<p> JANE LEWISOHN</p><p>The Old Chapel 55 High St., Eydon Daventry, Northants NN11 3PP United Kingdom</p><p>Tele/fax: 01327 263196 Email: Jane@Golha.co.uk</p><p>EDUCATION</p><p>1969-1971 SILVERMINE COLLEGE OF ART, Silvermine, Connecticut AFA (Associate Degree in Fine Arts) June 1971. Painting. GPA= 4.0</p><p>1974-1978 PAHLAVI UNIVERSITY, Shiraz, Iran BA 1978, International Relations in Iranian Studies. GPA= 3.82</p><p>EMPLOYMENT</p><p>1969.1973 RENNE ANTIQUES, New York City. Responsible for buying, selling and restoration of works of art in the U.S.A. and Europe</p><p>1974-1978 TAUGHT ESL at Iran-America Society, Shiraz, Iran</p><p>1977-1978 INTERPRETER for Gestalt Psychologist, Shiraz, Iran</p><p>1978 RESEARCH ASSISTANT for a U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities-funded study of school girls in Shiraz, Iran</p><p>1979 SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATOR at the Boston Superior Court, MA, USA</p><p>1984-2003 Editor for KNP PUBLICATIONS, London, responsible for checking English translations against the original Persian, manuscript preparation, editing, and index preparation for up to 25 published volumes 1993-2005 WINDMILL ORCHARDS, Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, and U.K. Management of organically certified top fruit orchard</p><p>2004-2005 DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN, an International Charity. Setting up computer labs in regional High Schools near Kabul, and arranging seminars for Kabul University’s Dari/Persian Literature Department</p><p>2005-2009 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London</p><p>PUBLICATIONS</p><p>Flowers of Persian Song and Music: Davud Pirniā and the Genesis of the Golhā Programs, in Journal of Persianate Studies 1 (2008) 79-101</p><p>Flowers of Persian Song and Music The Gulha Programs. CD with liner notes. SOASIS catalogue No. 20 2009</p><p>Gulha-ya Avaz va musiqi-yi Irani: Davud Pirnia va aghaz-i barnama-yi Gulha. Trans. M. R. Purja’fari. Falzlnama-yi musiqi-yi Mahur No. 44 (Winter 2009) Tehran Iran.</p><p>PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES</p><p>January 2007 – “The Sacred Music Of Persia.” Paper delivered at The Sacred Music Colloquium at Windsor Castle</p><p>April 2007 – “Davoud Pirnia and the genesis of the Golha Programmes.” Paper presented at the third Bi-annual ASPS Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia</p><p>April 2008 – “Barnama-yi Golha va mobtaker-i an: Davoud Pirnia.” Presentation given in Persian, in Paris, France to the Iranian Society for Civilization and Modernization (Anjoman-i Tamaddon va Tajaddod) August 2008 – “The Golha Radio Programs (1954-76) and their Impact.” Paper delivered at 7th bi-annual ISIS conference in Toronto, Canada</p><p>October 2008 – “Flowers of Persian Song and Music: The Golha Radio Programs.” Paper delivered at the 53rd annual conference of The Society for Ethnomusicology, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut </p><p>April 2009 – “The Importance of the Golha Radio Programmes.” Paper delivered at The Middle East and Central Asia Forum, Institute of Musical Research, University of London</p><p>June 2009 - “Islam, Female performers, music and modernization in 20th-century Iran.” Paper given at AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Program on “Performance. Politics, Piety, Music as Debate in Muslim Societies,” University of Leeds, UK</p><p>September 2009 – “Barnama-yi Golha.” Presentation given in Persian at the Asia House, London</p><p>Oct. 20, 2009 – “The Golha Radio Programmes and their Importance to Persian Culture.” Paper to be delivered at a seminar on “Music and Identity in the Middle East and Central Asia,” convened by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies and the Central Asia Forum, Cambridge University </p><p>OTHER ACTIVITIES AND POSITIONS</p><p>1979-2005 Worked in the voluntary sector with Iranian Diaspora community, doing counseling and interpretation work, helping to organize various charitable events and benefits</p><p>2008-2009 Academic adviser to the Toos Foundation for their tribute event to Davoud Pirnia and the Golha Radio Programmes GRANTS AND AWARDS</p><p>2005 – Grant of £1600 from BIPS for Pilot project for the Golha Radio Programmes project</p><p>2005 – Grant of £1600 from the IHF for the Pilot Project for the Golha Radio Programmes project</p><p>2006 – Grant of £59,913 from the British Library Endangered Archives Programme for the Golha Radio Programmes project</p><p>2007 – Grant of £3000 from the IHF for Master Classes in Persian Music at the SOAS World Music Summer School</p><p>2008 – Grant of $5000 form thr Parsa Foundation towards the production of the Golha Database website.</p><p>2008 – Grant of £2000 from DISMARC to produce the CD called “Flowers of Persian Song and Music,” a short selections of the Golha Programmes with liner notes</p><p>2009 – Grant of £100,000 from the IHF to make a website and searchable relational database for the Golha archive</p>
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