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The Gholam-Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture in Iranian history honours the memory of Dr Gholam-Reza Nikpay, a distinguished Iranian alumnus of the LSE who served as Minister of Housing, Mayor of Tehran and a member of the Iranian Senate in the Pahlavi era.
This year’s speaker will be Professor Houchang Chehabi. Houchang Chehabi is a professor of international relations and history emeritus at Boston University and an honorary professor in the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. His publications include Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990), Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006), Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020), ten edited or co-edited volumes, and numerous articles.
This talk will explore questions like: Was Iran a fully sovereign country in the age of empires? How did the Iranians preserve their independence when much of Asia was colonised?
The Russo-Persian Turkmenchay Treaty of 1828 inaugurated Iran’s unequal relations with European powers. By the late nineteenth century it became clear that only legal reform could persuade the capitulatory powers to abandon their privileges in Iran. Legal reform began in earnest after the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, and the creation of a modern legal system enabled Iran to abrogate the capitulations in 1828.
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