Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles

Opening Day Programs: Document: Iranian Americans in Los Angeles
June 6, 2010
Symposium Schedule:

12–2 pm: Panel 1: On 'Document': Visual Anthropology, the Iranian-American diaspora, and Ethnicity in Los Angeles
Moderator: Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) Roxanne Varzi (UC Irvine) - "The Visual Document: Photographing Iran at Home and Abroad"
Roger Waldinger (UCLA) - "America's New Second Generation: Experiences and Implications"Zohreh Sullivan (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) - "Portrait, Landscape, and Narrative"
Amy Malek (UCLA) - "The Process of Documentation: The Making of 'Document: Iranian-Americans in L.A.'"

Break

2:20–3:50 pm: Panel 2: Artists Roundtable
Moderator: Amy Malek (UCLA)
Farhad Parsa, Arash Saedinia, Parisa Taghizadeh, Ramin Talaie

4–5:30 pm: Exhibition Opening Reception
Celebrate the opening of Document with a reception in the Goldenberg Galleria and Fowler courtyard, including a gallery tour with Malek.

June 6, 2010 to August 22, 2010
From October 2009 through January 2010, four documentary photographers—Farhad Parsa, Arash Saedinia, Parisa Taghizadeh, and Ramin Talaie—focused their lenses on second-generation Iranian-Americans of Los Angeles, the world’s largest population of expatriate Iranians. This Galleria exhibition offers a selection of engaging images by each of these photographers considering the everyday lives of their subjects. It also addresses the processes of documentation and how they relate to the photographers' understandings of their own hyphenated Iranian identities.

See intriguing photographs capturing the varied lives and interests of LA’s Iranian-American community—from toddlers at play to an acupuncturist in the office of her Los Feliz practice—including a few recognizable figures such as public intellectual Reza Aslan and comedian Maz Jobrani.

Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles has been organized by Amy Malek, UCLA Anthropology PhD candidate, with Susan Slyomovics, faculty advisor, under the auspices of the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at UCLA and through generous funding from the UCLA Council on Research (COR), UCLA Center for Community Partnerships (CCP), the Farhang Foundation, and CNES.

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Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles has been organized by Amy Malek, UCLA Anthropology PhD candidate, with Susan Slyomovics, faculty advisor, under the auspices of the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at UCLA and through generous funding from the UCLA Council on Research (COR), UCLA Center for Community Partnerships (CCP), the Farhang Foundation, and CNES.

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