In this ongoing Smart series, University of Chicago instructors and their invited guests enter into dialogue about one specific artwork on view in a current exhibition. Highlighting objects that spark the curiosity and interest of scholars across disciplines, these conversations always include an opportunity for attendees to join the discussion. Pouneh Shabani-Jaddidi, Instructional Professor of Persian in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, continues the series with a conversation about Mohammad Hossein Mosavvar-ol-Molki’s print “The Allied Powers Routing the Axis Powers” in Smart to the Core: Wise to Power. Free, no registration required.

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a linguist and a literary translator. At the University of Chicago, she is Instructional Professor of Persian at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the College. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics with a focus on psycholinguistics from the University of Ottawa in Canada in 2012. Prior to that, she had received another Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics with a focus on translation from Tehran Azad University in 2004.

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Mohammad Hossein Mosavvar-ol-Molki, The Allied Powers Routing the Axis Powers, c. 1945,
Color offset lithograph. Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Gift of Wallace P.
Rusterholtz, 1994.93