Our Favorite Public Programs of 2022

This Year on the Zócalo Stage, Our Panelists Shared Some Jabs, Gave Voice to Resistance, and Reimagined Home

| Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

This year on the Zócalo stage, panelists dared us to reimagine home. Showed us that we can build a better America. Reminded us that incarceration is big business. Demonstrated what dissent can look like. And made us realize that even in the darkest of times, there’s power in laughter.

Since 2003, Zócalo Public Square has been on a mission to connect people to ideas and to each other. Whether you visited us in person, streamed our programming live online, or watched on YouTube or Soundcloud later on, thank you for being …

December 28, 2022

Iranian Artist Sahar Ghorishi

The Fig Is Connected to My Family and My Country

December 9, 2022

Sahar Ghorishi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist based in London and Los Angeles. The founder of a creative directing platform Journey of/to Dawn, she is a resident artist at the …

Author Porochista Khakpour

I’m Most Proud of Helping People in My Life

December 9, 2022

Porochista Khakpour is the author of several books, including The Last Illusion, Brown Album, and Sick: A Life of Lyme, Love, Illness, and Addiction. She is senior editor at the …

Anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi

I Love Tahdig

December 9, 2022

Pardis Mahdavi is an anthropologist and provost and executive vice president of the University of Montana. Her academic career has focused on diversity, migration, sexuality, and human rights. Before sitting …

Atlantic Council’s Holly Dagres

I Listened to Britney Spears in Tehran

December 9, 2022

Holly Dagres is an Iranian American analyst and commentator on Middle East affairs with a focus on Iran. Currently a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, she has written for …

A Feminist-Led Uprising Brings the World to Iran’s Fight

This Time Around, Social Media and Youth Fuel the Call for “Women, Life, Freedom”

by Talib Jabbar | December 7, 2022

Last night, a quartet of Iranian women took the Zócalo stage to discuss the uprising in Iran, where a general strike has entered its third day and protests persist after …

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