3 Aug 18.00–20.00 Session 5/10 Room KLT
Inside Out–Iranian Contemporary Literature in Diaspora and Translation (reading, discussion, reception)

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw Chair

Persis M Karim Moderator (part 1)

Parinaz Eleish, Mimi Khalvati, Roxanne Varzi, Sholeh Wolpé, Zerreh Readers (part 1)

Nahid Mozaffari Moderator (part 2)

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Moderator (part 2)

Farkhondeh Aghai, Goli Taraghi Readers (part 2)

3 Aug 20.00–22.00 Session 6/1 Room BGLT
Window of Hope: Music of the Mashruteh (ticketed concert)

3 Aug 20.00–22.00 Session 6/10 Room KLT
Simin Behbehani: Life and Poetry

Houra Yavari Chair

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Moderator

Simin Behbehani Main presenter

3 Aug 20.00–22.00 Session 6/13 Lyric
The Persian Revolution (ticketed play)

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/1 Room BGLT
Perspectives on the Iranian Periphery

Fereydoun Safizadeh Chair and discussant

Samira Farahani The Role of NGOs in Rebuilding Bam after the December 2003 Earthquake

Farhanaz Bahrampour The Qanats of Tabriz (in Persian)

Ali Mozaffari The Permanent and the Transient: Ashura and the Morphology of the Tradition Iranian City

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/2 Room G60
Medieval Culture and History - I

Juergen Paul Chair and discussant

Zahra Rabbani Sufi Orders in Seljuk Anatolia and Their Role in the Dissemination of Iranian Culture (in Persian)

Mark David Luce Contextualising the Tarjameh-ye Tafsir-e Tabari and the Tarjameh-ye al-Sawad al-A'zam in Fourth/Tenth Century Transoxiana

Kazuo Morimoto Putting Lubab al-Ansab in Context: Sayyids and Naqibs in Late Saljuq Khurasan

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/3 Room L67
Persian Literary Imagination

Paul Losensky Chair and discussant

Abu Musa Mohammad Arif Billah Influence of Attar's Mantiqu't Tair on Alaol and Jayasi's Padmavati: A Special Reference to Fana and Baqa

Ashk Dahlen The Holy Fool in Medieval Islam: The Qalandariyat of Fakhr al-Din 'Araqi

Christine van Ruymbeke A New Approach to the Anvar-e Sohayli as a Political Science Text

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/4 Room B104
Qajar Modernization and its Enemies

Oliver Bast Chair and discussant

Gholamreza Salami Alam-e Nesvan: A Pioneering Women's Magazine (in Persian)

Fatemeh Masjedi Feminist Historiography of the Early Twentieth Century of Iran

Hoorieh Saeidi Military Training During the Qajar Period (in Persian)

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/5 Room G52
Economic Growth under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Hashem Pesaran Chair and discussant

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Economic Growth in Iran before the Oil Boom: An Evaluation of the 1963-73 Experience

Hadi Salehi-Esfahani The Experience of High Economic Growth in Pre-Revolutionary Iran

Massoud Karshenas Initial Conditions, Industrialisation Policies and Economic Growth: A Comparison of Iran and South Korea during the 1960s

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/6 Room G51
Royalty, Rebellion, and Sources in Sasanian History

Touraj Daryaee Chair and discussant

Pavel B Lurye Concepts of Kingship and Royal Power in Middle Iranian Anthroponomastics and Toponymy

Khodadad Rezakhani Sexual Communalism: Rebellion of Mazdak and the Issue of Succession

Ze'ev Rubin Hamza al-Isfahani's List of Sources for Iranian History and the Traces of Lost Sasanian Historiography

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/7 Room B102
Distorting History

Houchang E Chehabi Chair and discussant

Moojan Momen Conspiracy Theories and Forgeries: The Baha'i Community of Iran and the Construction of an Internal Enemy

Orly R Rahimiyan The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Genealogic Exam

Haideh Sahim Lost in Translation: Iranian Scholarship and Foreign Texts

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/8 Room G50
Transformations of Kurdish and Turkic Traditions: Case Studies from Armenia and Khorasan

Gay Breyley Chair and discussant

Christine Allison Memory and Commemoration Amongst Yezidis in Armenia

Stephen Blum Stories of Imam Ali and Imam Reza, as Sung in the Kurdish and Turkish of Khorasan

Ameneh Youssefzadeh Singing Narratives in Twenty First Century Iran: Dastan in the Repertoire of Khorasani Bards

4 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 7/10 Room KLT
Fiction, Journalism and Literary Societies in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Houra Yavari Chair and discussant

Ali Dehbashi Literary Societies and Journals in Post-Revolutionary Iran (in Persian)

Hassan Mirabedini Post-Revolutionary Fiction: Continuity or Otherwise (in Persian)

Nahid Tavassoli Women in Journalism in Post-revolutionary Iran (in Persian)

4 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 8/1 Room BGLT
Gender in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Society

Janet Afary Chair and discussant

Elizabeth M Bucar A Tight Rope Act Over Common Moral Ground

Kouross Esmaeli Legacy of the Imam: The Transsexual Rights Movement in Iran

Gilles Riaux Gender and Nationalism in Iranian Azarbaijan

4 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 8/2 Room G60
Medieval Culture and History - II

Roy Mottahedeh Chair and discussant

Roxanne D Marcotte A Mid-Thirteenth Century Aghaz va Anjam Work

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov Unity of the Universe: The Concept of Original Word in Early Hurufi Texts

Christoph Werner A Rival to the Safavids? Sheikh Muhammad Kujuji, Mystic, Poet and Politician of the Fourteenth Century

Thomas Hayoz Hagiographic Tendencies in the Tarikh-e Rashidi: Mirza Haydar Dughlat's Hagio-Historiographic Way of Writing History

4 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 8/3 Room L67
Sufism and Literature

Franklin Lewis Chair and discussant

Farah Shadchehr Pahlavan Mahmud, a Legend or a Poet? A Brief Study of his Life and Poetry

Paul Losensky The Poet and the Courtesan Eros and Poetics in Mohtasham Kashani's Noql-e 'Oshshaq

Elizabeth Ross Alexandrin Dream Visions of Mystical Time: Shams al-Din al-Daylami (d.ca. 1197 CE) between Sufism, Theology and Philosophy (in Persian)

4 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 8/4 Room B104
Merchants and Pilgrims in Qajar Iran

Abbas Amanat Chair and discussant

Gad Gilbar The Fall of the Majales-e Vokala-ye Tojjar (1884-85)

Tomoko Morikawa Shiite Pilgrimage for the Atabat During the Qajar Period

Mansoureh Ettehadieh The Register of Sheikh Fazlallah Nuri: Commercial and Connubial Transactions in a Newly Discovered Document, 1303 HQ-1306/1885- 1889

Nobuaki Kondo Loans in Qajar Tehran: A Study on Bay'-e Shart

4 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 8/5 Room G52
Modern Education in Pahlavi Iran

Afshin Marashi Chair and discussant

Soli Shahvar The State, the Reform Process, and Baha'i Education in Shiite Iran, 1898-1934

Thomas M Ricks Twentieth Century Memories of Alborz and Sage Colleges of Tehran: The Political Culture of Missionary Education

Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi The American Girls' School and the Construction of Modern Iranian Identities

4 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 8/6 Room G51
Kings and Queens of the Sasanian Empire

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis Chair and discussant

Touraj Daryaee The Rise and Early History of Ardashir-e Pabagan

Haleh Emrani Sasanian Queen Boran and other Female Rulers of her Age

Carlo G Cereti From Husraw I to Husraw I: Some Thoughts on the Late Pahlavi Cursive

Rahim Shayegan Indup'ne and Saxt: Two Iranian Satraps in Late Hellenistic, Early Arsacid, Iran

4 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 8/7 Room B102
Influence of Iranian Religious Thought Outside Iran

Azim Nanji Chair and discussant

Shirin Fathi Ali Shariati in South Africa: An Example of Selective Reception

Mara A Leichtman (Still) Exporting The Iranian Revolution: Senegalese Converts to Shiite Islam

Mark Sedgwick The International Ramifications of the Thought of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

4 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 8/8 Room G50
Paradoxes and Permutations: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on 'Iranian' Music

Stephen Blum Chair and discussant

Ahmad Sarmast An Issue of Terminology: Persian Music or Khurasani Music?

Gay Breyley Sweetness and Light: Wedding Music in Iranian-Australian Communities

Sasan Fatemi Ghazal Khani and Gardan Koloft (in Persian)

4 Aug 11.00–12.00 Session 8/10 Room KLT
Secularism, Secularization and Public Religion in Iran

Rachael M Rudolph Chair and discussant

Richard C Martin Hidden Bodies: The Problem of Accounting for Secular Muslims in Modern Religious Studies

Rachael M Rudolph The Politics of Identity in the Iranian Environment: Competing Norms, the Cross-fertilization of Religious and Secular Identities and the Evolution of Energy Policy

4 Aug 13.00–15.00 Session 9/11 Russell
AIS Board Meeting (closed meeting)

4 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 10/1 Room BGLT
Aspects of Education in the Islamic Republic

Mahmoud Sadri Chair and discussant

Patricia J Higgins The Child's World as Portrayed in Iranian Elementary Textbooks

Mehri Honarbin-Holliday A Quiet March for Self-Realisation and Intellectual Survival: Finding a Voice through the Processes of University Art Education in a Society where Personal and Collective Futures Remain Uncertain

Maryam Rezaee A Study of Women in Higher Education in Iran with Special References to the Minority Religious Group

Shiva Sadeghi Envisioning Education for Social Change: Perils and Promises of Gender Equity in the Islamic Republic of Iran

4 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 10/2 Room G60
Iran and China in the Mongol and Ming Periods

Bert Fragner Chair and discussant

Ralf Kauz Chinese Iranica in the Late and Post Mongol Period

Leo Oh Islamicised Pseudo-Buddhist Iconography of Ilkhanid Royal Manuscripts

Yidan Wang Persian Books in China

Charles Melville Forging an Image of Chingiz Khan

4 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 10/3 Room L67
Monuments and Decoration in Medieval Persia

Robert Hillenbrand Chair and discussant

Markus Ritter Safavid Wall Painting in Iran: The Qaysariyyeh Portal at Isfahan

Irina Koshoridze & Marina Friedmann New 'Old' Materials about Ali Qapu Fresco Paintings

Raya Shani A Turkman Illustrated Copy of the Manqabat-nama or Qisseh-i Shir u Div Representing the Religious and Mystical Dimensions of 'Ali's Image as the Lion of God and the Sword of Islam

Mohammad Karim Mottaghi The Qabus Tower (in Persian)

4 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 10/4 Room B104
History from Below: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Paul Luft Chair and discussant

Vanessa Martin Murder in Bushehr in 1844: The Case of Bibi Assilu

Behnaz Mirzai-Asl African Slaves in Iran: A Neglected Aspect of Iranian History

Morteza Nouraei Census, Revenue and the Lower Classes of Mashhad During the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century, a Critical Study Based on the Zeynol 'Abedin Report

Stephanie Cronin Popular Politics in Iran: The Urban Crowd and the Fall of the Qajar Dynasty

4 Aug 14.00–15.30 Session 10/5 Room G52
Socio-political Aspects of the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Kamran Scott Aghaie Chair and discussant

Massoumeh Velayati Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Migration in Iran: A Historical Analysis

Soheila Torabi-Farsani The Rise and Fall of the Fada'iyan Eslam (in Persian)

Keyvan Tabari Mosaddeq's Conception of Constitutionalism Based on his Arguments Before the Court that Tried Him in 1953

4 Aug 14.00–15.30 Session 10/6 Room G51
Zoroastrianism

Sarah Stewart Chair and discussant

Kianoosh Rezania Zurvan: Boundless Time or Timeless Time? The Question of Eternity and Time in Zoroastrianism

Jenny Rose In Praise of the Good Waters: Cult and lay Offerings to Anahita in the Sasanian Period

Alberto Cantera & M A Andres-Toledo Manuscript Transmission of the Avestan and Pahlavi Vïdevdad

4 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 10/7 Room B102
Re-thinking Anthropology in Iran

Soraya Tremayne Chair

Shahnaz Nadjmabadi Discussant

Nasser Fakouhi Iranian Anthropology Facing New Challenges

Nematollah Fazeli Before and After Konkur: An Ethnographic Account of the Iranian Concept of University

Soraya Tremayne New Procreative Practices, Authoritative Knowledge and Relatedness: Case Studies From Iran

Shahnaz Nadjmabadi Iranian Migrants in the Arab Countries of the Persian Gulf

4 Aug 14.00–15.30 Session 10/8 Room G50
Music and the Evolution of Twentieth Century Iranian Society

Laudan Nooshin Chair and discussant

Parviz Emamzadeh Fard Social Moods and Radical Change in the Late 1970s in Iranian Society: A Case in the Discourse Analysis of the Iranian Revolution of 1979

Farshad Mohammadi The Progression of Persian Traditional Music through the Past Three Decades

Alireza Miralinaghi The Influence of the Recording Companies in Iranian Traditional Music Transformation (1912-2002) (in Persian)

4 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 10/10 Room KLT
Iran, Foreign Relations, and the Region

Gareth Stansfield Chair and discussant

Nozar Alaolmolki Regional Trade Cooperation

Houman Sadri Iran and the Caspian States: Regional Integration

Robert S Miller Iran, Iraq, & the Kurds: Viable Dreams and Unviable Alternatives?

Hooshang Amirahmadi Iran's Foreign Relations

4 Aug 16.30–19.00 Session 11/1 Room BGLT
Urban Change in Post-Revolution Iran

Kaveh Ehsani Chair

Bernard Hourcade Discussant

Kamal Athari In Search of Earthly Paradise-Spatial Justice in Urban Iran (in Persian)

Kaveh Ehsani The Nation and its Periphery: Provincial Urban Iran in Revolution and War

Parviz Ejlali Movie Theatres as Public Space in Contemporary Iranian Cities

Azam Khatam Struggles over Defining the Moral City: Political Islam and Urban Public Life in Post-revolutionary Iran

Kian Tajbaksh The Fate of Local Democracy Under the Islamic Republic: An Assessment of the Experience of Elected Local Government in Iran

4 Aug 16.30–18.30 Session 11/2 Room G60
State and Society in Ilkhanid Iran

Charles Melville Chair and discussant

Ilker Evrim Binbas Oghuz Khan Narratives, Politics, and Legitimacy in the Late Medieval Persianate Historiography

Ali Ferdowsi Oedipus / Shah Shoja / Joseph: Princely Villainy and Legitimacy in Fourteenth Century Shiraz

Mohammad Karim Yousef-Jamali The Policy of Qazan Khan's Submitting to Islam and its Effect on Other Existing Religions and Sects in Iran

Gholamreza Dar-Katanian The Proliferation of the Iranian Tradition of Viziericide in the Ilkhanid Period (in Persian)

4 Aug 16.30–19.00 Session 11/3 Room L67
Pre-modern Art of the Book

Markus Ritter Chair and discussant

Yuka Kadoi Rostam's Tiger-Skin Coat

Raisa I Amirbekyan Caesarean Childbirth as Reflected in Islamic Visual Arts: lllustrations from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

Chad Kia Is the Bearded Man Drowning? Picturing the Figurative in a Late Fifteenth-Century Painting from Afghanistan

Maryam Ekhtiar From the Reed Pen to the Printing Press: The Innovations of Qajar Calligrapher Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor

Firuza Abdullaeva Illustrated Shahnameh Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia and Their Relatives Abroad

4 Aug 16.30–19.00 Session 11/4 Room B104
Foreign Gazes on Persia

Vanessa Martin Chair and discussant

Yuriko Yamanaka Japanese Observations of Modernizing Iran: Yoshida Masaharu's Journey to Persia

Roya Arab Scholars and What they Unwittingly Reveal: The Archaeology Survey of 1968 in Iran

Mohammad Taghi Nezam-Mafi The Persian Within: John Malcolm and Harford Jones in Persia, 1800-1810

Nader Nasiri-Moghadam Henry-René d'Allemagne and the Strange History of an Achaemenid Weight, Stolen From Iran at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Cyrus Alai Foreigners Mapping Persia

4 Aug 16.30–18.30 Session 11/5 Room G52
Culture and Cultural Policies Under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Ali Ansari Chair and discussant

Houchang E Chehabi The Shiraz Festival of Arts

Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi Islamic Purity and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century Iran

Keyvan Khosrovani The Empress and I: Haute Couture and Iranian Crafts

Mina Marefat Architecture and Americanism: Iran in the 1970s

4 Aug 16.30–19.00 Session 11/6 Room G51
Arsacid and Sasanian Political and Administrative History

Carlo G Cereti Chair and discussant

Mehrdad Ghodrat-Dizaji Azarbaijan in the Early Sasanian Period: A Research in Administrative Geography

Parvaneh Pourshariati The Early Arab Conquest of Iran Revisited

Ali Mohammad Tarafdari The Formation of Feudal Structure in the Arsacid Era (in Persian)

Farhad Assar Arsaces IV (c. 170-168 BC) the First Missing Parthian King

Reza Mehrafarin In the Search of Ram Shahrestan: The Capital of Sistan during the Sasanian Period

4 Aug 16.30–19.00 Session 11/7 Room B102
Social Implications of the Internet

Majid Tafreshi Chair and discussant

Sanaz Raji Iranian-American Diaspora Internet Community: Second-Generation Iranian-Americans and Diasporic Communications

Gholam Khiabany & Annabelle Sreberny A Multitude of Voices: Public and Private Politics as Articulated in the Iranian Blogosphere

Shahram Kholdi Contested Memories and Competing Narratives of the Islamic Revolution in Cyberspace

Shirin Sadeghi Iranian Cyberdemocracy: A Survey of Iranian Internet Use

Marcus Michaelsen Media and Processes of Political Transformation: The Internet in the Islamic Republic of Iran

4 Aug 16.30–17.30 Session 11/8 Room G50
Iranian Popular Music: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Ameneh Youssefzadeh Chair and discussant

Farzaneh Hemmasi From Iranian to World: Persian-Language Pop Crosses Over

Laudan Nooshin 'We Have to Become Universal': Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music

4 Aug 16.30–19.00 Session 11/10 Room KLT
Ethics in Iran: Historical and Literary Perspectives

Richard Bulliet Chair and discussant

Olga Davidson Moral Choices in the Shahnameh

Ali Gheissari Charting Iran's Moral Map

Farzin Vahdat Napoleon has No Clothes: Elements of Iranian Modern Ethos and the Satire of Iraj Pezeshkzad

Houra Yavari Ethics and its Audience

Mehdi Mohaghegh Ethics in Iran: Historical and Literary Perspective

4 Aug 18.30–20.00 Session 12/1 Room BGLT
Shirin Neshat and Tariq Ali 'In-Conversation'

Tariq Ali Chair

Shirin Neshat Main presenter

4 Aug 20.00–22.00 Session 13/12 Senior Common Room
AIS Reception (ticketed reception)

4 Aug 20.00–22.00 Session 13/13 Lyric
The Persian Revolution (ticketed play)

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/1 Room BGLT
Cultural Tensions in Contemporary Iranian Society

Ali Gheissari Chair and discussant

Mahdi Ahouie Iranian Society and the Challenge of a Cultural Split

Aliakbar Jafari An Enquiry into Cultural Consumption Among Iranian Youth and the Implications of Globalisation

Jaclyn Michael Cultural Hegemony and Cultural Resistance in the Islamic Republic: The Islamic Authorities and Iran's Third Generation

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/2 Room G60
State Institutions in Safavid and Afshar Iran

Edmund Herzig Chair and discussant

Michael Axworthy The Army of Nader Shah

Colin P Mitchell Theosophy and Scribal Culture in the Court of Shah Esmail

Abolala Soudavar The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/3 Room L67
Epic Literature

Christine van Ruymbeke Chair and discussant

Ghazzal Dabiri The Origins and Development of Persian Epic Literature

Evangelos Venetis Dating the Narrative: The Case of the Iskandarnameh Prose Romance

Nahid Pirnazar The Judeo-Persian Epic of Fatnameh a Testament to the Unity of Iranian Jews with their Iranian Heritage

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/4 Room B104
Iran and the Major Powers

Heidi Walcher Chair and discussant

Irina Natchkebia The Indian Expedition of 1805-9 and Napoleon's Emissaries to Persia

Evan Siegel Ahmad Kasravi and Iran's Foreign Relations

Mohammad Reza Saeidabadi Iranian-British Relations since the Iranian Revolution of 1979: A Conceptual Approach

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/5 Room G52
Persian Language and Linguistics

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari Chair and discussant

Koorosh Angali Development of the Third Singular Copula in the Post-Revolutionary Colloquial Persian

Anousha Sedighi Impersonal Constructions in Persian: How Impersonal Are They?

Farhad Keyvan et al. A New Lexical Resource: Persian WordNet

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/7 Room B102
Religious Change in Iran

Michael Zirinsky Chair and discussant

Mehrdad Amanat Messianism and Identity: Jewish Conversions to the Baha'i Faith

Kathryn Spellman Iranian Muslims Converting to Christianity in Iran and the Wider Diaspora

Anne Sophie Vivier-Muresan Communitarian Neighbourhoods and Religious Minorities in Iran: A Comparative Analysis

5 Aug 09.00–10.30 Session 14/8 Room G50
Gender and the Law in the Islamic Republic

Mary Hegland Chair and discussant

Golbarg Bashi Rethinking Human Rights in Iran: A Feminist Critique

Zahra Tizro Sanctions and Sanctuary: Domestic Violence Against Women in Iran

Elhum Shakerifar Temporary Marriage in Modern Iran

5 Aug 09.00–10.00 Session 14/10 Room KLT
Women Writers

Persis M Karim Chair and discussant

Leila Pazargadi Exiled Identity: Women Writers Renegotiating Iranian and American Identities

Elham Gheytanchi Mahasti Shahrokhi and Exilic Literature

5 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 15/1 Room BGLT
The Politics of Interpreting the Iranian Revolution: Then and Now

Ali Banuazizi Chair and discussant

Fariba Adelkhah From a Universalistic Islamic Revolution to Specific Demands for Legal Rights and Socioeconomic Equality: The Iranian Revolution and the Contextualization of Social Movements' Agendas

Charles Kurzman Social Science and the Iranian Revolution

Ahmad Sadri & Mahmoud Sadri A Case Study of the Changing Status and Perceptions of the Hojjatieh Before and After the Revolution

Maziar Behrooz Leftist Interpretations of the Iranian Revolution: Then and Now

5 Aug 11.00-12.30 Session 15/2 Room G60
The Imaginary in Safavid Persia

Kathryn Babayan Chair and discussant

Sholeh A Quinn The Dreams of Sheikh Safi al-Din in Late Safavid Chronicles

Nozhat Ahmady The Role of Dreams in the Political Affairs of the Safavids (in Persian)

Hafez Abid Masood Early Modern English Awareness of Sectarian Identities in Islam

5 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 15/3 Room L67
The World of Jalal al Din Rumi

Leonard Lewisohn Chair and discussant

Yaseen Noorani Time and Narrative in the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi

Manijeh Mannani The Philosophical Fundamentals of Belief in the Mystical Poetry of Donne and Rumi

Asef Siddiqi Some Hitherto Unknown or Lesser Known Mss of the Commentaries Of Maulana Rumi's Masnavi Manavi

5 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 15/4 Room B104
State and Society in the Islamic Republic

Farzin Vahdat Chair and discussant

Anisseh van Engeland-Nourai Refugees in : From a Human Crisis to Migration Management?

Houshang Jeirani The Role of Non-governmental News Agencies in Developing Iranian Civil Society

Kavous Seyed-Emami Why did They Vote for Him? The Subjective Meaning of Voting for Ahmadinejad

5 Aug 11.00–12.30 Session 15/5 Room G52
Issues in Iranian Linguistics

Gernot Windfuhr Chair and discussant

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari Verbal Negation in the Bakhtiari Dialect

Mohsen Farsani Lamentation among Bakhtiari Nomads of Iran

Agnes Korn Historical Morphology Groupwise: The Development of Western Iranian Nominal Systems

5 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 15/7 Room B102
The Iranian Diaspora in the Anglo-Saxon World

Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi Chair and discussant

Noosheen Hashemi Diaspora Philanthropy: The Case of the Iranian Community

Amir Mirfakhraie Transmigration of Iranians to Canada and Construction of Multiple-identities, 1946-2001

Maryam Jamarani A Descriptive Study of the Ethno-linguistic Identity Re-Construction of Female Iranian Immigrants in Australia

Fariba Amini The Iranian Diaspora in the United States: How They View Iran, the US and the Future

5 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 15/8 Room G50
Politics in the Islamic Republic: Recent Development

Massoud Karshenas Chair and discussant

Sussan Siavoshi Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi: A Voice of Authoritarian Islam

Mehrzad Boroujerdi Circulation of Elites in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Mansour Moaddel Slowly Beginning to Conquer: The Rise of Iranian Nationalism

Abbas William Samii Mahmud Ahmadinejad One Year After

5 Aug 11.00–13.00 Session 15/10 Room KLT
Intellectual and Artistic Life after Khomeini

Homa Katouzian Chair and discussant

Reza Najafi Humanities Studies during the Khatami Reform Period (in Persian)

Majid Tafreshi Blotting the Copybook Redlines and Censorship of Iranian Historiography in the Mid-1990s

Hamid Keshmirshekan Contemporary or Specific: The Dichotomous Desires in the Art of Early 21st Century Iran

Marek Smurzynski Holistic Narratives of Abu Torab Khosravi's Novels

5 Aug 13.00–15.00 Session 16/12 Russell
Iranian Studies Organisations Meeting (closed meeting)

5 Aug 14.00–15.30 Session 17/1 Room BGLT
Political Culture in Contemporary Iran

Mehrzad Boroujerdi Chair and discussant

Mateo Farzaneh Martyrdom on the Frontlines of the Iran-Iraq War

Shahin Pahnadayan History of Political Thought in Iran (in Persian)

Saeed Moghimi Different Era: Individualism and Political Development in Iran (in Persian)

5 Aug 14.00–15.30 Session 17/2 Room G60
Safavid Culture and Society

Giorgio Rota Chair and discussant

Abolfazl Hassanabady Suyurghal (Land Tenure) in the Safavid Period

Derek J Mancini-Lander Epistemologies of Place: Urban Memory in a 17th Century Local History of Yazd

Kathryn Babayan Idioms of Friendship in Safavi Iran

5 Aug 14.00–15.30 Session 17/4 Room B104
Social Pathologies in the Islamic Republic

Fariba Adelkhah Chair and discussant

Amir Mohammad Amirtash Iranian Youth and their Physical Fitness Standards (in Persian)

Babak Fozooni A Bakhtinian Reading of Iranian Football Riots

Eshrat Gholipour Children, Work and the Street: The Empowerment of Iran's Street Children (in Persian)

5 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 17/7 Room B102
The Local and the National in Contemporary Iran

Houman Sadri Chair and discussant

Behrang Foroughi Local Participation: The Missing Key to Democratic Reform in Iran?

Fereydoun Safizadeh Is There Anyone in Iranian Azarbaijan who wants to get a Passport to go to Mashhad, Qum, Isfahan or Shiraz? The Dynamics of an Ethno-National Identity in Iran

Matin Mehryar The Effects of Uneven Development in Northern Khorasan

Mostafa Zamani-Nia Problems of Writing on Iranian Local History: The Case of Farahan (in Persian)

5 Aug 14.00–16.00 Session 17/8 Room G50
Nationalism, Myth & Mobilisation in Modern Iran

Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi Chair and discussant

Afshin Matin-Asgari Marxism and Nationalism as Modern Iran's Myths of Popular Mobilisation

Shabnam Holliday Contesting Iranian National Identity in the Era of Reform

Touraj Atabaki Ethnic Minorities, Regionalism and the Construction of New Histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ali Ansari Dynastic Nationalism and the Cult of the Monarchy

5 Aug 14.00-15.30 Session 17/10 Room KLT
Themes in Contemporary Persian Literature

Leili Anvar-Chenderoff Chair and discussant

Jalil Nozari Sadegh Hedayat's Three Drops of Blood and The Blind Owl and Nikolai Leskov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District

Guilan Siassi Pen-Cases, Flower Vases, and Poisoned Wine: Heirlooms of Time in Hedayat's The Blind Owl

Sherwin Khamseh The Ancient Notions of Resurrection and the Saviour in Contemporary Persian Poetry

5 Aug 16.30–18.30 Session 18/1 Room BGLT
Iran's Nuclear Programme: Peaceful or Perilous? (panel discussion)

Rouzbeh Pirouz Chair

Mehdi Askarieh Panellist

Mark Fitzpatrick Panellist

Roger Hardy Panellist

Phyllis Starkey Panellist

5 Aug 20.00–22.00 Session 19/13 Lyric
The Persian Revolution (ticketed play)

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