Join the de Young and Legion of Honor Fine Art Museums of San Francisco for the 13th annual Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Memorial Lecture with Minoo Moallem focused on Persian carpets and women’s creative work. This talk links the history of technology, women’s creative labor, and textile art.
Minoo Moallem is a professor of gender and women’s studies and the director of media studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of numerous publications, including Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity and Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran. She has also ventured into digital media. Her project Nation on the Move (design by Eric Loyer) was published in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.
To learn more about the event, as well as livestream it, please click the link below.
Image courtesy of Minoo Moallem via the FAMSF website.
