31 THE SEVENTH IRANIAN STUDIES BIENNIAL JULY 3 AUGUST 2008 http://iranian-studies.com Tel: +905-569-4492 Fax: +905-569-4412 Park Hyatt Toronto, 4 Avenue Road, Toronto, M5R 2E8, Canada International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS)

Conference Schedule

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ISIS BOARD MEETING Bellair Boardroom Wednesday, 8:00 p.m., 30 July 2008

Thursday, July 31

Session 1 | Queen’s Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Mehrdad Shabahang, Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Pe r s i a n In s t r u c t i o n Etudes, Sorbonne Chair: M. M. Khorrami, New York University The Comparison of Old Iranian Farrah and Shiite Nûr-i Ramin Sarraf, National University, USA Welayat The Online Program: Challenges and Bryan Averbuch, Solutions The Newly-Discovered Judeo-Persian Letter: Date, Provenance, Azita Mokhtari, National University, USA and Historical Context Beyond Borders: Developing Online Task-Based Teaching Break | 10:30-11.00 a.m. Materials for Language Learners of Persian Ludmila Yaneva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Session 5 | Queen’s Park South Bulgarian Textbooks for Teaching Persian Language: Students’s 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. First Contact with the Iranian Identity Pe r s i a n l i n g u i s t i c s Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University|Teaching Chair: Azita Taleghani, Persian to Persian Speakers Mehrdar Naghzguy Kohan, Bu-Ali Sina University Session 2 | Queen’s Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Sociolinguistics Factors Conditioning the Plural in Contemporary Pe r s i a n Le c t u r e Se r i e s Persian Chair: Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware Yasaman Rafat, University of Toronto Mostafa Azkia, University A Socio-phonetic Investigation of Rhotics in Persian The Nature of Rural Development Programs in Before and Farzaneh Foroodi-Nejad, University of Alberta After the Revolution & Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta Transfer between the two Languages in Early Bilinguals from Session 3 | Hazelton | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Immigrant Families Wo r k s h o p : En c o u n t e r s Be t w e e n Ea r l y Mo d e r n Sa n s k r i t a n d Pe r s i a n Cu l t u r e s : Session 6 | Queen’s Park North Et h i c a l a n d Po l i t i c a l Te x t s 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Chair: Manan Ahmed, University of Chicago Pe r s o n a l Id e n t i y a n d Cu l t u r a l Sc h i z o p h r e n i a Pasha Mohamad Khan, Columbia University Chair: Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University Ajay Rao, University of Toronto Houchang E. Chehabi, Sunil Sharma, Boston University The Introduction of Family Names in Iran Dan Sheffield, Harvard University Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, San Francisco Sate University Audrey Truschke, Columbia University Iranian Myth and the Social Construct of Narrative Influence Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University Session 4 | University East | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Secularization, State Religiosity, and Cultural Duality Findings Tr a c e s o f Me m o r y from Values Surveys Chair: Marta Simidchieva, University of Toronto Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University Session 7 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Remembering the Muslim Conquest of Iran Sa n s k r i t a n d Pe r s i a n Cu l t u r e s :

3 Pr a c t i c a l Ar t s a n d Sc i e n c e s Chair: Christopher Minkowski, Oxford University Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University Kim Plofker, Brown University Enrico Raffaelli, University of Toronto Session 8 | University East | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Ar t s a n d Pa t r o n a g e Chair: Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario Museum Denise-Marie Teece, New York University Vessels of Verse: Persian Anthologies for Quyunlu Patrons Raya Shani, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Shi‘i-oriented Sufi component in epigraphic Nishapur pottery of the early eleventh century Maryam Ekhtiar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Isma‘il Jalayer: Mystic Painter of the Naseri Era Nigel Westbrook, University of Western Australia The Architecture of the Site Museums in Persepolis and Pasargadae Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m. Session 9 | Queen’s Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Hi s t o r i c a l a n d c o mp a r a t i v e Li n g u i s t i c s Chair: Mohammad Mehdi Vahedi, University of Tarbiyat Mudarris Zohre Zarshenas, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran Females and Feminine Words in Some Manichean Sogdian Writings Judith A. Lerner, Independent Scholar, New York The Persistence of Hellenism: The Sealings on the Bactrian Documents Mehrnaz Ahmadi Joobaneh, University of Western Ontario Grammatical gender markers in Persian compared to English, German and Arabic Soha Safaï, III University KW Words in Iranian Languages Session 10 | Queen’s Park North | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Sa f a v i d a n d Mu g h a l Ar t s a n d Po l i t i c s Chair: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto Ann Lucas, University California, Los Angeles Music Fit for a King: The Changing Role of Music from the Timurid Court to the Safavid Court Abolghasem Dadvar, Al-Zahra University Iranian Impacts on Mughal Culture During the 16th and 17th Centuries Maryam Moazzen, University of Toronto The Curriculum of Religious Higher Learning in Safavid Isfahan Abolala Soudavar, Independent Scholar From Rivalry to Fratricide: Shah Tahmasb and Sam Session 11 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Wo r k s h o p : En c o u n t e r s Be t w e e n Ea r l y Mo d e r n Sa n s k r i t a n d Pe r s i a n Cu l t u r e s : My s t i c a l a n d Me t a p h y s i c a l Te x t s

4 Chair: Supriya Gandhi, Harvard University Session 15 | Hazelton | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Vi s t a s o f Ir a n i a n Oi k o u m e n e i n t h e La t e An t i q u e Shankar Nair, Harvard University a n d Me d i e v a l Pe r i o d Parimal Patil, Harvard University Sponsored by The Association for the Study of Persianate Session 12 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Societies Po s t r e v o l u t i o n a r y Co n s t e ll a t i o n Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University Chair: Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University Discussant: Carlo G. Cereti, University of Rome “La Kamran Safamanesh, The Urban Research Institute, Sapienza” Tehran Richard Payne, Princeton University Architectural Environment of the Post-Revolution Tehran Iranian Adelsheilige: East Syrian Martyrology and Aristocratic Kambiz Behi, Harvard University Memory in Late Antique Iran Structure and Process of Legal Change in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University The Emergence of New Constitutionalism. Parthian Dynastic Families and the Arab Conquest of Iran Shahram Kholdi, University of Manchester Dan D.Y. Shapira, Bar Ilan University Political Memoirs and the Historiography of the 1979 Revolution Late Sasanian and post-Sasanian Zoroastrian Apocalypse Edward Wastnidge, University of Manchester Rika Gyselen, Centre National de la Recherche ‘A Dialogue Among Civilized Nations’ ? Iran¹s ‘Cultural Foreign Scientifique, France Policy’ During the Khatami Era Arabo-Sasanian Copper: A Mirror on the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Osmosis in Umayyad Fars Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m. Session 16 | University East | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Session 13 | Queen’s Park South | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Ir a n i a n Fe m i n i s m Th e o r e t i c a l Li n g u i s t i c s Chair: Valentine M. Moghadam, Purdue University Chair: Mohammad Reza Bateni, University of Tehran Morteza Nouraei, University of Isfahan Saera Kwak, Tehran of University, Iran TheSocio-political Participation of Female in Iran during Negation in Persian 1960-70s: A Critical Study Parviz Parsafar, Yuba College Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics of Izafah Chapel Hill Mohammad Mehdi Vahedi, University of Tarbiyat A Feminist Generation in Iran? Mudarris Golbarg Bashi, Columbia University A Survey of two types of Alternating Agentive Nominals (in Towards Democratic Feminisms: Lessons for Iran Persian) Azita Taleghani, University of Toronto Session 17 | University West | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Verbal Complex Predicates in Persian: Evidence from Future and Wo r k s h o p : The Century of Oil (1908-2008) Progressive Tense Chair: Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University Session 14 | Queen’s Park North Break | 6:00-6:30 p.m. 4:30-6:00 p.m. Session 18 | University | 6:30-7:30 p.m. e r m a n a n r b a n o r t r a i t i n o mm e r c e a n d K : U P C Pl e n a r y Le c t u r e i n Pe r s i a n Co mp e t i t i o n Chair: Hossein Samei, Emory University Chair: Sussan Babaie, University of Michigan Mohammad Reza Bateni, University of Tehran Discussant: Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania Assessing the State of Contemporary Persian Lisa Golombek, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Ceramics and Demographics: what pottery tells us about Safavid Break |7:30-8:00 p.m. Kerman Session 19 | Queen’s Park Ballroom Nozhat Ahmadi, Alzahra University, Tehran 8:00-10:00 p.m. Considering the Waqf Documents of Ganj Ali Khan Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware Opening Reception The Saidi-Sirjani Book Award Kerman in the later Safavid Period: Political and Economic The Latifeh Yarshater Award Conditions The Lois Roth Prize Fariba Kermani, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization Looking at the Complexes of the Kerman Bazaar after the Safavid period James M. Gustafson, University of Washington The Political Economy of the Kermani Governorship under Sultan ‘Abd al-Hamid Mirza Nasir al-Dawla (r. 1880-1892)

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Friday, August 1

Session 20 | Queen’s Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Sanskrit-Persian Translation Project Pasha Sc r i p t i n g Wo m e n Mohamad Khan, Columbia University Chair: Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto Giving Flesh: A Story’s Circulation Through Sanskrit, Leila Pazargadi, University of California at Los Angeles Persian and Urdu Texts. The Womb of the Universe: Figuring Woman as the Nation Shankar Ayillath Nair, Harvard University in Goli Taraghi’s ‘Khanah dar Asiman’ Preliminary Remarks on the Muntakhab-i Jug Basisht: Mir Sharareh Frouzesh Bennett, University of California, Findiriski’s “Commentary” on the Laghu-Yoga-Vasistha Irvine Session 23 | University East | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Between Resistance and the Law: Parsipur’s Women Without Re t r o s p e c t i v e s On US-Ir a n i a n Re l a t i o n s Men As A Meditation on the Ubiquity of Injustice Chair: Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto Kamrouz Pirouz, Montclair State University Demonization of the Muse: From Rudabeh to Zan-i The Truman-Churchill Proposal to Resolve the Iran-U.K Lakkatah Oil Nationalization Dispute Fereshteh Molavi, University of Toronto Ramin Asgard, US Consulate General, Dubai Literary Self-disclosure and the Female Discloser US-Iran Cultural Diplomacy: A Historical Perspective Session 21 | Queen’s Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Hossein Derakhshan, University of Ar e We Al l Du p e d b y Mo r a l i t y ? New York Times versus Iran: News Narratives on Oil Chair: Victoria Tahmasebi, University of Toronto and Atom Victoria Tahmasebi, University of Toronto Break | 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. To Sex or de-Sex: The Visual Representations of Female Ethical Performativity in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iran Session 24 | Queen’s Park South | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Alireza Haghighi, University of Toronto Hobbes and Machiavelli in Iranian Ethico-political Po l i t i c a l Pr i s o n e r s o f Ir a n : Na rr a t i n g Discourse In s u b o r d i n a t i o n , De s i r i n g Tru t h Nazli Kamvari, University of Toronto Chair: Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto Sex, Moral Panic, and the Anxieties Surrounding Mut‘ah Discussant: Payam Akhavan, McGill University Leila Dorostan, City University London Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University The Institution of Temporary Marriage in Iran A Story of an Archive: Love and Death in Prison Letters Kaveh Shahrooz, New York-based Attorney Session 22 | Hazelton | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Remembering 1988: A Legal and Political Analysis of the En c o u n t e r s Be t w e e n Ea r l y Mo d e r n Sa n s k r i t Demand for Accountability a n d Pe r s i a n Cu l t ur e s : Mu g h a l a n d Po s t -Mu g h a l Shokoufeh Sakhi, York University Tr a n s l a t i o n s The Arrival of a New Regime: Torture and the Aesthetics of Chair: Ajay Rao, University of Toronto Resistance Discussant: Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Saeed Yousef, University of Chicago Audrey Truschke, Columbia University Poetics of Horror: Iranian Poets and the 1988 Mass The Power of Translation: Mughal Reflections on Akbarís Executions

7 Session 25 | Queen’s Park North | Ocean 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nahid Mozaffari, PEN/Independent Scholar Co n s t ru c t i n g Ir a n : c u l t ur a l p r o d u c t i o n a n d Courtier Eunuchs: The Case of Besharat Khan n a t i o n a l i d e n t i t y Anthony A. Lee, University of California, Los Angeles Chair: Janet Alexanian, University of California, Irvine Presence and Erasure: Recovering a History of African Slaves Ida Meftahi, University of Toronto in Iran: The Case of Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, Raqs-i Milli: Choreographing National Identity in Pre- Servants of Mirza ‘Ali-Muhammad, the Bab revolutionary Iranian Dance Negin Nabavi, Montclair State University Jennifer Gay Breyley, Monash University, Australia From Haji Firuz to the Black Harlequin: Slaves and Black From Qerti to Heya’ati: Youth, Music and Belief in Tehran Domestic Servants in Iran Elham Gheytanchi, Santa Monica College Session 29 | Queen’s Park North | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Censored but Wired: Iranian related videos on Youtube and Re-t e rr i t o r i a l i z e d Li v e s the Internet Chair: Victoria Tahmasebi, University of Toronto Janet Alexanian, University of California, Irvine Maryam Abolfazli, Independent Scholar Performing identity, constructing the nation: intellectuals in A Doreh in Nashville: Acceptance and Rejection of Female post-revolutionary Iran Empowerment in the Iranian Diaspora Session 26 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Vahideddin Namazi, University of Montreal Th e Ei g h t e e n t h Ce n t ur y Fr a c t ur i n g o f t h e History of Professional Life of Two Iranian Immigrants in Canada Pe r s i a n a t e Wo r l d Foojan Zeine, Institute for Personal Growth Chair: Sunil Sharma, Boston University Immigration and Acculturation Discussant: Paul E. Losensky, University of Indiana at Bloomington Session 30 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Mana Kia, Harvard University En c o u n t e r s Be t w e e n Ea r l y Mo d e r n Sa n s k r i t a n d Accounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Auto- Pe r s i a n Cu l t ur e s : biographical Travel Narratives of Muhammad ‘Ali Hazin Pu b l i c Di s c u s s i o n Lahiji and ‘Abd al-Karim Kashmiri Chair: Ajay Rao, University of Toronto Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University Manan Ahmed, University of Chicago The Place of Place in Early Modern Indo-Persian Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Comparative Philology Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland Matthew Smith, Harvard University Christopher Minkowski, Oxford University A Debate on Authenticity: Literary Return and the Indian Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto Style Sunil Sharma, Boston University Session 31 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m. From Aisheh to Nur Jahan: Women Poets and the Shaping of Ci r c u l a r Or i e n t a l i s m the Classical Persian Literary Canon Chair: Mansour Bonakdarian, University of Toronto Session 27 | University East | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jennifer L. Jenkins, University of Toronto Excavating Zarathustra: Ernst Herzfeld in Iran Li t e r a r y Ru p t ur e s Isabelle Gadoin, Universitè Paris III Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine The Role of English Artists in the (Re)discovery of Persian Art Ali Mir-Ansari, The Centre for the Great Encyclopedia of in 19th Century Britain (1850-1900) Islam, Tehran Laetitia Bif, University of London The Transformation of Women’s Portrait in Persian Plays New Orientalist Narratives from the Natives: Reading More Koorosh Angali, University of Texas at Austin Than Chahdorrt Djavann in Paris Sadeq Hedayat: The Source of His Imagery Wali Ahmadi, University of California, Berkeley Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m. Rupture and Trauma in Contemporary Literature of Session 32 | Queen’s Park South | 4:30-6:00 p.m. : The Limits of Dissent Korosh Hadissi, University of Toronto Br e a k i n g t h e Mo l d : Yo u n g Ir a n i a n Gi r l s i n Tr a n s i t i o n Ahmad Shamlu as a Journal Editor Chair: Homa Hoodfar, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Meydaan Zanan Lu n c h | 12:30-2:00 p.m. Life after Prison: Young Iranian Women Re-adjusting to Session 28 | Queen’s Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Society Mehri Honarbin-Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church To p i c s i n t h e Hi s t o r y o f Sl a v e r y i n Ir a n University Chair: Pardis Minuchehr, University of Pennsylvania Narratives of Autonomy and Resistance: Young Iranian Thomas M. Ricks, Independent Scholar Bounded by Slavery: Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian 8 Women’s Struggles to Become Visible Break | 7:10-7:30 p.m. Nadia Aghtaie, University of Bristol Session 37 | Queen’s Park Ballroom | 7:30-9:00 p.m. Domestic Violence: Clash between Policy and Religion in Sneak Peak of the documentary Th e Gl a s s Ho u s e relation to Women’s Rights in Iran Session 38 | Queen’s Park Ballroom | 9:00-10:00 p.m. Session 33 | Queen’s Park North | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Workshop: The Making of Th e Gl a s s Ho u s e Popular Arts and Social Change in Iran Chair: Marjaneh Halati, Omid-e-Mehr Foundation Chair: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Meydaan Zanan Discussant: Houchang Chehabi, Boston University Farnaz Aliakbar-Gordan, Omid-e-Mehr Foundation Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona Melissa Hibbard, Fictionville Studios Persian Dance in Pre-Revolutionary Movies: Seduction, Sin, Ladan Zahra Kani, Omid-e-Mehr Foundation and Salvation Hamid Rahmanian, Fictionville Studios Jane Lewisohn, University of London The Golha Radio Programs (1954-76) and their Impact on Persian Culture and Society Nahid Siamdoust, University of Oxford Out of Tune: Islam as a Contested Idiom in Iranian Rap and Pop Music Gloria Shahzadeh, Independent Scholar and Artist Cultivating Emotional Bankruptcy: Popular Arts in Pre- revolutionary Iranian Society Session 34 | Hazelton | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Zo r o a s t r i a n i s m a n d Te x t u a l Tr ansmissions Chair: Richard Foltz, Concordia University Martin Schwartz, University of California The Teleological Composition of the Gathas: Pouruchista’s Wedding (Yasna 53) Jean Kellens, College de France, Paris New Perspectives on the History of the Avestan Text Carlo G. Cereti, University of Rome “La Sapienza” Notes on the Transcription of Avestan forms in Pahlavi Session 35 | University East | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Ci n e m a t i c Mo d e r n i t y a n d Mu s i c a l Na t i o n a l i s m Chair: Nima Naghibi, M.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin Film Adaptations and Narrative Change in Persian Fiction Khatereh Sheibani, University of Alberta The Reel History of Modernity in Bayzai’s Aesthetics Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of London The Story of a Song: The role of ‘Ey Iran’ in Contemporary Iranian Nationalist Discourse Negin Djavaherian, McGill University A Classical Persian Mystical Poem and Theatrical/ Architectural Discourse: The Conference of the Birds and Peter Brook’s Theatre Break | 6:00-6:10 p.m. Session 36 | Queen’s Park Ballroom | 6:10-7:10 p.m. Pl e n a r y Le c t ur e Chair: Ali Banuazizi, Boston College Akbar Etemad, Former President, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Iran’s Quest for Nuclear Energy Discussant: Gholamreza Afkhami, Foundation for Iranian Studies

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Saturday, August 2

Session 39 | Queen’s Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Enrico G. Raffaelli, University of Pa r a d i s e a n d i t s Di s c o n t e n t s : Eschatological Toronto Th o u g h t i n Is m a ‘i l i , He k m a t i , Sh a y k h i , Ba b i a n d Ba h a i TheYashts and the Days of the Th o u g h t Zoroastrian Month Chair: Todd Lawson, University of Toronto Parvonakhon Jamshedov, Tajik-Russian Elizabeth Alexandrin, University of ManitobaSpiritual Slavonic University Birth and Resurrection in the Majālis al-Mu’ayyadiyyahJalal The Sayod Calendar of Badakhshan Badakhchani, the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London Session 42 | University East | 9:00-10:30 p.m. Notions of Paradise’ in the Ismaili works of Nasir al-Din Tusi. So c i a l Po l i c i e s i n Co n t e m p o r a r y Ir a n Jamel Velji, University of California, Santa Barbara Chair: , University of Toronto Paradise Postponed: Apocalyptic Containment and the Janne Bjerre Christensen, Roskilde University Nizari qiyamat Changing Drug Policies in Teheran: Institutionalizing a New Social Order Session 40 | Queen’s Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Azim Fazlipour, Nanterre University-Paris Re a d i n g Pe r s i a n My s t i c a l Te x t s Iran Narcotics Control Strategy Chair: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Isabel Heck, Université de Montréal Austin Poor? How women talk about poverty in low-income Mahdi Tourage, Colgate University neighborhoods in urban Iran The Gender of Creativity in the Androcentric Context of Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal ’s Mathnawi Female-Headed Households and Micro Credit in Iran Safoura Nourbakhsh, University of Maryland Irigaray’s Sexual Difference and Sufi Narratives Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m. Eliza Tasbihi, Concordia University Session 43 | Queen’s Park South Reading Sabzawari’s Commentary on Rumi’s Mathnawi: A 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Philosophical Approach Umberto Cicchetti, Concordia University In b e t w e e n Li v e s a n d In s t i t u t i o n s Dreams and Visions in the Mathnavi Chair: Todd Lawson, University of Toronto Nobuaki Kondo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Session 41 | Hazelton | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Shi‘i ‘Ulama and Ijaza During the Nineteenth Century Zo r o a s t r i a n Co n f i g ur a t i o n s Tomoko Morikawa, Hokkaido University Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University Pilgrims and Customs at the Iran-Iraq Border in the Latter Bahman Moradian, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Half of the 19th Century Paris Joanna de Groot, University of York The Place of Water in the Avestan Text of Yasna and Its Making, Unmaking and Remaking of an Iranian Heroine: Ceremony The Appropriation of Qurrat al-‘Ayn Richard Foltz, Concordia University Bernard Hourcade, Centre National de la Recherche Zoroastrianism: The World’s “Original Environmentalist Scientifique (CNRS) Religion”? Geography and Politics: New trends on Ethnicity, 11 Nationalism and Globalization in Iran Session 44 | Queen’s Park North 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Ge n d e r Re l a t i o n s , Se x u a l i t y a n d Lo v e i n Ir a n i a n Ci n e m a Chair: Frank Lewis, University of Chicago Pedram Partovi, University of Chicago Constituting Love in the Iranian commercial cinema Christopher Gow, Independent Scholar Masculinities of the New Iranian Cinema Saeed Zeydabai-Nejad, University of London The place of Women Filmmakers in Iranian Cinema Noor Al-Qasimi, New York University She Is What She Wears: Costume Superfluity, Femininity and the Articulation of Gender Session 45 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Zo r a s t r i a n i s m a n d Cu l t ur a l Di a l o g i s m Chair: Zohre Zarshenas, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran Asya Asbaghi, University of Potsdam The influence of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism on classical Iranian literature Ghazzal Dabiri, California State University, Fullerton The Iranian Epic Heroes from the Avesta to the Mantiq al- Tayr Maria E. Subtelny, University of Toronto Zoroastrian Elements in the Islamic Ascension Narrative Dan Sheffield, Harvard University Between Den and Dharma: Indian Zoroastrian Texts from the Medieval and Early Session 46 | University East | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pu b l i c Op i n i o n a n d Yo u t h Co u n t e r -Cu l t ur e Chair: Sima Shakhsari, Stanford University Pegah Zohouri Haghian, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice Khatami’s Administration and the Iranian Public Opinion: Beyond a Civil Society’s Discourse Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign & Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Virginia Tech Voting for Populism: An Analysis of Iran’s 2005 Presidential Election Aliakbar Jafari, University of Wolverhampton Cultural Globalisation, Reflexivity, and the Project of ‘Self’: the Case of Iranian Youth Culture Session 47 | University West | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pe r s i a n Le c t ur e Se r i e s Chair: Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford Pari Barkeshli, Conservatoire National de Musique, France Oral Art and the Musical Note

Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m.

12 Session 48 | Queen’s Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University Cu l t ur a l In d u s t r i e s Truth Telling and Trauma in Nemat’s Prisoner of Tehran Chair: Richard Foltz, Concordia University and Entekhabi-Fard’s Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Iván Szántó, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences Truth (ELTE) Marta Simidchieva, University of Toronto The Smell of Iran: Collecting Persian Art in Hungary Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: Sketching Iran for the Rest of Ayeh Naraghi, Ecole des Hautes Etude en Sciences Us Sociales Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University The Development of Cultural Industries in the Field of Reading Beyond “Jasmine and Stars: Reading more than Iranian Contemporary Art Lolita in Tehran” Manya Saadi-Nejad, Concordia University Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m. Culture, Myth, and Artistic Production in Contemporary Iran Session 53 | Queen’s Park Ballroom | 4:30-5:30 p.m. Pl e n a r y s e s s i o n : Th e Sh a h n a m a h Mi l l e n n i u m Session 49 | Queen’s Park North | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Chair: , Encyclopaedia Iranica Di re c t i o n s i n Fo l k Na rr a t i v e Re s e a r c h o f Gr e a t e r Charles Melville, University of Cambridge Pe r s i a Firdawsi’s Shahnamah and its Reception Chairs: Margaret Mills, Ohio State University Discussant: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Ulrich Marzolph, Enzyklopaedie des Maerchens Maryland Negotiating Folklore in the Islamic Republic of Iran Erika Friedl, Western Michigan University Break | 5:30-7:30 p.m. Folktales in Analysis: Ethnophilosophy in Boir Ahmad, Session 54 | Roy Thomson Hall | 7:30-7:50 p.m. Southwest Iran ISIS Lifetime Achievement Awards

Afsane Eftekharzade, Independent Scholar Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopaedia Iranica Collecting Folktales in Baluchestan Mohammad Reza Shafi‘i-Kadkani, University of Tehran Margaret Mills, Ohio State University Outstanding Academic Leadership Award From the Gold-Monkey to Hatam at-Tayy: Types, Frames, Ali Banuazizi, Boston College Themes and Performer Identity in Two Performances of an International Tale Session 55 | Roy Thomson Hall | 8:00 p.m. Th e Sh a h n a m a h Mi l l e n n i u m Co n c e r t Session 50 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Toronto Symphony Orchestra Pe r s i a n Le c t ur e Se r i e s Behzad Ranjbaran, Composer Chair: Ahmad Ashraf, Columbia University JoAnn Falletta, Conductor Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani-Parizi, University of Tehran Morshed Valiolah Torabi, Narrator Early Iranian Encounters with Canada Session 51 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Di a s p o r i c Se l f -r efashioning Chair: Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University Mahdi Bermy, Centre of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies (CEDS, France) Iranian Diaspora: A Force For Democracy? Farzaneh Foroodi-Nejad & Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta Transfer between the two Languages in Early Bilinguals from Immigrant Families Raha Bahreini, University of Toronto From Perversion to Pathology: Discourses and Practices of Gender Policing in the Islamic Republic of Iran Session 52 | University West | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Exilic Memory Chair: Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto Farideh Dayanim Goldin, Old Dominion University Iranian Jewish Women Writers: Voices from Exile

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Sunday, August 3

Session 56 | Queen’s Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Amīr Khusraw’s Story of Bahram Gur and the Slave Girl Th e En c o u n t e r w i t h Go d i n Mo d e r n Pe r s i a n Paul Losensky, University of Indiana at Bloomington Li t e r a t ur e A Kiss in the Mirror of Beauty: A Study of Sa‘eb’s Topical Chair: Ali , Notre Dame de Namur University Anthology Mer’at al-Jamal Discussant: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Session 59 | University East | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Austin Li n g u i s t i c Pe c u l i a r i t i e s Houra Yavari, Columbia University Chair: Carlo G. Cereti, University of Rome “La Sapienza” God and Modern Sufis Matthias Andreas Fritz, Free University of Berlin Mehdi Khorrami, New York University The Status of Iranian within Armenian from a Lexicological The Literary Confrontation of God and Satan in the Post- Point of View Revolutionary Persian Fiction Kazuo Morimoto, University of Tokyo Ali Ferdowsi, Notre Dame de Namur University An Arabic Vocabulary from Late Saljuq Khurasan: A Study Chubak, the Writer and His God: From Ideological Ridicule of Ibn Funduq’s Azāhīr al-Riyā al-Marī‘a to Ontological Encounter Ekatreina Fein, University of St.Petersburg Farshid Delshad, University of Berne, Switzerland Genre of Travelogue in Persian Prose of the 1st part of the Case of Religiosity Among the Persian Religious Minorities in XIX century and its linguistic peculiarities Post-Revolutionary Iran Session 57 | Queen’s Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m. Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m. Vi o l e n c e , Di ve r s i t y, a n d Po l i t i c a l Mo d e r n i t y Chair: David Menashri, Center for Iranian Studies, Session 60 | Queen’s Park South Tel Aviv 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Daniel Tsadik, Hebrew University In t e l l e c t u a l Tr e n d s i n Tw e n t i e t h -Ce n t ur y Ir a n I On the Eve of the Constitutional Revolution: The Jews of Chair: Farzin Vahdat, Vassar College Iran in The Muzaffari Era, 1896-1906 Marek Smurzynski, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar Poland Violence and Modernity A Reexamination of Forced The Philosopher Without The Book, Ahmad Fardid,1910-94 Conversion of Mashhad Jews Evaleila Pesaran, University of Cambridge Mina Yazdani, University of Toronto From Al-e Ahmad to Ahmadinejad: Tracing Discourses of Reconstructing the Imbrie (Saqakhanah) Affair, July 1924 Anti-Westernization in Iran 77 Hossein Mesbahian, Tehran University Philip Grant, University of California, Irvine Modernity and its Other: The Logic of “Inclusive Exclusion” The Synthetic Intellectual in Contemporary Iran Session 58 | Hazelton | 09:00-10:30 a.m. Session 61 | Queen’s Park North Lo v e a n d De s i r e i n Pr e m o d e r n Pe r s i a n Po e t r y 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine Sc i e n c e a n d Kn o w l e d g e Franklin Lewis, University of Chicago Chair: Enrico Raffaelli, University of Toronto Sexual Occidentation: the Politics of Boy-love and Christian- Tofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, Riverside love in ‘Attar History of Science and Technology in Persia Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchester Mahdi Farhani Monfared, Al-Zahra University (Tehran) To Be Feared and Adored: Turks in the Kulliyat of ‘Ubayd-i The Decline of Mathematical Sciences after the Death of Zakani Uluq Beg, 853/1449 Alyssa Gabbay, University of Chicago Ali Nayeri, University of California, Santa Barbara Deconstructing Hierarchies: The Male/Female Dynamic in Science and Science-seeking in Iran: The Sociocultural Effects

15 Session 62 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. the Rise of Exclusionary Nationalisms online Pe r s i a n Li t e r a t ur e Hossein Khosrowjah, University of Rochester Chair: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Carried by the Wind: Exilic Autobiographies and Iranian Manchester Diaspora Jocelyn Sharlet, University of California, Davis Sima Shakhsari, Stanford University Observation as an Approach to Desire, Subjectivity, and Chic of Queer, Lure of Diaspora: The Iranian Queer Objectification in Nasibs by Farrukhi, ‘, and Diaspora and the Politics of Representation Manuchehri Targol Mesbah, New College, San Francisco Janis Esots, University of Latvia House and Home: Psychogeography, Property, and the Some Connotations of the Terms Rind and Qalandar in the Iranian Diaspora Poetry of Hafiz Session 67 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Shokoufeh Taghi, Uppsala University Di a s p o r i c Ir a n The Meaning of Baxt in and Wis o Ramin: A Chair: Parvonakhon Jamshedov, Tajik-Russian Slavonic Comparative Analysis of Gender Differences University Eva L. Witte, University of Tehran Gulnara Mendikulova, Institute of Oriental Studies, Persian Haiku Writing: A Preliminary Exposition Ministry of Education and Science-Kazakhstan Session 63 | University East | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Kazakhs: as Diaspora in Iran and Repatriates in Al l t h e Ne w s Th a t ’s Fi t t o Pr i n t ? Kazakhstan Chair: Fariba Amini, Independent Journalist Ashraf Zahedi, University of California, Berkeley Erfan Sabeti, Lancaster University Filipino Brides in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Crossing Blog Wars in the Global Age: The Case of Persian Baha’i and Religious, Cultural, Racial, and National Boundaries anti-Baha’i Weblogs Session 68 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Shirin Sadeghi, University of London Wo m e n ’s Ed u c a t i o n a n d Em p l o y m e n t Iranian Internet Use: Participatory Values and their Chair: Marym Moazzen, University of Toronto Democratic Offspring Mahshid Abdollahi, University of Isfahan Omid Habibinia, University of Bern The Educational System and Female Social Participation in Persian Satellite TV, New challenge for IRI Isfahan, 1925-1950Mina Mahdavinia, Ontario Institute Session 64 | University West | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for Studies in Education, Pe r s i a n Le c t ur e Se r i e s In Search of Excellence: The Meaning of Developing Chair: Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani-Parizi, University of Progressive Education for Iranian Girls Tehran Maryam Rezaee, University of York Shamsoddin Najmi, University of Kerman Ismaili Women and their Participation in Tertiary Shahnamah-khani in the Safavid Era Education in Iran Shiva Sadeghi, University of Toronto Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m. The Making of a Nation: Curriculum and Citizenship Session 65 | Queen’s Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Education in Iran In t e l l e c t u a l Tr e n d s i n Tw e n t i e t h -Ce n t ur y Ir a n II Session 69 | University West | 2:00-3:30 p.m. Chair: Mansour Bonakdarian, University of Toronto Wo r k s h o p o n Tr a n s l a t i o n Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto Chair: Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto Furughi and Dialogical Modernization Mohammad Reza Bateni, University of Tehran Afshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los Collocations and Idioms and Their Translatability Angeles The Corbin Circle and the Making of Iran’s Shi‘i Modernity Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m. Farzin Vahdat, Vassar College Session 70 | Queen’s Park Ballroom | 4:30-6:00 p.m. Nasr and the Critique of Modernity Pe r f o r m i n g Ar t s Session 66 | Queen’s Park North | 2:30-3:30 p.m. Chair: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Wi t h e r Ex i l e , En t e r Di a s p o r a ? Tr ansnational Morshed Valiolah Torabi, Naqqal Fe m i n i s t Ap p r o a c h e s Behzad Ranjbaran, Composer t o t h e Cu l t ur a l Po l i t i c s o f t h e Ir a n i a n Di a s p o r a Farzaneh Kaboli, Dancer Chair: Minoo Moallem, University of California, Pari Barkeshli, Musician Berkeley Session 71 | Queen’s Park Ballroom | 7:00-8:00 p.m. Discussant: Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal Cl o s i n g Se s s i o n (Ticketed Event) Niki Akhavan, Catholic University Morshed Valiollah Torabi Menacing Portent for the Future: The Iranian Diaspora and Shahnamahkhani & Pardahkhani 16