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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 Thursday, August 7, 2014 10TH ISIS BIENNIAL CONFERENCE Montreal, August 6th-9th, 2014 GENERAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE: WEB DRAFT (13-06-2014) This draft-schedule comprises all events currently envisaged for the 10th Biennial ISIS Conference to be held in Montreal from August 6th to August 9th incl. We ask the conference participants to check the accuracy of their names, affiliations, and paper titles, and to let us know whether any corrections are in order. Please direct editorial requests to the Program Chair Marta Simidchieva at [email protected]. The sessions below are of five kinds: PRE-ORGANIZED PANELS and ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS whose initiators and convenors are duly credited; INDEPENDENT PANELS created by the Conference Program Team from individually-submitted proposals; SPONSORED PANELS, organized and supported by an institution; CULTURAL EVENTS, RECEPTIONS, MEETINGS, and other activities, held alongside the academic program. Unless otherwise indicated, all academic sessions and other events are held at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. Please note, that this is not yet the final draft of the program: The Organizers reserve the right to consolidate panels with fewer than the required number of participants (minimum three), or to introduce other necessary changes to the program. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2014 REGISTRATION: 2:00 PM—8:00 PM 7:00 PM : ISIS BOARD MEETING (Frontenac) THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 REGISTRATION: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm BOOK EXHIBIT: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm (Fontaine G + H) 9:00 am—10:30 am St Pierre 1 RATIONALISM IN SHI’I PHILOSOPHY AND JURISPRUDENCE [R11m] DISCUSSANT: Hossein Kamaly, Columbia University 1. Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity University, San Antonio. “Human Reason in Contemporary Reformist Shi’i Jurisprudence: From Montazeri to Kadivar, to Qabel” 2. Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston. “Islamic Reason and Modern Scholarship in the Hawza and Beyond” 3. Alireza Shomali, Wheaton College. “The Idea of the Disparity of the Intellects in Perso-Islamic Thought” 4. Mehdi Najafiafra, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. “Death and Resurrection in Persian Philosophical Thought” Verdun IRANIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN MUGHAL INDIA: CONTESTATION, ACCULTURATION, AND NOSTALGIA [Hc3] CONVENOR: Usman Hamid, University of Toronto CHAIR: Sunil Sharma, Boston University DISCUSSANT: Pasha M. Khan, McGill University 1. Usman Hamid, University of Toronto. “The Wicked Ways of Transoxiana: Sexual Deviance or Political Transgression? A Question for Early Mughal Historiography” 2. Arthur Dudney, University of Oxford. “Going Native: Iranian Émigré Poets and the Indic Environment” 3. Sajjad Nejatie, University of Toronto. “Narrative Contestation in the History Writing of 18th- century Indo-Khurasan” 4. Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced. “Historians on the Move: Persian Chroniclers under the Safavids and Mughals” Lachine LOCAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN IRAN VERSUS FOREIGN INFLUENCE DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD [Hm4] CONVENOR: Mary Yoshinari, University of Toronto CHAIR: Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford 1. Roman Siebertz, University of Bonn. “Iran in the Focus of National-Socialist Power Politics, 1933- 1943” 2. Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto. “Iran in the Nazi New Order, 1934-1941” 3. Mary Yoshinari, University of Toronto. “The Impact of the Soviet Union on Iran’s Economic Modernization during the Interwar Years” 4. Serhan Afacan, Leiden University. “Iranian Craft Industries in the Age of Factorization: Large- Scale Industrialization and Small-Scale Industries during the 1930s” Lasalle 2 IRANIANS AND THE IRANIAN PRESENCE IN CANADA [D2] CHAIR: Roxanne D. Marcotte, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) 1. Linda Darwish, St. Francis Xavier University. “Iranian Christians in Canada: A Double Migration” 2. Rastin Mehri, Douglas College, New Westminster. “Zoroastrians in British Columbia” 3. Solmaz Shakerifard, McGill University. “The Performing and Teaching Practices of Iranian Musicians in Canada: Influences of a Multicultural Society” 4. Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University. “Tehranto as Lieu de Memoire and Site of Nostalgia” Fundy TEACHING PERSIAN LANGUAGE: AN APPLIED LINGUISTIC APPROACH [LG3] CONVENOR: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill University CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford 1. Peyman Nojoumian, University of Southern California. “Instructional Materials Development Based on Task-based Language Teaching Principles for Persian” 2. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill University. “Challenges and Decision-makings in Writing Persian- language Textbooks 3. Ladan Hamedani, University of Hawai’I at Manoa “Integrating Language Skills in Testing Persian Language” Longueuil INTELLECTUALS, POLITICAL ELITES, AND MIDDLE CLASSES IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN [P14] CHAIR: Afshin Marashi, University of Oklahoma 1. Ata Hoodashtian, Management Institute of Canada, Montreal. “Iran and the Rise of the 21st- century Intellectuals” 2. Hussein Banai, Occidental College and MIT. “The Curious Absence of Liberalism in Modern Iran” 3. Kevan Harris, Princeton University. “Iran's New Middle Classes in World-historical Perspective: Power, Distinction, and Transformation” 4. Ebrahim Soltani, Syracuse University. “Political Islam and Contextual Secularism” Pointe-aux-Trembles BOOK CULTURE: TYPES AND TROPES [Ac3] CHAIR: Marianna Shreve Simpson, University of Pennsylvania 1. Margaret Shortle, Boston University and Freie Universität, Berlin. “Visual Ghazals and Courtly Conduct: A Typological Investigation of the Paintings in Illustrated Divans of Hafiz” 2. Jake Benson, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, Cairo. “Naqsh bar ab: Marbled Paper as a Trope within Persian Poetry” 3. Mahbobe Ghods, Columbia University. “The Garden of Text: Innovative Usage of Text in Lithographic Books” 3 Jacques Cartier MUSIC, THEATRE, AND FACETS OF THE THEATRICAL [CS3] DISCUSSANT: Jane Lewisohn, SOAS, London University 1. Rosemary Mountain, Concordia University. “Incorporating a Study of Persian Music into Western Music Curricula” 2. Nahid Siamdoust, University of Oxford. “The Many Faces of God in New Iranian Music” 3. Sabrina Guerrieri, Concordia University and University of Toronto. “Modernity on Stage [Tazie— modern reinterpretations]” 4. Azadeh Ganjeh, University of Bern. “Speak the Speech: Genealogy of Power in Staging Hamlet in Modern Iran” 11:00 am—12:30 pm St Pierre CONSCIENCE, SELF-PERCEPTION, AND THE SUBVERSIVE POWERS OF POETRY [Lc6] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Justine Landau, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences 1. Cameron Cross, University of Chicago. “An Affair of Conscience: The Ethics of Seduction in Vis-o- Ramin” 2. Ali Ferdowsi, Notre Dame de Namur University. “‘Rather a Poet Be’: The Reluctant Sovereignty of Sultan Ahmad Jalayer” 3. Michael Hillmann, University of Texas at Austin. “Hafezian Ghazals qua Poetry” Verdun THE PHILOSOPHICAL, MYSTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC LEGACIES OF NASIR AL-DIN TUSI [R7c] CONVENOR: Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of Manitoba DISCUSSANT: Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter 1. Hadi Jorati, Yale University. “[Very] Late Greek Mathematics: The Case of Tusi's Tahrirat” 2. Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of Manitoba. “Spiritual Ethics” 3. Wahid Amin, University of Oxford. “Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 672/1274) on Cognition and the Necessary Being’s Knowledge of Contingent Facts: Some post-Avicennan Debates on the Nature of Knowledge” 4. Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. “Precedents to Rethinking Models of Authority among Nizari Ismailis: The Case of Tusi” Lachine 4 ECONOMICS: HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES [P9] 1. Gholam R. Vatandoust, American University of Kuwait. “The Export of Nacre or Mother of Pearl in Late 19th-century Iran” 2. Patrick Clawson, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The Limited Role of the Imperial Bank of Persia” 3. Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The Distributional Consequences of Economic Growth and Public Spending Programs in Iran” 4. Leyla Mostafavi, University of Ottawa. “The Human Rights Implications of Economic Sanctions: A Case Study of Iran” Lasalle PICTURING THE DEPICTED [Ac2] CHAIR: Sheila Blair, Boston College 1. Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. “Cookery, Visual Knowledge and Urbanity in Safavid Iran” 2. Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto. “The Tamed 'ayyar: From Independent Brigand to Mystical Symbol in a Romantic Mathnavi” 3. Lamia Balafrej, Wellesley College. “Unmotivated Forms in Late Timurid Book Painting (ca. 1470- 1500)” Fundy ART, EXILE, AND DISSENT [Am4] DISCUSSANT: Babak Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology 1. Annie Pfeifer, Yale University. “Between Worlds and Wars: The Formation of Iranian-German Modernism” 2. Hanieh Ziaei, University of Ottawa and Université Paris-Diderot. “Acts of Dissent: Reflections on Iranian Art and Artists in Exile” 3. Sholeh Shahrokhi, Butler University, Indianapolis. “Body Aesthetics and Protest Art in Contemporary Iran” 4. Azita Bathaie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, LESC, CNRS. “Mobility and Contemporary Afghan Artists” Longueuil IRANIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS CHALLENGES [P10] DISCUSSANT: Kamran Matin, University of Sussex 1. Seyed Amirhossein Mahdavi, Brandeis University. “Looking at the Islamic Republic of Iran in Three Historic Negotiations over Three Decades: Pragmatic or Ideological Foreign Policy?” 5 2. Marina Díaz Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. “From Dialogue to Alliance of Civilizations, from Khatami to Zapatero: Geopolitical Implications” 3. George Sanikidze, G. Tsereteli
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