Naomi Schor Lecture Series: Roya Hakakian, Writer, Journalist, Human Rights Activist
Lecture Title: “9/17/1992: The political assassination, stubborn prosecutor, and historic verdict that shook Iran and Europe”
ROYA HAKAKIAN brings to life the story of the political assassination and trial that forever changed Iran’s relationship to Europe and is called one of the most significant European trials since the Nuremberg trial of World War II. Seamlessly weaving a tale of murder, betrayal, political intrigue, and the pursuit of justice, Hakakian delivers a story that rivals the best of the thriller genre—except it’s all true.
The Naomi Schor Lecture Fund was established in 2002 to honor and perpetuate the memory of Professor Schor by bringing to the Yale community distinguished speakers on the broad range of topics represented by her teaching and research. At the time of her death, Schor was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French at Yale, where she had earned her doctorate in 1969. Schor had held distinguished professorships at Brown, Duke and Harvard universities before joining the Yale faculty in 1999. Naomi Schor was a scholar of nineteenth-century French literature and culture, whose writings focused on the novel, but whose interests spanned a much wider area, including feminist theory, women’s and gender studies, the visual arts, interdisciplinary approaches to literature and history and the relationship of universalism human rights, and citizenship to the more particular national ethnic, and immigrant identities of America and France. Guests have included Joan Scott , Francoise Gaspard, , Margaret Phelan, Linda Nochlin, Judith Butler, Alice Kaplan, and Patrick Weil.