Leili Adibfar will be Presenting a Paper at an Upcoming UC of Santa Barbara Graduate Symposium

Phd Candidate Leili Adibfar will be presenting a paper titled “Of Existence, Embodiment, and Oil: Behjat Sadr’s Paintings and the Question of the Local and the Global in Writing the Art History of Modern Iran” at the New Approaches to Modern Iranian Art 1950-1979 Symposium on Zoom, hosted by the Graduate Center for Literary Studies at UC Santa Barbara on May 16. This presentation is part of a panel titled “Iranian Modern Art and the Issue of Identity.” More information about the symposium, including a list of all panelists as well as the schedule and the registration link can be found here.