses of nation.
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