BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentiet h Century X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260715T215512Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42916790977861 DTSTART:20230503T013000Z DTEND:20230503T030000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about Never Invisible: An Iranian Woma n’s Life Across the Twentieth Century (Mage Publishers\, 2023).\n\nHouri Mostofi Moghadam was born in Tehran\, Iran\, in 1919\, descended on her m other’s side from Iranian royalty and on her father’s from a “God-fe aring” family of scholars and government administrators. When she was tw enty-two\, Houri married Mohsen Moghadam\, a young man from a merchant fam ily who went on to become a successful businessman\, often traveling abroa d\, while Houri dedicated herself to teaching\, charitable public works\, and running international women’s associations in Tehran. Together\, the y also raised three children\, in whom Houri was keen to instill the same spirit of industry and self-discipline she had learned from her own parent s.\n\nHouri was among the first women to go to university in Iran\, workin g as a teacher for nearly forty years and diligently continuing with her o wn education in later life\, including traveling to the U.S. as a Fulbrigh t Scholar\, and\, after being forced into exile following the Islamic Revo lution of 1979\, studying for a PhD at the Sorbonne in Paris. From a privi leged social class\, with a glamorous\, jet-setting lifestyle\, Houri was a pioneer\, nonetheless\, and a feminist for her own time. Through her har d work and frequent acts of bravery—from standing up to sinister intrude rs to dogged persistence in the face of intransigent officialdom—she mad e sure that\, as a woman\, she was never overlooked\, never invisible\, ev en when hidden under a dark chador at the Revolutionary Court. It was wome n like Houri who were the precursors of the young women fighting for equal rights and justice in Iran today.\n\nThe resulting memoir tells the fasci nating story of her life\, with all its ups and downs\, triumphs and trage dies\, set against the backdrop of an impending revolution that would topp le the world she and her family had always known and turn it upside down.\ n\nHouri’s daughter\, Ladan Lari\, and granddaughter\, Leila Pourhashemi \, will discuss Houri’s life and work\, and the extraordinary commitment Houri’s daughter\, Mariam Safinia\, undertook to make the publication o f this memoir possible.\n\nDr. Kioumars Ghereghlou and Dr. Abbas Milani wi ll discuss the importance of the Houri Moghadam archival collection at Sta nford\, her life in historical perspective\, and the process of creating a nd publishing the memoir.\n\nConversation will be in English and is modera ted by Stanford Stein Visiting Writer Laleh Khadivi. Copies of the book w ill be available for purchase from the Stanford Bookstore.\n\nSPEAKER BIOS \n\n\n\nLadan Lari\, born and raised in Tehran\, first came to the US at a ge 16 to attend college and graduate school before returning home in 1969. She started her career in Iran in research and academia working as a rese arch fellow at the Institute for Science and Higher Education\, and later as associate professor at Melli University. Following the Islamic Revoluti on and the Iran-Iraq war\, Ladan managed to finally leave Iran in 1983\, a long with her two daughters and settled in Marin County. Ladan’s 38-year banking career in the Bay Area has included positions of increased respon sibility in Private Banking\, Commercial Banking\, Commercial Real Estate Lending\, Credit Risk Management\, and Special Assets\, where she restruct ured the bank’s troubled assets. She has worked at Bank of America\, Ban k of San Francisco\, Citibank\, and start-up\, Presidio Bank\, which was a cquired in 2019 by Heritage Bank of Commerce. She currently serves as Se nior Vice President and Relationship Manager\, Commercial Banking\, in Her itage’s San Francisco Office\, managing a portfolio of commercial client s\, real estate investors and developers. Ladan holds an MA in Economics f rom Columbia University and a BA with Departmental Honors and Distinction from Wilson College.\n\n\n\nLadan Lari and Mariam Safinia\, November 2021 (image courtesy of Ladan Lari)\n\n\n\nLeila Pourhashemi is the first grand child of Houri Mostofi Moghadam\, and daughter of Mariam Moghadam Safinia. Growing up\, she was fortunate to be influenced by three remarkable women : Houri\, Mehri Mostofi Safinia (Houri’s older sister) and Mariam. Pourh ashemi is currently the Chief Information Officer at Blackhawk Network\, w here she leverages her role to spur enterprise-wide transformation in Blac khawk’s technology applications. She also serves as Blackhawk’s VP\, T echnology Business Operations\, and focuses on defining Blackhawk’s oper ating rhythm\, managing investments and driving program performance\, metr ics and increasing operating agility. She formerly served in various leade rship roles at eBay Marketplaces\, PayPal\, Sun Microsystems\, Intuit and other prominent brands. She earned her B.A. in applied mathematics from UC Berkeley.\n\n\n\nKioumars Ghereghlou is the Curator for Middle East colle ctions at Stanford’s Green Library. He oversees the planning\, developme nt\, processing\, acquisition\, management\, and public service of collect ions on all aspects of Middle East Studies. Dr. Ghereghlou selects and ac quires a wide range of resources\, including traditional scholarly publica tions (print and digital)\, special collections and archival materials\, a nd materials published via emerging forms of scholarly communication\, in order to support the research and teaching needs of scholars working on Ir an\, Turkey\, and all Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and Nor th Africa. He provides advanced reference support and teaches courses.\n\n \n\nAbbas Milani is the director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Progr am in Iranian Studies at Stanford University\, an Adjunct Professor\, and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoo ver Institution. His expertise is U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian c ultural\, political\, and security issues. Milani is the author of numerou s books in Persian and English including Modernity and Its Foes in Iran\; Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran\; Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir\; The Shah\; Culture and Politics in Contemporary Iran was co-edited with Larry Diamond. Dr. Milani edited and wrote the introductio n for A Window into Modern Iran: The Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and wrote Saadi and Humanism with Maryam Mi rzadeh. Recently\, he edited and translated An Encounter with Dylan Thomas by Ebrahim Golestan and published volume one of his 30 Portraits. Dr. Mil ani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and Engli sh. He has published more than 200 essays and book reviews in journals and papers.\n\nMODERATOR\n\n\n\nLaleh Khadivi is an author of fiction and non -fiction. Her Kurdish Trilogy and short fiction have been awarded the Whit ing Award\, The Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, an NEA grant and a Pushcart Prize. Her storytelling extends to the screen and to journ alism with works appearing in the New York Times\, LA Times\, SF Chronicle \, VQR and other publications and broadcast on A&E and at film festivals i nternationally. She is this spring's Stein Visiting Writer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford.\n\nIf you need a disability-related accommod ation for this event\, please contact us at iranianstudies@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by April 24\, 2023. LOCATION:In person at Stanford (RSVP for location) SUMMARY:Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Cen tury URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/never_invisible_an_iranian_ womans_life_across_the_twentieth_century CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposium END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR