The Roger Ebert Lecture, "Provenance, Fakes, and Feuds: Building Expertise around Transnational Genre in 1960s Iran," will be presented by Kaveh Askari, an associate professor and director of film studies at Michigan State University. Askari’s research and teaching focus on cinema and media history in a global context. Special areas of interest include art cinema, media circulation, film, and cinemas of the Middle East. Join in-person or via Zoom.
Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is the author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit, which won the 2023 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is the author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood (2014) and the co-editor of several volumes including a special issue of Film History titled South by South/West Asia: Transregional Histories of Middle East--South Asia Cinemas (2021) and Performing New Media, 1890-1915 (2014).
