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Welcome!
Welcome to the Inaugural AIS Online Symposium! As the Symposium’s Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to the first of these fully online biennial meetings, to be offered in the years when there is no in-person Biennial conference). and thank you for your participation and support. The AIS Online Symposium was initiated by the Council of the Association for Iranian Studies with the expressed purpose of creating more opportunities for inclusion among the AIS membership. To address the limitations for in-person conference attendance faced by many of our members, our term president, Prof. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet suggested the Online Symposium to provide an opportunity for the membership to present their work virtually and benefit from the feedback and support of the other scholars in our community. The inaugural Symposium committee defined the themes of this first conference in the spirit of maximizing fruitful interactions and dialogue among the presenters and participants.
Together with the President and the AIS Council, we are delighted to offer this opportunity for participation to AIS members and thank all those who submitted panels, roundtables, and individual papers for the Inaugural AIS Online Symposium. We look forward to listening to over 50 exciting presentations, and also to hearing your feedback about this new, scholarly venue. Your feedback and participation will be vital to improving the AIS Online Symposium in its future iterations.
Instructions
The events general registration and attendance link is: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AsZaM1TlUbBjo0XO2_3cy71fOFmXu4xeZ7jm82DuGGFQof9ZRiMa~AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg
Please note that the Symposium is set up as a series of webinars, with each panel being assigned a specific Webinar ID. This means that if you are in more than one session (for example, presenting in one and chairing the other), you will have to log-in to each one separately from the "Lobby" of the events. Presenters have already received invitations for this event and need to register for the event at the above link, or connect it to already existing Zoom accounts, in order to be able to attend the event.
Presenters will have access to each session in full and be able to share slides and do what is necessary for their session. Presenters are also all co-hosts of the session, so in case the main host (the chairs) is dropped out (due to internet connexion issues or others), the session will remain active.
The audience members will be able to access the panels/webinars, but will not be able to use video or audio and can only submit questions via the Q&A function. So, the Chairs and the Speakers will need to pay attention to the Q&A session.
Each presenter has 15 minutes to present (20 in case of three person panels), with hopefully 10-15 mins of question time for each presentation. This can be arranged by the panel and the chairs and is at your discretion. The panels run for 1:30 hours each, with a 15 minute extra time if needed, but will cut-off after 1:45 mins!! So please have that in mind!
Panel presenters, please check the programme (https://associationforiranianstudies.org/symposium/2023) and contact your chairs and introduce yourselves, please, if you have not done do already. I will be happy to share emails when needed.
The errors in the programme that you might find at present are solved and a final programme in HTML format, as well as a conference booklet in PDF format, will be available in the next couple of days.
Please note that we have a few book exhibitors with curated sales pages in the conference. Links to these will be available both on the website and on the Symposium's event page on Zoom for which you have received the email already (https://events.zoom.us/ev/AsZaM1TlUbBjo0XO2_3cy71fOFmXu4xeZ7jm82DuGGFQof9ZRiMa~AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg).
Please contact us at symposium@associationforiranianstudies.org for any further information.
The Organizing Committee of the Inaugural AIS Online Symposium
Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani (Chair)
Dr. Niki Akhavan
Dr. Amir Moosavi
AIS Online Symposium 2023 Information
The Association for Iranian Studies is the leading international scholarly association for the study of the culture, society, and history of Iran and the greater Iranian world. The Association is made up of a wide range of scholars from around the globe who contribute to the society’s goals of promoting Iranian studies through their teaching and research. This includes presentations of their work at the Association's biennial in-person conferences that have been held in various locations around the world, as well as the publication of their research in the Association's official journal, Iranian Studies. However, due to personal and professional circumstances, some members of the AIS community have been prevented from participating in the biennial conference. As such, AIS is launching its first online symposium scheduled for the weekend of October 20-22, 2023.
Call for paper
This call for papers is open to all due-paying members of AIS from all disciplines who wish to submit panels or individual papers for consideration. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 10 July 2023. Proposals should be submitted through the AIS online Symposium submission portal. Individual proposals should be no longer than 300 words and proposals for prearranged panels should be no longer than 500 words.
Adjudication
A panel of AIS experts will read and evaluate the proposals and inform all applicants of the results by 31 July 2023. While the symposium is open to all themes and periods, the organizing committee has a special interest in panels and papers addressing the following themes as guiding criteria for the online symposium: environment and ecology, women and society, media and cultural production, identity and identity formation, and the study of pre-modern Persianate world. Panels incorporating one or more of these themes are particularly encouraged to apply.
