Anne H. Betteridge, Director, UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Monday, May 23, 2022,
2:30-3:30 pm,
The ASA Great Room
The protracted, on-again, off-again, negotiations between the US and Iranian governments since the 1979 revolution have yielded some steps forward and more than a few steps back in shaping relations between the two countries. Might an understanding of traditional Iranian expectations for giving and receiving gifts, as well as for some other social practices, offer clues as to how the US might engage more productively in negotiating with Iran? To answer that question, Anne Betteridge will draw from anthropological research on Iranian culture supplemented with advice of a US diplomat well acquainted with Iranian history and social forms.
Anne H. Betteridge is Director of the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a professor in the UA School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies. She served as Executive Director of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) from 1990-2002. An anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, her research interests focus on Iranian culture, and women and ritual in particular. Anne Betteridge is currently Co-Chair of the Council of National Resource Centers for International and Area Studies (CNRC) and President of the American Institute of Iranian Studies.
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