Mehrdad Amanat - 'Religious syncretism and Social Change: Jews of Hamadan, 1880s to 1920s'

Mehrdad Amanat, a fellow of the Iranian Studies Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara, will present a lecture on the Jews of Hamadan during the period from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1920s. This lecture is part of a two-day conference held in honor of Prof. Heshmat Moayyad (1928–2018). For a complete conference schedule see https://cmes.uchicago.edu/page/persian-and-iranian-studies-honor-heshmat-moayyad.