Sharing on behalf of the Social Responsibilities Round Table:
Members of the Social Responsibilities Round Table would like to invite you and the members of the Sustainability Round Table to an event at the upcoming ALA conference.
The International Responsibilities Task Force of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table is sponsoring a talk by Trita Parsi at the forthcoming ALA Convention in Chicago titled, "US-Iran Relations in the Biden Era." Parsi is co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, as well as the co-founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council. The Council is "dedicated to strengthening the voice of Iranian Americans and promoting greater understanding between the American and Iranian people. Trita Parsi is an award-winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has authored three books on US foreign policy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran and Israel. His articles have appeared in many major newspapers and he is a frequent guest on major news networks and Democracy Now! In 2021, he was named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 50 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington DC, and preeminent public intellectual Noam Chomsky calls Parsi "one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran." He has served as an adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and George Washington University, as well as an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and as a Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He currently teaches at Georgetown University in Washington DC. For more background information on the history and politics of Iran and US-Iran relations, please see the reading list provided by our speaker on the website of the SRRT International Responsibilities Task Force. We hope you'll join us for the talk. Trita Parsi will speak on Saturday, June 24 at 2:30 pm in McCormick Center W195.<u1:p></u1:p>
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Tina Chan
Coordinator, ALA Sustainability Round Table
Reference Services Program Manager and Humanities Librarian
MIT Libraries
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