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Abstracts NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE of IRANIAN STUDIES (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Abstracts NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Layout and design: Shervin Farridnejad © 2019 The Peacock motif is taken from Maġsūd-Beyk Mosque, Esfahan, Safavid Period (From: Nasr-Esfahani, Gholamreza, 2006, The Design of the Peacock on the Mosaic Tiles of Esfahan, Esfahan). Special thanks to Albrecht Flachowsky Institute of Iranian Studies Freie Universität Berlin Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Scientific Committee (The board of the Societas Iranologica Europaea) • Pierfrancesco Callieri (President of SIE / University of Bologna) • Gabrielle van den Berg (Vice President / Leiden University) • Florian Schwarz (Secretary / Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) • Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) • Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / FU Berlin) • Pavel Borisovich Lurje (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg) • Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS, University of London) • Christoph U. Werner (Philipps-Universität Marburg) • Maria Carmela Benvenuto (Treasurer / University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Conveners (Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) • Alberto Cantera • Shervin Farridnejad • Götz König • Khanna Omarkhali • Arash Zeini Conference Student Assistants • Mahnaz Ghasemi Kadijani • Kian Kahrom Contact and Venue E-Mail: [email protected] Conference venue: Institute of Iranian Studies, Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin/Germany HOSSEIN ABADIAN The Social Consequences of Rural Migrations to Tehran (1973-1979) This article concerns with the consequences of migrations to Tehran after the oil shock of 1973 and the role did play this issue in the upcoming circumstances of Iran. In this article the term "marginalized", has been used in the meaning that was introduced first by Robert E. Park, an American sociologist as a term to examine the cultural behavior of those who not only cannot live with their traditional patterns of life, but also cannot accept the necessities of an urban living styles too. In other words, in this paper marginalized people are communities who live inside or around a city, but for some reasons they are not able to attract the urban living conditions. These driven out of society groups turn into socially disruptive behaviors as well as addiction, spree, beggar, and theft; also they attend in the riots in the occasion of social crises, because they have nothing to lose. Therefore, without paying attention to these groups, the nature and identity of many social and political changes in Iran at the 1970s cannot be understood. In fact, understanding the causes and factors of the migration of villagers to the cities such as Tehran and the formation of marginalization is a necessary precondition for understanding some of the most important contemporary developments in Tehran. In this regard, social displacement and moral disorder are among the most important consequences of unplanned immigration in the county especially since 1973.According to Charles Tilly social changes have been due in part to the collapse of the internal structure of the society, rather than the power of the revolutionaries; therefore, the events such as 1979 Iranian revolution owes to the paralysis of the social structure and the collapse of the social order. Also this article tries to critique and analyze the causes and factors of the normative crisis in Tehran based on the issue of rural migration to this city and the emergence of marginalization phenomenon. Thus this paper tries to answer three main questions: 1. What were the main causes for rural migration to Tehran since 1973? 2. What role did play the phenomenon of rural migration in generating the social crises, anomie and uprisings? 3. What was the role of government in increasing the immigration of the villagers, the class gap and the expansion of marginalization? The answer to each question depends on the two others. The sources of this research are mostly books, articles, reports, and news, some of them have been published in official institutes and statistics in Persian, although in some cases the English sources which have been written by the scholars who interested in Iran history, have been used for this research. *** MALGORZATA ABASSY Mapping of a culture. „Iranism” as a cultural matrix for the Russian conservative thought. Purpose of the paper is to present a holistic concept of a Slavonic Russian culture through the prism of “iranism” conception by Aleksey Stepanovitch Khomiakov. The main thesis is that in the face of culture clash between the West and Russia two main problems emerged: to constitute and describe the most important values for national identity and to find “similar” culture to identify with. In the paper such problems are going to be discussed: the sources of Khomiakov’s knowledge about Persia and the Iranians; a binary idea of the world (a kind of anicheismlike one); the deep 1| Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9) | Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 | Institute of Iranian Studies | Freie Universität Berlin | structure of a culture as the essence of cultural identity; the Khomiakov’s theory and its metamorphosis in contemporary Russia – especially in Alexander Dugin’s conceptions. The research are going to be conducted on the basis of the contents of primary sources, and namely: the Khomiakov’s writings. The expected result of the paper is to point out similarities in the deep structures of both cultures, regardless of their different geopolitical position and significance in the international arena. Cultural maps are strongly underestimated in political prognosis. Nevertheless, they play crucial role in trust-building policy and undertaking common actions. *** MARYAM ABBASI Crisis, recovery and gender identity among the participants of the Zar ritual in Hormozgan province of Iran In southern Iran, the Zar ritual is a community-based activity, which is used to treat people who are believed to be possessed by spirits. The most important spirit is the Zar which also gives the person a divine power in the eyes of others, in which she/he is allowed to ignore some social norms and enjoy societal respect without any punishment. During the ritual, a semi-suspension of place and time happens and the possessed person reaches a new identity based upon the ones of the spirit. From 2010 to 2016 I interviewed over 40 participants and non-participants of this ritual, and reviewed the existing literature in order to examine different functions of the Zar ritual. The results of my interviews and participatory observations indicate that Zar participants tend to be the most vulnerable and powerless members of society and by means of their participation; they are able to avoid some of the social norms and also heighten the likelihood of gender-based predicaments and particular crises. The main research questions I sought to answer are: What are the predicaments and crises that lead the participants to turn to the Zar ritual for help? How this participation facilitate their recovery? How do the participants see this process themselves? *** SIMA ABBASI (ALI AKBAR MALEKIRAD, FATEMEH FARAHANI) Comparison of cognitive and executive functions in bilinguals and monolinguals Bilingual studies have received much attention in recent years. This is one of the interesting, complex, and challenging areas in the educational system of the country. Some researchers consider it as an opportunity while others look at it as a threat. The goal of this study is to compare cognitive and executive functions in bilingual and monolingual people by working on samples taken from bilingual and monolingual students. These cognitive and executive functions include psychometric speed, problem solving, and verbal and nonverbal memory. The research design for this work is causal-comparative. In this study 87 female high school students (53 Turkish- Farsi bilingual students and 34 Farsi monolingual students) were selected from Farahan region in Markazi province using non-random and purposive sampling method. Basadur Creative Problem Solving Profile Inventory, Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ), and Zimmerman etymological neurology questionnaire were used to 2| Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9) | Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 | Institute of Iranian Studies | Freie Universität Berlin | collect data. Multivariate analysis of variance and Student’s t-test were used for data analysis. The results indicated no significant difference in psychomotor speed, problem solving, and memory between multilingual and monolingual students. Instead, multiple factors including social, cultural, economic, ethnic, and individual conditions as well as people’s proficiency in the second language, environment richness, and opportunities provided for two languages contributed to create cognitive differences between bilinguals and monolinguals. *** MOJTABA ABBASNEJAD MATANKOLAEI (ESMAT MOMENI, MOHAMMAD VAFADAR MORADI) Identifying, Investigating and Introducing the Authors’ Handwritings Existing at Malek National Library and Museum Institution Manuscripts are considered as a part of the national and religious written identity and heritage of each country. In Iran, manuscripts are in top positions among the other documents. Manuscripts are
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