The pdf versions of the Conference Program and Flyer for the Eighth Biennial Iranian Studies are now available for download.
THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
DOUBLETREE LOBBY | 2:00-8:00 P.M.
Onsite Registration
PRE-SESSION 1 |GALLERY NORTH | 3:00-5:00 P.M.
AIS Board Meeting
PRE-SESSION 2 | CAROUSEL C | 6:00-7:30 P.M.
AIS General Meeting
PRE-SESSION 3 | MARQUEE BALLROOM | 8:00-9:00 P.M.
Jaleh Amouzegar, University of Tehran
TBA
FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
DOUBLETREE LOBBY | 8:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M.
Onsite Registration
SESSION 1 | CAROUSEL A | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Harvard Digital Archive Project: Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran
Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar, President
International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA)
Nahid Mozaffari, Independent Scholar, WWQI Project
SESSION 2 | CAROUSEL B | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Engagements with Reason: Shi‘ism and Iran’s Intellectual Culture
CHAIR: Rula Jurdi Abisaab, McGill University
DISCUSSANT: Arash Naraghi, Moravian College
Setrag Manoukian, McGill University
Eclecticism and the Reasoning Individual: Fursat Shirazi’s (d.1923) Journey of Self-Discovery
Aun Hasan Ali, McGill University
Formative Texts and Contexts for Rationalist and Traditionist Shi’ism
Reza Pourjavady, McGill University
Reviving Shi‘i Theology: Najm al-Din al-Nayrizi and His Commentary on Tusi’s Tajrid al-I’tiqad
Rula Jurdi Abisaab, McGill University
Skeptics of Juridical Rationalism: Epistemology and the Structure of Power in Sixteenth Century Iran
SESSION 3 | CAROUSEL C | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Mediums of Storytelling: Narratives of 20th Century Iranian Jews
Chair:Nahid Pirnazar, University of California, Los Angeles
Wendy Wolfe Fine, Independent Scholar
Addressing the Jewish Exodus from Iran in the 70s and 80s through the Medium of Film
Jaleh Pirnazar, University of California, Berkeley
Memoirs and Novels by Iranian Jewish Women: New Voices
Farideh Dayanim Goldin, Old Dominion University
Love and Marriage among Middle Class Iranian Jewish Women in Southern California
SESSION 4 | MARQUEE 1 | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
TBA
SESSION 5 | MARQUEE 2 | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Windows On The Past
Chair: Ahmed Alwishah, Pitzer College
Gholam R. Vatandoust, American University of Kuwait/Shiraz University
Recreating the Past and Embracing the Future: The First Private Museum in Iran
Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University
Windows into Early Science: Persian Scientific Traditions on Exhibit
Abbas Hosseini, Artist and Independent Scholar
Historical Background of Copyright in Iran
Tofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, Riverside
Contextual Displays of Persian Astronomical Books: Samples from 1000 to 1700 AD.
Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m.
SESSION 6 | CAROUSEL A | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Persian Literary and Cinematic Representations of a Society in Transition I
CHAIR: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
DISCUSSANT: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine
Ahmad Aminpour, University of Texas at Austin
The Liminal World of The Blind Owl
Nastaran Kherad, University of Texas at Austin
Ahmad Mahmud and Socialist Realism
Hanan Hammad, University of Texas at Austin
Mourning Locality: Community Versus Globalization and Nationalism in The Drowned and Cities of Salt
Sahar Allamezade, University of Maryland
Iraj Mirza’s Sexual Poetics: Writing Like a Man, Reading Like a Man
SESSION 7 | CAROUSEL B | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Dialogues and Contentions
Chair: Sharon Baradaran, UCLA
Ali A. Jafarey, The Zarathushtrian Assembly
Zoroastrian Religion and Modernity
Keyvan Geula, Center for Global Integrated Education
Owning the Story of Our Persecution: The Role of Human Rights Efforts in Helping the Baha'is of Iran Claim Real Victory
Ronen Cohen, Ariel University Center
The Hojjatiyeh: The Real Creators of the Islamic Revolution of Iran
Judea Pearl, UCLA
Carving a Dialogue between Muslims and Jews
SESSION 8 | CAROUSEL C | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Rural and Tribal Communities and the State
Chair: Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California at Riverside
James M Gustafson, University of Washington
Land Investment and Household Networks in Southern Iran under the Qajars
Anja Manthey, Yale University
The Iranian Nation-State and Assertions of Khuzistan's Geopolitical Importance Before and After World War I
Gholam Reza Heydari, Islamic Azad University
Agricultural Development and Nomadic Settlement A Case Study of Shahsavan Tribal Community
Bernard Hourcade, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
The Making of a New Society in Rural Iran
SESSION 9 | MARQUEE 1 | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
The Art of the Book
Chair: Charles Melville, Cambridge University
Raisa Amirbekyan, Yerevan State University
Safavid- Mughal Cultural Interrelations as reflected in Matenadaran’s ‘Bayaz’ Manuscript Illumination
Paul Losensky, Indiana University
The Role of the Anthology in Defining a Literary School: The Maktab-e Voqu' and India Office Ms. 2678.1
Chad Kia, Columbia University
Spinning Pictures: Reading Nizami as Jami
SESSION 10 | MARQUEE 2 | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
The Ambit of Printing in Qajar Iran: Continent, Nation & Province
Chair: Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Abbas Amanat, Yale University
Nile Green, University of California at Los Angeles
Printing Persian in Saint Petersburg: Eurasian Networks of Evangelical Bible Production, c.1815-30
Arash Khazeni, Pomona College
“Land of the Rising Sun”: Printed Geography and Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Farzin Vejdani, University of Arizona
Provincial Print Culture in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Iran
Lunch| 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Workshop on Dissertation Writing, Gallery South
SESSION 11 | CAROUSEL A | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Persian Literary and Cinematic Representations of a Society in Transition II
Chair: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine
Somy Kim, University of Texas at Austin
Mapping Dystopia in Ebrahim Golestan's Mud Brick and Mirror
Mahyar Entezari, University of Texas at Austin
The Ta’ziyeh Topoi of Gholamhoseyn Sa’edi's Drama
Blake Atwood, University of Texas at Austin
Urbanism and the Representation of Reform in Two Films by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Sahba Shayani, UCLA
An Exile in Native Soil: An Analysis of Exile in the Later Works of Nader Naderpour
SESSION 12 | CAROUSEL B | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Shi'i Modernity
Chair: Bahar Davary, University of San Diego
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shiism, Mullas, and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Mateen Rokhsefat, University of Toronto
Clerical Modernism Beyond Wahhabsim and Salafism
Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity University
The Mentor and the Pupil: Montazeri and Kadivar
Arash Naraghi, Moravian College
Iranian Shiism and the Contemporary Debate on the Human Rights of Sexual Minorities
SESSION 13 | CAROUSEL C | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Constitutionalism, Elections, and Factional Politics
Chair: Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of London, UK
The Provisional Revolutionary Government's Draft Constitution of 1979: A Critical Re-appraisal.
Leyla Mostafavi, London School of Economics
From 1906 to 1979: The Role of Constitutions in Democratization in Iran
Luciano Zaccara, Autonoma University of Madrid
Elections and Factional Politics in Iran: Limiting the Change.
SESSION 14 | MARQUEE 1 | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Reconstructing the Forgotten Female: Women in the Realm of the Shahnama
Chair: Alyssa Gabbay, University of Washington
Discussant: Firuza Abdullaeva, University of Oxford
Alyssa Gabbay, University of Washington
From Ill-Starred to Auspicious: Depictions of Daughters in Firdawsi’s Shahnamah
Kumiko Yamamoto, Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Goettingen
Unfolded Self: Women in the Naqqali Tradition
Rana Salimi, University of California, San Diego
A New Voice on the Public Stage: Gordafarid, the First Female Naqqal in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA
Djalal Khaleqi Motlaq's Women of the Shahnameh: An Introduction
SESSION 15 | MARQUEE 2 | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Media and Society
Chair: Shahla Talebi, University of Arizona
David Arn, University of Zurich
The Iranian Drug Discourse. A Case Study on the Impact of the Iranian Reformist Press
Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University
From the Moon to Television: A Story of the Iranian Revolution of 1979
Saeid Golkar, Stanford University
Liberation or Suppression Technology: The Internet, the Green Movement, and the State in Iran
Davar Iran Ardalan, NPR News
You are the Media: How Iran's Women and Youth Reboot Journalism
Break | 3:30-4:00 p.m.
SESSION 16 | CAROUSEL A | 4:00-5:30 P.M
The Language of Literature
Chair: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
Dénes Gazsi, University of Iowa
Sa‘di as an Innovator in Arabic Semantics
Jocelyn Sharlet, University of California, Davis
Language Three Ways in the ‘Ushshaqnamah of Fakhr al-DinIraqi
Jeannine Fontaine, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Two Writers, Two Linguistic Worlds: Simin Daneshvar and Shahrnoush Parsipour
SESSION 17 | CAROUSEL B | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Shi‘i Rituals and Beliefs
Chair: Bahar Davary, University of San Diego
Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego
Ashura in the Arab-Iranian Community of Bushehr, Iran
Reza Masoudi Nejad, Max-Planck Institute
The Social Dynamic of Shawl in the Ashura Ritual
Tomoko Morikawa, Hokkaido University
Ziyarat and Ziyaratgah in 19th Century Iran
Omid Ghaemmaghami, University of Toronto
The Abode of Peace: Mahmud ibn Ja‘far Maythami (d. 1893CE) & the Phenomenon of Encounters with the Hidden Imam
SESSION 18 | CAROUSEL C | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Modern Iran and the World
Chair: Camron Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
Iran in the 19th-Century Global Economy
Lior Sternfeld, University of Texas at Austin
Between Abadan and Suez: The Rise of Mossadeghism and the Anti-Colonial Struggle in Egypt
Sam Razavi, University of Montreal
The Eisenhower Administration and the Mossaddegh Overthrow
Ali Dizboni, Royal College of Canada
Two Irans in two regions? The Eurasia and the Middle East
SESSION 19 | MARQUEE 1 | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
The Borderless World of Premodern Art and Literature
Chair: Marianna S. Simpson, Baltimore, MD
Iván Szántó, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Hungary
New Evidence on Medieval Hungaro-Khwarazmian Artistic Contacts
Sinem Arcak, University of Minnesota
Ottomans Displaying Safavid Gifts
Keelan Overton, University Of California, Los Angeles
From Rustam to Jami: Persian Heroes and Manuscripts at the Court of Ibrahim Adil Shah II (r.1580-1627)
Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA
The Account of Joseph in the Works of Shahin and Jami: A Parallel Study of a Cross-Cultural Theme
SESSION 20 | MARQUEE 2 | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Religions of Abbasid Iran: Beliefs and Controversies
Chair: Michael Cooperson, UCLA
David Bennett, UCLA
The Refutation of Dualist Heresies
Awad Awad, UCLA
The Intellectual History of Persian Nestorian Physicians in the Early Abbasid Period
Hassan Hussain, UCLA
Shu‘ubiyyah and Iranians in Contemporary Arabic Literature
Najm al-Din Yousefi, Virginia Tech
The Early Diwan, Persian Mawali and the Miscarriage of a New Discourse
Break | 5:30-6:00 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION 21 | MARQUEE BALLROOM| 6:00-7:00
Memories and Memoirs
Chair: Mahnaz Afkhami
Goli Taraghi
Roya Hakakian
Tara Bahrampour
Break | 7:00-8:00 p.m.
SESSION 22 | CAROUSEL BALLROOM | 8:00-10:00
Opening Reception
The Lifetime Achievement Award
The Saidi-Sirjani Book Award
The Latifeh Yarshater Award
The Lois Roth Prize
Special Service Recognition Award
Saturday, 29 May 2010
DOUBLETREE LOBBY | 8:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M.
Onsite Registration
SESSION 23 | CAROUSEL A | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Zones of Exploration: Social Studies, Literature, and Film
Chair: Amy Motlagh, American University in Cairo
Parvaneh Hosseini, University of Arizona
Identity Formation as a Means of Bringing Desirous Subject into Being in the Novels of Simin Danishvar
Mehrak Kamali, University of Arizona
Cinema and the Decline of Iranian Village Life: Khak by Masoud Kimiai
Philip Grant, University of California, Irvine
Another Birth: Gender, Agency, and Activism in the Contemporary Iranian World
Maryam Ghorbankarimi, University of Edinburgh
Redefining the Filmic Genres Of Iranian Cinema: The Generic Qualities Of New Iranian Cinema
SESSION 24 | CAROUSEL B | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Clerics and Esoterics
Chair: Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, UCLA
Mehrdad Shabahang, Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne University
Comparison of Old Iranian Dualism and Shiite Dualism
Maryam Moazzen, University of Toronto
Safavid Madrasas and Framing the Collective Memory of the Shi‘ites in the Early Modern Iran
Mahdi Tourage, University of Western Ontario
Of God And Ayatollahs: Theological Implications Of Contemporary Iranian Jokes
SESSION 25 | CAROUSEL C | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
The Challenges of Publishing Persian Journals
Chair: Homa Katouzian, Editor of Iranian Studies
Hormoz Hekmat, Editor of Iran Nameh
Sholeh Shams, Editor of Rahavard
Nahid Tavassoli, Editor of Nafeh
Ali Dehbashi, Editor of Bokhara
SESSION 26 | MARQUEE 1 | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Currirulum Design Guidelines and Persian Materials Development. Part I.
Cosponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Persian
Chairs: Pardis Minuchehr, University of Pennsylvania and Latifeh Hagigi, UCLA
Fereshteh Amanat-Kowsar , Yale University
Maryam Borjian, CUNY
Parvaneh Hosseini, University of Arizona
Manouchehr Kasheff, New York University
Azita Mokhtari, National University
Haideh Sahim, Hofstra University
Ramin Sarraf, National University
Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University
Mahvash Shahegh, John Hopkins
Anousha Shahsavari, University of Texas, Austin
Niloufar Yarmohammadi, University of Maryland
Habib Borjian, New York City
SESSION 27 | MARQUEE 2 | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Issues of Demography and Public Policy
Chair: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Virginia Tech and Harvard University
The Changing Pattern of Marriage in Iran: Responses to the Marriage Squeeze
Maryam Rezaee, University of York
Reasons for Not Pursuing Tertiary Education Among Women
Azim Fazilpour, Sorbonne University
Iran Narcotics Control Strategy & Geography of Drugs
Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m.
SESSION 28 | CAROUSEL A | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Gender and Diaspora in Literature And Film
Chair: Amy Malek, UCLA
Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University
Censorship and Autobiography: The Plight of Iranian Female Memoirists
Leila Pazargadi, UCLA
What’s so funny?: Investigating Humor in the Memoirs of Firoozeh Dumas and Marjane Satrapi
Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University
Feeling Nostalgic: Remembering Iran in Nahid Persson's The Queen and I
Rivanne Sandler, University Of Toronto
Journeys From the Past: Diaspora Memoirs
SESSION 29 | CAROUSEL B | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Roundtable Discussion and Readings: Daftarha-ye Shanbeh (Saturday Books) in a Historical Perspective. In Memoriam Mansour Khaksar.
(Sponsored by the Persian Flagship Program at the University of Maryland)
Chair: Majid Roshangar
Participants:
Majid Naficy
Mehrnoush Mazareie
Khosrow Davami
Alireza Tabibzadeh
Shirin-dokht Daghighian
Davoud Gholam-hosseini
Partow Nooriala
Fariba Sedighim
Sheida Mohamadi
SESSION 30 | CAROUSEL C | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M
Safavid Persia: Tribal Policies And Travel Narratives
Chair: Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
Akihiko Yamaguchi, University of the Sacred Heart
Shah Tahmasb's Kurdish Policy
Saeid Hooshangi, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Iberian Travelers in Persia in the Safavid Period
Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
From Rose Gardens to Bloody Anarchy: European Enlightenment Imagines of Early Modern Iran
SESSION 31 | MARQUEE 1 | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Currirulum Design Guidelines and Persian Materials Development. Part II
Cosponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Persian
Chairs: Pardis Minuchehr, University of Pennsylvania and Latifeh Hagigi, UCLA
Mahvash Shahegh, John Hopkins
Fereshteh Amanat-Kowsar , Yale University
Ramin Sarraf, National University
Azita Mokhtari, National University
Maryam Borjian, CUNY
Haideh Sahim, Hofstra University
Parvaneh Hosseini, University of Arizona
Anousha Shahsavari, University of Texas, Austin
Manouchehr Kasheff, New York University
Niloufar Yarmohammadi, University of Maryland
Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University
Habib Borjian, New York City
SESSION 32 | MARQUEE 2 | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Myth, Epic, And Kinship In Iranian Late Antiquity
Chair: Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
Azadeh Fadaie Tehrani, Tehran University
Stone: Silent Presence in Old Iranian Beliefs
Matthew Canepa, University of Minnesota
Iranian Kingship in Global Context and as a Global Commodity between Alexander and Islam.
Khodadad Rezakhani, UCLA
Prosopography of the Late Sasanian Empire: Sasanian Elite After the Reforms of Khosrow I
Sara Mashayekh, University of California, Irvine
Ancestry and the Myth of Royal Origins: the Sasanian Royal Identity as Reflected in Karnamag-i Ardaxshir-i Pabagan
Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Workshop on Academic Publishing, Gallery South
with
Iraj Bagherzade, I.B. Tauris
Mohammad Batmanglij, Mage Publishers
A. Kamron Jabbari, Mazda Publishers
Farideh Koohi-Kamali, Palgrave Macmillan
SESSION 33 | CAROUSEL A | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Family (secrets), Politics, and Nation: Filiations and Affiliations in the Literature of the Iranian Diaspora
Chair: Amy Motlagh, American University in Cairo
Discussant: Babak Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology
Amena Moinfar, University of Texas at Austin
The Child in European Exile in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Manijeh Moradian, New York University
Hyphenated by Politics: Memoirs by Children of Iranian Leftists
Sanaz Raji, University of Leeds
The Mystery of the Past: Gendered Responses to Family History in Jasmin Crowther's Saffron Kitchenand Porochista Khakpour's Sons and Other Flammable Objects
Laetitia Nanquette, School of Oriental and African Languages, London
The Persian Novel in French: A Hybrid Genre
SESSION 34| CAROUSEL B | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Re-Reading Iranian Shi’ism: International and Transnational Connections and Influence
Chair: M. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Christine D. Baker, University of Texas at Austin
Rebels, Revolutionaries, and Assassins: A Historiographical Analysis of European Portrayals of Shi’ism
Hanan Hammad, Texas Christian University
Rapprochement of Islamic Sects and Authoritarian Nationalism: Dar al-Taqrib 1948-1980
Banafsheh Madaninejad, University of Texas at Austin
Islamic Hermeneutics in Iran: A Rereading of Revelation
Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas at Austin
When Not Equal in Life, "Almost" Equal in Death
SESSION 35 | CAROUSEL C | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Looking at Each Other: Iran and Russia in the 17th through Early 20th Centuries.
CHAIR: Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
DISCUSSANT: Firuz Kazemzadeh, Yale University
Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
Everyone an Orientalist: Russian-Iranian Relations in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University
Contradictory Perceptions: Iranian Views of the Russian Myth During the Period 1825-1828
Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute
Visual Representations of Iran in Russian Travelogues of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
SESSION 36 | MARQUEE 1 | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
The Urban Environment: Public and Private Spaces
Chair: Pamela Karimi, MIT and Umass Dartmouth
Fariba Kermani, Research Center of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
Safavid Bazaars and the Effects of Climate
Mehrnoush Soroush, New York University
Emad Kazaree, Drexel University
Reconstruction of Kerman under the Governance of Zahir al-Dawlah: A Comprehensive Master Plan in the Traditional Society of Iran
Farhad Roozbehi, University of Versailles
Tehran and Paris, Capitals of the 19th Century: A Historical Comparison
Azita Rezvan, Independent Scholar
Iranian Domesticity in the Houses’ Semi-open Spaces
SESSION 37| MARQUEE 2 | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Author Meets Critic: The Life and Times of the Shah
Author: Golam Reza Afkhami
Critic: TBA
Break | 3:30-4:00 p.m.
SESSION 38 | CAROUSEL A | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Screening Iran: new approaches to contemporary Iranian film and television
Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California-Irvine
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, University of London
Film Censorship and the Problem of Reception
Saeed Talajooy, University College London
Iranian Cinema and Intercultural Adaptation: The Case of Dariush Mehrjui
Taraneh Dadar, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
To Laugh or Not to Laugh: A Discussion of Hegemony and Television Comedy in Postrevolutionary Iran
SESSION 39 | CAROUSEL B | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
The Politics of the Possible in Iran
Chair: Afshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los Angeles
Discussant: Farzin Vahdat, Harvard University
Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta
Post-Islamism in Iran: Neo-Shariati’s Post-Liberal Discourse and Soroush’s Liberal Islam
Omid Peyrow Shabani, University of Guelph
Between Revolution and Reform: The Prospect of Non-Violence Politics in Iran
Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
The Politicization of Shi’ism in Iran and Its Possible Futures
Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto
Engendering Ethics: The Production of Ethico-Political Discourse in Post-Revolutionary Iran
SESSION 40 | CAROUSEL C | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Pre-Modern And Modern Historiography
Chair: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History
Ghazzal Dabiri, Columbia University
Competitive Impetus and the Representation of Prophets and Kings in Iranian Historiography from the Ninth to Eleventh century
Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced
Persian Historiography under the Gunpowder Empires
Yadullah Shahibzadeh, Oslo University
Ideology and Modern Historiography of Iran
Shahram Kholdi, University of Manchester
Agents of Revolution and Agents of History in the Islamic Republic of Iran
SESSION 41 | MARQUEE 1 | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Issues of Diaspora in North America and in Iran
Chair: Roxanne Varzi, University of California, Irvine
Amy Malek, UCLA
Visual Representations of Iranian-American Subjectivities: Public Contestations and the Influence of the Local
Janet Alexanian, University of California, Irvine
Engineering the Diaspora: Claims to Authority among Privileged Cultural Producers in Tehran and California
Camron Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Murder, Madness and Assimilation: The Case of Brian Yasipour
Vahideddin Namazi, Université de Montréal
Iranians' Motivations for Immigration to Canada
SESSION 42 | MARQUEE 2 | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Legacies: Remembered, Living, Preserved
Chair: Rahim Shayegan, UCLA
Haleh Emrani, UCLA
Family Law in the Religious Communities of the Late Sasanian Empire: Indicator of Social Change and Continuity
Dan Sheffield, Harvard University
Calendar Controversies: Collective Memory and Communal Authority in Early Modern Zoroastrianism
Ali Mousavi, Los Angeles County Museum
Pasargadae: New Research and Restoration Project
Break | 5:30-6:00 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION 43 | MARQUEE BALLROOM| 6:00-7:00
Ehsan Yarshater’s Contribution to Iranian Studies
Chair: Richard N. Frye, Harvard University
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
Charles Melville, University of Cambridge
Oktor Skjaervo, Harvard University
William Hanaway, University of Pennsylvania
Break | 7:00-8:00 p.m.
SESSION SESSION 44 | CAROUSEL BALLROOM | 8:00-10:00
The Ehsan Yarshater 90th Birthday Tribute & Reception
Sunday, 30 May 2010
SESSION 45 | CAROUSEL A | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Iranian Literature: Reflections on Modernity and Gender
Chair: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona
Ali Mir-Ansari, Centre for the Great Encyclopeadia of Islam
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Plays of Mirza-zadeh Eshghi
Kourosh Kamali Sarvestani, Fars Encyclopedia
Modernity, Enmity and Infatuation with Sa`di
Azita Hamedani, University of Payam-e Nur
Early Twentieth Century Persian Literature in Transoxiana and Persia: The Role of History and Modernity in the Rise of New Literature
Lyudmila Yaneva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Gender and the Creative Impulse in the Short Stories of Zahra Hakimi, Farideh Kheradmand, Moniru Ravanipur and Zoya Pirzad
SESSION 46 | CAROUSEL B | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Modern Iran And The World II
Chair: Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University
Majid Tafreshi, University of London
The first Soviet Ambassador in Persia: Theodore Rothstein and his life and times in Russia, Britain and Persia
Jerzy Kotarba, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Iranian Counterinsurgency Operations in the Sultanate of Oman, 1973-1979
Frik Khatami-Tirgordi, Yerevan State University
Soviet-Iranian Relations and the United States in 1979-1989
SESSION 47 | CAROUSEL C | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Interpretations and Reinterpretations of Myth and History in Premodern Persian Literature
Chair: Mahdi Tourage, University of Western Ontario
Koorosh Angali, Independent Scholar
The Case of Purandokht and Ferdowsi's Chauvinism
Lale Uluc, Bogazici University
Ibrahim Sultan's Iskandarnama and Its Importance
Pegah Shahbaz,University of Strasbourg
Guile and Its Various Symbolic Representations in Touti-Nâmeh
SESSION 48 | MARQUEE 1 | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Topics on Journalism: Views from Iran (in Persian)
Chair: Fariba Amini, Independent writer and journalist
Discussant: Kazem Alamdari, California State University
Fariba Amini, Independent Writer and Journalist
Interviews with the Interviewers
Soheil Asefi, Independent Journalist
Journalism in Iran: Perspectives and Analyses. Where Do Independent Journalists Stand?
Fereshteh Ghazi, Rooz Online
Journalists: Prisoners of Pen in Iran
SESSION 49 | MARQUEE 2 | 9:00-10:30 A.M.
Women's Issues In Modern Iran (in Persian)
Chair: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto
Nahid Tavassoli, Editor-in-Chief of Nafeh
Wives Who Kill Their Husbands (Shawhar-kushi)
Soheila Vahdati, Independent Scholar
In Search of Identity: The Iranian Women’s Movement
Partow Nooriala, Poet, Critic, Commentator
The Role of Women in the Presidential Elections of 2009/ 1388 AHSh, and in the Post-Electoral Green Movement
Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m.
SESSION 50| CAROUSEL A | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Counterpoints: Culture, Art, and Society in Modern Iran
Chair: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
Golbarg Rekabtalaei, University of Toronto
Iranian Counter Cinema: The Transformation of Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, University of Toronto
Tufigh Advertisements: The Formation of a Modern Visual Vernacular.
Hamid Rezaeiyazdi, University of Toronto
Fictions of Modernity: A Postcolonial Reading of 20th Century Iranian Novels
Ida Meftahi, University of Toronto
Dance and "Counter-Dance" in Modern Iran
SESSION 51 | CAROUSEL B | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
The Mandate and Experience of Clerical Rule in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Chair: Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta
Alireza Shomali, Wheaton College
Political Mysticism and Post-Revolutionary Iran
Ebrahim Soltani, Syracuse University
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Idea of Political Representation
Kourosh Rahimkhani, Independent Researcher
The Institutionalization of the Clerical Establishment in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Case of the Friday Prayer
SESSION 52 | CAROUSEL C | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Farsi Shekar Ast? The Language(s) of Belonging in Iran and its Diaspora
Chair: Guilan Siassi, UCLA.
Discussant: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona
Guilan Siassi, UCLA
Mother-Tongue and Father-Word in Jamalzadeh’s 'Farsi Shekar Ast'
Amy Motlagh, American University in Cairo
Writing Reform from the Margins: Minor(ity) Voices and the Question of Civil Society
Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine
Translating Taghi Modarressi’s Writing with an Accent
Babak Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Fleshless Word: Defamiliarizing Language and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora
SESSION 53 | MARQUEE 1 | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Sociolinguistics and Linguistics
Ramin Sarraf, National University, La Jolla
Negar Davari-Ardakani, Shahid Beheshti University
Iranian Linguistic Attitudes and Persian Language Planning (A Case Study in Tehran)
Ladan Hamedani, University of Ottawa
Pluralization and Mass/Count Distinction in Persian
Pouneh Shabani Jadidi, McGill University/University of Ottawa
Processing Compound Verbs: Evidence from Persian
SESSION 54 | MARQUEE 2 | 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Debate, Dialect, Magic and Discourse in Late Antique Iran
Chair: Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
Charles G. Häberl, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Late Sasanian Mesopotamia
Kevin van Bladel, University of Southern California
Arabic Testimonies Concerning Western Iranian Dialects
Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina, Harvard University
The Zoroastrian Communities’ Response to Islam: Text, Debates and Interaction
Samuel Secunda, Hebrew University
Talmudic and Middle Persian Texts in Late Antiquity: Common Challenges and Discourse
Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Workshop on Academic Employment, Gallery South
SESSION 55 | CAROUSEL A | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Discourses On Self And Other
Chair: Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, University of Oxford
Self-Orientalisation and Dislocation: The Roots of the Aryan Discourse in Iran
Mina Yazdani, University of Toronto
The Islamic Revolution’s Internal ‘Other’
Mona Khademi, Independent Scholar
Laura Dreyfus-Barney: An American Woman's Connections with Iran and Iranians
SESSION 56| CAROUSEL B | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Economics and Society
Chair: Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal
Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History
From Ámalah to Kargar: The Making of Working Class in the Iranian Oil Industry
Pamela Karimi, MIT and Umass Dartmouth
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as Cultural Enterpreneur: Architecture and Urban Space in Abadan
Mikiya Koyagi, University of Texas at Austin
An Iranian Project? The Trans-Iranian Railway and Nation-Building in the Reza Shah Period
Thierry Coville, Negocia
The Foundations in Iran: An Obstacle to the Globalization of the Iranian Economy ?
SESSION 57 | CAROUSEL C | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
War in Persian Literature
Chair: Faridoun Farrokh, Texas A&M International University
Discussant: Paul Sprachman, Rutgers University
Mohammad-Reza Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Modern Warfare in Persian Literature
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
Russo-Iranian Wars of the Early 19th Century in Persian Poetry
Mehdi Khorrami, University of New York
Moments of Silence: The Authentic Narratives of War in Recent Persian Fiction
Faridoun Farrokh, Texas A&M International University
The Nobility of Battle and the Scourge of War
SESSION 58 | MARQUEE 1 | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Cultural Politics and Urban Poetics
Chair: Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University
Alice Bombardier, University of Geneva
Cultural Policy and Painting under Reza Shah Pahlavi (1925-1941)
Gai Bray, Ethnomusicologist
‘Waking Up the Colours’: Candour and Allegory in Women’s Rap Music
Afsaneh Kalantary, Loyola University, Chicago
The Spirit of Carnival in the Iranian Presidential Election Campaign of 2009
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Univeristy of Toronto
Cultural Engineering in Contemporary Iran
SESSION 59| MARQUEE 2 | 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Dissemination of Iranian Languages and Iranian Studies
Chair: Afshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los Angeles
Dariush Borbor, Arya International University, Yerevan
The Diachrony, Synchrony, Etymology and Gloss of the New Persian bōr as a Category of Color
Byung-Ock Chang, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Iranian Studies in Korea
Yashar Abdulselyamoglu, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Kurdish Studies: The Need for a New Approach
Break | 3:30-4:00 p.m.
SESSION 60 | CAROUSEL A | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Women without Men: Novel to Film
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
SESSION 61 | CAROUSEL B | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
The Nation and its Ethno-Religious Communities
Chair: Afshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los Angeles
Discussant: Nikki Keddie, UCLA
Nayereh Tohidi, California State University, Northridge
Ethnic and Religious Minority Politics in Contemporary Iran
Fereydoun Safizadeh, Boston University
Ya Hussein: Religion, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Relations and Ethnicity in Iran
Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen
National Unity, Ethnic Diversity and the Islamic Republic of Iran
Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar
Set in Stone: Religious Ambiguity and Postmortem Identity
SESSION 62 | CAROUSEL C | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
TBA
Chair: TBA
Session 63 | Marquee 1 | 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Information Communication Technology, Politics, Social Movements and Post-Revolutionary Iran
Chair: Babak Rahimi, University of California at San Diego
Elham Gheytanchi, Santa Monica College
ICT and the 2009 Electoral Politics in Iran
Mahmood Enayat, University of Oxford
Converging or Diverging Weblogistan?
Adam Greenfield, Nokia
Network City and Citizenship in Post-Revolutionary Tehran
Mehdi Yahyanejad, Balatarin
Blogging Iran
SESSION 64 | MARQUEE 2 | 4:00-5:30 P.M.
Sufism: Poetry And Practice
Chair: Reza Pourjavady, McGill University
Eliza Tasbihi, Concordia University
Nay Nameh or "The Song of the Reed" in Rumi’s Mathnawi through the Prism of the Comentators
Chad Lingwood, Grand Valley State University
The Political Significance of Jami’s Salaman va Absal, an Allegorical Persian Romance Addressed to the Aq Qoyunlu Court
Firoozeh Papan-Matin, University of Washington
An Early Chishti Leader of the Deccan and the Twelfth-Century Mystics of Iran
Break: 5:30-6:00
PLENARY SESSION 65 | MARQUEE BALLROOM| 6:00-7:00
Boundaries between Scholarship and Activism: A Public Discussion
Chair: Nahid Mozaffari, Independent Scholar
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
Nayereh Tohidi, California State University, Northridge
Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto
Break | 7:00-8:00 p.m.
SESSION 66 | CAROUSEL BALLROOM | 8:00-10:00
Special Reception
