Event details

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

Speaker: Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (University of York)

Date: 7 May 2025

Location: 1pm, V/N/123

'A zoom link will be made available for distance learning PhD students on request'

Please contact Dilnoza Duturaeva (dilnoza.duturaeva@york.ac.uk) and Ana Otero-Cleves (anamaria.otero-cleves@york.ac.uk) if you have any questions. You can view the full schedule for the semester here.

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a historian of West Asia (Middle East), with a particular focus on the modern intellectual and political history of Iran and the wider Shi'i Muslim world. In disciplinary terms, he works at the intersection of intellectual and political history, the history of political thought, and postcolonial theory.

His first monograph, Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran, traced the political, intellectual and ideological genealogies of Iran’s post-revolutionary reform movement in the context of the global Cold War and Euro-American traditions of Cold War liberalism and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.

Eskandar is currently working on two further monograph projects. The first project is an intellectual biography of the Iranian intellectual and dissident Jalal Al-e Ahmad (d. 1969) and will be published as part of the prestigious Makers of the Muslim World book series. The second research monograph examines the intersecting histories of Muslim socialism and Islamic egalitarianism and Muslim intellectuals and Islamic movements’ engagement with Marxist, socialist, and anarchist theory, ideas, political parties, and organisations across the twentieth-century.