The Center for Middle Eastern Studies THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: THIRTY YEARS FEBRUARY 7- 8, 2009 Rutgers University New Brunswick The Center for Middle Eastern Studies THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: THIRTY YEARS FEBRUARY 7- 8, 2009 Rutgers University New Brunswick The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University welcomes you to the Douglass Campus Center in New Brunswick for: The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years All panels will be held in Trayes Hall B on the first floor of the Douglass Campus Center. For the schedule of the panels and the biographies of the speakers, see pp3-5 and pp7-22, respectively. In addition to the panels of the conference, there is also a photography exhibition in the Douglass Lounge, on the second floor of the Douglass Campus Center. The biographies of the photographers, Matt Kaelin and Randy H. Goodman, are included on pp23-24 of this program. Entrance to their exhibitions is free of charge. Vendors specializing in books and products related to Iran are represented in the main foyer of the campus center on the first floor near the central staircase. Please take advantage of the opportunity to examine and purchase what interests you. 1 Special Events During the Conference: At 8.30 pm on Saturday 7th February, 2009, in Trayes Hall B, there will be a concert by Haale, whose biography can be found on p24 of this program (Tickets $10/$5 students with ID). At 10.30 am on Sunday 8th February, 2009, there will be a special screening of the documentary The Mist, directed by Dr Maryam Habibian. This will take place in Meeting Room B on the second floor of the Douglass Campus Center (please refer to pp25-26 for her biography and a description of the documentary). Dr Habibian will be present herself to take questions from the audience immediately afterwards. Although there is no entrance fee, registration for this screening at the main registration desk is required, due to limited seating. *Please be advised that the previously advertised conference dinner at Wood Lawn Mansion has completely sold out. Coffee, tea, lunch and dinner will be available for purchase during the conference at the Douglass Café, at the opposite end to Trayes Hall on the first floor of the Douglass Campus Center. This conference is made possible by a Title VIa UISFL Grant awarded to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies by the US Department of Education. 2 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009 8.45 Registration and Opening Remarks Joanna Regulska, Dean of International Programs Jawid Mojaddedi, Director, CMES 9.15-9.45 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ADDRESS Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College, CUNY The Islamic Republic after Thirty Years 9.50-11.10 RELIGION AND POLITICS: RELIGIOSITY AND THE LAW Chair: Charles Häberl Kambiz Behi, Harvard University Iran’s “New Constitutionalism” Reza Akbari, Freedom House The Role of the Guardian Council within the Iranian Government Gunes Tezcur, Loyola University, Chicago Religiosity and Political Rule in the Islamic Republic 11.10-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-12.30 RELIGION AND POLITICS: OPPOSITIONAL MOVEMENTS Chair: Catherine Sameh Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego Shi‘a Iranian Politics after 30 Years of Revolution Mehrdad Mashayekhi, Georgetown University Transformations of the Post-Revolutionary Oppositional Political Discourse 12.30-1.30pm Lunch Break 1.30—3.30 CHANGES IN IRANIAN SOCIETY Chair: Mirjam Künkler Kevan Harris, Johns Hopkins University State-Making, War-Making, and Welfare-Making: The Ad Hoc Consolidation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mustafa El-Labbad, East Center for Regional and Strategic Studies, Cairo The role of Family relations in revolutionary Iran Kjetil Selvik, University of Oslo Iran’s Industrial Entrepreneurs since the 1979 Revolution 3 Sina Mossayeb, Columbia University Iran’s Intellectual Drain: The Challenges of Developing an Intellectual Community under the Islamic Republic of Iran Julien Pelissier, University of Toulouse The Impact of the Revolution on Iran's Finance Industry 3.30-3.50 Coffee Break 3.50-4.45 WOMEN IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN Chair: Zakia Salime Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women and Maternalism in the Islamic Republic Hamideh Sedghi, Harvard University Cyber-feminism and the Politics of Resistance in Iran: The One Million Signatures Campaign. 4.50-5.45 LITERATURE IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN Chair: Paul Sprachman Marek Smurzynski, Jagiellonian University, Cracow Pain as a rule of the social order in Abu Torab Khosravi's Rud-e ravi A. Korangy Isfahani, University of Virginia What does Da'i Jan Napelon mean now? 5.45 -6.15 DAY ONE CLOSING LECTURE Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University Women Shaping Literature and Art: A Glimpse of Post- Revolutionary Iran 8.30 HAALE IN CONCERT (ticketed event, $10 / $5 with Student ID, at the door, Trayes Hall) 4 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2009 9.00-12.00 SPECIAL FACULTY WORKSHOP SESSION: RESEARCH AND TEACHING ABOUT THE REVOLUTION Chair: Ahmad Ashraf Ali Banuazizi, Boston College Interpreting the Iranian Revolution Three Decades Later Mark Gould, Haverford College Theorizing the revolution 10.20-10.40 Coffee Break Janet Bauer, Trinity College Imagining the Masses: The Lived Consequences of Misreading the Iranian Revolution Peter Chelkowski, New York University Art at the Service of the Revolution 12.00-1.00 Lunch Break 1.00-2.45 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES Chair: Peter Golden Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council Iran’s Post-Revolution Foreign Policy – Continuity or Change? George Sanikidze, Tbilisi State University Iran and the South Caucasus Radwan Ziadeh, Harvard University The Syrian – Iranian Relationship after the Revolution Rasmus Elling, University of Copenhagen The Legacy of Khomeini: Questions of Ethnicity, Nation and National Identity 2.50-3.30 CLOSING LECTURE Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City College, CUNY Iranians in Amrika 5 THE MIST Special Screening of the documentary about modern Iran by Maryam Habibian, Ph.d. Sunday February 8th, 10.30 am Meeting Room B, Second Floor, Douglass Student Center Q & A to follow Title: The Mist Country and area filmed: Iran, Tehran, Shahrood, Misty Mountains (North of Iran) Dates: Shooting was done in the summers of 2004 and 2005 and editing was completed in June 2008 Running time: 48 minutes Director & writer: Maryam Habibian Producers: Maryam Habibian & Brian Kehrer (Reflecting Pool) Contact Dr. Habibian at: 212-799-1321. cell: 646-823-7983. e-mail: [email protected] 6 Ervand Abrahamian Ervand Abrahamian (B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D. Columbia University), an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, is well qualified by education and experience to teach world and Middle East history. He has published Iran Between Two Revolutions, The Iranian Mojahedin, Khomeinism, Tortured Confessions, and Inventing the Axis of Evil. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has taught at Princeton, New York University, and Oxford University. He is currently working on two books: one on The CIA Coup in Iran; and another, A History of Modern Iran, for Cambridge University Press. Kambiz Behi PhD candidate in social anthropology, Harvard University; BA in Political Science, Ohio University (2000); BA in History, Ohio University (2000); MA in Regional Studies, Harvard University (2003); MA in social anthropology, Harvard University (2006). Kambiz Behi’s research interests include legal anthropology, law and sociology, and constitutionalism. He has published “The Real in Resistance: Transgression of Law as Ethical Act” and “Who Is At Risk? Humanitarian Law in the Aftermath of Bam Earthquake”. He is also working on Iran’s “New Constitutionalism”: The Emergence of Expediency Discernment Council; The Formation of Shiite Legal Formalism; and Islamic Constitutionalism? 7 Reza Akbari Reza H. Akbari, a Program Assistant at Freedom House, conducts research on US foreign policy towards Iran and the Middle East. During his career he has focused on Iranian domestic politics and how it affects the broader Middle East region vis-a-vis US/Iran relations. Before his work with Freedom House, he served as a researcher at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Reza completed a double major in Political Science and International Studies at the State University of New York. His bachelor’s thesis focuses on the effects of national identity and “cultural confusion” among Iranians as one of the root causes of their continual failure to construct a viable democratic political structure in Iran. Reza has written editorials which were printed in Gulf News. Reza was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. He currently resides in Washington, DC. Güneş Murat Tezcür Güneş Murat Tezcür, PhD in Political Science (University of Michigan 2005). Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University, Chicago (2005-). Conducts research on political roles of constitutionalism and judicial activism, and dynamics of ethnic conflicts with a particular focus on Iran, Turkey, and the Kurds. Author of a book tentatively entitled, "The Paradox of Moderation: Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey," forthcoming at the University of Texas Press. Recent publications include articles in Law and Society Review, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Party Politics, Polity, and Critical Middle Eastern Studies. 8 Babak Rahimi Assistant Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies: Shi'i Islam; Medieval and (early) modern Iranian culture and society, public sphere, civil society; Democracy and modernity. Babak Rahimi, who earned his BA at UCSD, received a Ph.D from the European University