Leila Papoli Yazdi Appointed International Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin

As of the winter semester 2014/15, Prof. Dr. Leila Papoli Yazdi, an Iranian archaeologist, will be the Dahlem International Network Professor for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In her research, Yazdi, 36, focuses on Iranian gender history and body history from antiquity to the present day as well as art historical themes. She publishes her findings in conventional academic journals and also presents them through performances or exhibitions with political and humanitarian objectives. When more than 30,000 people died after the earthquake in Bam in 2003, she drew on her various methods to draw attention to the suffering.

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