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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, February 12, 2025 12:00 pm to 
 2:00 pm \n Rm 304 \n 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1 \n\nDescripti
 on: \nThe Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, Univers
 ity of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, Department for Continu
 ing Education, University of Oxford jointly present “Private Sins, Publi
 c Crimes: Policing, Punishment, and Authority in Iran” with Prof. Farzin
  Vejdani, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityZoom Meeting Registration: https
 ://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdu-upjkoHt105Bv9ohYiR1iWSI...Afte
 r registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing informati
 on about joining the meeting.Abstract:Drawing on a rich array of primary s
 ources in multiple languages, I argue that the ambiguity in defining the 
 boundaries between private and public in Qajar Iran often corresponded wit
 h the jurisdictional friction between government authorities and religious
  scholars regarding who had the authority to police and punish public crim
 es. This ambiguity had implications for the spaces in which illicit acts w
 ere carried out: “private” parties in domestic residences where music, al
 cohol, and prostitution were present were often tolerated by local police
  officials but raised the ire of religious authorities and their followers
 , who raided these residences, ironically in violation of strong Islamic
  norms of privacy.Crimes that were manifest but remained unpunished trigge
 red a crisis of legitimacy that often coincided with upstart Islamic relig
 ious scholars challenging the state’s authority. Even when the government 
 had every intention of punishing a crime, convicted criminals sought shel
 ter in sanctuaries—including shrines, mosques, royal stables, and teleg
 raph offices—which were even more inviolable than private residences. This
  inviolability, grounded in both Islamic prohibitions of violence on sacr
 ed grounds and Iranian imperial traditions of redress, allowed criminals 
 to negotiate a lesser sentence, safe passage for voluntary exile, or for
 giveness.Bio:Farzin Vejdani is associate professor of history at Toronto M
 etropolitan University. He is the author of Making History in Iran: Educat
 ion, Nationalism, and Print Culture and the recipient of an Honorable Me
 ntion for the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award. He lives i
 n Toronto, Canada. \n\nContact Information: \n The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djal
 ali Institute of Iranian Studies \n4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1
  \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n All
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T120000
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LOCATION:4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1
SUMMARY:Rethinking History: Private Sins, Public Crimes
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/rethinking-history-p
 rivate-sins-public-crimes
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