Book launch: The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran by Azadeh Fatehrad, hosted by Fashion Research Network

Fashion Research Network is delighted to host the launch of The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure by Azadeh Fatehrad. This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poetic writings and photographs, Fatehrad responds to the legacy of the Iranian Revolution via the representation of women in photography, literature and film. 

 Attendees will receive a 20% discount code to purchase the book from Intellect https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-poetics-and-politics-of-the-veil-in-iran-an-archival-and-photographic-adventure

6.30 Event starts

6.35 Welcome and introduction

6.40 Book presentation by Azadeh Fatehrad

7.00 Panel discussion between Azadeh Fatehrad, Morna Laing and Dawn Woolley

7.20 Questions from attendees

7.40 Concluding remarks

Dr. Azadeh Fatehrad is an artist and curator based at London College of Fashion, UAL, working primarily with still and moving images in the context of historical representation. Fatehrad’s recent publication including ‘Sohrab Shahid Saless-Exile: Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image’ (2020) by Edinburgh University Press, UK. She is currently on editorial Board for the peer reviewed journal MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Dr. Morna Laing is Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The New School, Parsons Paris. She is the author of Picturing the Woman-child (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of the volume, Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking (Bloomsbury 2020). 

Dr. Dawn Woolley is a visual artist using photography, video, installation, performance, and sound. She is a Research Fellow at Leeds Art University. She uses photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation. In her self-portrait work she creates photographic substitutes to examine the act of looking and being looked at.