Event time:
Friday, March 6, 2020 - 12:00pm
Location:
Institution for Social and Policy Studies (PROS77 ), A001
77 Prospect Street
Event description:
Dr. Peyman Jafari has an MA degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD degree in history from Leiden University, where he wrote his dissertation on Oil, Labor and Revolution: A Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-83. His research is focused on energy history, labor history, social movements, revolutions and political economy. He is the author of Der andere Iran: Geschichte und Kultur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart [The other Iran: History and Culture from 1900 till Today] (München, 2010), and a co-editor of Iran in the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social History (London, 2015).