Discussion: Iranian-American Foreign Policy in 2009 – UT Austin

Those of us who attended last Thursday’s panel discussion featuring Shirin Ebadi at the LBJ Library Auditorium were disappointed. Both the comments of several panelists (e.g., no mention of any Iranian or American foreign policy makers or experts or researchers or the impending Iranian elections, and no questioning at all of Ms.Ebadi’s categorical statements) and the panel chair (whose inability pronounce the surnames of two panelists suggested to some audience members unfamiliarity with the panel’s subject), the panel composition (no representation of specific political science expertise on Iran, e.g., Jason Brownlee) and the panel format (e.g., only fifteen minutes for questions from a patient audience among whose members were likely individuals no less expert in the panel’s subject than some of the panelists) left some audience members feeling that a serious conversation on the subject of Iran-America foreign policy in 2009 did not take place. Consequently, we’re going to have that conversation this coming Tuesday at 3:30 to 5 in Mezes 1.122.

Everyone will get a chance to ask questions or make comments.
Moderated by Prof. Michael Hillmann
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