BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260204T1732Z-1770226358.3832-EO-739240-1@10.73.7.237 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260410T033646Z CREATED:20260204T151311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T151311Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T130000 SUMMARY: Kelman Seminar – Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran’s Crisis as a Civili zational Reckoning DESCRIPTION: Recent events in Iran are often analyzed through geopolitical frameworks and short-term political or economic explanations. This talk off ers a different perspective: a cultural and ethical interpretation rooted i n Iran’s indigenous Zoroastrian heritage. Drawing on historical analysis\, contemporary survey data on religious affiliation\, and the Women\, Life\, Freedom (Zan\, Zendegi\, Azadi) movement\, Dr. Sousan Abadian […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Recent events in Iran are often analyzed t hrough geopolitical frameworks and short-term political or economic explana tions. This talk offers a different perspective: a cultural and ethical int erpretation rooted in Iran’s indigenous Zoroastrian heritage. Drawing on hi storical analysis\, contemporary survey data on religious affiliation\, and the Women\, Life\, Freedom (Zan\, Zendegi\, Azadi) movement\, Dr. Sousan A badian argues that Iran is undergoing not only political upheaval but a dee per civilizational reckoning. Through a Zoroastrian lens\, Iran’s present m oment appears not only as resistance to authoritarian rule\, but as a long- delayed effort to reclaim moral agency\, human dignity\, and cultural whole ness after centuries of collective trauma and religious coercion. The talk explores how the movement’s language reflects long-suppressed indigenous Ir anian ethical values—centered on dignity\, life\, freedom\, and responsibil ity toward the Earth—and what this reawakening may signal about Iran’s poss ible futures.

CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Zoom GEO:40.712728;-74.006015 ORGANIZER;CN="Kenneth D. Russell":MAILTO:kerussell@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/kelman-seminar-woman-life-free dom-irans-crisis-as-a-civilizational-reckoning/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Abadian.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR