Head to the museum for a conversation with an anti-war coalition of UMN students, faculty, and alumni on Iran sanctions. Panelists include Katayoun Amjadi, Pedram Baldari, Sina Chiniforoush, Nooshin Hakim Javadi, Alexander Jabbari, Sima Shakhsari, and Roozbeh Shirazi.
No registration required.
This event is co-sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum, Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, and the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium.
Elise Armani is a fourth year BFA candidate, with a dual degree in Gender, Women and Sexuality studies and a minor in Art History. Elise is an artist and an independent curator, and works as the Projects & Programs assistant at WAM. In the off moments when she isn’t working, Elise enjoys reading, frolicking in nature, and spending time with her pitbull (child) Lando.
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