Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor In brief Date - 27 October 2025Venue - Room LG.11, 40 George SquareSpeakers - Professors Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor (University of California)Title - The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity 1860-1979 Email an IMES colleague to join online About the eventIn their new book, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025), Professors Berberian and Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran that explores Armenian women’s organisations and their shifting relationships between Iran’s central nodes of power and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.About the speakersHouri BerberianHouri Berberian is Professor of History and Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland (2001); Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (2018), co-edited with Touraj Daryaee; and the award-winning Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (2019), co-winner of the Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award.Talinn GrigorTalinn Grigor’s research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, Armenia, and Parsi India. Her books include the winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, The Persian Revival (2021), Contemporary Iranian Art (2014), Building Iran (2009), and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015) coedited with Sussan Babaie.Grigor has received fellowships from the National Gallery of Art, Getty Research Institute, Cornell’s Humanities Center, Princeton’s Persian Center, MIT’s Aga Khan Program, SSRC, and Persian Heritage and Gulbenkian foundations. Her last book is coauthored with Houri Berberian, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025).How to attendEvents are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required. If you wish to join online, you can email a colleague in IMES for joining information.All talks are followed by a reception. Email an IMES colleague to join online Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer courses in the Muslim world's three main languages, placing Arabic, Persian and Turkish in the context of history, literature, culture, religion and politics, past and present.Choose from a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including PhD programmes. Find out more about Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh Tags Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Oct 27 2025 17.15 - 18.30 Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor Join us for a hybrid seminar by Professors Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor (University of California), entitled 'The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity 1860-1979'. Room LG.11 40 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 40 George Square Email an IMES colleague to join online
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor In brief Date - 27 October 2025Venue - Room LG.11, 40 George SquareSpeakers - Professors Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor (University of California)Title - The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity 1860-1979 Email an IMES colleague to join online About the eventIn their new book, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025), Professors Berberian and Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran that explores Armenian women’s organisations and their shifting relationships between Iran’s central nodes of power and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.About the speakersHouri BerberianHouri Berberian is Professor of History and Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland (2001); Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (2018), co-edited with Touraj Daryaee; and the award-winning Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (2019), co-winner of the Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award.Talinn GrigorTalinn Grigor’s research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, Armenia, and Parsi India. Her books include the winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, The Persian Revival (2021), Contemporary Iranian Art (2014), Building Iran (2009), and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015) coedited with Sussan Babaie.Grigor has received fellowships from the National Gallery of Art, Getty Research Institute, Cornell’s Humanities Center, Princeton’s Persian Center, MIT’s Aga Khan Program, SSRC, and Persian Heritage and Gulbenkian foundations. Her last book is coauthored with Houri Berberian, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025).How to attendEvents are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required. If you wish to join online, you can email a colleague in IMES for joining information.All talks are followed by a reception. Email an IMES colleague to join online Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer courses in the Muslim world's three main languages, placing Arabic, Persian and Turkish in the context of history, literature, culture, religion and politics, past and present.Choose from a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including PhD programmes. Find out more about Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh Tags Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Oct 27 2025 17.15 - 18.30 Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor Join us for a hybrid seminar by Professors Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor (University of California), entitled 'The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity 1860-1979'. Room LG.11 40 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 40 George Square Email an IMES colleague to join online
Oct 27 2025 17.15 - 18.30 Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor Join us for a hybrid seminar by Professors Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor (University of California), entitled 'The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity 1860-1979'.
