The International Society for Iranian Studies is holding its “Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference” from 2-5 August 2016.
Programme:
08:45 am – 10:15 am
Room 1 08:45 am – 10:15 am
New Perspectives on Iranian Languages
chair: Firoozeh Qandehari, University of Toronto
Helen Giunashvili , G. Tsereteli Institute Of oriental Studies/ Ilya State University, Georgia
Studies on Middle Iranian Onomastics in Greek Inscriptions of (Pre)-Christian Georgia
Mohsen Roudmajani , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
برری نام گذاری ایرانیان از سال 1340 تا 1392
Chiara Barbati , Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Identifying Scribal Hands: A Few Notes on Christian Sogdian Manuscript Fragments Coming From Turfan
Maria Carmela Benvenuto , Sapienza University of Rome
Inflectional Patterns and Case Syncretism in Old Iranian Languages
Ketevan Gadilia , Russian State University of Humanities
Meaning of (In)definiteness in Iranian Languages. Some Semantic and Grammatical Features.
Room 2 08:45 am – 10:15 am
chair: Laila Rahimi Bahmany, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor Farzad Sharifian , Monash University
Cultural Conceptualisations of Del ‘Heart/Stomach’ in Persian
Abolfazl Moshiri , University of Toronto
From the Sun of Tabriz to the Sun of the Soul: Reassessing Shams-i Tabrizi’s Influence on Rumi Through an Esoteric Reinterpretation of the First Tale of the Masnavi.
Leila Rahimi Bahmany , Freie Universität Berlin
Pardi-yi Asrār: Esoteric Veil of Mystery in Persian Literature
Salour Evaz Malayeri , University of St Andrews
Ideology and Resistance in the Poetry of Naser-e Khosrow
Room 3 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Tehran 1943 I: International Actors, Transnational Actions
convenor: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
chair: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto
discussant: Lior Sternfeld, University of Texas at Austin
Lydia Wytenbroek , York University
“We are failing here”: American Medical Missionaries in Iran and the Second World War
Sabrina Guerrieri , University of Toronto
From Tehran to Tehran; Nasrollah Entezam at the United Nations
Ida Meftahi , University of Maryland
WWII and the Allies’ Recreational Diplomacy and Performative Politics in Iran
Jennifer Jenkins , University of Toronto
The Conference and the City: The Local Context of the Tehran 1943 Diplomatic Meeting
Room 4 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Theological Innovations in the Islamic Republic of Iran
convenor: Banafsheh Madaninejad, Southwestern University
chair: Mohsen Kadivar, Duke University
Banafsheh Madaninejad , Southwestern University
Ijtihad as Ethically Falsifiable: The New Jurisprudence of Abolqassem Fanaei
Mohsen Kadivar , Duke University
Secular Islam
Ata Anzali , Middlebury College
The Making of a New Religious Movement in Iran: the Case of “Inter-Universal Mysticism” (‘Irfan-i Kayhani)
Liyakat Takim , McMaster University
Privileging the Qur’an: Divorce and the Hermeneutics of Ayatullah Sane‘i
Room 5 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Organic Prose: (Post)Modern Persian Fiction and the Idea of Iranian Literary Modernity
convenor: Arshavez Mozafari, University of Toronto
chair: Saharnaz Samaeinejad, University of Toronto
Ingrid Naumann , Freie Universität Berlin
Historical Meta-Narrative and Perception of Time in Iranian Postmodernist Literature
IMAD KHALAF , Independent Scholar
A Look at Contemporary Persian Novel Titles
Hamid Razaei Yazdi , University of Toronto
The Hikāyat of Modernity: Re-periodizing modern Iranian literature
Arshavez Mozafari , University of Toronto
Ahrīman in Iran’s Embrace: ‘Alavī, Hidāyat and Romantic Nationalist Demonology
Room 6 08:45 am – 10:15 am
State and Religion in the Late Medeival and Early Modern Iran
chair: Maryam Kamali, Harvard University
Sholeh Quinn , University of California, Merced
Rival Empires with a Common Heritage: Interconnections in Early Modern Persianate Universal Histories
Hamzeh Kaffash , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
ولایت نامه گونه ادبی خاص شیعی در قرن نهم
Jawan Shir Rasikh , University of Pennsylvania
Forgotten Societies: Islamization of the Hinterland of Ghur, and its Post-Conversion Afterlives, c. 998-1245 CE
Rachel Howes , California State University, Northridge
Iranian Courts and the Tenth and Eleventh century Mobile Elite
Room 7 08:45 am – 10:15 am
New Perspectives on Pahlavi Iran
chair / discussant: Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics
Pedram Partovi , American University
Modernization and the Socialization of Alienated Youth in Pahlavi Iran
Roman Siebertz , Bonn Univerisity
Making a Living in Reza Shah’s Iran, 1940-41
Bianca Devos , University of Marburg
Archaeology in the 1930s: Propagandistic and Business Interests Behind the Press Coverage of the Excavations in Persepolis
G J Breyley , Monash University
Fear and Hope, Tears and Laughter: Urban Popular Entertainment in the Early 1960s
Room 8 08:45 am – 10:15 am
The Foreign Relations of the Islamic Republic: Self-Perception and Reception
convenor / discussant: Rouzbeh Parsi, Dept. of History, Lund University
Dina Esfandiary , King’s College
The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic: The View From the GCC States
Ariane Tabatabai , Georgetown University
Fatwas and Centrifuges: The Iranian Nuclear Narrative
Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi , King’s College
EU-Iran relations: From Dialogue to Nuclear Talks
Janne Bjerre Christensen , Danish Institute for International Studies
In the Name of Drugs: Security, Morality and Contested (Dis)engagements in Iran’s Drug Diplomacy With the EU
Room 9 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Philosophy and Culture in Iranian History
chair / discussant: Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter
Seyed Hossein Hosseini-Nassab , University of Toronto
The Prophet Muhammad in the Works of the Early Falasifa up to Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi (d. 1191)
Urs Gösken , University of Bern
The Perception of Heidegger’s Philosophy as Non-Reductionist by Iranian 20th Century Intellectuals
Hunter Bandy , Duke University
Emotional Significance in 17th Century Indo-Iranian Philosophy
Sharare Shahrokhi , Contra Costa College
Epistemological Shifts and their Impacts on Iranian Feminist Thoughts
08:45 am – 10:30 am
Room 11 08:45 am – 10:30 am
Slavery in 19th and 20th Century Iran
convenor: Pedram Khosronejad, Oklahoma State University
chair: Thomas Ricks, Independent Scholar
Thomas Ricks , Independent Scholar
The Iranian Diaspora Trading Communities inthe Indian Ocean: A Reassessment of the Iranian Slave Trade in 19th century Qajar Iran
Heidi Walcher , LMU Munich (University of Munich)
About the Slave Trade and Abolitionism in Qajar Iran.
Pedram Khosronejad , Oklahoma State University
Photography of African Slavery in Modern Iran (1840s-1960s)
08:45 am – 10:15 am
Room 10 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Gendered Ideals and the Limits of Possibility: Women’s Lives in Iran Today
convenor / discussant: Norma Claire Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ghazaleh Haghdad Mofrad , Université Catholique de Louvain
Body Modification and the Importance of Appearance : Construction of Femininity in Contemporary Iran
Homa Maddah , University of Bonn
Empowering Women Heading Households: Social Policy and Gender in Contemporary Iran
Fatemeh Sadeghi , Independent Researcher
Pre-Modern Protests of Women: Memorials (Tazkereh) Versus Conventional History and Modern Feminism
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room 1 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
State and Non-State Institutions in Contemporary Iran
chair: Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hadi Salehi Esfahani , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Social Protection, Gender, and the Consumption Patterns of the Poor: The Role of NGOs in Poverty Reduction in Iran
Bayram Sinkaya , Yildirim Beyazit University
Revolutionary Guards and Iranian Politics: The Evolution of IRGC-Politics Relationship under the Rouhani Government
Roozbeh Safshekan , University of Alberta
Towards Human Development: Breaking the Cycle of Failed Development Policies in Post-revolution Iran
Summer Sutton , American University in Dubai
The Navab Regeneration Project and the Urban Ideal Détournement
Room 2 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
chair: Ghazzal Dabiri , University of Ghent
Ali Ferdowsi , Notre Dame de Namur University, California
Dah-Namah: Love-mysticism as a floating signifier
Mozhgan Malekan , University of Cincinnati
تعبیر عرفانی دایره ی وجود: بررسی برخی تشابهات موجود پیرامون قوس صعود و نزول در گلشن راز شبستری و فصوص الحکم ابن عربی
Ghazzal Dabiri , University of Ghent
Universalism and Conversion in ‘Attār’s Elahīnāmeh
Leila Ghaleh taki , Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz – IRAN
درونمایه های شعر عرفانی فارسی در شعر سوررئالیست فرانسه: مکان در شعر مولانا و پل الوار
Room 3 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Tehran 1943 II: Politics and Political Contestation
convenor: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
chair: Homa Katouzian, Oxford University
discussant: MOHAMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI, University of Toronto
Delbar Khakzad , University of Toronto
World War II and Religious Futurality in Iran
Victoria Tahmasebi , University of Toronto
The Invisible Decade: Feminist Conversations, Contestations, and Coalition Building in 1940s Iran
Mina Yazdani , Eastern Kentucky University
A Convenient Scapegoat: Baha’is amidst the People, the Clerics and the Government
alireza namvar haghighi , UNIVERSTY OF TORONTO.UTM
Religious Publicity and its Impact on Iran’s Politics in 1940s
Room 4 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Roundtable on “Rethinking the Iranian Left: History, Diversity and Prospects”
convenor: Matin-asgari, Afshin, California State University, Los Angeles
discussant: Atabaki, Touraj, International Institute of Social History
Mojtaba Mahdavi , University of Alberta
The Muslim Left: Social Justice and Spirituality?
Peyman Vahabzadeh , University of Victoria
A Creative, Egalitarian Future Is Already Here: On the Rising Intellectuals of the Iranian Left
Kamran Matin , University of Sussex
Marxist Theory and the Iranian Left’s Praxis
Maziar Behrooz , San Francisco State University
The Left and use of Violence
Room 5 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Alter-fiction, Alternative Criticism: The Heterodox Origins of Iranian Literary Modernity
convenor: Arshavez Mozafari, University of Toronto
chair: Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, University of Toronto
Shayesteh Sadat Mousavi , University of Tehran- University of Marburg (Germany)
“The Influence of the 1960s Literary Miscellanea on the Trend of Modernism in Iranian Fictions”
roya Khoshnevissansari , Leiden University
‘Oil Fiction’ in Iranian Literary Modernity
Nefise Kahraman , University of Toronto
Comparison as a Method of Literary Reappraisal in 19th Century Iranian and Ottoman Literary Criticism
Room 6 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Tholozan Photographic Collection – Locating Photographic Archives in the Study of Iranian Social and Cultural History
convenor: Corien J.M. Vuurman,
Elahe Helbig , University of Geneva
Invisible History: Photography as Sights of Modernity
Reza Sheikh , Independent scholar in the field of photohistory
The Photograph-Albums of the Golestan Palace – A Window on to the Social History of Iran during the Qajar Era
Room 7 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Women in Islamic Republican Society
chair / discussant: Norma Claire Morruzi,
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani , Virginia Tech
Pills and Pens: the impact of rural family planning on literacy of rural women in Iran
Nafiseh Sharifi , School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Moving Beyond Resistance: Women’s Multi-generational Narratives of Body and Sexuality in Tehran
Gi-yeon Koo , Seoul National University
Iranian women’s social movement through social media: focusing on a Facebook page “My Stealthy Freedom”
Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Kourosh Rahimkhani
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Syracuse University
Women’s Paradoxical Advancement in Post-revolutionary Iran
Room 8 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Roundtable: The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities
convenor: Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University
Pouneh Shabani Jadidi , McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
Current State and Challenges of Persian Instruction in Canada
Haideh Sahim , Columbia
Current problems of the teachers of Persian
Latifeh Hagigi , UCLA
Iranian Studies at UCLA
Sahba Shayani , UCLA, Oxford
Persian Instruction: A Double Perspective
Jaleh Pirnazar , University of California at Berkeley
need for permanent instructor in charge of language teaching
Room 8 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
CONTINUED: Rountable Organized by the American Asoociation of Teachers of Persian: The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities
convenor: Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University
Soheila Kian , University of California, Irvine
Current issues and problems in the Persian language pedagogy
Peyman Nojoumian , University of Southern California
The state of Persian instruction in southern California
Nahal Akbari , University of Maryland, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Persian language instruction in the US
Ladan Hamedani , University of Hawai’i at Manao
The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities
Farima S.Mostowfi , Georgetown University
Statues of teaching Persian
Room 9 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Intellectual Networks and Issues of Provenance and Attribution in Pre-Modern Iran
convenor: Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University
chair: Christoph Werner, University of Marburg
Colin Mitchell , Dalhousie University
Inspiration and Aspiration: Oscillating Between the Past and Future in the Formulaic Epistles of Qazi Mir Husain Maybudi
Maria Subtelny , University of Toronto
Issues of Attribution and Plagiarism in Kashifi’s Akhlaq-i Muhsini
Reza Pourjavady , Goethe University Frankfurt
Mīr Ḥusayn Maybudī’s Thoughts between Philosophy and Sufism
Dennis Halft , Freie Universität Berlin / Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo
Twelver Shīʿī Reception of Arabic Bible Translations in Safavid Persia
Room 10 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Generation and Regeneration in Iranian Cultural Production
convenor: Nahid Siamdoust, New York University
discussant: Houchang Chehabi , Boston University
Liliane ANJO , Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Contemporary Iranian Theatre: From privatisation to depoliticisation
Narges Bajoghli , Anthropology at New York University
Rearticulating the Revolution: The Basij and Revolutionary Guards as Media Makers
Nahid Siamdoust , New York University
The Political Economy of Pop Music in Contemporary Iran
leili Sreberny-Mohammadi , New York University
Emerging Artists and Old Masters: Contemporary Iranian Art and the Age Gap
Room 11 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
“Digital Iran: Social Media, Society and Politics After 2009”
convenor: Babak Rahimi & Marcus Michaelsen , University of California San Diego
discussant: David Faris , Roosevelt University
Nima Rassooli , University of California, San Diego
Balatarin: Gatekeepers and the Politics of a Persian Social Media Site
Marcus Michaelsen , University of Amsterdam
Shaping Perceptions: Social Media and Public Diplomacy in Iran
Babak Rahimi , UC San Diego
Instagram Iran: Digital Photography, Social Change and Politics under the Islamic Republic
Niki Akhavan , The Catholic University of America
Frenemies: Social Media and Iran-US Relations
12:10 pm – 02:00 pm
Special Session 12:10 pm – 02:00 pm
Vienna Nuclear Talks: 1 Year Later
02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Room 1 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Zorastrianism and Culture
chair: Enrico Raffaelli , University of Toronto
Mahvash Shahegh , Independent scholar
The Influence of the Zoroastrian Doctrine in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
Amir Ahmadi , Monash University
Do the Gāthās Describe a Ritual Course?
Enrico G. Raffaelli , University of Toronto
Dahmā Āfriti, a Zoroastrian prayer-deity
Room 2 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
New Approaches to Persian Literature
chair: Khatereh Sheibani,
Claudia Yaghoobi , Assistant Professor at Georgia College and State University
The Question of Armenian Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s “The Day before Easter”
Laetitia Nanquette , Lecturer and Australian Research Council Fellow
Iranian Publishers Abroad and Online: The Circulation of Iranian Texts around the World
Juan Cole , University of Michigan
Omar Khayyam as a Frame Story
Faryaneh Fadaeiresketi , Heidelberg University
Once again, singing pearls knocking on the roof: Hasā Sheʿr and the Contemporary Poetry of Gilan and Mazandaran
Room 3 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Tehran 1943 III: Occupation and Economic Modernization
convenor: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
chair: Massoud Karshenas, SOAS, University of London
discussant: Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
Mikiya Koyagi , New York University
Molding Iranian Railway Workers in the 1940s
Mary Yoshinari , University of Toronto
What Happened to Iran’s National Economy during the 1940s?
Ali Saeidi , University of Tehran
The Power of Family Capitalism during the Pahlavi Period, 1940s-1970s
Room 4 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
The international impact of the Iranian revolution: The view from Ankara, Moscow, and Brussels.
convenor: Claudia Castiglioni, University of Florence
chair / discussant: Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics
Claudia Castiglioni , University of Florence
Western Europe and the Iranian Revolution of 1979: Political, Strategic, and Energy Aspects
Jim Goode , Grand Valley State University
Between Washington and Tehran: Turkey Engages the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1982
Room 5 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Claims and Agency: the Contested Urban Landscape in Contemporary Iran
convenor: Azam Khatam and Mohammad Eskandari, York University, Toronto & Clark University, Worcester
discussant: Arang keshavarzian & Kaveh Ehsani,
Azam Khatam , York University
Spatiality of Discontent in Tehran’s ‘Revolution Street’, Two Historical Snapshots
mina saidi , ENSAPLV/ Mosaique-Le LAVUE-CNRS
Gender and Urban claim in Tehran. The women’s demands in a moving metropolis.
Nastran Saremi , PHD candidate at Islamic Azad University (Science & Research Branch), Editor of www.Yekshahr. net
Reclaiming the city: Towards the rights-based environmental activism
Farshid Moqadam Salimi , Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Historical heritage and gentrifying actors in contested site of the Kaboud Mosque in Tabriz
Nastran Saremi , PHD candidate at Islamic Azad University (Science & Research Branch), Editor of www.Yekshahr. net
Reclaiming the city: Towards the rights-based environmental activism
Room 6 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Cultural Impact of the Constitutional Period
chair: Janet Afary , UCSB
Janet Afary , Department of Religious Studies, UCSB
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda and the Project of Religious Reform. By Janet Afary and John Perry (not participating).
Layla Diba , Independant
The Making of a Modern Iranian Artist: Hoseyn Taherzadeh Behzad and the Illustrated Constitutional Era Press
Negin Nabavi , Montclair State University
Anjomans, the Press, and Political Activism in Early Twentieth Century Iran
Hossein Pourbagheri , Leiden University
Taqizadeh: Constitutionalist, Babi or Revolutionary?
Room 7 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Timurid and Safavid Technology and Culture
chair: Yui Kanda, University of Tokyo
Kaveh Niazi , Self
Inbāṭ al-Miyāh al-Khafīya: an early work on hydrology
Yui Kanda , Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
Safavid Ceramic Tombstones: Reconstruction of Funerary Practice in 17th Century Iran
Charles Melville , University of Cambridge
The mechanical clock of Kashan in the Safavid period
Peyvand Firouzeh , University of Cambridge
Mahan Carpet Fragments; patronage and aesthetic connections with the Shrine of Shah Ne‘matollah Wali
Room 8 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
7 Sides of a Cylinder: A Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion on Representations of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Part I
convenor: Haleh Anvari, Independent artist writer curator
discussant: Dr Pamela Karimi, UMASSD
Narges Bajoghli , Director
Director
Aggie Ebrahimi Azizi , Director
Director
Room 9 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Lifting the Veil: New Research on the Life and Work of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Tahirih
convenor: Sasha Dehghani,
chair / discussant: Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University
Moojan Momen , None
Women and the Religious World of Nineteenth Century Qazvin
Sahba Shayani , Oxford, UCLA
Unveiling the Re-Veiled through Literary Imitation: A Selection of Poems Attributed to Ṭāhere Qorrat al-‘Ayn
Sasha Dehghani , Research Department, Bahai World Centre
Tahirih in East and West
Omid Ghaemmaghami , The State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton
“God has made love His religion”: Some Introductory Notes on the Prose Works of Tahirih
Room 10 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Persian Manuscript Culture
Philip Bockholt , BGSMCS, FU Berlin
Popularity and readership in the manuscript age – a chronicle and its way through the centuries
Golriz Farshi , The University of Michigan, Department of Near Eastern Studies.
A Sectarian Mushaf at the University of Michigan Library
Arham Moradi , PhD Candidate at the University of Marburg (Germany)
A Genealogical Examination of the Manuscripts of Saʻdī’s Kullīyāt
Room 11 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Roundtable: A Comparative Sociological Retrospective on the Green Movement in Iran
convenor / discussant: Ali Akbar Mahdi, California State University, Northridge
Ali Akbar Mahdi , California State University, Northridge, USA
On the Sociological Nature of the Green Movement: A New Social Movement?
Azadeh Kian , Univresity of Paris, France
Women Rights and a Movement Without Revolution
Saeed Paivandi , University of Lorraine, France
The 2009 Green Movement and the 1979 Iranian Revolution: A comparative Perspective
Mehrzad Boroujerdi , Syracuse University, USA
How Does the Green Movement Measure Up When Compared to the Arab Spring Movements?
Ata Hoodashtian , Umef University, Switzerland
Reflections on the Leadership and Organizational Issues in the Green Movement
04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Room 1 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Zoroastrianism in Text and Culture
Shima Jaafari , Deputy of Department of Iranian Studies, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia
Kinds of Heresy and the Heresiarch According to Avesta and Middle Persian Zoroastrian Texts
Pooriya Alimoradi , University of Toronto
Māh ī Frawardīn Rōz ī Hordād: Alternative Insights to Ancient Myths
Velizar Sadovski , Old Iranian languages and Comparative Indo-Iranian Linguistics
Inherited Lexicon and Poetical Collocations in the Avesta and Veda
Room 2 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Social Justice Activism and Democratization from Within
convenor: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto
Victoria Tahmasebi , University of Toronto
The Virtual as the New Social? Iranian Women’s Online Activism
Mojtaba Mahdavi , University of Alberta
Rethinking Structure and Agency in Democratization: Iran after the Green Movement
Peyman Vahabzadeh , University of Victoria
A Glance into the Future: Actual and Possible Co- and Cross-Articulations of Social Justice and Democracy in Iran
Siavash Saffari , Columbia University
Public Religiosity and the Struggle for Socio-economic Justice: A Theology for Mobilizing the Poor?
Room 3 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Iran-Iraq War Literature (1980-1988)
convenor: Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leiden University
discussant: Rebecca Gould,
Faryaneh Fadaeiresketi , Heidelberg University
War and Nature: Descriptions of Nature and Landscape Imagery in Iran-Iraq War Poetry
Alireza Korangy , University of Virginia
Landscape and the Imaginary Mind in the Poetics of Iran-Iraq War
Saeedeh Shahnahpur , Leiden University
Female Martyrs in Esmāʻil Fasih’s Fictional Works
Mahnia Nematollahi Mahani , Binesh Institute for Persian Studies
Mystical Love in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Room 4 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Comparative Approaches to Modern Iran and Turkey
chair: Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University
Shahla Talebi , Arizona State University
Whose Dreams of Nationhood? Iranians and Turkish Television Dramas
sevil cakir kilincoglu , Leiden University
Women in the Radical Leftist Organizations in Iran and Turkey during the 1970s
Nasrollah Salehi , Assistant professor at Farhangian University
ترجمه از زبان ترکی عثمانی به فارسی در دورة ناصری
mahfarid mansoorian , Technical University of Berlin
Peaceful on the surface, conflictive inside: Struggle for reclaiming the neighbourhood in Tehran and Istanbul
Room 5 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Journalism and the Iranian Diaspora: Negotiating Global Civil Society
convenor: Babak Elahi,
discussant: Persis Karim, San Jose State
Babak Elahi , RIT
Conspiracy and Freedom: Diasporic Journalists in Iran
Nima Naghibi , Ryerson University
The Perils of Nostalgia and Return: Diasporic Journalists in Iran
Andrea Hickerson , Rochester Institute of Technology
Iranian Journalists in the Diaspora and Global Media Ethics
Persis Karim , San Jose State University
Diaspora Journalism in Iran: Representations and Repercussions
Room 6 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
State and Society in Qajar Iran
chair: Hoorieh Saeidi , National Library and Archives of Iran
Hoorieh Saeidi , National Library and Archives of Iran ( NLAI)
فرمان هاي آقا محمد خان قاجار- وجوه مشترك و متمايز آن با ديگر فرمان هاي دوره قاجار
Solmaz Naraghi , Independent scholar
The Revolution and the Defloration: Mirzade Eshghi’s “Three Portraits of Maryam”
Haideh Sahim , Columbia University
Iran’s Religious Minorities in the 19th Century: Views from within and without (working title)
Abbas Zarei Mehrvarz , Assistant Professor
بررسی نقش کارگزاری امور خارجه در تحولات کردستان
Room 7 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Women, Gender and Literature
Maryam Mameghanian-Prenzlow , Freie Universität Berlin
Gender constructions from Parsipur to Pirzad
Shaahin Pishbin , University of Oxford
Paradigms of Modern Literary Canonisation: Forugh Farrokhzad through the Lens of her Poetic Successors
Michelle Quay , University of Cambridge
Corporeality in the Lives of Female Awliya’: From Sulami to Jami
Room 8 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
7 Sides Of A Cylinder : A Film Screening And Roundtable Discussion On Representations Of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Part II
convenor: Haleh Anvari, Independent artist writer curator
discussant: Dr Saeed Zeydabadi- Nejad, SOAS
Haleh Anvari , Independent artist writer curator
Tehran’s Chattering Walls : An Everyday Reading of the wall writings and murals of post revolutionary Tehran
Dr. Pamela Karimi , N/A
Murals and the Media: Tourism, Voyeurism, and the Media Ecologies of Tehran’s Mural Arts
Room 9 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Tradition and Authority in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature
chair / discussant: Paul E. Losensky, Indiana University
Ilse Sturkenboom , University Assistant in History of Islamic Art, University of Vienna
The Visual Aesthetics of the Persian Qaṣīda in Anthologies Produced for Iskandar b. ʿUmar Shaykh
Shahla Farghadani , Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran
Critical Remarks in Early Modern Tazkiras: Literary Criticism, Intertextual Dialogue, or a Mere Question of Taste?
Theodore Beers , University of Chicago
Reflections of the Persian ‘Canon’ in Tazkirahs of Poets
Alyssa Gabbay , University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Case of the Missing Holograph and Amir Khusraw’s Vasat al-Hayat: An Eclectic Approach as a Means of Establishing Authorial Intent
Sally Morrell Yntema , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University
From Poet to King, to King of Poets: Responses to a Panegyric Ghazal by Hāfez
Room 10 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
New Perspectives on Historical Ties Between Iran and India
chair: Alexander Jabbari, University of California, Irvine
Stephan Popp , Research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
An Elephant as an Order: Shah Jahan’s awards and the carreers of his officers
Mana Kia , Columbia University
Defining a Modern Persianate Self: The Indian Friend as Ethical Interlocutor in the late 19th-century
Kaveh Yazdani , –
From India to Persia – Parsi Development Aid and the Rise of Persia’s Zoroastrian Community (1853-1925)
Alexander Jabbari , University of California, Irvine
Indian Scholars in the Pahlavi Shah’s Court: The Impact of Urdu Scholarship on Iranian Literary Historiography
Room 11 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Print Media and Culture in Modern Iran
Houri Berberian , California State University, Long Beach
Revolutionary Ideas in Motion: “Little Age of Revolutions” and Print across Frontiers
Siamak Delzendeh , non-affiliated
Pictorial Shifts and Problematics of Defining Iranian Modernist Art (from the Qajar period to the Pahlavi era)
Ali Bozari , Assistant professor
تطبیق سبکشناسی سه نگاره از نسخۀ خطی هزار و یک شب با سه تصویر چاپ سنگی رموز حمزه به منظور شناسایی یکی از نقاشان نسخۀ خطی هزار و یک شب
Thursday, August 04, 2016
08:45 am – 10:15 am
Room 2 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Untimely Poiesis: Persian Poetics and the Making of Literary Modernity
convenor: Arshavez Mozafari, University of Toronto
Pranav Prakash , University of Iowa
Setting sail in Sipihrī’s Qāyiq: Emotions, Religious Sensibilities and Literary Modernity in Iran
Henry Bowles , Harvard University
Linguistic Realism or Literary ‘Modernity’? The Ontology of the Poetic from Sohravardî to Ṣâ’eb
Saharnaz Samaeinejad , University of Toronto
In the Cold, Quiet Dream of Phoenixes: Temporality and The Annihilation of the Absolute Subject in Furūgh Farrukhzād’s Poetry
08:45 am – 10:15 am
Room 1 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Public Health and Policy in Contemporary Iran
chair: Janne Bjerre Christensen, Danish Institute for International Studies
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani , Virginia Tech
Pills and Pens: the impact of rural family planning on literacy of rural women in Iran
Sachiko HOSOYA , Toho University
Ethical discussions on premarital / prenatal diagnosis: Case studies of the Thalassemia prevention programme in Iran
Janne Bjerre Christensen , Danish Institute for International Studies
In the name of drugs: Security, morality and contested (dis)engagements in Iran’s drug diplomacy with the EU
Room 3 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Histories of Urban Life: Society, Space and Cosmopolitan Tehran
convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen
discussant: Houchang Chehabi, Boston University
Shireen Walton , University of Oxford
Virtual Cosmopolitans: Digital Dimensions of Urban Life Going On(line) in Tehran
roya KhoshnevissAnsari , Leiden University
Multicolored image of Tehran in ‘Underground Rap Music’
Golbarg Rekabtalaei , University of Toronto
Tehran or Farangistan: Visions of a Cosmopolitan City in the Early Twentieth Century
Lior Sternfeld , Penn State University
The Making of Cosmopolitan Tehran during WWII
Room 4 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Persian Capers: Foreign intelligence and spying in Iran in the 19th-20th centuries. Part I.
convenor: Elena Andreeva, Virgnia Military Institute
discussant: Mary Yoshinari, University of Toronto
Rowena Abdul Razak , St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Slick Intrigues: The British, the Tudeh Party and the 1946 Khuzistan Strikes
Nikolay Kozhanov , Carnegie Moscow Center
Between Soviet Scylla and British Charybdis: the Untold Story of the Abdication of Reza Shah
Firuza MELVILLE , Pembroke College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Brothers Willock against Brothers MacDonald and sisters Campbell
Viktor Magomedkhanov , Institute of Voronezh, Russian Federation
The Secret War in Iranian Kurdistan: Soviet intelligence against the Abwehr and SD
Room 5 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Technopolitics and the Urbanization of Nature in Iran
convenor: Mohammad Eskandari & Azam Khatam, York University & Clark University
discussant: Kaveh Ehsani, Depaul University
Mohammad Eskandari , Clark University
Fueling the Hydro-dream: Political Economy of Large Dams in Iran
Mohammad Salari , Iranian Sociology Association, urban group
The Impact of Legal and Political Shift Crisis on the Socio-Economic Structure of the ZayandeRud Valley
Sarah Karimi , Raha-Shar Institute for Urban Research
The Challenged History of Urbanization of Water in Tehran
Hesam Salamat , PHD candidate in economic sociology, university of Tehran
Commodification of Nature in “the North”: Historical Mechanisms and Socio-economic Implications
Room 6 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Sources for Qajar Imperial History
convenor: James M. Gustafson, Indiana State University
James M. Gustafson , Indiana State University
The Mi’rat al-Buldan Project: Geographical Knowledge and Networks of Power in Qajar Iran
Assef Ashraf , Yale University
On the Edge of Empire: Governing the Caucasus in Early Qajar Iran
Maryam Moazzen , University of Louisville
Jami’-e Nasiri, a Qajar Legal Compendium
Room 8 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Enduring and Contested Cultural Symbols
chair: Pardis Minuchehr, George Washington University
D Gershon Lewental , University of Oklahoma.
Under the banner of Iran: The Derafsh-e kāveyān as a changing emblem of Iranian identity from the Sāsānian era to the present
Pardis Minuchehr , George Washington University
The Persian Poetics of Creation (From Medieval to Modern Times)
Room 10 08:45 am – 10:15 am
New Directions in the Ethnographic Study of the Iranian Diaspora
convenor: Amy Malek, University of California, Los Angeles
Amy Malek , University of California, Los Angeles
Culture, Immigrant Activism, and Racial Formation Among Iranians in Sweden
Donya Alinejad , Amsterdam University College
Generating a new cultural politics: an ethnography of second-generation Iranian Americans in Los Angeles
Behzad Sarmadi , Senior Phd Candidate, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Toronto
Properties of Aspiration and Persons in Exile: Middle Class Iranians in Dubai
Room 11 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Book of Senses: Building Blocks of Sensory Reading of Persian Literature
convenor: Mehdi Kkhorrami, New York University
discussant: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota
Mehdi Khorrami , New York University
Scent of the Acacia: Sensory protagonists of Parviz Davai’s Fiction
Asghar Seyed-Ghorab , Leiden University
Senses of Love in Nezami Ganjavi’s Romantic Epics
Franklin Lewis , President, American Institute of Iranian StudiesFounder Adabiyat list: adabiyat@listhosts.uchicago.eduDeputy Director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of ChicagoEditor, Middle East Series, Oneworld PublicationsFacebook blog: ; http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notes.php?id=1041909607&viewer=1041909607&key=e9f02d0a3e&
Toward a Poetics of Synethesia and a Tasteful Aesthetics: Gustatory and Tactile Imagery, Visual Poetics, and the Iconography of Musical Performance
Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili , University of Oxford
Bitter Conflict: Warfare and Sensory Overload in the Poetry of Simin Behbahani
08:45 am – 10:30 am
Room 9 08:45 am – 10:30 am
Minorities and Identity Formation in Iran: From the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic Part I.
convenor: Pistor-Hatam, Anja, Kiel University
discussant: Brookshaw, Dominic, Oxford University
Anja Pistor-Hatam , Professor for Islamic Studies
Religious Minorities in the Islamic Republic and the ‘Right to have Rights’
Tim Greenwood , University of St Andrews
Suspicion, mistrust and misrepresentation: Armenia and Iran in Late Antiquity
08:45 am – 12:00 pm
Room 7 08:45 am – 12:00 pm
Roundtable: Screening and Discussion of “The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid”
convenor: Ali Mirsepassi, New York University
Mohamad Tavakol-Taraghi , University of Toronto
Fardid and the Politics of Intellectual History in Iran
Daryoush Ashouri , Independent Scholar, Paris
The Impossibility of Fardid’s Venture for Philosophical Explanation of Our Historical Situation
Abbas Amanat , Yale University
Fardid of All Seasons: Shades and Shadows
Ali Mirsepassi , New York University
The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
Hamed Yousefi , Filmmaker and Cultural Critic, London
Fardid and Avant-Garde Art in Post-Revolutionary Iran
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room 1 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq
convenor: Michael Pregill (sponsored by ILEX Foundation), Boston University
discussant: Khodadad Rezakhani, Freie Universität Berlin
Touraj Daryaee , University of California, Irvine
How the Sasanians Saw the Late Antique World: A Persianate View of the Interconnectedness of Eurasia
Isabel Toral-Niehoff , Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
Al-Hira: An Arab Late Antique Metropolis in Sasanian Iraq
Shai Secunda , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
East LA: Margin and Center in Late Antiquity Studies and the New Irano-Talmudica
Teresa Bernheimer , SOAS, University of London
The Revolt of Qatari b. al-Fuja’a (d. 79/698) and the Kharijite Revolts of Early Islamic Iran: Social Change between Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Room 2 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Ethics, Politics, and the Court Literature: The Role of Ethical and Cultural Values in Linking Different Literary Genres, Political Domains, and Social Strata in Medieval Iran and Anatolia
convenor: Parisa Zahiremami, University of Toronto
Parisa Zahiremami , University of Toronto
Political Ethics in Sufi Poetry: Sanā’ī’s Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqah wa sharī‘at al-ṭarīqah as An Early Politico-Ethical Advice Manual
Nasrin Askari , University of British Columbia, University of Oxford
Elite Folktales: An Exquisite Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Kitāb-i Dāstān in the Ouseley Collection of the Bodleian Libraries
Louise Marlow , Wellesley College
The Biography and Wisdom of Buzurgmihr in Qazvīnī’s Tārīkh-i guzīdeh
Lale Javanshir , University of Toroto
The Turkish Translations of Qābūsnāmeh in Anatolia
Room 3 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Tehran Noir Urbanism: Dark Visions of Life and Death in the Iranian Metropolis
convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen
chair / discussant: Cyrus Schayegh, Princeton University
Rasmus Christian Elling , University of Copenhagen
From Tehrân-e Makhuf to Jangal-e Âsfâlt: Fear and Loathing in the Capital
Pedram Dibazar , University of Amsterdam
Ghostly streets of Tehran: The visual culture of the contemporary Iranian everyday street
Narges Ghandchi , Individual scholar – in a relative affiliation to the University of Copenhagen
Emotion and Commotion in the Representations of urban Apocalypse of Tehran. A study of emotional geographies in two contemporary novels
Summer Sutton , American University in Dubai
Open Source Representations of a Dystopic Tehran
Room 4 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Persian Capers: Foreign intelligence and spying in Iran in the 19th-20th centuries. Part II.
convenor: Elena Andreeva, Virgnia Military Institute
chair: Firuza Melville, Cambridge
discussant: Ali Ansari, St. Andrews University
Elena Andreeva , Virginia Military Institute
Gevork Vartanian and Tehran-43: What do we know about the legendary Soviet spy?
Denis Volkov , https://manchester.academia.edu/DenisVolkovhttp://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=tab_pro
Carpetbagger, Russian Spy or Simply Pursuing His Own Agenda? ‘Bloody Shapshal’ at the Qajar Court
Nugzar Ter- Oganov , The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Who are you, Haji-Murat Muguev?
Lana (Svetlana) Ravandi-Fadai , Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Multiple Identities: Female Agents in Iran in the 1930s and 40s
Room 5 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Civic and Sacred Space in Iran
chair: Lorenz Korn, University of Bamberg
Lorenz Korn , University of Bamberg (Germany), full professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology
Interior space design and proportioning in the architecture of Iranian dome chambers of the Saljuq period
John Dechant , Recent Ph.D. graduate from Indiana University
The Imamzada Shrines of Iran: A Statistical Analysis
Ali Mozaffari , Curtin University
Shushtar No’w: Urban image and fabrication of place in an Iranian New Town, and its relation to the international discourse on Regionalism
Room 6 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
New Perspectives on Safavid Iran
chair: Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced
Mahroo Moosavi , PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney
Building Existence: Redefining Realities in Safavid Persia
Walter Posch , Natioanl Defense Academy
Queen of the Caucasus – Parikhan Khanum I and her three husbands
Ferenc Csirkes , The University of Chicago, Tuebingen University
Between Turkic and Persian: Sadiqi Beg and Literary Practices in Safavid Iran
Mohsen Bahram Nezhad , Associate Professor,Department of History, Imam Khomeini International University(IKIU), Qazvin, Iran
The importance and necessity of investigating the Ekhvani documents in understanding historical events of Safavid era
Room 8 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Border Stories: Connectivity and Remoteness across Khurasan (19th – early 20th Century)
convenor: Paolo Sartori, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
discussant: Prof. Bert Fragner, Institute of Iranian Studies
Paolo Sartori , Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Remoteness from Connectivity: The Transcaspian Railway and the Marginalization of Khorezm
Christine Noelle-Karimi , Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
On the Edge: Eastern Khurasan in the Perception of Qajar Officials
Ulfatbek Abdurasulov , Institute for Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Taking Stock of the Turkmens: The Many Forms of Khivan Sovereignty
Room 9 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Minorities and Identity Formation in Iran: From the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic Part II
convenor: Pistor-Hatam, Anja, Kiel University
Josef Wiesehoefer , University Professor of Ancient History with a special research focus o the history and culture of Pre-Islamic Iran
Greek Exiles in the Achaemenid Empire: A Case of Divided Loyalities?
Houchang Chehabi , Boston University
Jews in Official Biographies of Shiite Clerics in Iran
Arash Guitoo , PhD Candidate: Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Making the others invisible: The IRI and its undesirable minorities
Ali Ansari , University of St. Andrews
Iran and its Turkish Question.
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi , University of Toronto
The Cyrus Cylinder and the Rights Question
Room 10 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Iran and India in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Social, Cultural, and Political Connections
convenor: Afshin Marashi, University of Oklahoma
chair / discussant: Kamran Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin
Afshin Marashi , University of Oklahoma
“Sword of Freedom”: Abdulrahman Saif Azad and Interwar Iranian Nationalism
Ali Karjoo-Ravary , University of Pennsylvania
Reading Outside the Lines: Literary Exchanges between Iran and India in the 19th Century
Talinn Grigor , Brandeis University
Reveil de l’Iran: Freemasonry and Artistic Revivalism from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran
Farzin Vejdani , Ryerson University
The Iranian Migrant Poor, Teahouses, and Urban Culture in Bombay, 1870-1920
12:30 pm – 02:00 pm
Special Session 12:30 pm – 02:00 pm
02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Room 1 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics
convenor: Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University
discussant: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill University
Anousha Sedighi , Portland State University
Persian as a Heritage Language
Pouneh Shabani Jadidi , McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
Persian Psycholinguistics
Pollet Samvelian , Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Specific Features of the Persian Syntax : The Ezāfe Construction, Differential Object Marking, Complex Predicates
Room 2 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Roundtable: Iranian Literary Modernity as a Guiding Paradigm
convenor: Arshavez Mozafari, University of Toronto
jairan gahan , University of Toronto
Affective Narrativization and Modern Forms of Charity: Literature on the Red-light District of Tehran (1920s-1970s)
Hamid Razaei Yazdi , University of Toronto
The Hikāyat of Modernity: Re-periodizing modern Iranian literature
Parisa Vaziri , UCI
Racialized Modernity and the Anthropology of Winds: Nasser Taghvai’s Bad-e Jinn
Milad Odabaei , University of California, Berkeley
Translation and Cultural Regeneration
Room 3 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Gender and Urban Space in Tehran
convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen
chair: Rasmus Christian Elling,
discussant: TBA,
jairan gahan , University of Toronto
Plateaus of Morality: Sex-work in Tehran, 1921-1979
Alexander Shams , PhD., Anthropology, University of Chicago
Heterosexualizing Tehran
Masserat Amirebrahimi , Independent Researcher
Women’s experiences of Public spaces in Tehran, a generational perspective
Leila Pourtavaf , Univesrity of Toronto
Inside Out: Locating the Golestan Harem in the City Center During Nasser al-Din Shah’s Reign
Ahmadreza Hakiminejad , Dept of Built Environment, University of West London
Women Versus Cities: the Masculinity of Urban Space in Traditional and Modern Iran
Room 4 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Western Diplomatic Perspectives on Modern Iran
convenor: Camron Amin,
chair: Amir Irani-Tehrani, United States Military Academy (West Point)
Mark Gasiorowski , Tulane University
US Perceptions of the Communist Threat in Iran, 1941-1954
Sibylle Wentker , Institute of Iranian Studies; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Information and Knowledge – a way of understanding Iran: Austrian residence reports
Room 5 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Philosophy and Theology in the First Ṣafavid Centuries
convenor: Jari Kaukua, University of Jyväskylä / Academy of Finland
Sajjad Rizvi , Intellectual historian interested primarily in Safavid and Mughal philosophy.
Philosophy as Religion: Mullā Ṣadrā on the Concept of dīn
Jari Kaukua , Expert in Avicennian and post-Avicennian philosophy and theology (eleventh-sixteenth century CE)
The Problem of Falsity in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Theory of Knowledge
Sayeh Meisami , University of Toronto/University of Dayton
The Power of Synthetic Discourse: Epistemology and Authority in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy
Room 6 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Labor in Iranian Studies, Panel I: Trends in Modern History and Historiography
convenor: Peyman Jafari, Leiden University
chair: Afshin Matin-Asgari, California State University
discussant: Ervand Abrahamian, Bauch College, CUNY
Mohammad Maljoo , independent researcher
The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since 1990
Kaveh Ehsani , DePaul University
Making Oil Workers Invisible:
Touraj Atabaki , International Institute of Social History
Chronicle of a Strike Foretold, Abadan 1946: A critique of historiography from above
Roksana Bahramitash , University of Montreal
WOMEN’S LABOR & MODERNIZATION: A HISTORIAL OVERVIEW
Room 7 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Public Space and Modern Iranian Society
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi , University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The Transformation of Social Life and Public Spaces in Tehran, 1850 to 1950
Manata Hashemi , University of Oklahoma
The Pursuit of Face by Low-Income Youth in Iran
samar saremi , University of Montreal
Governing place of refuge: A boulevard around the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad-Iran (1912-1935)
Room 8 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the West: Sectarian divide, Borderlands, and Diplomacy
convenor: fariba zarinebaf, University of California-Riverside
discussant: Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
fariba zarinebaf , UC-Riverside
Azerbaijan between two Empires: Ottoman Administration of a Borderland Province
başak kilerci , DPhil student
Legal Situation of the Iranians in the Ottoman Empire within the Context of Nasir al-Din Shah’s Istanbul Visit (1873)
Sabri Ates , Southern Methodist University
THE NOTION OF FRONTIER IN OTTOMAN-IRANIAN RELATIONS
Rudi Matthee , University of Delaware
Safavid Iran and the “Turkish Question,” or How to Avoid a War on Two Fronts
Room 9 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Culture in Post-Timurid Iran
Chad Lingwood , Grand Valley State University
Persian Ghazals in White Sheep Tabriz: The Amatory Poetry of Two Āq Qoyūnlū Statesmen from Sāva
Yusen Yu , University of Heidelberg, Germany
Brushwork in Persianate Painting of Fifteenth Century: Its relation to China
August Samie , The University of Chicago
Banāʾī’s Shaybānīnāma: A Post-Timurid Source
Room 10 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
New Perspectives on the Iranian Diaspora
chair: Sonja Moghaddari, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Navid Fozii , Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Emergent Pluralism in a Fragmented and Polarized Diaspora: Politics of Iranian Diasporic Identity Formation in Malaysia
Sonja Moghaddari , Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Juggling resources. Within group relations and social mobility among Iranian migrants in Hamburg
Torang Asadi , Duke University
Religious Innovation in the Iranian Diaspora in Northern California
Nader Vahabi , Docteur in sociology,
The migratory dynamics of the Iranian diaspora since the 1979 revolution
Pari Namazie , The Simorgh – non-profit (www.thewimorgh.com)
The Impact and Relevance of the Iranian Diaspora in Europe
Room 11 02:15 pm – 03:45 pm
Praise of the Patron, the Palace, and the City: Form and Function in Topical Persian Panegyrics
convenor / discussant: Justine Landau, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Harvard
Paul E Losensky , Indiana University
The Palace as Locus and Emanation of Royal Virtue in the Sāqi-nāma of Ẓuhūrī Turshīzī
Dominic Brookshaw , University of Oxford
Performing Kingship: structure, function, and presentification in the Injuid and Muzaffarid qasida
Sunil Sharma , Boston University
Built to Last: Amir Khusraw Dehlavi’s Praise for Delhi and Its Monuments
Domenico Ingenito , University of California, Los Angeles
‘Tabriz, the soul of the world, overshadows all Maraghes’: Salmān Sāveji and the revival of the qaside under the Jalāyerids
04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Room 1 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Protest and Dissidence in Contemporary Iran
paola rivetti , Dublin City University
Killing us will only make us stronger. Protest cycles, authoritarian resilience and the ‘government of dissent’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Laudan Nooshin , City University London
‘Happiness is our People’s Right’: Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’
Nargess Tavassolian , I hold a PhD in law from SOAS, University of London
The Quest for Freedom of Thought and Expression in Post-1979 Iran: A Comparative Study of Iranian, Islamic and International Human Rights Law
Room 2 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Masculinity, Patriarchy and Gender in Persian Literature
Alireza Shomali , Wheaton College
Natural Inequality of Men; the idea and its implication in Perso-Islamic thought
Nahid Tavassol , NAFeH Magazine
A Ston on the Grave of Patriarchy
Nacim Pak-Shiraz , University of Edinburgh
Shooting the Isolation and Marginality of Masculinities in Iran
Room 3 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
The Reception of Modern “Western Philosophy” and Methods of Philosophical Comparison in Iran
convenor: Roman Seidel, Freie Universität Berlin
Ali Gheissari , University of San Diego
“Reception of Continental Philosophy in Iran”
Hussein Banai , Indiana University
Uneven Reception of Analytic Philosophy in Iran
Ali Paya , Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster; Islamic College for Advanced Studies (London)
Introducing Critical Rationalism to the Iranian Public: An Account of a Personal Intellectual Journey
Roman Seidel , Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Apologetic Comparision and Alternative Designs. Methodological Considerations on Contemporary Philosophical Discourse in Iran
Room 4 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
“Peace Corps Volunteers in Iran: Witnesses to the 1960s”
convenor: Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, Fullerton
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi , California State University, Fullerton
“The Peace Corps in Iran: A Case Study of US-Iran Relations in the 1960s”
Thomas . Ricks , I am a cultural and social historian of early modern and modern Iran, the Persian Gulf and Palestine with specific interests in schools, literati, merchants and rural peoples.
Kurdish Peasantry and Persian Sepah-e Danesh Unrest in West Azerbayjan
Mary Elaine Hegland , Santa Clara University
From Agriculture to Urban Real Estate: A 21st Century Perspective on the 1962 Aliabad Land Reform
John Lorentz , Associate Provost for International Education and Professor of History Emeritus, Shawnee State University
The Early Years of the Peace Corps in Iran(1962-64): A Volunteer’s Perspective
Room 5 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Orientalism and Occidentalism in Iranian Culture
chair: Anahita Arian, University of Groningen
Nahid Pirnazar , UCLA lecturer
Simantov Melamed, The Judeo Persian Writer and Poet
Anahita Arian , University of Groningen
The Politics of Identification and Alternative Forms of Self-Other Relations: The Travelogue of Muhammad Ibrahim and His Journey to Siam in the 17th Century
Dariush Rahmanian , Assistant Professor of History, University of Tehran
ذبیح بهروز و ضد شرقشناسی
Room 6 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Labor in Iranian Studies, Panel II: Life of Labor, Everyday Life, Workplace and Activism
convenor: Peyman Jafari, Leiden University
chair: Valentine M. Moghadam, Northeastern University
discussant: Asef Bayat, University of Illinois
Norma Claire Moruzzi , University of Illinois at Chicago
Valuing Women’s Work and Women’s Labor: Employment, Households, and Social Relations
Maral Jefroudi , N/A
Iranian Oil Workers’ “silent struggle” of 1960s
Serhan Afacan , N/A
Iranian craft industries in the age of factorization: large-scale industrialization and small-scale industries in Isfahan during the 1930s
Peyman Jafari , Leiden University
Living and Working in Times of War: Iranian Oil Workers in the 1980s
Room 7 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Spaces of Development: Urban Planning, Architecture and Change
convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen
discussant: Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University
Pamela Karimi , University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Perfecting Life in the Islamic Republic: Tourism and the Construction of New Resorts and Gated Communities in the Caspian Region
Azadeh Mashayekhi , Researcher
Urban Transformation and modernization of Tehran after the Islamic Revolution
Rana Habibi , University of Leuven
Tehran Modern Middle-Class Housing Morphology and International Inspirations
Faegheh Shirazi , The University of Texas at Austin
Halal and Religious Tourism Development in Mashhad, Iran
Room 8 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Iranian and Russian Borderlands
chair: George Bournoutian,
George Bournoutian , Iona College, New York
The Russian surveys of 1819, 1820, and 1828-1832 as primary sources for the demography and economy of the Iranian khanates of Shirvan, Sheki, and Nakhichevan in the last years of Qajar Rule
fatemeh Masjedi , Free Berlin University
Tabriz during the First World War
Kevin Gledhill , Yale University, History
The Russian Trading Settlement at Astarabad (1781-1782) and Early Qajar Interaction with the Caspian Trade
George Sanikidze , Ilia State University
In the Search of the Lost Kingdom: Activities of Georgian Princes during 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War
Room 9 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Art and Culture in Safavid Iran
Barry Wood , Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
Visualizing the imagined past: Three late-Safavid illustrated histories of Shah Isma’il
Sarah Kiyanrad , University of Heidelberg
Between the Lines – Bibliomancy in Ṣafavīd Iran
Hani Khafipour , University of Southern California
Patronage, Gratitude, and the Mantle of Authority in Safavid Iran
Naciem Nikkhah , University of Cambridge
Muraqqa‘-i 1633: A Case Study of Text and Image Relationship in Safavid Paintings
Room 10 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Hedayat Came, Saw and Conquered India
convenor: SYED AKHTAR HUSAIN, Jawaharlal Nehru University
chair: Marta Simidchieva, York University, Toronto
Syed Akhtar Husain , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Hedayat in Harmony with the Savants of Indo Persian Literature
Nadeem Akhtar , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Indian Motifs in the Works of Hedayat
Marta Simidchieva , York University, Toronto
India–reflected and refracted–in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl
Md Arshadul Quadri , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Reception of Sadegh Hedayat in India
Room 11 04:00 pm – 05:30 pm
War and Gender in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh , I teach the histories of Modern Middle East and Islamic World. My research focuses on the role of Shi’ite ulama in Iran during the Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11. Syracuse University Pressed published my monograph titled: “The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani” in March 2015.
Women in the Iran-Iraq War, (1980-1988)
Shahrzad Mojab , University of Toronto
Framing of War: State, Gender, Ideology and the Archive of Iran-Iraq War
Friday, August 05, 2016
08:45 am – 10:15 am
Room 8 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Iran’s Cultural Borderlands
convenor: Eric Massie, University of California, Santa Barbara
discussant: Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sergey Saluschev , University of California, Santa Barbara
From Russia with Tea: The Journey of the Russian Samovar into the Iranian Tea-Drinking Culture & National Identity
Derek J Mancini-Lander , SOAS, University of London
When the Levee Breaks: overflowing Shushtar’s boundaries in the writings of the Nuri sayyid family, 1678 to 1831 C.E.
Eric Massie , University of California, Santa Barbara
Returning Persia to the Persian Gulf: Iran’s South and the Persian Gulf Slave Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Elham Malekzadeh , Research Center for Humanities and Cultural Studies
The Role of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union in the Iranian Famine of the First World War I
08:45 am – 10:15 am
Room 1 08:45 am – 10:15 am
convenor: Syed Md Kazim, Jawaharlal Nehru University
chair: Syed Akhtar Husain, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Syed Md Kazim , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rustam and Sohrab and Sohrab and Rustam: A Comparative Study
Nahid Morshedlou , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Amir Khosrow the Father of Indo-Persian literature
Golam Moinuddin , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Poet Begets Poet: Ghalib and Iqbal A Case in Point
Ramzan Ahmed , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Reception of Hafez in the Works of Azad
Zeyaul Haque , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Capital Punishment in Indo-Islamic Advice Literature: Ideas and Practice
Room 2 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Negotiating Translatability in Persianate Literary Culture
convenor: Aria Fani, University of California, Berkeley
discussant: Nasrin Rahimieh , University of California, Irvine
Aria Fani , University of California, Berkeley
Silent Conversations with Literary History Re-theorizing Modernism in the Poetry of Bizhan Jalâli
Jane Mikkelson , University of Chicago
Translation at the Confluence of Two Worlds: The Realignment of Islamic and Hindu Monotheisms in Dārā Shokūh’s Majmaʿ ol-baḥrayn
Samad Alavi , University of Washington, Seattle
Ordinary Renditions: Iranian Prison Memoirs in the Global Market
Milad Odabaei , University of California, Berkeley
History and Politics in Translation: Mirza Saleh Shirazi’s Safarnameh
Room 3 08:45 am – 10:15 am
New Perspectives on Afghanistan and the Durranis
chair: Camron Michael Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Kaveh Niazi , Independent Scholar
Tuḥfat al-ʻulamā’: Early Print Propaganda from Afghanistan
Sajjad Nejatie , University of Toronto – Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
The Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire of the Durrānīs: Questioning Assumptions About the Ancestral Foundations of Modern Afghanistan
Room 5 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Studying War Torn Iran: The Effects of the Iran-Iraq War
convenor: Shaherzad Ahmadi, University of Texas at Austin
chair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine
Shaherzad Ahmadi , PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
The “Persians” of Iraq: Exile and Diaspora in the Iran-Iraq War
Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani , University of Pennsylvania
Military Technology and the Iran-Iraq War: Internalizing Iranian Victimhood
Liora Hendelman-Baavur , Senior Research Associate at the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Digitalized Martyrs: Online Commemoration of the “Imposed War”
Laura Fish , University of Texas at Austin
Life After Death: FilmFarsi and Technological Revitalization
Room 6 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Shi’i Eschatologies across the Millennium: 900-1900
convenor: Alessandro Cancian, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Alessandro Cancian , The Institute of Ismaili Studies
End of the time and mystical experience: eschatology and the hidden Imām in early modern Shiʿi Sufi Exegesis
Elizabeth Alexandrin , University of Manitoba
Breaking Open the Seal: Saʿd al-Din Hamuye’s Messianism and the Endtime
Daryoush Mohammad Poor , Institute of Ismaili Studies
Resurrection within resurrection: a multi-layered narrative of qiyāma among Nizārī Ismailis
Dr. Miklos Sarkozy , The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Neighbours in reality, neighbours in eschatology – ethnic groups and their representations in the Dīwān‐i Qā’imiyyāt
Khalil Andani , PhD candidate – Islamic Studies, Harvard University; Master of Theological Studies 2014, Harvard University
Spiritual Apocalypse: The Qa’im al-qiyama in the Thought of Nasir-i Khusraw
Room 7 08:45 am – 10:15 am
State Policy and Dissent in 20th Century Iran
chair: Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
Ali Banuazizi , Boston College
Shahrokh Meskoob and the Predicaments of Intellectuals in Politics
Emily Blout , University of St. Andrews, Institute for Iranian Studies
Birth of the Iranian Mass Communications Monopoly: 1958 to 1980
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi , University of Manchester
Reform, Delusion and Dissent: The Life and Times of Ayandegan, 1967-1979
Room 8 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Iranian Cinema in the World and At Home
chair: Michelle Langford, University of New South Wales
Maryam Ghorbankarimi , University of St. Andrews
The Notion of ‘trans/national’ in Iranian cinema
Claire Cooley , The University of Texas at Austin
Microphones, Studios, and Soundtracks: The coming of sound to Iranian cinema
Michelle Langford , University of New South Wales
Sohrab Shahid Saless – An Iranian Filmmaker in Berlin
Room 9 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Persian Art across Central Europe from the Mongols to World War II
convenor: Iván Szántó, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Iranian Studies / Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Iranian Studies
Yuka Kadoi , Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Arthur Upham Pope and Persian Art in Interwar Central Europe
Juliane von Fircks , art historian, specialist of European Sculpture and Asian and European Textiles in the Middle Ages
Mongol invasion and collective memory in Central Europe – the chasuble of Saint Hedwig in Hall (Tirol)
Zehra Tonbul , Bogazici University
Parallel Odysseys of Ernst Herzfeld and Ernst Diez
Joachim Gierlichs , Qatar National Library, Doha, Qatar
Katharina Otto-Dorn and her view on Persian (Seljuk) Art in Anatolia and Persia
Room 10 08:45 am – 10:15 am
Women in 19th Century Iran
chair / discussant: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani,
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi , University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Women’s Havens in the Patriarchal Landscape: The Feminine Social Life in the 19th Century Tehran
Mahbube Moqadam , PhD student in Middle East Technical University
Genealogy of a new identity of Iranian Women in late Qajar Era
Joanna de Groot , University of York UK
Working for the home and the world: towards a re-evaluation of gender, labour, and culture in nineteenth century Iran
08:45 am – 10:15 pm
Room 4 08:45 am – 10:15 pm
Global Influences on Iranian Religious Doctrine and Practice
chair: Sergio Moya, University of Costa Rica
Meir Litvak , Tel Aviv University
Iranian Shiʻi Responses to the Salafi-Jihadi Challenge: from Rapprochement to Takfir
Sergio Moya , University of Costa Rica
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the processes for promoting Shia Islam in Latin America
Mirjam Kuenkler , University of Göttingen
From the Human Reading of Religion to the Prophetic Reading of the World: Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari’s Hermeneutic Turn
Arash Sarkohi , FU Berlin
Religious reformists in Iran from a theoretical view
Oliver Scharbrodt , University of Chester
Khomeini and Muhammad Shirazi (1928-2001): From velāyat-e faqīh to shawrā-ye foqahā’
Room 11 08:45 am – 10:15 pm
Revolution and Society in Modern Iran
chair: Mansoor Moaddel, University of Maryland – College Park
Kara Abdolmaleki , University of Alberta
The Idea of ‘A Return to Self’ in Post-coup Iran: A Fresh Look.
Vahid Tolooei , University of Toronto
Rewriting the History of Sociological Imagination in Iran
Mansoor Moaddel , University of Maryland – College Park
Reflections on Two Revolutions: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 versus the Revolution of 1979
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Room 1 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Beyond Azerbaijan: Rethinking the Origins of the Cold War in Iran
convenor: Alexander Nicholas Shaw, University of Leeds
Alexander Shaw , University of Leeds
Perfidious Albion? Britain, the United States and Triangular Diplomacy with the Qavam Government in Iran, 1946-47
Gregory Brew , Georgetown University
Pulling the “Open Door” With Two Hands: American Oil Companies, the Iranian Oil Concession and the 1946 Azerbaijani Crisis
Dmitry Asinovskiy , European University at St Petersburg
The Mahabad Republic: Soviet puppet or the result of a genuine national movement?
Mattin Biglari , SOAS
Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Tudeh Party during the 1946 Khuzestan General Strike
Room 2 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Indo-Persian Translation Movement: A Multi-faceted Phenomenon of Cultural Transmission and Adaptation
convenor: Orthmann, Eva, Bonn University
Eva Orthmann , Bonn University
The Persian Translation of Varāhamihira’s Bṛhat Saṁhita
Arthur Dudney , Oxford University (Cambridge University from Sept 2015)
Late Eighteenth Century Persian Language Education and the Pull of the Vernacular
Soraya Khodamoradi , University of Bonn
Adaptation of Indian Mysticism in Persian Sufi Text of Rushd-Nāma of ‘Abd al-Quddūs Gāngohī (d. 1537)
Anna Martin , Philipps-Universität Marburg
Persianization of Indic Narratives
Room 3 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Reimagining the Iranian Past
chair: Dr. Katja Foellmer,
Daniel Beckman , University of California, Los Angeles
The Death of Cyrus the Great
Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan , Yale University, Department of Art History
The liminal figure of the angel in the national imagination of early 1900s in Iran
Kaveh Bassiri , University of Arkansas
Rewriting the Past: Exploring Innovations in Postmodern Persian Poetry
Dr. Katja Foellmer , Institute of Iranian Studies at Goettingen University, Germany
Reframing the Religious in the Iranian Enlightenment Period
Room 4 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Iran’s Impact on Regional Economics and Politics
chair: Arang Keshavarzian, New York University
Nina Mazhjoo , PhD student in Concordia University
Breaking a Metanarrative in Mithraic Studies: A Transmission From Colonial to Post-colonial Approaches
Laleh Gomari-Luksch , University of St. Andrews and University of Tübingen
Beyond Sovereignty: The Iran-Saudi Arabia Cold War in the Middle East
Arang Keshavarzian , New York University
Beyond “Persian Gulf Security”: Narrating Anational, Transnational, and International Spaces in the Long Twentieth Century
Robabeh Motaghedi , National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran
The Impact of the Oil Industry on Changing of the Subaltern Social Life in Southern Iranian Oil Fields.
Room 5 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Achaemenid texts and contexts: syntax, stylistics and text linguistics
convenor: Velizar Sadovski, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
discussant: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt, emer. Prof., University of Saarbrücken
Velizar Sadovski , Old Iranian languages and Comparative Indo-Iranian Linguistics
Between Syntax, Phraseology and Word Formation
adriano rossi , L’Orientale University, Naples, Italy
(together with Ela Filippone) The strategy of the list in the textual organization of the Royal Achaemenid Inscriptions
Ela Filippone , Tuscia University (Viterbo)
(TOGETHER WITH ADRIANO V. ROSSI) THE STRATEGY OF THE LIST IN THE TEXTUAL ORGANIZATION OF THE ROYAL ACHAEMENID INSCRIPTIONS
Maria Carmela Benvenuto , Sapienza University of Rome
Constructional approach to Old Persian argument structure
Room 6 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
The margins of the Islamic Republic: an interdisciplinary quest
convenor: Maziyar Ghiabi, University of Oxford (St Antony’s College)
Maziyar Ghiabi , University of Oxford
The Medical Republic of Iran: pathology, crisis and the management of the margins
Mitra Asfari , Paris V, René Descartes University. Centre d’Anthropologie Culturelle
An integrated group of strangers called Gorbat
Kevan Harris , UCLA
Capital at the Margins: Logics of Investment Across Iran’s Private and Semi-Public Sectors
Room 7 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
From African Slavery to American Immigration: Race and Racial Constructs in the Iranian Context, 1850-present
convenor: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, University of Pennsylvania
chair: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi , King’s College London
discussant: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, King’s College London
Beeta Baghoolizadeh , University of Pennsylvania
White, Black, and Iranians in Between: the Racial Language of Difference, 1872-1941
Neda Maghbouleh , University of Toronto
Off-White: Iranian-Americans and Race from 1950-present
Parisa Vaziri , UCI
Racialized Modernity and the Anthropology of Winds: Nasser Taghvai’s Bad-e Jinn
Mira Xenia Schwerda , Harvard University
Seen and Unseen. Depictions of Africans in Qajar Art and Visual Culture
Room 8 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Research on Persian Language Pedagogy
Saera Kwak , Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Grammatical errors in Persian by Korean learners
Peyman Nojoumian , PhD Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 2011MSc Speech and Language Technology, KULeuven, 2002MA Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language, Allameh Tabatabai, 1997
Developing Online Resources for Persian Language Learners, Challenges and Solutions
Ladan Hamedani , University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Teaching Persian to Both Heritage and Foreign Language Learners
Ali Abasi , Dr. Ali R. Abasi is an associate professor of Persian and his primary research interest is second language writing. Some of his most recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Journal of Language and Politics, English for Specific Purposes, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CORPUS-LINGUISTICS TO PERSIAN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Nahal Akbari , University of Maryland, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Rhetorical Patterns in Persian Professioanl Communications and Business Letters: Implications for Teaching Persian Writing and Intercultural Communication
Room 9 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period
convenor: Ulrich Marzolph, Academy of Scienes, Göttingen, Germany
Ali Boozari , Art universit, Tehran
Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi’s Illustrations to Jouhari’s Ṭufān al-bokā and Other Books of the “rowże-khāni” Genre
Ulrich Marzolph , Academy of Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period
Mahbobe Ghods , Columbia University, New York NY, USA
Changing Times and the Time for Change: The Influence and Contribution of Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi to Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art
Roxana Zenhari , Post.doc researcher in Georg Agust University
“Irregular” Illustrations: Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi’s visual representation of Saʿdi’s poems
Room 10 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
State Policy and Culture in the Islamic Republic
chair: Azadeh Ganjeh, Bern University
Haleh Anvari , N/A
Artist Presentation – The Walls of Tehran
Laudan Nooshin , BA Music (Leeds)MMus Ethnomusicology (London)PhD Ethnomusicology (London)
‘Happiness is our People’s Right’: Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’
Azadeh Ganjeh , Institute for theatre studies , Bern University
Danish Pastry or Gole Mohammadi? ; Effects of state policies on Hamlet performances in Iran.
Gholamreza Vatandoust , AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF KUWAIT
Beyond the Shari’a: “White Marriages” in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Room 11 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Gendered Counternarratives of Representation in Qajar Society
convenor: Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University, Stanislaus
chair / discussant: Ilse Sturkenboom, University of Vienna
Negar Habibi , Aix-Marseille University (alumna)
Female Artistic Patronage in Pre-Modern Iran (1666-1785)
Elika Palenzona-Djalili , Asia and Europe Graduate College, University of Zurich
A Relational Understanding of Gendered Beauty in Early Qajar Painting
12:10 pm – 02:00 pm
Special Session 12:10 pm – 02:00 pm
Obstacles to Development of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran
convenor: Nayereh Tohidi & Ata Hoodashtian,
chair: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History
Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari , Independent Scholar
Is Islamic Science Possible?
Nayereh Tohidi , Professor, California State University, Northridge, USA
Women’s Studies in Iran’s Universities: A Display of the Paradox of Islamic Republic
Ata Hoodashtian , Umef University, Switzerland
Human Science, Critical Thought, and Iran
Saeed Paivandi , University of Lorraine
The Meaning and Trajectory of Islamization of the Humanities in Iran
Mohammad-Reza Nikfar , Independent Scholar, Germany
On Fortunate and Unfortunate Aspects of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran
Sadegh Zibakalam , University of Tehran, Iran
Some First-Hand Experiences and Observations on Challenges Facing Social Sciences in Iran