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  • Shiva Balaghi

    Dr. Shiva Balaghi is an independent scholar and curator. Balaghi was among the first faculty to introduce the subject of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art at US universities, teaching for nearly two decades…
    September 25, 2016
  • Bahram Beyzaie

    Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran’s most acclaimed filmmakers, playwrights, and scholars of the history of Iranian theater, both secular and religious. He was a leader of the generation of filmmakers known…
    September 25, 2016
  • Mehrdad Fakour

    Mehrdad Fakour is a lecturer and author on the subjects of culture, symbolism, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Early Islam. He received his Ph.D. from the University of…
    September 25, 2016
  • Mehdi Ghadyanloo

    Mehdi Ghadyanloo is an Iranian artist known for his utopian and philosophical paintings that interrogate universal human precepts such as fear, hope and loss. Through the portrayal of minimal heterotopic environments, surreal…
    September 26, 2016
  • GhalamDAR

    Ghalamdar (“the writer” in Farsi) is a graffiti artist (born 1994, Tehran, Iran), working since 2006. He is an active member of Calligraffiti community and called between the four most recognized Iranian street artists who…
    September 26, 2016
  • Talinn Grigor

    Talinn Grigor is a Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Her research concentrates on the cross-pollination of art and (post)colonial…
    September 28, 2016
  • Christiane Gruber

    Christiane Gruber is Associate Professor of Islamic Art in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary field of research is Islamic book arts, paintings of…
    September 26, 2016
  • Sohrab Kashani

    Sohrab Kashani is an interdisciplinary artist and an independent curator based in Tehran. Sohrab is the founder and director of Sazmanab, formerly a center for contemporary art and a not for profit…
    September 28, 2016
  • Bahman Kiarostami

    Bahman Kiarostami was born in Tehran in 1978, he started working as an assistant director in 1996. His films have focused on the political power of faith inside contemporary Iranian culture and…
    September 26, 2016
  • Ahoo Najafian

    Ahoo Najafian is a Ph.D. student in the Religious Studies department at Stanford. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran, and holds an M.A.…
    September 26, 2016
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ART, SOCIAL SPACE AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE

Art, Social Space and Public Discourse, envisioned and directed by artist Ala Ebtekar, is a Stanford global initiative on art that investigates the multiple contexts that shift and define changing ideas of public space. This ongoing critical framework of conversations, newly commissioned art projects, and exploration of various cultural productions and intellectual traditions looks at recent transformations of civic life.


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