Pegah Shahbaz is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy the Asian Institute, an Associate Member of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa Diaspora (CERIAS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Section Editor […]
Farbod Honaarpisheh, Yale University
Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar Abstract: “Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically,” consisting of PowerPoint slides and commentary for Zoom presentation, offers a cursory appreciation of specific features in a handful of poems. Obviously, scores of interesting and insightful articles on Farrokhzad’s poems are out there, but not many of them involve close readings of […]
Professor Agnes Korn
Bio: Mahdi Tourage is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Social Justice and Peace Studies at King’s University College, London, Ontario. He is the author of Rumi and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism (Brill 2007) and the edited volume Esoteric Lacan (with Philipp Valentini, Roman & Littlefield 2019). His publications have appeared in Iranian Studies, International […]
Geoffrey Haig is professor of linguistics in the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Bamberg. His research is empirically oriented, with a focus on corpus-based approaches to language typology, and language contact in the Western Asian Transition Zone; for both fields he has co-developed online digital resources (see https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg. de/ and https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/. He has also […]
Farshid Kazemi. Simon Fraser Universiy Bio: Farshid Kazemi is Sessional Lecturer at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on Iranian Cinema and Psychoanalysis. His research interests combine an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to Film […]
Blake Atwood American University of Beirut Kaveh Askari Michigan State University Golbarg Rekabtalaei Seton Hall University Abstract: For over a decade, videocassettes were officially banned in Iran. But even analog media technologies like the videocassette are surprisingly difficult to control. Rather than curtain the circulation of videocassettes, the ban inspired a vibrant video-based movie […]
Bio: Dr. Claire Cooley is a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University. Her research and teaching focus on film and media industries in the Global South, South-South media flows, Sound Studies, and Critical Infrastructure Studies. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including Film History, Jump Cut, and Spectator. Her current book project tells […]
Farkhondeh Hajizadeh, Writer, Poet & Publisher Leila Sadeghi, Author, Researcher & Literary Critic Khatereh Sheibani, professor, York University Haroon Siddiqui, Author & Journalist Niyosha Keyzad, Phd Candidate, University of Toronto Granaz Moussavi, Poet Nahid Tavassoli, Writer & Literary Critic Saeed Yousef, Author
Professor Erik Anonby and Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami Bio: Erik Anonby is Professor in Linguistics and French at Carleton University. His research focuses on documentation and mapping of Iran's languages, with publications including Phonology of Southern Luri (2003), Adaptive Multilinguals: Language on Larak Island (2011), Bakhtiari Studies: Phonology, Text, Lexicon (2014), and Bakhtiari Studies II: Orthography […]
Convenors: Mohamad Tavakoli, Javad Abbasi, Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani Speakers: Mohamad Tavakoli|محمد توکلی Shirin Bayani|شیرین بیانی Arash Fekrat|آرش فکرت Mohammad Estelami|محمد استعلامی Wali Parkhash Ahmadi|ولی پرخاش احمدی Asadollah Sho‘ur|اسدالله شعور Mostafa Malekian|مصطفی ملکیان Khalilullah Afzali|خلیلالله افضلی Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani|محمود فتوحی رودمعجنی Javad Abbasi|جواد عباسی https://youtu.be/vnS-an2Y_r8