Die School of Arts, Languages and Cultures der University of Manchester hält vom 19.-20. Juli 2016 einen Workshop zum Thema ‚Debates within Iranian Socialism: Historiography, Ideology and Praxis after the Second World War‚ ab. Die Registrierung erfolgt über info@mihan.org.uk.
Das Programm:
19 July
3pm: Welcoming Remarks, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
3.10pm: Methodological and Historiographical Reflections on the Iranian Left
Chair: Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
“Transcendental History” and the Iranian Left, Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
On the Historiography of the Fadai Movement, Anush Salehi, Bristol
Q&A (15 minutes)
20 July
9am: The Iranian Left at the Dawn of the Cold War Era
Chair: Oliver Bast
An Investigation into the Roots of the Tudeh-Firqah Rivalry, Asghar Schirazi, Berlin
The Women Movement and Women’s Rights during the Firqah-i Dimukrat Rule in Tabriz 1945-46, Nasser Mohajer, Paris
The Sins of Khalil Maleki, Homa Katouzian, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
The Iranian Labour Movement during World War II, Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History
Q&A (15 minutes)
11.20am: Internationalism and the Iranian Left
Chair: Peyman Vahabzadeh
The National Front in the Middle East: Revolution and Anti-Colonialism in Iran’s Tri-continental Moment, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Manchester
An Italian Communist Woman’s Journey to Iran: An Examination of Maria Macciocchi’s Expedition of 1951, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
Denis Volkov, The Early Relations between the Bolsheviks and Iran, 1917-1921, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Q&A (15 minutes)
Lunch Break
2pm: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left
Chair: Touraj Atabaki The Left and the Kurdish Question in Iran: Theoretical Ambiguities and Political Anomalies, Abbas Vali, Bogazici University, Istanbul
The Socialist League in the 1960s, Manuchehr Rassa, London
The Tudeh in East Germany: Perspectives from the Stasi Archives, Qasem Nurmohammadi, Berlin
5pm: Concluding Remarks, Oliver Bast, University of Manchester