OKCIR:
The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism,
and Science (Utopystics)
The
Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and
Science (Utopystics) is an independent research and pedagogical initiative
dedicated to exploring, in a simultaneously world-historical and self-reflective
framework, the human search for a just global society. Since the world's
utopian, mystical, and scientific movements have been the primary sources
of inspiration, knowledge, and/or practice in this field, OKCIR aims
to critically reexamine the limits and contributions of these world-historical
traditionsseeking to clearly understand why they have failed to
bring about the good society, and what each can integratively contribute
toward realizing that end. The
center aims to develop new conceptual (methodological, theoretical,
historical), practical, curricular, and inspirational structures of
knowledge whereby the individual can radically understand and determine
how world-history and her/his selves constitute one another. OKCIR publishes Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, which
explores issues pertaining to the center's interests, and pursues innovative
editorial, virtual, and print publishing practices reflecting its substantive
goals. (Read more…)
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Ph.D., Founding Director
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Mohammad
H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi is Associate Professor of Sociology, teaching
Social Theory at UMass Boston. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in
Sociology (in conjunction with a graduate certificate in Middle
Eastern studies) from SUNY-Binghamton and a B.A. in Architecture
from U.C. Berkeley. His fields of theoretical specialization
include Sociological Imaginations, Self and Society, World-Historical Sociology, Sociology
of Knowledge, Social Movements, and Utopias. Tamdgidi's research
and teaching are framed by an interest in understanding how
personal self-knowledges and world-historical social structures
constitute one another. His continuing research on liberating
social theory in self and world-historical contexts is pursued
via critical comparative/integrative explorations of utopian,
mystical, and scientific discourses and practices. Tamdgidi
is the founding editor of Human Architecture: Journal of
the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, a publication of OKCIR:
the Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia,
Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics), which serves to frame his
research and pedagogical initiatives.
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Previous Issues of
Human Architecture |
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Volume VI,
Issue 4
Fall 2008
Microcosms of Hope:
Celebrating Student Scholars |

Volume VI, Issue 3
Summer 2008
Thich Nhat Hanh's
Sociological Imagination:
Essays and Commentaries
on Engaged Buddhism |

Volume VI, Issue 2
Spring 2008
Sociological Imaginations
From the Classroom |

Volume VI, Issue 1
Winter 2008
Teaching Transformation |

Volume V, Special Issue
Summer 2007
Reflections on Fanon |

Volume V, Issue 2
Spring 2007
Insiders/Outsiders:
Voices from the
Classroom |

Volume V, Issue 1
Fall 2006
Othering Islam |

Volume IV, Special Issue
Summer 2006
Re-Membering Anzaldúa |

Volume IV, Issues 1&2
Fall 2005/Spring 2006
Scholarships of Learning |

Volume III, Issues 1&2
Fall 2004/Spring 2005
Sociology of Self-Knowledge:
Course Topic as well as
Pedagogical Strategy |

Volume II, Issue 2
Fall 2003/Spring 2004
Critical Theories in
Applied Settings |

Volume II, Issue 1
Spring 2003
Social Theories,
Student Realities |

Volume I, Issue 2
Fall 2002
Spiritual Renaissances
and Social
Reconstructions |

Volume I, Issue 1
Spring 2002
Life Courses &
Social Policies |
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NEW!
Latest Issues of
Human Architecture:
Journal of the Sociology of
Self-Knowledge
Volume VII, 2009, Issues 1-4
plus Special Issue
Now Available in Print
and Freely Online

Volume VII
Special Issue 2009
The Human Promise of Poetry in
Memories of Mahmoud Darwish

Volume VII, Issue 1
Winter 2009
Teaching Transformations 2009

Volume VII,
Issue 2
Spring 2009
Historicizing Anti-Semitism
Volume VII,
Issue 3
Summer 2009
Sociological Re-Imaginations
in & of Universities
Volume VII,
Issue 4
Fall 2009
Migrating Identities and Perspectives:
Latin America and the Caribbean in
Local and Global Contexts
Forthcoming, New, or Recent Books
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Gurdjieff and Hypnosis:
A Hermeneutic Study
(Palgrave Macmillan,
Release date:
Nov. 24, 2009)
New Paperback Edition, 2009
Advancing Utopistics:
The Three Component Parts
and Errors of Marxism
(Paradigm Publishers, 2007)
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