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DESCRIPTION:Faculty of Law\, New Chancellor Day Hall\, room\n609\n3644 rue 
 Peel\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, Quebec\, Canada\n \nAn Oppenheimer Chair Brown
  Bag Lunch Seminar\nwith Chowra Makaremi.\n \nABSTRACT\nAziz’s notebook (L
 e cahier d’Aziz\, Gallimard\,\n2011) offers a new insight on the 1979 revo
 lution in Iran and its\naftermath\, specifically regarding episodes of lar
 ge-scale\ncollective violence that have been occulted in the official\nhis
 torical narratives of the Islamic state. The book is based on\nthe unpubli
 shed written memoirs of the author’s grand-father\,\nrecalling in detail t
 he history of his two daughters imprisoned in\n1981\, one of whom was exec
 uted the same year\, and the other (the\nauthor’s mother) in 1988.\nPost-r
 evolutinary violence in Iran ended up in the 1988 mass\nexecution of thous
 ands of political prisoners\, which was covered-up\nby confiscation of the
  dead bodies\, secret mass graves and state\ninterdiction of funeral rites
  and burials on the families. The\nabsence of sepulture and the impossibil
 ity of ritualized mourning\nafter 1988 show how politics of death were use
 d not only to\nsuppress opponents and minorities\, but also to govern a po
 pulation\nwho lived in terror and brought the wounded memory of dead witho
 ut\nfunerals.\nHow did practices of disappearance shape the memorializatio
 n of\nviolence and its intergenerational legacy\, while there remains no\n
 resolution or recognition? How are issues of remembering\, justice\nand fo
 rgetting translated into politics and lived in the every-day\nlife?\nPolit
 ical disappearance\, interdiction of funeral\, “webs” of\nterror and surve
 illance around targeted individuals\, their families\nand social networks:
  state repression since 2009 in Iran is using\nthe same techniques of powe
 r than in the 1980s to achieve control\nover civil society and population 
 at large\, and the perpetrators of\nthe massacres have remained in power. 
 This testimony on the\neveryday experience of post-revolutionary repressio
 n contributes to\nunderstand what is happening today in Iran\, and the cha
 llenges\nfacing revolutions in the Middle East.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nCh
 owra Makaremi is a researcher at the Centre National de la\nRecherche Scie
 ntifique (CNRS) in Paris. She holds a PhD in\nanthropology from the Univer
 sité de Montréal.\nShe works on issues of migration and security\, the ant
 hropology\nof law and the state\, and processes of subjectivation at the\n
 margins. She is the author of Le cahier d’Aziz. Au cœur de la\nrévolution 
 iranienne (Paris: Gallimard\, 2011).\n \n\n \n
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SUMMARY:Aziz’s Notebook: At the heart of the Iranian revolution
URL:/channels/event/aziz%E2%80%99s-notebook-heart-iran
 ian-revolution-211828
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