IAA Dinner/ Social Hour in June – Student Scholarship award in July

Monthly Meeting in June: Dinner/ Social Hour

After 18 scientific lectures by local Iranian professionals and academia, we are going to to hold an “Academic/Professional Social Hour” on Thursday June 11, 2009 at Montgomery Community College (7:30 pm).

Our monthly meeting in June, is aimed to be a celebration of the academic year. This meeting will allow students to introdue themselves and their work to the their peers and community of professionals in the area. Especially with the upcoming Preseidential Elections on Friday, this will also give everybody an opportunity to share their opinions and concerns in this regard.

IAA Student Scholarship Award:

The IAA meeting in July will be dedicated to the “IAA Student Scholarship Award” and will host Dr. Shamloo of World Bank as the guest speaker . If you are full time college student (Undergrad-Grad), you are encouraged to apply for this scholarship by June 20, 2009. Please see more details here.

For filling the application form, click here.

If you are not a student but know eligible students within your family, friends, and professional circles, by all means, please pass on the word and have them apply for this scholarship. For this scholarship period, we encourage the students in soft sciences (art, humanities, Social Sciences, Management, Economy, Journalism . . . ) to apply.

Location:
Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus)- Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009

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Dues: $15 per person, $5 for students (including dinner)

Lecture 18: Globalization and the Challenge of Defining One’s Own Identity

Thursday May 14, 2009, 7:30 pm
By: Dr. Hossein Seif Zadeh, PhD
Synopsis:

Globalization has made it inevitable for each individual to redefine his/or her identity. This said, nonetheless, redefinition of one’s self is a very difficult task. Due to this abstruseness, there is a tendency among most ordinary citizens of the globe to skip redefining the self. Instead, they subscribe themselves as the disciples of selected celebrities, as they passively wish. Yet there are other alternative ways. These attempts at defining oneself can range from that passive end to a proactive one defined in terms of ‘protocol identity.” The options in-between are more influenced by a pull-push mechanism between the following two constituents of human’s personal or institutional identity: (1) the ascriptive root (Nasabi) of the self and (2) the achieving status of the self (Sababi.) Inspired by the Persian-speaking Iranian Orafa such as Hafez and Khayyam, and through a post-modern prism, Dr. Seif Zadeh has offered “protocol identity” as an intellectual construct to overcome this uni-dimensionalism. The suggested model is designed in a way to empower each individual to independently define her/or his self, as he/or she will. The multiple dimensions and the flexible configuration of the suggested model of protocol identity seem to provide each individual person or institution with an exit formula to overcome the identity challenge-arising from the globalization processes. The prefix protocol for identity indicates that identity is context-bound. That is it can be redefined due to changes in both situational ideational dimensions of life. In his talk, Dr. Seif Zadeh discuss these aspects of human life and how to tackle the identity challenge.

About the Lecturer:

Dr. Hossein Seifzadeh is currently an Adjunct Scholar at Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. He is a retired professor of Political Science at University of Tehran, Law and Politics Dept. His main interest is Iran’s international and domestic politics. As such, he delved himself into a variety of Iranian political life aspects including both theoretical and practical, and also ancient, mid and modern dimensions of it. Cultural and democratic aspects of Iranian politics have been more addressed by him. He is the author of more than 20 books and has published more than 160 papers in international journals. Dr. Seifzadeh has done his post-doc at Harvard University (1991-2) and his Ph.D. studies at University of California-Santa Barbara (1980-3.) He submitted his Doctoral dissertation to the University of Tehran in 1985. He has two Master degrees in Public Administration from University of California-Chico (1979) and Political Science from Tehran (1974.) Since 1975, he has taught in different higher education institutes in Iran and participated in numerous international seminars and academic ventures across the board. In this respect, he has been invited to Harvard University as a Visiting Professor several times and is heading to Argentina in the coming Summer.

Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus)- Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009

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Dues: $15 per person, $5 for students (including dinner)

Lecture 17: Toxicity in Body and Different Techniques for Removing it

Thursday April 9, 2009, 7:30 pm
By: Dr. Sam Saba, ND, DMD
Synopsis:

Some researchers have recently paid a great attention to the Natural Medicine, or under other names, as:Complementary Medicine, Alternative Med., Biological Med., Orthomolecular Med. or Wholestic Medicine. The reason for this change was the side effects of the chemical drugs. These side effects sometimes cause much more problems than the actual disease. At this time patient is trying to get rid of the illness through AlternativeMedicine and avoid unnecessary surgeries.According to the existing researches most health problems in the body has linkage to the toxicity of the body, shortage of water & necessary nutrients, and finally different kinds of stress. All of these can be solved by Complementary Medicine.

About the Lecturer:

Dr. Saba obtained his DMD degree from Tehran University in 1962 and his specialty in Oral Diagnosis & Oral Medicine in 1980. He was so attracted to Natural Medicine that he went to Finland (which is one of the pioneer countries in this field) to continue his studies and obtained several degrees.

Dr. Saba came to US and continued his studies in Capital University of Integrative Medicine. He got his Doctrate degree in Naturopathy from Clayton College. Also got sub-specialty from Dr. Bradford Microscopic Research Institute. Now, he is a Board Certified Naturopath. Naturopathy means natural & biological approach to the imbalances of the body (health problems) as a result of unhealthy lifestyle and polluted environment.

Location:

Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus)- Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009

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Dues: $15 per person, $5 for students (including dinner)