Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a Bucknell professor of history and Africana Studies, will present a free, public talk entitled “Monsters, Genies, and Slaves: The Blurring of Myth and Memory in Modern Iran” on Thursday Feb. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room. Her talk is sponsored by the Bucknell Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender, which has organized five speakers on a variety of issues related to race, ethnicity and/or gender for the semester. Light refreshments will be served.
Baghoolizadeh specializes in the history of the modern Middle East, photography, and slavery. She is interested in the visuality of race, particularly in relation to memory and erasure in the region. Her current project focuses on the moving racial boundaries of slavery and abolition in Iran and their legacies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.