Ravitch ’60 Lecture
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
The Diane Silvers Ravitch ’60 Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, and her newest book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.
Drawing from her life between Iran and the U.S., Nafisi will explore how literature defies repression—whether under the Islamic Republic or the rise of Trump. In times of crackdown on women, culture, minorities, and rights, literature opens spaces of freedom where authoritarianism seeks to close them. Today, imaginative knowledge is more vital than ever in the fight for democracy.