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Rethinking the Iranian Revolution:
A Student Symposium
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 5:10-8:50 p.m.
Room 304, 4 Bancroft Ave
Toronto, ON M5S 1C1
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5:10-5:15
Opening Remarks
Mohamad Tavakoli
5:15-5:30
The Photographic Revolution
Priya D’Souza McDonough
5:30-5:45
Refashioning the Red Scare in Revolutionary Tehran
Desiree Dashtban
5:45-6:00
The Genealogy of the 1979 Revolution and the Shah’s White Revolution
Amir Banitaba
6:00-6:15
Remembering Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in the Iranian Revolution
Daston Babakan
6:15-6:30
Fadaiyan and Mojahedin: The Characger of Armed Struggle in Revolutionary Iran
Daniyal Ansaripour
6:30-6:45
Tabriz and the 1978-1979 Revolutionary Fever
Sadra Emami
6:45-7:00
Urban Cartographies of the 1979 Revolution
Laleh Sahraei
7:00-7:15
The Legacy of 1978-1979 Women Revolutionaries
Nandini Jain
7:15-7:30
How Michel Foucault Misinterpreted the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution
Helia Karami
7:30-7:45
The Genealogy of the Islamic Revolutionary State
Charlie Lecheng Zeng
7:45-8:00
Revolutionary Exception: Why Iran’s Monarchy Collapsed While Other Middle Eastern Monarchies Endured
Martin Tieu
8:00-8:15
The 1979 Iranian Revolution and the January to February 2026 Protest Movement in Iran
Rojina Bagheri
8:15-8:30
The Revolution and the Novelistic Form
Mohsen Maleki
8:30-8:45
Melancholia of Sovereignty: From Monarchy to Clerical Claims
Mojtaba Shahsavari
8:45-8:50
Concluding Remarks
Mohamad Tavakoli