Co-hosted by Yale Club of Beijing and Yale Center Beijing. This talk is part of the Yale University Press-Yale Center Beijing "Find Your Next Great Read" Series.

Event Time

Tuesday, June 9, 2026
8:00 pm-9:30 pm | China Standard Time (CST)

Tuesday, June 9, 2026
8:00 am-9:30 am | Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Participation Format 

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Registration and Fees

Registration
Please click “HERE” further below to register. Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu if there are any problems. 

Ticket: Free.

The language of the event will be English. 

The Event

Iran stands at a critical crossroads, where internal upheaval reverberates far beyond its borders, reshaping regional dynamics and international relations. On June 9, Abbas Amanat, William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and author of Iran: A Modern History, will deliver an in-depth analysis of Iran's current domestic and diplomatic crises amid geopolitical conflicts, offering essential perspectives for understanding today’s Middle East and the broader global landscape.

The Speaker

Abbas Amanat
William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University

Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Tehran University in 1971 and his Doctorate of Philosophy from the School of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, in 1981. He taught at Yale University between 1983 and 2021. He has written about early modern and modern history of Iran, the Middle East, the Muslim world and the Persianate world, including Iran: A Modern History.

Amanat has served as the director of the Ghasem Ghani Project at Yale University Library, as the Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University, and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.