Block Museum:

Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy’s Contributions to Iranian Film and Diaspora Studies, June 2-3, 2022.

Hamid Naficy, a core faculty member of the MENA Studies Program from its inception and Professor of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern, is a pioneering scholar of Iranian and world cinema, exile and diaspora studies, media and cultural studies, and global Iranian studies.

His books include The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (1993),  Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (1999), An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (2001), and the four-volume A Social History of Iranian Cinema, which has been called “a landmark achievement.”

On Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3, we are hosting an international gathering to celebrate Naficy’s career and intellectual legacies, to honor and reflect on his towering contributions to multiple fields. The gathering will include three panels, a keynote address, film screenings, personal testimonials, and more.

Participants:

Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins University)
Simran Bhalla (Tulane University)
Maziyar Faridi (Clemson University)

Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University)
Michael M.J. Fischer (MIT)
Persis Karim (San Francisco State University)
Amy Malek (College of Charleston)
Negar Mottahedeh (Duke University)
Eric Patrick (Northwestern University)
Golbarg Rekabtalaei (Seton Hall University)

Ariel Rogers (Northwestern University)
Mehdi Semati (Eastern Illinois University)

Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University)
Mohamad Tavakoli (University of Toronto)

Speakers: https://mena.northwestern.edu/about/events/hamid-naficy-encomium-participants.html

Program: https://mena.northwestern.edu/about/events/hamid-naficy-conference.html

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1680507925622330/

Opening night https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2022/opening-night-of-like-water-through-stone-celebrating-hamid-naficy.html

Teaser for the film Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy in/on Exile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQ3jm70b0s

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