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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

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

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”

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

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?”

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 Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University, Tbilisi. “Iran and the South Caucasus: Challenges for Regional Policy in the 21st Century”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY IN IRAN AND ENVIRONS [CS1] CONVENOR: F. Jamil Ragep, McGill University

1. Fateme Savadi and Sajjad Nikfahm Khubravan, McGill University. “New Light on Astronomical Activities during the Seljuk Time: An Overview Based on New Findings” 2. Pouyan Shahidi Marnani, McGill University. “Two Astrolabes by Persian Astrolabe Makers from the Safavid Era Preserved in the Malek Museum: A Description and Survey of Their Geometrical and Numerical Inscriptions” 3. Shamameh Mohammadifar, Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, Tehran. “Islamic Period Botany in the Works of the Iranian Physicians and Pharmacologists” 4. Sally Ragep, McGill University. “Situating Jaghmini: Scientific Activity during the Later Period of the Khwarizm Shahs”

Jacques Cartier

MANHOOD AND MASCULINITY IN IRANIAN LITERATURE AND FILM [G5] CHAIR: Camron Michael Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1. Joanna de Groot, University of York, UK. “The Bureaucrat, the Mulla, and the Maverick Intellectual: Narratives of Patriarchy, Domesticity, Masculinity, and Modernity in Iran, 1880- 1980” 2. Amirhossein Vafa, University of Sheffield. “An Epiphanic Homecoming: Revisiting Gender Relations in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch” 3. Nacim Pak-Shiraz, University of Edinburgh. “Exploring Manhood and Masculinity in Iranian Cinema” 4. Sanaz Fotouhi, Independent Scholar. “Women's Self-Orientalization and Iranian Men's Masculinities in Diasporic Iranian Literature in English”

Fontaine F

WHO IS ARBY? WHAT IS ARBY? ENCOUNTER WITH THE THEATRE AND CINEMA OF ARBY OVANESSIAN [C2] CONVENOR AND CHAIR: Negin Djavaherian, Independent Scholar

1. Majid Lashkari, Independent Scholar. “In Touch with the Unknown: A Testimony on the Theatrical and Cinematic Approach of Arby Ovanessian” 2. Ramin Jahanbegloo, York University. “Transcendental Style in the Cinema of Arby Ovanessian: An Analysis of ‘La Source’ (Cheshmeh, 1971)” 3. Bardia Saadi-nejad, Independent Scholar. “Arby Ovanessian: A Significant Cinematic Presence Followed by

a Self-intended Speechlessness” 4. Negin Djavaherian, Independent Scholar. “Evoking Architecture: Theatre of Arby Ovanessian and Its Architectural Expression”

2:00 pm—3:30 pm

St Pierre

THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRANIAN DISCOURSE AND PRAXIS [R8m] CONVENOR: Linda Clarke, Concordia University CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Patrice Brodeur, Université de Montréal

1. Linda Clarke, Concordia University. “From Reason to Rationality: Modern Shiite Discourse on ‘Aql” 2. Shahram Nahidi, Université de Montréal. “Social Justice in 'Allameh Tabataba’i's Thoughts: A Brief Review of Tabataba’i's Tafsir on Q: 30:30” 3. Forough Jahanbakhsh, Queen’s University. “Rationality, Religiosity and Social Justice: Ahmad Qabel’s Project of ‘Shari‘at-e ‘aqlani’” 4. Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal. “Social Economy and the Role of Low Income Religious Women in Iran”

Verdun

PERSIAN PROSIMETRUM [Lc2] CONVENOR: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto CHAIR: Charles Melville, University of Cambridge

1. Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Reflections on the Prosimetric Mode and Its Functions in Medieval Persian Prose” 2. Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge. “Three Kalila wa-Dimna Rewriters’ Attitudes towards Prosimetrum” 3. Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto. “The Pitfalls of Prosimetrum in the Akhlaq-i Muhsini of Husain Va‘iz Kashifi” 4. Sunil Sharma, Boston University. “Quoting Old and New Poets in ‘Abd al-Baqi’s Ma’asir-i Rahimi”

Lachine

A CENTURY OF WORKERS’ WORLD IN THE IRANIAN OIL INDUSTRY [Hm1] CONVENOR: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

1. Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. “Oil and Beyond: Shifting British Imperial Aspirations, Emerging Oil Capitalism, and the Challenge of Crafting a Labour Policy in the First World War Iranian Oil Industry”

2. Peyman Jafari, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. “Labor and the State in the Iranian Oil Industry (1978-2008)” 3. Maral Jefroudi, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. “Oil Workers after the Nationalization of 1951, and before the Revolution of 1979: Writing the History of an ‘Interlude’" 4. Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University. “Assembling the Oil Complex in Khuzestan: Workers’ Lives and the Built Environment of Abadan (1920s – WW2)”

Lasalle

THE POSITIONING OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND IDENTITY IN THE IRANIAN DIASPORA [D1] CONVENOR: Amy Malek, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) DISCUSSANT: Amy Motlagh, American University in Cairo

1. Amy Malek, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Multiculturalism and Diasporic Citizenship: Exploring Iranian Cultural Production in Sweden” 2. Neda Maghbouleh, University of Toronto. “Ugly Persian Houses and the Racial History of Iranian America” 3. Babak Elahi and Andrea Hickerson, Rochester Institute of Technology. “The Production of Diasporic Identity Online: Case Studies of Kurdish and Iranian English-Language News Sites” 4. Sheefteh Khalili, University of California, Irvine. “Selectively Racialized, Selectively Politicized? Politicized Ethnic Identity among Second Generation Iranian Americans”

Fundy

VISUAL CULTURE IN MODERN IRAN [Am3] CONVENOR: Blake Atwood, University of Texas at Austin

1. Beeta Baghoolizadeh, University of Pennsylvania. “The Photograph and the Slave: Locating One’s Place in the Family” 2. Rustin Zarkar, New York University. “Poster Arts of the Fada'i-e Khalq (1978-1980): Ideology, Materiality, and the Technologies of Production” 3. Shaherzad Ahmadi, University of Texas at Austin. “Iran's Youth and the Holy Defense” 4. Laura Fish, University of Texas at Austin. “Accidental Martyrdom and the Ambiguous Death Image of the Role of Iranian Women”

Longueuil

COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CONTESTED NARRATIVES OF CONTEMPORARY IRAN (1) [P1] CONVENORS: Chowra Makaremi, Université de Montréal and Pardis Shafafi, University of St Andrews CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews

1. Chowra Makaremi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris. “State Violence and the Economy of Silence in Post-revolution Iran” 2. Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University. “The Politics of Testimony and Post-revolutionary Iran” 3. Kaveh Shahrooz, Independent Scholar. “Legalizing Narrative: Reflections on the Perils of Seeking

Justice for Gross Human Rights Violations in Contested Spaces”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

GEOMETRY, CRAFT, AND ARCHITECTURE: LINES OF INTERSECTION [Ac7] CONVENORS: Carol Bier, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University

1. Carol Bier, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. “Mapping the Mathematical Mind: Lines of Thought in Islamic Art and Architecture” 2. Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University. “Parallel Footpaths: Micro-mapping Practical Geometry in Persian Lands” 3. Hooman Koliji, University of Maryland and Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University. “Drawing on Light: The Craft of Geometric-pattern Windows”

Jacques Cartier

NARRATING THE MODERN: IRANIAN AND TAJIK PROSE-WRITING [Lm7] CHAIR: M.R.Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin

1. Gabrielle van den Berg, Leiden University. “Representations of Everyday Life in Central Asia: The Memoirs of Sadriddin Ayni and Muhib” 2. Arshavez Mozafari, University of Toronto. “. “Hidayat and the Demonological Essence of the Age” 3. Abd al-Rasoul Shakeri, Shahid Beheshti University. “The Influence of Social Discourses on the Content and Structure of Persian ‘Serial Novels,’ 1941-1953” 4. Zahra Goshtasbi, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris . “Harmony of Hope and Fear in Contemporary Fantastic Narratives in Iran” 5. Seyed Gholamreza Shafiee-Sabet, McGill University. “An Investigation into the Postcolonial Discourse in Beyzaie’s Hezar Afsan Kojast? “

Fontaine F SCREENING OF THE FILM “CHESHMEH” (“LA SOURCE”, 1971), SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTOR ARBY OVANESSIAN,

4:00 pm—5:30 pm

St Pierre

IRANIAN LITERATURE—COMPARATIVE ASPECTS [Lm5] CHAIR: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota

1. Ameneh Shervin Emami, Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Rumi, Farrokhzad, and ‘Tavallodi Digar’”

2. Niloofar Dohni, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris. "The Influence of Classical Persian Literature on the Works of Atiq Rahimi, a French-Afghan Writer" 3. Farkhondeh Shayesteh, Yale University. “Persian and Japanese Literary Expression in the Face of Modernization” 4. Maryam Shariati, University of Texas at Austin. “‘Sunshine’ vs. ‘Age of Night’: A Comparative Analysis of Nonconformity and Individualism ( Henrik Ibsen and Golamhosein Saedi)”

Verdun

RECEPTION AND RESPONSE IN TIMURID AND SAFAVID POETRY [Lc4] CONVENOR: Nicholas Walmsley, Indiana University DISCUSSANT: Paul Losensky, Indiana University

1. Theodore Beers, University of Chicago. “The Tuhfa-yi Sami and Canon Formation in Persian Poetry” 2. Paul Losensky, Indiana University. “Jami, Pari-Khan Khanom, and Mohtasham: Ideology, Patronage, and Poetics in 16th-century Iran” 3. Myriam Sabbaghi, University of Chicago. “The Court Poet and the Lady Patron: Deconstructing Muhtasham Kashani’s Ideal Illustration of Pari-Khan Khanum” 4. Nicholas Walmsley, Indiana University. “‘On My Frail Body’: An Early Attempt to Translate the Turkic Poetry of Nava’i into Persian”

Lachine

DISCOURSES ON MODERNITY AND REVOLUTION [Hm11] CHAIR: Juan Cole, University of Michigan

1. Mansoor Moaddel, University of Maryland. “Reflections on Two Revolutions: The Constitutional Revolution of 1905 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979” 2. Kamran Matin, University of Sussex. “Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change” 3. Vahid Tolooei, University of Toronto. “New Social Concepts and Their Effect on Social Practice” 4. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto. “Biopolitical and Geopolitical Governance in Contemporary Iran”

Lasalle

FITTING IN: IRANIAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCES [D3] DISCUSSANT: Ali-Akbar Mahdi, Ohio Wesleyan University

1. Camron Michael Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn. “‘If You Kill Your Child, You Will Not be Charged’: Comparing 21st-century American and Iranian Conceptions of Filicide” 2. Vahideddin Namazi, Université de Montréal. “Future Perspectives for Iranian Taxi Drivers in Canada” 3. Shawhin Roudbari, University of California, Berkeley. “Looking and Moving Abroad: The

Transnational Transformation of Iran’s Architecture Profession, 2000-2012” 4. Amin Moghadam, Sciences Po Paris. “Larestani Community in Dubai and the Formation of a Transnational Identity”

Fundy

IRANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE LONG 19TH CENTURY: EXPRESSING A WORLD IN FLUX [Am1] CONVENOR: Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University Stanislaus DISCUSSANT: Mary Yoshinari, University of Toronto

1. Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University Stanislaus. “Reconsidering the Liminality of Antoine Sevruguin and His Photographs of Iran” 2. Elahe Helbig, German Art Historical Institute in Florence and Max-Planck-Institute. “Public Photography Studios in Qajar Iran: Shifting Ways of Visualization” 3. Yassaman Ameri, John Abbott College, Montreal. “Women of the Document and Men of the Paintings”

Longueuil

COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CONTESTED NARRATIVES OF CONTEMPORARY IRAN (2) [P2] CONVENORS: Chowra Makaremi, Université de Montréal and Pardis Shafafi, University of St Andrews DISCUSSANT: Shokoufeh Sakhi, York University, Toronto

1. Nader Vahabi, CADIS, École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) and CEDEM, Université de Liège. “Sociology of a Variable Geometry Memory: Iranian Exiles” 2. Pardis Shafafi, University of St Andrews. “Between Collectivity and Particularity: Diaspora Politics and the Place of Memory in the Opposition Movement Abroad” 3. Raha Bahreini, University of Essex. “Between Amnesia and Accountability: Can There Be a ‘Just’ Amnesty for Human Rights Violations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s?”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

THE SACRED IN ICONOGRAPHY AND IN ARCHITECTURE [Ac4] CHAIR: Jonathan Bloom, Boston College

1. Iván Szántó, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Austrian Academy of Sciences. “The Impact of Baha’ al-Din ʻAmili on the Visual Arts” 2. Maryam Ekhtiar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “The Nimatullahi Mode in Qajar Religious Imagery” 3. Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University. “Continuity and Symbiosis: The Architecture of Synagogues in Isfahan” 4. Samar Saremi, Université de Montréal. “Urbanizing the Sacred: A Passageway under the Shrine of Imam Reza – Iran”

Jacques Cartier

DEATH RITES AND RITUALS: A CONTEMPORARY SHI’I PERSPECTIVE [R2m] CONVENOR: Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas at Austin DISCUSSANT: Blake Atwood, University of Texas at Austin

1. Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin. “The Evolution of Mourning and Remembrance of Death in Modern Iranian Obituaries” 2. Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto. “A Death Never-ending: Theoretical Reflections on the Ritualized Recurrence of Imam Husain’s Becoming and Death in Shi’ism” 3. Edith Szanto, The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. “Sex and the Cemetery: Iranian Pilgrims, Shrine Visitation, and Consumer Piety in Damascus” 4. Reza Masoudi Nejad, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. “The Reviving of Muharram Processions in Mumbai, an Iranian Initiative”

Fontaine F

ROUND TABLE: REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK OF ARBY OVANESSIAN: IN CONVERSATION WITH ARBY OVANESSIAN [C5] CONVENOR AND CHAIR: Negin Djavaherian, Independent Scholar

Arby Ovanessian Ramin Jahanbegloo, York University, Toronto Majid Lashkari, Independent Scholar Bardia Saadi-nejad, Independent Scholar

5:30 pm—6:30 pm : ISIS GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING (Outremont)

7:00 pm: ISIS RECEPTION AND AWARDS CEREMONY (Outremont)

FRIDAY AUGUST 8, 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

KNOWLEDGE—MYSTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL [R10c] DISCUSSANT: Bilal Kuşpınar, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya

1. Roxanne D. Marcotte, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). “Another Persian De anima – the Asrar al-Hikmat of Lawkari” 2. Ilse Sturkenboom, University of Bamberg. “Epitomizing the Mystical Journey: Opening Paintings to the Mantiq al-Tayr” 3. Eliza Tasbihi, Concordia University. “A Hidden Source of Knowledge: Uncovering “Book Seven” of Rumi’s Mathnawi through Anqarawi’s Commentary” 4. Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University. “Rumi's ‘Teaching Philosophy’ in Practice”

Verdun

THE CROWD IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART AND VISUAL CULTURE [Am2] CONVENORS: Pamela Karimi, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, University of Ottawa

1. Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, University of Ottawa. “The Crowd as Human Tapestry in the Art of Sadegh Tirafkan” 2. Ayda Melika, University of California, Berkeley. “Building Power: War of Memorials in Contemporary Tehran” 3. Sanaz Mazinani, Stanford University. “We Are the Time: A New Vernacular Photography and the Digital Imagery of the Crowd” 4. Aydin Matlabi, Concordia University. “Landscape Revolution People”

Lachine

FOREIGN RELATIONS AND FOREIGNERS IN IRAN UNDER THE PAHLAVIS [P11] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University

1. David Collier, Boston University. “A Justice for Iran: William O. Douglas and Iranian Democracy in the 20th Century” 2. Shay Rozen, University of Haifa. “The Prime-Minister’s Farm: Israeli-Iranian Relations and Iranian Refugees, 1948-1951” 3. Neta Feniger, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. “Building a ‘New Middle East’: The State of Israel and an Israeli Planning Team in the Rebuilding of Qazvin, Iran” 4. Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, Fullerton. “The Peace Corps in Iran, 1962- 1976”

Lasalle

RELIGIO-ETHNIC MINORITIES AND IRANIAN NATIONALISM [Hm6] CONVENOR: Lior Sternfeld, University of Texas at Austin CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin

1. Mikiya Koyagi, University of Texas at Austin. “Baluchs, Sikhs, and the Baluchistan Frontier in the Early Pahlavi Period” 2. Mardin Aminpour, University of Texas at Austin. “The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism in Print Culture” 3. Lior Sternfeld, University of Texas at Austin. “Iran Is My Homeland, Jerusalem Is My Qiblah: Iranian Jews between Zionist and Iranian Identities” 4. Mahyar Entezari, University of Pennsylvania. “Representations of Afghans in Iranian Cinema”

Fundy

FEMINISMS, ISLAMIC AND SECULAR [G3] CHAIR: Nahid Tavassoli, Independent Scholar DISCUSSANT: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto

1. Sharareh Shahrokhi, Contra Costa College. “Is the Future of Feminism Intertwined with Secularism in Iran?” 2. Mona Tajali, Concordia University. “Strategic framing: Women’s framing processes for political representation in Iran and Turkey” 3. Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi and Leila Mouri, Columbia University. “Sorting Between Two Ideologies: Iranian Women’s Activists Between Islamism and Islamophobia”

Longueuil

PERSIAN COMMUNITY OR HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: COLLABORATION FOR IMPROVEMENT [LG1] CONVENOR: Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Macquarie University, Sydney CHAIR: Azita Taleghani, University of Toronto DISCUSSANT: Jaleh Pirnazar, University of California, Berkeley

1. Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Macquarie University, Sydney. “Persian Community Language Learning: A Case Study of Four Persian Community Language Schools in Sydney, Australia” 2. Shahnaz Ahmadeian, San Diego State University. “The Effect of Teacher Training and Professional Development for Heritage Language Teachers” 3. Naghmeh Babaee, University of Manitoba. “The Challenges of Maintaining Farsi as a Heritage Language in an Iranian Diaspora Community in Canada”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

NEW APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF BADAKHSHAN [Hc4] CONVENOR: Daniel Beben, Indiana University CHAIR: Mushegh Asatryan, Independent Scholar DISCUSSANT: Gabrielle van den Berg, Leiden University

1. Nourmamadcho Nourmamadshoev, SOAS, University of London. “The Mirs and Shahs of Badakhshan: The Politics of Rule from the 11th to the 15th Centuries” 2. Shafi Gulamadov, University of Toronto. “Nasir-i Khusraw and the Moral-Ethical Ideals of the Isma‘ilis of Badakhshan” 3. Daniel Beben, Indiana University. “The Silk-i guhar-riz and the Persianate Ismaili Tradition in Early-modern Central Asia” 4. Sharaf Oshurbekov, York University, Toronto. “Places beyond the ‘Real’: Chronotope of the Sacred Sites in Badakhshan Region of Tajikistan”

Jacques Cartier

PERSIAN NIGHTINGALE IN INDIAN GARDEN [Lm2] CONVENOR: Syed Akhtar Husain, Jawaharlal Nehru University CHAIR: Houra Yavari, Columbia University DISCUSSANT: Aleem Ashraf Khan, University of Delhi

1. Ramzan Ahmed, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Maulana Azad: An Exponent of Indo-Persian Literature” 2. Sheikh Abdullah, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Reception of Rustam and Sohrab in an Urdu Translation” 3. Golam Moinuddin, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “The Poetry of Iqbal: A Swansong of Indo- Persian Literature” 4. Nadeem Akhtar, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Tracing the Footsteps of Hedayat in India”

Fontaine F

LITERARY SALON: VISUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE POETRY OF MOHAMMAD REZA SHAFI’I KADKANI (IN ENGLISH AND PERSIAN) [LS3] ARTWORK AND POETRY RECITATIONS: Pari Azarm Motamedi, Independent Artist and translator, Vancouver

11:00 am—12:30 pm

St Pierre

DISCOURSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN SAFAVID IRAN [R3c] CONVENOR: Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University DISCUSSANT: Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced

1. Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University. “Anti-Sufi Discourses in Late Safavid Iran: Three Case Studies” 2. Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota. “‘May God Draw Away from Them’: ‘Ali al-Karaki and La‘n in Twelver Shi‘ism” 3. Nazak Birjandifar, McGill University. “Provincial Elite and Safavid Center: The Case of Khan Ahmad Gilani II”

4. John Dechant, Indiana University. “The Shaykhs of Jam: A Case Study on Hereditary Power and Identity in the Era of Sufi Orders”

Verdun

HISTORY IN MOTION: CINEMATIC IMAGINARIES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN [C1] CONVENOR: Golbarg Rekabtalaei, University of Toronto DISCUSSANT: Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University

1. Golbarg Rekabtalaei, University of Toronto. “A Cinema Beyond-the-Nation: the Making of a Cosmonational Cinema in Iran” 2. Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University. “Oil: Pastoralism and Modernity in the Golestan Film Cycle” 3. Kaveh Askari, Western Washington University. “The Archive of Second-hand Cinema: Masoud Kimiai’s Pesar-e Sharghi and the Celluloid Album” 4. Sara Saljoughi, University of Minnesota. “‘Namayesh ba zendegi’: Fereydoun Rahnema and the Antagonistic Image”

Lachine

ROUND TABLE: DISCUSSING ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN’S WORK [Hm7] CONVENOR: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University Azadeh Kian, University of Paris 7 Diderot Afshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los Angeles Val Moghadam, Northeastern University Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University

Lasalle

IRAN: ALONE IN THE WORLD [P3] CONVENOR: Sam Razavi, Privy Council Office, Government of Canada DISCUSSANT: Thomas Juneau, University of Ottawa

1. Sam Razavi, Privy Council Office, Government of Canada. “Iran in the Levant” 2. James Devine, Mount Allison University. “Rouhani and Iranian-Saudi Relations” 3. Thomas Juneau, University of Ottawa. “Alone in the World” 4. Peter Jones, University of Ottawa. “Iran and the Emerging Middle East”

Fundy

ROUND TABLE: PERSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING: CURRICULUM AND STANDARDS [LG2]

CONVENOR: Pardis Minuchehr, George Washington University

Latifeh Hagigi, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Farima Sadigh Mostowfi, Georgetown University Jaleh Pirnazar, University of California, Berkeley Saeid Hooshangi, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Shahrzad Shams, University of Washington Saera Kwak, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Longueuil

GENDER POLITICS AND THE DYNAMICS OF COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE IN IRAN [G4] CHAIR: Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University

1. Nafiseh Sharifi, SOAS, University of London. “The Politics of Sex in Iran: Women’s Multi- generational Narratives of Embodiment” 2. Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University and Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Toronto. “Iranian Women’s Hybridized Fashion Statements: A Socio-political Response to the Veil” 3. Ghazaleh Haghdad Mofrad, Université Catholique de Louvain. “Courtship, Dating, and Marriage among Young Iranian Women and Men in Tehran” 4. Elli Dehnavi, University of Alberta. “Dynamics of Female Virginity in Iran”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

CONVERSION VERSIONS: MAKING THE MONGOLS MUSLIM [Hc2] CONVENOR: Stefan Kamola, Princeton University CHAIR: Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford DISCUSSANT: Charles Melville, University of Cambridge

1. Jonathan Brack, University of Michigan. “From Convert to Mahdi: Ghazan Khan’s Alternative Conversion Narratives” 2. Vered Shurany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Conversion to Islam in Mongol-ruled Hexi (China): The Life and Times of Prince Ananda” 3. Stefan Kamola, Princeton University. “Rashid al-Din’s History of Oghuz as a Gloss on the Mongol Past” 4. Patrick Wing, University of Redlands. “The ‘Ilkhanid Legacy’ and the Re-imagining of Dynastic Rulership under the Jalayirids and Qara Quyunlu”

Jacques Cartier

MIRZA `ABD AL-QADIR “BIDEL” (1644-1720): POETRY, PROSE AND PROSOPOGRAPHY [Lc1] CONVENOR: Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University CHAIR: Sunil Sharma, Boston University

1. Jane Mikkelson, University of Chicago. “The Fifth Element? Pervasive Bleakness in Bidel’s

Ghazals” 2. Hajnalka Kovacs, University of Chicago. "‘The Foundation of the Universe Rests on Sound’: The Problem of Speech and Silence in Bidel’s Muhit-i A‘zam” 3. Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University. “Bidel’s Portrait”

Fontaine F

LITERARY SALON: NEW LANDSCAPES OF AMERICA--A READING OF TREMORS: NEW FICTION BY IRANIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS EDS. ANITA AMIRREZVANI AND PERSIS KARIM. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS, 2013 [LS1] CONVENOR: Persis Karim, San Jose State University

Persis Karim, San Jose State University (Co-editor and contributing author) Anita Amirrezvani, California College of the Arts (Co-editor and contributing author) Omid Fallahazad, (Contributing author) Amy Motlagh, American University in Cairo (Contributing author)

2:00 pm—3:30 pm

St Pierre

VOICES FROM THE OTHER WORLD: JALAL AL-DIN RUMI AND THE POETRY OF ECSTASY [R9c] Panel sponsored by the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, and the University of Exeter CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Leonard Lewisohn, University of Exeter

1. Hülya Küçük, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya. “A Tongue for Shams of Tabriz: Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi” 2. Alan Williams, University of Manchester. “Bewilderment and Ecstasy: The Narrative Structure of the Masnavi-ye Ma‛navi” 3. Bilal Kuşpınar, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya. “Isma‛il Anqarawi and the Exposition of Mystical States” 4. Roderick Grierson. Rumi Institute, Near East University, Nicosia. “The Anguish of the Mutrib: A Liturgy of Ecstasy and its Abolition”

Verdun

MODERN IRANIAN CINEMA: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL [C4] CHAIR: Mahdi Tourage, University of Western Ontario DISCUSSANT: Shahla Haeri, Boston University

1. Marie Ostby, University of Virginia. “The Persian World Cinema: Global Palimpsests of the Iranian New Wave” 2. Asal Bagheri, University of Rennes 1. “A Semiological Analysis of the Relationships between Man and Woman in Iranian Post-revolutionary Cinema”

3. Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto. “Family and (De-)Familiarization in Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ and ‘Le Passé’” 4. Mohsen Azarm and Faezeh Mohammadi Ardehali, Independent Scholars. “A Filmmaker in Confrontation with Present Time: Asghar Farhadi, the Most ‘Contemporary’ Artist of Iran”

Lachine

IRAN AND RUSSIA IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY: WAR, DIPLOMACY, ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND CULTURE (1) [Hm2] CONVENOR: Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware DISCUSSANT: Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute

1. Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware. “Infidel Aggression: The Russian Assault on the Holy Shrine of Mashhad, April 1913” 2. Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach. “Nest of Revolution: The Caucasus, Iran, and Armenians” 3. Svetlana Ravandi-Fadai, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “Nikolai Markov: From Russian Captain to Iranian General and Architect”

Lasalle

PARTIES, POLITICS, AND ELECTIONS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN [P8] CHAIR: Ali Banuazizi, Boston College

1. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University. “Electoral Behavior in Restive Provinces in Post- revolutionary Iran” 2. Alireza Namvar-Haghighi, University of Toronto Mississauga. “Iran’s Post-Khomeini Presidential Elections: A Comparative Perspective” 3. Farzan Sabet, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. “National Self-determination in 20th-century Iran: The case of Mansour Hekmat and the Communist Party of Iran, 1983-1991” 4. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Oxford. “The Imam’s Troubled Children: The Historical Evolution and Transformation of the Mojahedin Organization of the Islamic Revolution and Its Contribution to the Discourse of Political and Religious Reform in Post-revolutionary Iran”

Fundy

ROUND TABLE: WILDLIFE AND ECOLOGY IN TODAY’S IRAN: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS [CS4] CONVENOR: Abbas Amanat, Yale University

Abbas Amanat, Yale University Alan Mikhail, Yale University Morad Tahbaz, Persian Wildlife Foundation Niloufar Bayani, Persian Wildlife Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Geneva

Longueuil

ANCIENT, LATE ANTIQUE, AND EARLY ISLAMIC IRAN: SOURCES AND RESOURCES [Z1] CHAIR: Maria Brosius, University of Toronto DISCUSSANT: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University

1. Daniel Beckman, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Achaemenid Satraps and the Aegean Frontier” 2. Abolala Soudavar, Independent Scholar. “The Origins of the Sasanian Dynasty” 3. D. Gershon Lewental, University of Oklahoma. “Rostam’s Death at al-Qadisiyyah: Early Representations of Iranian Identity in Islamic Narratives” 4. Nahid Ghani, Independent Scholar. “Temporary Marriage in Pre- and Post-Islamic Iran according to Jurisprudential Texts”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

THE PERSIANITE WORLD: MONGHOLS, ILKHANS, MUGHALS, AFSHARS AND QAJARS [HC7] CHAIR: Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University

1. Michael O'Neal, Tel Aviv University. “Rural Resistance to the Mongols: Remarks on Military Authority in Eastern Iranian Society in the Age of Chinggis Qan” 2. Ryoko Watabe, University of Tokyo. “Fiscal Problems of the Ilkhanids and the Development of Bookkeeping System in 14th-century Iran” 3. Stephan Popp, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. “Gifts at the Court of Jahangir and Their Depiction” 4. Andreas Wilde, University of Bamberg. “Iranian-Uzbek Encounters in the Nadirid Age (1737- 1747)” 5. Kevin Gledhill, Yale University. “Geographic Boundaries in the Caspian Littoral: A Study of Narrative Sources, 1750-1830”

Fontaine F

LITERARY SALON: DAR HEJRAT: LITERATURE AMONG MIGRANTS AND MIGRANT LITERATURE: NEW WORKS BY CANADIAN-IRANIAN WRITERS FROM MONTREAL (IN PERSIAN) [LS2] CONVENOR: Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal. DISCUSSANT: Amy Motlagh, American University in Cairo

1. Mehdi Marashi, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). “The Poet Hasn’t Gone Anywhere” 2. Alireza Shams, McGill University, “ Rain” 3. Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal, “Afghanistan, a Promise”

4:00 pm—5:30 pm

St Pierre

ON THE RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION OF SUHRAWARDI’S ILLUMINATIONIST PHILOSOPHY (IN MEMORIAM: HOSSEIN ZIAI) [R5c] CONVENOR: John Walbridge, Indiana University.

1. John Walbridge, Indiana University. “The Transmission of the Works of Suhrawardi the Illuminationist and His School” 2. David Bennett, King’s College London. “Dealing with Mystical Philosophy” 3. Eiyad al-Kutubi, Indiana University. “The Illuminative Perspective of Falsafa” 4. Ahmed Alwishah, Pitzer College. “Ziai on the Distinction between Peripatetic and Illuminationist Epistemology”

Verdun

REEVALUATING THE EMPIRE OF THE ORIENT: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF SASANIAN AFFAIRS [Z5] CONVENOR: Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine DISCUSSANT: Shaul Shaked, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1. Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine. “Historiography of the Sasanian Empire: The Dark Side of the Moon in Late Ancient Studies” 2. Yuhan Vevaina, Stanford University. “Pahlavi and Periodization: The Use and Value of the Term 'Late Antique' for Zoroastrian Literature” 3. Ali Mousavi, Visiting Professor of Iranian Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Characteristics of the Archaeological Materials in Sasanian Iran” 4. M. Rahim Shayegan, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Beyond the Late Antique Paradigm: Towards a New Concept of Empire for Sasanian Iran”

Lachine

IRAN AND RUSSIA IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY: WAR, DIPLOMACY, ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND CULTURE 2 [Hm3] CONVENOR: Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware DISCUSSANT: Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University

1. Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute. “Russian Government Actions against Russian Deserters in Iran in the 19th Century” 2. Firuza Abdullaeva-Melville, University of Oxford. “Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov and Persia: A New Interpretation.” 3. Nikita Filin, Russian State University for the Humanities and Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “The Oral Memoirs of Roald Matveyev about life in Iran from 1941 to 1945”.

Lasalle

IRAN: THE RE-TURN OF RADICAL SOCIAL DEMOCRACY? [P4] CONVENOR: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto CHAIR: Shekoufeh Sakhi, York University, Toronto

1. Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta. “The Limits of Liberal Paradigm for Iran’s Democratization: Towards a Social Democracy from Below?” 2. Hossein Mesbahian, University of Toronto. “From Marx to his Specters? Phenomenological Encounter with the Philosophy of Marx in Iran” 3. Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto. “The Cartography of Gender in Liberal and Conservative E-Diasporic Communities” 4. Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria. “Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing Link”

Longueuil

PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART IN QAJAR AND IN MODERN TIMES [Am5] CHAIR: Massumeh Farhad, Smithsonian Institution

1. Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Yale University. “Photograph as Text, Photograph as Painting: The Rupture of Real in the Early Photography of Iran” 2. Hajar Anvar, Université de Montréal. “A Speculative Approach to Photography: Exploration of the Book ‘Aksiyyeh Hashriyyeh by Mohammad ibn Ali Meshkat ol-Molk, 1889” 3. Raheleh Filsoofi, Florida Atlantic University. “Three Women Potters in Iran: Issues of Art, Craft and Gender” 4. Samine Tabatabaei, McGill University. “Contemporary Art and Everyday Life in Tehran”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND TRAVELOGUES [Hc6] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Heidi Walcher, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

1. Maryam Ala Amjadi, University of Kent and Universidade do Porto. “Washing Away Fear, Bewitching the Saddle: Iranian Travel Rituals in Safavid Travel Texts” 2. Gregory Aldous, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. “The First Safavid Civil War as Illusory Historiographical Assumption” 3. James Clark, American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS), New York. “Fact and Fiction: A Look at Two Works by Mirza Hasan Khan E‘temad os-Saltaneh” 4. Sarah Dusend, University of Bonn. “Private and Public Space in the Travelogues of Haggiye Hanum ʿAlaviyyeh Kermani (1882) und Sakineh Sultan Vaqar ad-Douleh (1900)”

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm : A CELEBRATION OF AHMAD KARMI-HAKKAK’S CAREER [AKH] (Fontaine F) ORGANIZER: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona

7:00 pm : MCGILL UNIVERSITY RECEPTION [MCGR] (Outremont) CHAIR: Rula Jurdi Abisaab, McGill University KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS, University of London

SATURDAY AUGUST 9, 2014

REGISTRATION: 9:00 am – 6: 00 pm

BOOK EXHIBIT: 9:00 am – 6:30 pm (Fontaine G + H)

9:00 am—10:30 am

St Pierre

READER RESPONSE AND MYSTICAL NARRATION IN PERSIAN SUFI LITERATURE [Lc3] CONVENOR: Abolfazl Moshiri, University of Toronto DISCUSSANT: Franklin D. Lewis, University of Chicago

1. Parisa Zahiremami, University of Toronto. “Mystical Texts, Variations, and Recreations: Recrafting the Anecdotes of Asrar al-tawhid in Halat va sukhanan-i Abu Sa‘id-i Abu al-Khyar, Mantiq al-tayr, and Bustan” 2. Austin O'Malley, University of Chicago. “Heuristics of the Mosibat-nama” 3. Abolfazl Moshiri, University of Toronto. “Devil's Advocate: Rumi, Exoneration of Iblis and Sufi Response to the Dilemma of Theodicy” 4. Leila El-Murr, McGill University. “Seeing God: The Use of Theories of Vision in Jami’s Yusuf-o Zulaykha”

Verdun

IRANIAN LITERATURE, MODERN AND POSTMODERN [Lm4] DISCUSSANT: Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland

1. Eden Naby, Independent Scholar. “Village Life on the Urmia Plain: Hannibal Alkhas’s ‘Nostalgia’” 2. Amr Ahmed, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. “Dowlatabadi’s Failed Attempt at Poetic Modernization” 3. Kaveh Bassiri, University of Arkansas. “The Scorned Avant Garde: Reconsidering Tundar Kiya and the Emergence of Iranian Postmodern Poetry” 4. Mehrak Kamali Sarvestani, University of Arizona. “The Coexistence and Contradiction between Certainty and Uncertainty in Shahriar Mandanipour’s Fiction”

Lachine

LIVES IN THE 19TH CENTURY—PERSIAN AND INDIAN PERSPECTIVES [Hm12] CHAIR: Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar

1. Assef Ashraf, Yale University. “Loyalty, Largesse, and Lucre: Gift-exchange in Early Qajar Iran” 2. Leila Pourtavaf, University of Toronto. “Harems, Households, and Gendered Space: Revisiting the Women’s Quarter in Late 19th-century Golestan Palace” 3. Mahbubeh Moqadam, Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Archival Project in Iran. “Archeology of Women’s Rights Movement during the Naseri Period” 4. Belal Asdaque, University of Delhi. “Reviewing the World of the 19th Century through Early Persian Newspapers of India: A New Dimension for Research in Iranian Studies”

Lasalle

POLITICAL POWER AND ITS DISCONTENTS [P12] CHAIR: Saeed Rahnema, York University, Toronto

1. Ali Dizboni, Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, and Ahmad Hashemi, Royal Military College of Canada and University of Oxford. “How to Keep the Political Power in Check? A Comparative Assessment of the Iranian Constitutions of 1906-7 and 1979” 2. Mateo Farzaneh, Northeastern Illinois University. “How the Shah’s Imperial Army Failed to Protect the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1979” 3. Peyman Malaz, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “The Cultural Revolution in the Universities of Iran, 1981-87” 4. Nima Barazandeh, University of Sheffield. “The Paradox of Nationalism in Contemporary Iran: National Minorities, and the Right to Self-determination and Secession”

Fundy

DIVINE DELUSIONS: VISIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN PERSIANATE PAINTING [Ac6] CONVENOR: Zahra Faridany-Akhavan, Independent Scholar CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Laurie Blanton Pierce, University of Chicago

1. Zahra Faridany-Akhavan, Independent Scholar. “Div ya Delbar: The Visual Paradox of the Demon in Persian and Mughal Miniature Painting” 2. Nahid Assemi, SOAS, University of London. “Simorgh” 3. Sara Kuehn, Independent Scholar. “The Interplay of Spiritual Beings, Ophidian Creatures, and the First Prophet in Islamic Visual Traditions (15th to 17th Centuries)” 4. Behrang Nabavi Nejad, University of Victoria. “Historical Fact or Popular Narrative: Sources for the Representations of Wondrous Animals as Depicted in the Inju Style of Painting”

Longueuil

ADYAN O ‘AQA’ED: IRANIAN RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY (in Persian) [R12c] CHAIR: Ali Mousavi, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) DISCUSSANT: Soroush Dabbagh, University of Toronto Mississauga

1. Firoozeh Qandehari, University of Tehran. “Yazd Srosh and the Retrieval of His Traits and Functions in the Shahnameh” 2. Leyla Rasouli Narimani, University of Sydney. “Personal Names in the Manichaean Community” 3. Seyed Mohsen Saeidzadeh, Independent Scholar. “The Ismailis of Qa’en: Political and Military Organization, Cultural Centres, Financial Establishments” 4. Javad Abbasi, Ohio State University (Visiting Professor). “Ilkhans and Tashayyo: External Motivation or Internal Development?”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

IRANIAN MODERNIZATION AND ISSUES OF MODERNITY [P7] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Haideh Moghissi, York University, Toronto

1. Hassan Makaremi, IEA, la Sorbonne - Paris 1. “A Strategy Focused Outlook on Pre-revolutionary Modernization Processes in Iran (1906-1979)” 2. Delbar Khakzad, University of Toronto. “Calendric Contestations in Early 20th-century Iran” 3. Donya Ziaee, York University, Toronto. “Rethinking the Gendered Making of Iranian Modernity: The Role of Capitalist Development” 4. Kara Abdolmaleki, University of Alberta. “An Elephant Missing from a Dark Room: Iran’s Striving for Modernity in a Post-modern Age”

Jacques Cartier

THE IMPRINT OF DIASPORA ON LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND FILM [D4] DISCUSSANT: Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University

1. Abdollah Zahiri, Seneca College. “A Contrapuntal Reading of the Iranian Diaspora in ‘The House of Sand and Fog’” 2. Parvaneh Hosseini, University of Arizona. “Negotiating on the Name of One’s Nationality by Immigrant Iranians through a Double-voiced Word of Persian vs. Iranian” 3. Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto. Evocative Words: Memoirs of Second Generation Iranian-Americans

11:00 am—12:30 pm

St Pierre

CONTESTING MYSTICISM AND PHILOSOPHY IN SAFAVID IRAN [R1c] CONVENOR: Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter

DISCUSSANT: Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of Manitoba

1. Ahab Bdaiwi, University of St Andrews. “The Emergence of Shi’i Mysticism in Early Safavid Iran: A Study of Ghiyath al-Din Dashtaki’s Maqamat al-‘arifin wa manazil al-sa’irin” 2. Ata Anzali, Middlebury College. “Shah Muhammad Darabi and the Emergence of Shi‘ite Discourse on ‘Irfan” 3. Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Princeton University and University of South Carolina. “Philosophical Lettrism in Safavid Iran: Mir Damad and His Sources” 4. Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter. “‘Philosophy Contaminated by Monism’: Contesting Hikmat in Safavid Iran”

Verdun

COMMITMENT IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN LITERATURE [Lm8] CONVENOR: Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, University of Oxford CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland

1. Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, University of Oxford. “Commitment and Disillusionment: Notes on the Politics of Poetry-reading in Post-revolutionary Iran” 2. Samad Alavi, University of Washington. “Multiple Engagements, Singular Vision: Fifty Years of Shafi‘i-Kadkani’s Poetry” 3. Aria Fani, University of California, Berkeley. “The Emergence of a Religious Discourse in Sh‘ir-i Muqavimat-i Afghanistan: The Case of Khalilullah Khalili” 4. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, New York University. “Committed Writing or Committed Reading: Revisiting the Hierarchy of the Senses to Read Persian Modernist Fiction” 5. Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona. “Rebellion and Metaphorical Constructs: Unlikely Portrayals in Contemporary Persian Poetry”

Lachine

ROUND TABLE: WOMEN’S WORLDS IN QAJAR IRAN [Hm8] CONVENOR: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University

Azadeh Tajpour, Harvard University Maryam Momeni, Harvard University Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University

Lasalle

ROUND TABLE: DISCUSSING HOSSEIN BASHIRIYEH’S WORK [P6] CONVENOR: Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University

Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University Ali Mirsepassi, New York University

Alireza Namvar-Haghighi, University of Toronto Mississauga Hosein Ghazian, Independent Scholar

Fundy

WONDERS OF THE WORD: DUALITY AND DICHOTOMY IN THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF EPIC STORYTELLING [Lc5] CONVENOR: Pasha M. Khan, McGill University CHAIR/ DISCUSSANT: Zahra Faridany-Akhavan, Independent Scholar

1. Nasrin Askari, University of British Columbia. “Ardashir’s Battle against the Giant Worm” 2. Laurie Blanton Pierce, University of Chicago. “Of Monsters and Men: Humanity, Gender, and the Demonic in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh” 3. Mariam Zia, University of Sussex. “The Adventures of Amir Hamza and the Question of ‘the Uncanny’” 4. Pasha M. Khan, McGill University. “Dastans and Disenchantment: The Storyteller Mir Baqir Ali of Delhi and the Romance of Amir Hamzah”

Longueuil

PAHLAVI NARRATIVES AND THEIR PERMUTATIONS [Z3] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Zohre Zarshenas, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran

1. Mohsen Zakeri, University of Göttingen. “Ayin-namak Revisited” 2. Enrico G. Raffaelli, University of Toronto. “Pahlavi Wisdom Literature and the Tradition of the Hemerologies in Pre-Islamic Iran” 3. Azadeh Ehsani-Chombeli, Concordia University. “Onkelos, Son of Kolonikos, and the Parallel Iranian Character: Narratives from the Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 56b-57a) and the Arda-Viraf- naamak” 4. Manya Saadi Nejad, Concordia University. “Sudabeh and Rudabeh: Opposing Aspects of Female Power”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

SHAPING MODERN IRAN: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TRENDS [CS2] DISCUSSANT: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto

1. Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Columbia University. “From Tobacco Revolt to Youth Rebellion: A Social History of Smoking in Iran” 2. Negin Nabavi, Montclair State University. “Reading Rooms, Books, and Print-media in Early 20th- century Iran” 3. Nikolay Kozhanov, St. Petersburg State University. “History of Iran in the Late 19th and 20th Century and Its Reflection in Iranian Postage Stamps”

Jacques Cartier

ISLAMIC GHAZNI: EPIGRAPHIC MEMORY AND MATERIAL CULTURE [Ac1] CONVENOR: Viola Allegranzi, Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 and Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" DISCUSSANT: Lisa Golombek, Royal Ontario Museum

1. Viola Allegranzi, Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 and Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale.” “Persian Inscriptions from Ghazni: The Links with the Poetic Tradition” 2. Martina Massullo, Aix-Marseille Université. “Shapes and Voices of Marble: Funerary Monuments from Ghazni (16th – 18th c.)” 3. Valentina Laviola, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. “Islamic Metalwork from Ghazni: the Rawza Museum Collection” 4. Agnese Fusaro, Sapienza University of Rome. “Re-discovering Ghazni: New Data on the Pottery Corpus from Islamic Ghazni”

12:30 pm —2:00 pm

Fontaine F

ROUND TABLE: PHILANTHROPY AND IRANIAN STUDIES [PH] CONVENOR AND MODERATOR: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland

2:00 pm—3:30 pm

St Pierre

RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY, DOCTRINE AND MINORITIES IN PERSIANATE SHI’ISM [R6c] CONVENOR: Alessandro Cancian, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London DISCUSSANT: Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London

1. Mushegh Asatryan, Independent Scholar. “Religious Authority and Divine Delegation among the Ghulat and the Nusayris” 2. Miklós Sárközy, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. The Kitāb-i Naqz and Twelwer Shi’i Political Ideology in 12th-century Northern Iran” 3. Alessandro Cancian, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. “The Sufi Master as the True Marjaʿ? Authority, Legitimacy and Mysticism in Contemporary Iran” 4. Naofumi Abe, University of Tokyo. “The Survival of Sheykh Safi's Shrine after the Collapse of the Safavid Dynasty”

Verdun

BACK TO THE LITERARY FUTURE? REAPPRAISALS OF THE BAZGASHT-I ADABI IN 18TH AND 19TH-CENTURY IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND INDIA [Lm1] CONVENOR: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford DISCUSSANT: Franklin D. Lewis, University of Chicago

1. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford. "Gender and the Nation in the Limits of the Bazgasht-i adabi: Two Women Poets and their Practice of Literary Return in 18th and 19th-century Iran and Afghanistan” 2. Kevin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley. “Rivalry and Debate on the Margins of Bazgasht in 19th-century India” 3. Stefano Pellò, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. “Away from Where? Cosmopolitanism, Localization, and the ‘Purity’ of Persian in and beyond 18th-century South Asia”

Lachine

DIVAS AND DANCING BOYS, RESPECTABLE MEN AND DISREPUTABLE WOMEN (1): GENDER AT THE MARGINS OF IRANIAN LIFE [G1] CONVENOR: Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of Toronto DISCUSSANT: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University

1. GJ Breyley, Monash University, Melbourne. “Metal-music Fandom and Gender Relations in Contemporary Iran” 2. Jairan Gahan, University of Toronto. “The Islamic Revolution Inside-out: Prostitution in Contemporary Iran” 3. Behzad Sarmadi, University of Toronto. “From Boys to Men: The Ethics of Masculinity among Working-class Iranians in Dubai” 4. Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of Toronto. “Of Singing and ‘Suffocation’: Performances of Power and Powerlessness among Female Vocalists in Exile”

Lasalle

NEW APPROACHES TO ISLAMIC LEGAL THOUGHT [R13M] CONVENOR: Ahmad Kazemi-Moussavi, George Washington University CHAIR: Rasool Nafisi, Strayer University

1. Abdolkarim Soroush, University of Maryland. “The Shari'a and the Notion of the Modern Nation-State 2. Mohsen Kadivar, Duke University. “Ijtihad in 'Usul al-Fiqh” 3. Ahmad Kazemi-Moussavi, George Washington University. “Considerations on the Higher Objectives of the Law as a New Project for Legal Reforms” 4. Rasool Nafisi, Strayer University. “The Penal Code and Social Change”

Fundy

ARTISTIC BOUNDARY-CROSSINGS [Ac5] CHAIR: Ruba Kana’an, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

1. Sahar Hosseini, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “Dwelling in Herat: Negotiating Safavid- Qizilbash Identity in the Timurid Dar-al-Saltaneh” 2. Hanaa Adly, Helwan University, Cairo. Tashreeh Al Ain (Anatomy of the Eye): Unpublished Persian Illustrated Manuscript Dated 861AH/1451AD 3. Raya Shani, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “The Commercial Turkman Style: Its Origins, Places of Production, and Distribution” 4. Valerie Behiery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. “‘Persian Art’ and the Making of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Collection of Islamic Art”

Longueuil

ZOROASTRIANISM, PRE-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS, AND EARLY ISLAM: NEW PERSPECTIVES [Z4] CHAIR: Enrico G. Raffaelli, University of Toronto

1. Pooriya Alimoradi, University of Toronto. “The Local Provenance of ‘Orthodox’ Zoroastrian Dogma? Fars and Its Canonical Productions” 2. Daniel Sheffield, Princeton University. “On the Sources of Azar Kayvan’s Mysticism” 3. Spyridon Loumakis, Concordia University. “The Local River God Oxus-Wakhsh in Pre-Islamic Bactria” 4. Khadijeh Baseri, National Museum of Iran, Tehran. “Koranic Inscriptions on Arab Sassanian Coins”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

URBAN MODERNISM AND GENTRIFYING POLITICS IN TEHRAN’S NEIGHBORHOODS [P5] CONVENOR: Azam Khatam, York University, Toronto DISCUSSANT: Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University

1. Azam Khatam, York University, Toronto. “Beyond Navab Highway: Urban Modernism and the Creation of ‘Non-neighborhoods’ in Tehran” 2. Mina Saidi, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette (ENSAPLV). “How Grand Bazaar Resists Gentrification” 3. Sarah Karimi, RShP Institute for Urban Research, Tehran. “The Story of the Construction of the New Mosque in the Palestine Neighborhood” 4. Guiti Etemad, CEO of Tarh va Memary Consulting Engineers, Tehran. “Plans for the Rehabilitation and Renewal of Robatkarim, a Neighborhood in the Southern Part of Tehran.”

Jacques Cartier

QAJAR BORDERLANDS: LOCATING THE GLOBAL WITHIN THE LOCAL IN THE GREAT GAME [Hm5] CONVENOR: James M. Gustafson, Indiana State University

1. H. Lyman Stebbins, La Salle University. “Learning the Great Game: Knowledge, Empire, and the Qajar Borderlands” 2. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania. “The ‘Daughters of Quchan’ Reconsidered: Iran's Frontier Experiences in Central Asia” 3. James M. Gustafson, Indiana State University. “The Qajar Great Game and the Henna of Narmashir” 4. Ranin Kazemi, Kansas State University. “Towards a Bottom-up History of 19th-century Herat”

Fontaine F

BAZM-E BOKHARA: A SPECIAL SESSION WITH ALI DEHBASHI, CHIEF EDITOR OF THE BUKHARA MAGAZINE (IN PERSIAN) [C3]

4:00 pm—5:30 pm

St Pierre

MESSIANISM IN IRANIAN ISLAM: FROM CONCEPTIONS TO RE-CONCEPTIONS [R4m] CONVENOR: Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton University (The State University of New York) CHAIR: Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University DISCUSSANT: Todd Lawson, University of Toronto

1. Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton University (The State University of New York). “After a Break in the Sequence: Moses and the Messiah in Early and Modern Shi`i Literature” 2. Issam Eido, University of Chicago. “The Shi‘i Mahdi and the Sunni Mahdi: Towards a Comparative Study” 3. Zackery Heern, Murray State University. “The Baha’i Faith and Islamic Messianism in Iran” 4. Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky University. “Islamic Ecumenism in Mid 20th-century Iran: A Reaction to a Messianic Movement?”

Verdun

REFASHIONING PERSIANATE HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PERIODS [Hc5] CONVENOR: Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of London DISCUSSANT: John E. Woods, University of Chicago

1. Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of London. “The Intellectual Self between the Mamluks and the Timurids: Ibn al-Jazari and His Autobiographical Writings” 2. Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford. “Spiritual Authority, Political Hierarchy, and Parallel Pasts in Rashid al-Din’s Historiography” 3. Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University. “History in the Making: Zayn Khwafi’s Tabaqat-i Baburi” 4. Devin DeWeese, Indiana University. “The Works of Badr al-Din Kashmiri: Historicizing Hagiography in the 16th Century”

Lachine

DIVAS AND DANCING BOYS, RESPECTABLE MEN AND DISREPUTABLE WOMEN (2): GENDER AT CENTER STAGE IN IRAN AND IN INDIA [G2] CONVENOR: Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of Toronto DISCUSSANT: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University

1. Houman Sarshar, Center of Iranian Jewish Oral History. “Zanpush: The Boy Dancers of Iran” 2. Marjan (SZ) Moosavi, University of Toronto. “The Quest for Female Corporeal Agency on Iranian Stage” 3. Rashna Nicholson, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. “From Reform to Profit, Profligacy, Prostitution and Paranoia: The Rise and Fall of the Irani Natak”

Lasalle

THE SOVIET UNION AND IRAN, 1917-1991 [Hm9] CONVENOR: Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science CHAIR: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

1. Denis Volkov, University of Manchester. “‘Grooming’ Persians for Social Conversion: Persian Studies and Foreign Policy towards Persia in Early Soviet Russia” 2. Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science. “Flirting with Neutrality: The Failed Bid for a Soviet-Iranian Non-aggression Treaty in 1959” 3. Clement Therme, CADIS, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). “Iran and the Soviet Union during the First Decade of the Islamic Revolution: Beyond Ideological Hostility?” 4. Rowena Abdul Razak, University of Oxford. “‘But What Would They Think of Us?’ British Propaganda and the Manipulation of the Anglo-Soviet Occupation of Iran, 1941-1946”

Fundy

NAZM O NASR O TARH: REFLECTIONS ON PERSIAN LITERATURE, LITHOGRAPH PUBLISHING, AND GARDEN DESIGN (IN PERSIAN) [Lm6] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona

1. Soroosh Mozaffar Moghaddam, Mashhad University. “The Eternity of Time as Evinced in the Incorporated Narratives of Iranian Origin in The Thousand and One Nights” 2. Javad Faal Alavi, Independent Scholar. “The Transition from Traditional Hikayats to Novel Literary Forms in the Prose Narratives from the Period of the Constitutional Revolution” 3. Orkideh Torabi, Azad University, Tehran. “Lithography during the Qajar Era: A Case Study of One of the Most Prominent Works of Ali-quli Khui” 4. Fariba Kermani, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Tehran. “Safavid Garden Design Reconsidered: Bayramabad and the Topography of Kerman”

Longueuil

MODERN USES OF THE PRE-ISLAMIC IRANIAN HERITAGE [Z2] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jamsheed K. Choksy, Indiana University Bloomington

1. Mehmet Alici, Istanbul University. “Iranians Celebrate Nowruz in Istanbul in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Case of ‘Kounchkavey Dar Zarthost’” 2. Ali Mozaffari, Curtin University, Perth. “The Heritage ‘NGO’: A Case Study on the Role of Grass- roots Heritage Societies in Iran and Their Perception of Cultural Heritage” 3. Nazila Khalkhali, University of Ottawa. “Achaemenid Inscriptions in Modern Iran”

Pointe-aux-Trembles

Iranian Networking in Transition [P13] CONVENOR: Tomoko Yamagishi, Meiji University CHAIR: Arezoo Fakhrejahani, Meiji University

1. Sachiko Hosoya, Toho University. “The Roles of NGOs for Creating a Network among Disabled People in Iran” 2. Gi Yeon Koo, Seoul National University. “Love: The Prohibited but Thrilling Emotion among the Iranian Youth” 3. Yuko Suzuki, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris (Mondes Iranien et Indien). “Tribal Women’s New Relationship with the Cellphone: Social Changes in Kohgiluye va Boirahmad Province” 4. Pirayeh Parvaresh, Institut national de recherche scientifique (INRS), Montreal, and Institut de santé et société (UQÀM). “The New Population- and Birth-control Policies in Iran, and Their Socio-demographic Repercussions”

Jacques Cartier

EMPIRE AND SOCIETY UNDER THE QAJARS [Hm10] CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania

1. Fatemeh Masjedi, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. “Beyond Empire: Violence and Foreigners in Qajar Tabriz, 1905-1908” 2. Serkan Kececi, London School of Economics and Political Science. “The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus against Its Southern Rivals (Ottoman Turkey and Qajar Persia) (1820-1833)” 3. Akihiko Yamaguchi, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo. “The Evolution of the Centre- Periphery Relationships as Seen from Local Clerics’ Appointment Orders: A Case of the Ardalan Province in the 18th and 19th Centuries” 4. Farzin Vejdani, University of Arizona. “The Politics of Water in Late Qajar Iran”

5:30 pm --- 6:30 pm

Fontaine F

BOOK LAUNCH FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECSTASY: RUMI AND THE SUFI TRADITION, ED. LEONARD LEWISOHN, I.B. TAURIS, 2013 [BL] Sponsored by the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, and the University of Exeter

7:00 PM : CONCERT ( Outremont)