Panel: Understanding Iran Protests: Domestic and International Perspectives
Event details
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Tuesday 24 March 2026 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Lecture Theatre 06, Diamond, University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
Description
Join us for a panel featuring diverse perspectives on the current protests in Iran. We have assembled experts and people with lived experience and access to diverse information sources from Iran. We will debate the following questions: What is happening in Iran? Why are people protesting? What are the domestic discourses and narratives about the Protests? What are the International perspectives on the Iran Protests? What are the implications of that for Iran and the world?
Chair: Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield) and Manucher (Lead of South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group - SYMAAG: https://www.symaag.org.uk/about-us/)
Organisers: Migration Research Group, Kurdish Society of the University of Sheffield, SYMAAG and Iran Solidarity Net Sheff.
Panelists:
1. Yassamine Mather (Editor of Critic Magazine, University of Oxford).
2. Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini
Senior NHS Consultant Anaesthetist; Independent Oxford City Councillor and Migrant Champion; Union Delegate of the British-Iranian Medical Association; Member of Medact.
3. Dr Anahita Hosseini Lewis (Expert in international relations, international law, human rights, and political sociology. She has worked as an advisor for different international organisations).
4. Veria Amiri (Youtuber and Kurdish/Iranian philosophy graduate from Birkbeck, University of London)
Please register using the link.