Human rights activist, attorney, and educator Mehrangiz Kar delivered the first lecture in the Weissman Center's 2007-2008 series, Bearing Witness, Thursday, October 18. Kar shared her own evocative stories of advocacy and protest in and beyond Iran.
The lecture ""With Determined Spirits": Activism and Contemporary Women's Rights in Iran" opened a year-long series that will explore the issues of testimony, the politics of advocacy, and the multiple ways in which acts of witnessing enable, educate, and inspire us.