Duke University Department of Religious Studies

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Check out a recent interview with Professor Mohsen Kadivar with magazine -Der Spiegel
We don't need a Supreme Leader:

"We don't need a Supreme Leader" - Kadivar.com English Kadivar evaluates the future of Iran, characterizing the current authoritarian theocratic regime as a failing state that has lost its popular legitimacy. While he acknowledges the government's continued resilience against immediate collapse, he argues that ‘systemic reform’ or a transition to a ...

Mark your calendars and join GSF on Friday, January 23, 2026 at the Center for Documentary Studies for a day-long symposium organized around our 2025-2026 research theme, Feminism and the Culture Wars.

This symposium contends with the relationship between feminist theory, feminist activism, and the culture wars. Often taking the form of moral panic, culture wars are characterized by reactionary rhetoric that targets the most marginalized groups, casting them as threats to the social order. More than metaphor, culture “wars” are proxies for political hegemony, eliciting questions about state power, criminalization, social movements, and the attack on academic freedom. Through lectures and a film screening, leading feminist scholars grapple both with feminism’s real and/or perceived role in sparking moral panic, and with its moral imperative to resist and contextualize that panic.

Please RSVP to attend! Open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Follow this link to find more information and RSVP! https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/events/feminism-and-culture-wars-symposium