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Past Projects

Azadi Monument in Iran

A series of events bringing together scholars, experts, and key figures to discuss and assess the prospects for Iran's  transition from the Islamic Republic regime to a secular democracy in light of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings in 2022. 

street art mural by Iranian artist GhalamDAR

Street mural in Oakland, California by artist GhalamDAR & Mike "BAM" Tyau

The initiative investigated the multiple contexts that shift and define changing ideas of Iranian public space, looking at recent transformations of Iranian civic life and asked what may constitute the architecture, images, and people that shape multiple notions of a “public” Iran.

Tehran cityscape with traffic

A three-year joint program with the Laboratory for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology at Stanford University Medical School, hosted lectures, webinars, and fellowships on the most recent discoveries of neuroscience for audiences in Iran.