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Iranian Modernity Student Symposium
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 5:00-9:20 p.m.
Room 304, Bancroft Building
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5:00-5:10
Introduction
Mohamad Tavakoli
5:10-5:40
Monarchist Co-optation of the Zan, Zendigi, Azadi Movement
Jesse Upton
5:40-6:10
The Pasteurian Revolution in Iran
Yasmin Mirshahi
6:10-6:40
Tahzib-i Akhlagh and the Politics of Cultural Refinement
Ali Gholipour
6:40-7:10
Modernity in Red: The Iranian Left and the Question of Modernity
Daniyal Ansaripour
7:10-7:40
Refashioning Islam in Cold War Tehran
Desiree Dashtban
7:40-8:10
Performance and Negotiation: Reza Khan’s Rise to Power
Amirsalar Banitaba
8:10-8:40
Retrospective Modernity in Diasporic Iranian Women’s Memoirs
Mahnoor Kamran
8:40-9:10
European Accounts of Tabriz in the Qajar Era
Sadra Emami