President Mohammad Khatami will give the opening speech at Tehran University.
Afterwards, French researcher Janet Afari will give a lecture on the influence of Mullah Nasreddin’s cartoons on the movement.
Several articles by Iranian authors and researchers including “Underground Writings during the Constitutional Movement” by Mansureh Ettehadiyeh, “The Status of Iranian Women in Periodicals during the Movement” by Gholamreza Vatandust, and “Poetry during the Movement” by Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nadushan will be discussed on the first day.
Author Kevin Robinson will give a lecture on the position of the movement in comparison with other 20th century movements throughout world on the second day. The last two days of the seminar will be held at Tabriz University.
The Iranian Constitutional Movement of 1906 was the first event of its kind in the Middle East. The movement opened the way for cataclysmic changes in Iran, heralding the beginning of the modern era in the country. It saw a period of unprecedented debate in a burgeoning press. It created new opportunities and opened up seemingly boundless possibilities for Iran’s future.
Many different groups fought to shape the course of the movement, and all sections of society were ultimately to be in some way changed by it. The old order, which Nasereddin Shah Qajar had struggled for so long to sustain, finally passed away, to be replaced by new institutions, new forms of expression, and a new social and political order.
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