Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM)

Diskussionsveranstaltung „Unpacking the Uprising in Iran“

  • Wann 10.02.2026 von 18:00 bis 20:00
  • Wo Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin
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„Unpacking the Uprising in Iran“ –
A MERGE Discussion in Cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch
(in English)  
 
Date: 10.02.2026
Time: 18:00- 20:00
Place: Tillon-Saal, Center Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin
 
Free admission. You're welcome!

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Panel

  

  • Firoozeh Farvardin is a university assistant in the area of Gender and Politics at the University of Vienna. She is also an associate fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), hosted by Potsdam University and supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
  • Maziar Samiee is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex. 
  • Nader Talebi is a researcher at BIM, where he leads MERGE, a research group on the Middle East focused on mobility and mobilization.
  • Dana Abdel-Fatah (Moderation) is a PhD researcher at Humboldt University and co-head of the Department of Migration and Health at BIM. 

 

Background

   
The recent uprising in Iran marks one of the darkest
and most consequential moments in the country’s modern
history. In January, millions took to the streets across hundreds
of cities, only to face an unprecedented massacre carried out
under an internet blackout that severed Iranians from one
another and from the world. As fragments of testimony and images
continue to surface—of mass killings, collective mourning, and
everyday resistance—they reveal not only the scale of state
violence but also a society that has reached a breaking point.

This event responds to that urgent present by situating the uprising
within longer histories of struggle in Iran, examining both the
continuities of repression and resistance and the discontinuities
that make this moment historically distinct.


„Unpacking the Uprising in Iran“ –
A MERGE Discussion in Cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch
(in English)  
 
Date: 10.02.2026
Time: 18:00- 20:00
Place: Tillon-Saal, Center Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin
 
Free admission. You're welcome!