Narrating Transformation and Transforming through Storytelling

with Shalah Talebi

March 14, 2013
Room 6496
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

In Ghosts of Revolution (2011), Shalah Talebi’s haunting account of her years as a political prisoner in Iran, she engages two interrelated premises put forth by Walter Benjamin: that telling stories of lived experiences opens the possibility of a true human connection, the transmission of wisdom, and individual and social transformation; and, to paraphrase Benjamin, that death sanctions everything the storyteller can tell, for the storyteller borrows her authority from death.

Cosponsored by the Narrating Change Seminar in the Humanities; the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics; Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions and State Repression; the Postcolonial Studies Group; the Committee on Globalization and Social Change; and the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective.

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Free and open to the public. The building and the venues are fully accessible. For more information please visit http://centerforthehumanities.org, call 212.817.2005, or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu