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DESCRIPTION:An Oppenheimer Chair Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with Chowra\nMakar
 emi.\nAbstract\n\nAziz’s notebook (Le cahier d’Aziz\, Gallimard\,\n2011) o
 ffers a new insight on the 1979 revolution in Iran and its\naftermath\, sp
 ecifically regarding episodes of large-scale\ncollective violence that hav
 e been occulted in the official\nhistorical narratives of the Islamic stat
 e. The book is based on\nthe unpublished written memoirs of the author’s g
 rand-father\,\nrecalling in detail the history of his two daughters impris
 oned in\n1981\, one of whom was executed the same year\, and the other (th
 e\nauthor’s mother) in 1988.\nPost-revolutinary violence in Iran ended up 
 in the 1988 mass\nexecution of thousands of political prisoners\, which wa
 s covered-up\nby confiscation of the dead bodies\, secret mass graves and 
 state\ninterdiction of funeral rites and burials on the families. The\nabs
 ence of sepulture and the impossibility of ritualized mourning\nafter 1988
  show how politics of death were used not only to\nsuppress opponents and 
 minorities\, but also to govern a population\nwho lived in terror and brou
 ght the wounded memory of dead without\nfunerals.\nHow did practices of di
 sappearance shape the memorialization of\nviolence and its intergeneration
 al legacy\, while there remains no\nresolution or recognition? How are iss
 ues of remembering\, justice\nand forgetting translated into politics and 
 lived in the every-day\nlife?\nPolitical disappearance\, interdiction of f
 uneral\, “webs” of\nterror and surveillance around targeted individuals\, 
 their families\nand social networks: state repression since 2009 in Iran i
 s using\nthe same techniques of power than in the 1980s to achieve control
 \nover civil society and population at large\, and the perpetrators of\nth
 e massacres have remained in power. This testimony on the\neveryday experi
 ence of post-revolutionary repression contributes to\nunderstand what is h
 appening today in Iran\, and the challenges\nfacing revolutions in the Mid
 dle East.\nAbout the speaker.\nChowra Makaremi is a researcher at the Cent
 re National de la\nRecherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. She holds a PhD
  in\nanthropology from the Université de Montréal.\nShe works on issues of
  migration and security\, the anthropology\nof law and the state\, and pro
 cesses of subjectivation at the\nmargins. She is the author of Le cahier d
 'Aziz. Au cœur de la\nrévolution iranienne (Paris: Gallimard\, 2011).\n \n
  \n
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LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Aziz’s Notebook: At the heart of the Iranian revolution
URL:/channels/event/aziz%E2%80%99s-notebook-heart-iran
 ian-revolution-188138
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