Simin Royanian
Born 1945, Kermanshah (Bakhtaran), Iran.
Education:
BA English Literature (Tehran University)
BA and MA in Accounting, Tehran, Iran.
MA in Economics from Univ. of Maryland, College Park.
PhD work in Economics at Univ of Maryland, Colledge Park, MD.
Former board member, Radio WPFW, Washington, DC.
Served as vice president and Trustee, Local 1924 of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union.
Member of DC Labor Committee on Peace and Justice.
Member of Northeast Feminist Scholars since 1980.
Cofounder, Women for Peace and Justice in Iran.
Peace and women's Rights activist since 1967.
Speeches
Participated in a panel discussion, "Iran: a Threat to the United States?" sponsored by Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice, Arlington, Va., July 20, 2006.
Spoke on "Iran, Nuclear Energy, and the US Threat of War on Iran" as part of Code Pink's Mother's Day for Peace program, Washington, DC, May 11, 2006. Transcript available at http://women4peace.org/2006-mothers-day.html.
Participated on the panel in a community meeting on Stopping War Against Iran, Washington, DC, USA, March 3, 2006. Transcript available at http://women4peace.org/2006-03-03_india.html.
Led workshop on "Women, War and Peace" at Visions in Feminism conference, May 7, 2005 (presentation reworked into an article posted at http://women4peace.org/2005_war_women.html).
Has been interviewed on a variety of TV and radio shows, including CNN International, Pacifica radio network's Peacewatch and Free Speech Radio News programs, FAIR's Counterspin program, and on radio stations in Wisconsin, Boston, Texas, Atlanta, New York City, and KPFA Berkely, and Radio Islam in Chicago.
Topics discussed include US-Iran relations, nuclear energy issues, democracy and reform in Iran, and women's rights.
Speech on "Feminism and Radical Parenting" at the Visions in Feminism conference, April, 2004.
Presented at the Fourth National Grassroots Organizing Conference on Iraq in two sessions on May 2, 2003:
The Effects of War on Women.
on Iran, in a workshop on "Human Rights and the Crisis in the Middle East and Central Asia".
Presented in a workshop on "Feminism, Activism, Parenting and Inter-generational Relations" at the (April 19) 2003 Visions in Feminism conference.
The Children in Basra Have No Water, impromptu speech at a rally at Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC, put on by the Washington Peace Center, March 29, 2003.
Women and Globalization, Baruch College, New York, NY, Mar. 14, 2003.
Women and Peace, Accent TV program, Channel 30, Fairfax, VA, March 8, 2003.
Speaker at the Annual Conference on Visions in Feminism (Univ. of Maryland, USA), May of 2002 [transcript of talk] in a session on Women in Peace and Radical Political Movements.
Speaker, African Liberation Day, Howard Univ., Washington, DC, USA 2002.
Speaker at African Women's Movement Conference, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, March 9, 2002 [transcript].
Speaker at a Forum on the US War Threats to Iran, Iraq and Somalia. Washington, DC, March 15, 2002.
Presented on "Radical Parenting" at the Solidarity Conference, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, May 2001.
Spoke on Feminism at seminar "Defending Science: Countering the Rise of Postmodernism and Anti-Science", sponsored by Washington Area Secular Humanists and the Council for Secular Humanism, Greenbelt, Maryland, November of 1998.
Speaker at the annual conference of the Foundation for Iranian Womens Studies, Seattle, Washington, 1996.
Formerly: Economics Professor at the Daneshgahe Melli (Melli University) in Tehran.
Updated 2006-07-23