BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Panel Title: Revolutionary Worlds: Fascism\, Anti-Imperialism\, an d Transnational Political Imaginaries - Ashkan Hashemipour (Oxford)\, Daik i Kaba (Hitotsubashi University) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260128T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260128T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/caa59e51-710f-4959-a4eb-c62fdd873053/ DESCRIPTION:*Daika Kaba* (Hitotsubashi University)\n*Between Local Race an d Global FascismL the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and Interracial movements in Harlem\, New York*\n\nThe Iranian People’s Fadai Guerrillas (IPFG) a nd the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) built and maintain ed extensive transnational networks throughout the Middle East in the lead -up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution\, sending activists to Lebanon\, Syria\ , Jordan\, Iraq\, Libya\, Turkey\, Oman\, and South Yemen. These guerrilla s forged relationships with regional governments and liberation movements alike\, through which they gained access to military training\, created ar ms-smuggling channels\, and established their own radio stations. This pap er\, thus\, explores two questions: firstly\, how Iranian guerrillas estab lished these transnational relationships\, and\, secondly\, how these rela tionships influenced both Iranian guerrilla activism and the evolution of the Iranian revolutionary movement as a whole. These relationships were fo rmed largely through contingent processes\, emerging from chance encounter s or the personal decisions of rank-and-file activists rather than through organisational design or intent. Accordingly\, this paper adopts a micro- level approach that foregrounds activists’ individual trajectories acros s borders\, rather than the top-down\, teleological perspectives that have characterised much of the scholarship on the Iranian Revolution. This foc us on individual-level processes reveals the impactful nature of these rel ationships: they both enabled these activists to operationalise previously abstract revolutionary theory and prompted porousness and collaboration a cross political divides amongst Iranian revolutionaries based abroad. Furt her\, these relationships\, though initially pragmatic in origin\, evolved into emotionally powerful bonds between Iranian activists and their forei gn allies. These affective ties – rooted in a commitment to each other ’s liberation – both facilitated the exchange of material support\, cr ucial to sustaining the guerrilla struggle inside of Iran\, and\, converse ly\, led Iranians to participate in various regional conflicts alongside t heir non-Iranian counterparts. Given its focus on individual trajectories\ , this study relies on a wide range of sources\, including memoirs\, oral history interviews\, and archival sources\, such as organisational pamphle ts and publications.\n\n*Ashkan Hashemipour* (Oxford)\n*Between Iran and t he World: The transnational dimensions of the Iranian guerrilla movement ( 1963-1979)*\n\nThe Iranian People’s Fadai Guerrillas (IPFG) and the Peop le’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) built and maintained extensiv e transnational networks throughout the Middle East in the lead-up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution\, sending activists to Lebanon\, Syria\, Jordan\, Iraq\, Libya\, Turkey\, Oman\, and South Yemen. These guerrillas forged re lationships with regional governments and liberation movements alike\, thr ough which they gained access to military training\, created arms-smugglin g channels\, and established their own radio stations. This paper\, thus\, explores two questions: firstly\, how Iranian guerrillas established thes e transnational relationships\, and\, secondly\, how these relationships i nfluenced both Iranian guerrilla activism and the evolution of the Iranian revolutionary movement as a whole. These relationships were formed largel y through contingent processes\, emerging from chance encounters or the pe rsonal decisions of rank-and-file activists rather than through organisati onal design or intent. Accordingly\, this paper adopts a micro-level appro ach that foregrounds activists’ individual trajectories across borders\, rather than the top-down\, teleological perspectives that have characteri sed much of the scholarship on the Iranian Revolution. This focus on indiv idual-level processes reveals the impactful nature of these relationships: they both enabled these activists to operationalise previously abstract r evolutionary theory and prompted porousness and collaboration across polit ical divides amongst Iranian revolutionaries based abroad. Further\, these relationships\, though initially pragmatic in origin\, evolved into emoti onally powerful bonds between Iranian activists and their foreign allies. These affective ties – rooted in a commitment to each other’s liberati on – both facilitated the exchange of material support\, crucial to sust aining the guerrilla struggle inside of Iran\, and\, conversely\, led Iran ians to participate in various regional conflicts alongside their non-Iran ian counterparts. Given its focus on individual trajectories\, this study relies on a wide range of sources\, including memoirs\, oral history inter views\, and archival sources\, such as organisational pamphlets and public ations.\nSpeakers:\nAshkan Hashemipour (Oxford)\, Daiki Kaba (Hitotsubashi University) LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory (Room 20.402\, History Hub\, Schwarzman Cen tre) TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/caa59e51-710f-4959-a4eb-c62fdd873053/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Panel Title: Revolutionary Worlds: Fascism\, Anti-Imperia lism\, and Transnational Political Imaginaries - Ashkan Hashemipour (Oxfor d)\, Daiki Kaba (Hitotsubashi University) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR