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10 TH ISIS BIENNIAL CONFERENCEMontreal, August 6 th -10 th , 2014ACADEMIC PROGRAM SCHEDULE: DRAFT (05-04-2014)This draft-schedule comprises only the panels of the academic program, which run from August 7th toAugust 9th incl. Cultural and social events taking place alongside the academic sessions will be includedin the general Program, to be posted closer to the date of the conference.We ask the conference participants to check the accuracy of their names, affiliations, and paper titles,and to let us know whether any corrections are in order. Please direct editorial requests to the ProgramChair Marta Simidchieva at 2014program@iranianstudies.com.The sessions below are of four types: PRE-ORGANIZED PANELS and ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS whose initiatorsand convenors are duly credited; INDEPENDENT PANELS created by the Conference Program Team fromindividually-submitted proposals; SPONSORED PANELS, organized and supported by an institution. Allacademic sessions are held in eight auditoria in the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure.Currently we are communicating with prospective Panel Chairs and Discussants. As they respond to ourinvitations, their names will periodically be added to the program.Please note, that this is not yet the final draft of the program: The Organizers reserve the right toconsolidate panels with fewer than the required number of participants (minimum three), or tointroduce other necessary changes to the program.DAY 1—THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 20149:00 am—10:30 amSt PierreRATIONALISM IN SHI’I PHILOSOPHY AND JURISPRUDENCE [R11m]DISCUSSANT: Hossein Kamaly, Columbia UniversityVerdun1. Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity University, San Antonio. “Human Reason in Contemporary ReformistShi’i Jurisprudence: From Montazeri to Kadivar, to Qabel”2. Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston. “Islamic Reason and Modern Scholarship in the Hawzaand Beyond”3. Alireza Shomali, Wheaton College. “The Idea of the Disparity of the Intellects in Perso-IslamicThought”4. Mehdi Najafiafra, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. “Death and Resurrection inPersian Philosophical Thought”IRANIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN MUGHAL INDIA: CONTESTATION, ACCULTURATION, AND NOSTALGIA [Hc3]1

1. Peyman Nojoumian, University of Southern California. “Instructional Materials DevelopmentBased on Task-based Language Teaching Principles for Persian”2. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill University. “Challenges and Decision-makings in Writing PersianlanguageTextbooks3. Ladan Hamedani, University of Hawai’i. “Integrating Language Skills in Testing Persian Language”LongueuilINTELLECTUALS, POLITICAL ELITES, AND MIDDLE CLASSES IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN [P14]CHAIR: Afshin Marashi, University of Oklahoma1. Ata Hoodashtian, Management Institute of Canada, Montreal. “Iran and the Rise of the 21 st -century Intellectuals”2. Hussein Banai, Occidental College and MIT. “The Curious Absence of Liberalism in Modern Iran”3. Kevan Harris, Princeton University. “Iran's New Middle Classes in World-historical Perspective:Power, Distinction, and Transformation”4. Ebrahim Soltani, Syracuse University. “Political Islam and Contextual Secularism”Pointe-aux-TremblesBOOK CULTURE: TYPES AND TROPES [Ac3]1. Margaret Shortle, Boston University and Freie Universität, Berlin. “Visual Ghazals and CourtlyConduct: A Typological Investigation of the Paintings in Illustrated Divans of Hafiz”2. Jake Benson, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, Cairo. “Naqsh bar ab: Marbled Paper as a Tropewithin Persian Poetry”3. Mahbobe Ghods, Columbia University. “The Garden of Text: Innovative Usage of Text inLithographic Books”Jacques CartierMUSIC, THEATRE, AND FACETS OF THE THEATRICAL [CS3]DISCUSSANT: Jane Lewisohn, SOAS, London University1. Rosemary Mountain, Concordia University. “Incorporating a Study of Persian Music into WesternMusic Curricula”2. Nahid Siamdoust, University of Oxford. “The Many Faces of God in New Iranian Music”3. Sabrina Guerrieri, Concordia University and University of Toronto. “Modernity on Stage [Tazie—modern reinterpretations]”4. Azadeh Ganjeh, University of Bern. “Speak the Speech: Genealogy of Power in Staging Hamlet inModern Iran”3

11:00 am—12:30 pmSt PierreTHE PHILOSOPHICAL, MYSTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC LEGACIES OF NASIR AL-DIN TUSI [R7c]CONVENOR: Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of ManitobaDISCUSSANT: Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter1. Hadi Jorati, Yale University. “[Very] Late Greek Mathematics: The Case of Tusi's Tahrirat”2. Elizabeth Alexandrin, University of Manitoba. “Spiritual Ethics”3. Wahid Amin, University of Oxford. “Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 672/1274) on Cognition and theNecessary Being’s Knowledge of Contingent Facts: Some post-Avicennan Debates on the Natureof Knowledge”4. Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. “Precedents to RethinkingModels of Authority among Nizari Ismailis: The Case of Tusi”VerdunCONSCIENCE, SELF-PERCEPTION, AND THE SUBVERSIVE POWERS OF POETRY [Lc6]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Justine Landau, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences1. Cameron Cross, University of Chicago. “An Affair of Conscience: The Ethics of Seduction in Vis-o-Ramin”2. Ali Ferdowsi, Notre Dame de Namur University. “‘Rather a Poet Be’: The Reluctant Sovereigntyof Sultan Ahmad Jalayer”3. Michael Hillmann, University of Texas at Austin. “Hafezian Ghazals qua Poetry”4. Tatiana Schetchikova, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.“Authorial Self-presentation in Farid ad-Din ʻAttar’s Memorial of God’s Friends”LachineECONOMICS: HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES [P9]CHAIR: Sohrab Behdad, Denison UniversityLasalle1. Gholam R. Vatandoust, American University of Kuwait. “The Export of Nacre or Mother of Pearlin Late 19 th -century Iran”2. Patrick Clawson, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The Limited Role of the ImperialBank of Persia”3. Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The DistributionalConsequences of Economic Growth and Public Spending Programs in Iran”4. Leyla Mostafavi, University of Ottawa. “The Human Rights Implications of Economic Sanctions: ACase Study of Iran”4

PICTURING THE DEPICTED [Ac2]CHAIR: Sheila Blair, Boston CollegeFundy1. Sussan Babaie, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. “Cookery, Visual Knowledge andUrbanity in Safavid Iran”2. Sinem Arcak, University of Minnesota. “Picturing Conquest in the Ottoman-Safavid Wars (1578-1590)”3. Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto. “The Tamed 'ayyar: FromIndependent Brigand to Mystical Symbol in a Romantic Mathnavi”4. Lamia Balafrej, Wellesley College. “Unmotivated Forms in Late Timurid Book Painting (ca. 1470-1500)”ART, EXILE, AND DISSENT [Am4]DISCUSSANT: Babak Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology1. Annie Pfeifer, Yale University. “Between Worlds and Wars: The Formation of Iranian-GermanModernism”2. Hanieh Ziaei, University of Ottawa and Université Paris-Diderot. “Acts of Dissent: Reflections onIranian Art and Artists in Exile”3. Sholeh Shahrokhi, Butler University, Indianapolis. “Body Aesthetics and Protest Art inContemporary Iran”4. Azita Bathaie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, LESC, CNRS. “Mobility andContemporary Afghan Artists”LongueuilIRANIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS CHALLENGES [P10]1. Seyed Amirhossein Mahdavi, Brandeis University. “Looking at the Islamic Republic of Iran inThree Historic Negotiations over Three Decades: Pragmatic or Ideological Foreign Policy?”2. Marina Díaz Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. “From Dialogue to Alliance ofCivilizations, from Khatami to Zapatero: Geopolitical Implications”3. George Sanikidze, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University, Tbilisi. “Iran andthe South Caucasus: Challenges for Regional Policy in the 21 st Century”Pointe-aux-TremblesSCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY IN IRAN AND ENVIRONS [CS1]CONVENOR: F. Jamil Ragep, McGill University1. Fateme Savadi and Sajjad Nikfahm Khubravan, McGill University. “New Light on AstronomicalActivities during the Seljuk Time: An Overview Based on New Findings”2. Pouyan Shahidi Marnani, McGill University. “Two Astrolabes by Persian Astrolabe Makers from5

1. Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Reflections on the Prosimetric Modeand Its Functions in Medieval Persian Prose”2. Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge. “Three Kalila wa-Dimna Rewriters’ Attitudestowards Prosimetrum”3. Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto. “The Pitfalls of Prosimetrum in the Akhlaq-i Muhsini ofHusain Va‘iz Kashifi”4. Sunil Sharma, Boston University. “Quoting Old and New Poets in ‘Abd al-Baqi’s Ma’asir-i Rahimi”LachineA CENTURY OF WORKERS’ WORLD IN THE IRANIAN OIL INDUSTRY [Hm1]CONVENOR: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam1. Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. “Oil and Beyond: ShiftingBritish Imperial Aspirations, Emerging Oil Capitalism, and the Challenge of Crafting a LabourPolicy in the First World War Iranian Oil Industry”2. Peyman Jafari, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. “Labor and the State in theIranian Oil Industry (1978-2008)”3. Maral Jefroudi, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. “Oil Workers after theNationalization of 1951, and before the Revolution of 1979: Writing the History of an ‘Interlude’"4. Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University. “Assembling the Oil Complex in Khuzestan: Workers’ Lives andthe Built Environment of Abadan (1920s – WW2)”LasalleTHE POSITIONING OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND IDENTITY IN THE IRANIAN DIASPORA [D1]CONVENOR: Amy Malek, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)DISCUSSANT: Amy Motlagh, American University in CairoFundy1. Amy Malek, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Multiculturalism and DiasporicCitizenship: Exploring Iranian Cultural Production in Sweden”2. Neda Maghbouleh, University of Toronto. “Ugly Persian Houses and the Racial History of IranianAmerica”3. Babak Elahi and Andrea Hickerson, Rochester Institute of Technology. “The Production ofDiasporic Identity Online: Case Studies of Kurdish and Iranian English-Language News Sites”4. Sheefteh Khalili, University of California, Irvine. “Selectively Racialized, Selectively Politicized?Politicized Ethnic Identity among Second Generation Iranian Americans”VISUAL CULTURE IN MODERN IRAN [Am3]CONVENOR: Blake Atwood, University of Texas at Austin7

3. Seyed Gholamreza Shafiee-Sabet, McGill University. “An Investigation into the PostcolonialDiscourse in Beyzaie’s Hezar Afsan Kojast? “4. Arshavez Mozafari, University of Toronto. “Satan in Iran during the First World War”5. Abd al-Rasoul Shakeri, Shahid Beheshti University. “The Influence of Social Discourses on theContent and Structure of Persian ‘Serial Novels,’ 1941-1953”4:00 pm—5:30 pmSt PierreDEATH RITES AND RITUALS: A CONTEMPORARY SHI’I PERSPECTIVE [R2m]CONVENOR: Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas at AustinDISCUSSANT: Blake Atwood, University of Texas at Austin1. Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin. “The Evolution of Mourning andRemembrance of Death in Modern Iranian Obituaries”2. Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto. “A Death Never-ending: Theoretical Reflections on theRitualized Recurrence of Imam Husain’s Becoming and Death in Shi’ism”3. Edith Szanto, The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. “Sex and the Cemetery: IranianPilgrims, Shrine Visitation, and Consumer Piety in Damascus”4. Reza Masoudi Nejad, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. “The Reviving of Muharram Processionsin Mumbai, an Iranian Initiative”VerdunRECEPTION AND RESPONSE IN TIMURID AND SAFAVID POETRY [Lc4]CONVENOR: Nicholas Walmsley, Indiana UniversityDISCUSSANT: Paul Losensky, Indiana University1. Theodore Beers, University of Chicago. “The Tuhfa-yi Sami and Canon Formation in PersianPoetry”2. Paul Losensky, Indiana University. “Jami, Pari-Khan Khanom, and Mohtasham: Ideology,Patronage, and Poetics in 16 th -century Iran”3. Myriam Sabbaghi, University of Chicago. “The Court Poet and the Lady Patron: DeconstructingMuhtasham Kashani’s Ideal Illustration of Pari-Khan Khanum”4. Nicholas Walmsley, Indiana University. “‘On My Frail Body’: An Early Attempt to Translate theTurkic Poetry of Nava’i into Persian”LachineDISCOURSES ON MODERNITY AND REVOLUTION [Hm11]CHAIR: Juan Cole, University of Michigan1. Mansoor Moaddel, University of Maryland. “Reflections on Two Revolutions: The ConstitutionalRevolution of 1905 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979”2. Kamran Matin, University of Sussex. “Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and9

LasalleSocial Change”3. Vahid Tolooei, University of Toronto. “New Social Concepts: Practice of Concepts”4. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto. “Biopolitical and Geopolitical Governance inContemporary Iran”FITTING IN: IRANIAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCES [D3]DISCUSSANT: Ali-Akbar Mahdi, Ohio Wesleyan UniversityFundy1. Camron Michael Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn. “‘If You Kill Your Child, You Will Not beCharged’: Comparing 21 st -century American and Iranian Conceptions of Filicide”2. Vahideddin Namazi, Université de Montréal. “Future Perspectives for Iranian Taxi Drivers inCanada”3. Shawhin Roudbari, University of California, Berkeley. “Looking and Moving Abroad: TheTransnational Transformation of Iran’s Architecture Profession, 2000-2012”4. Amin Moghadam, Sciences Po Paris. “Larestani Community in Dubai and the Formation of aTransnational Identity”IRANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE LONG 19TH CENTURY: EXPRESSING A WORLD IN FLUX [Am1]CONVENOR: Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University StanislausDISCUSSANT: Mary Yoshinari, University of Toronto1. Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University Stanislaus. “Reconsidering the Liminality ofAntoine Sevruguin and His Photographs of Iran”2. Elahe Helbig, German Art Historical Institute in Florence and Max-Planck-Institute.“Public Photography Studios in Qajar Iran: Shifting Ways of Visualization”3. Yassaman Ameri, John Abbott College, Montreal. “Women of the Document and Men of thePaintings”LongueuilCOLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CONTESTED NARRATIVES OF CONTEMPORARY IRAN (2) [P2]CONVENORS: Chowra Makaremi, Université de Montréal and Pardis Shafafi, University of St AndrewsDISCUSSANT: Shokoufeh Sakhi, York University, Toronto1. Nader Vahabi, CADIS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and CEDEM,Université de Liège. “Sociology of a Variable Geometry Memory: Iranian Exiles”2. Kaveh Shahrooz, Independent Scholar. “Legalizing Narrative: Reflections on the Perils of SeekingJustice for Gross Human Rights Violations in Contested Spaces”3. Raha Bahreini, University of Essex. “Between Amnesia and Accountability: Can There Be a ‘Just’Amnesty for Human Rights Violations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s?”10

Pointe-aux-TremblesTHE SACRED IN ICONOGRAPHY AND IN ARCHITECTURE [Ac4]CHAIR: Jonathan Bloom, Boston College1. Iván Szántó, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Austrian Academy of Sciences. “The Impactof Baha’ al-Din ʻAmili on the Visual Arts”2. Maryam Ekhtiar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “The Nimatullahi Mode in QajarReligious Imagery”3. Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University. “Continuity and Symbiosis: The Architecture ofSynagogues in Isfahan”4. Samar Saremi, Université de Montréal. “Urbanizing the Sacred: A Passageway under the Shrineof Imam Reza – Iran”Jacques CartierIRANIAN LITERATURE—COMPARATIVE ASPECTS [Lm5]CHAIR: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota1. Ameneh Shervin Emami, Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).“Rumi, Farrokhzad, and ‘Tavallodi Digar’”2. Niloofar Dohni, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris.“Influence of Iranian Philosophical [Sufi?] Literature in Works of Contemporary Iranian Writers”3. Farkhondeh Shayesteh, Yale University. “Persian and Japanese Literary Expression in the Face ofModernization”4. Maryam Shariati, University of Texas at Austin. “‘Sunshine’ vs. ‘Age of Night’: A ComparativeAnalysis of Nonconformity and Individualism [Ibsen and Golamhosein Saedi]”DAY 2—FRIDAY AUGUST 8, 20149:00 am—10:30 amSt PierreKNOWLEDGE—MYSTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL [R10c]DISCUSSANT: Bilal Kuşpınar, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya1. Roxanne D. Marcotte, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). “Another Persian De anima –the Asrar al-Hikmat of Lawkari”2. Ilse Sturkenboom, University of Bamberg. “Epitomizing the Mystical Journey: Opening Paintingsto the Mantiq al-Tayr”3. Eliza Tasbihi, Concordia University. “A Hidden Source of Knowledge: Uncovering “Book Seven” ofRumi’s Mathnawi through Anqarawi’s Commentary”4. Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University. “Rumi's ‘Teaching Philosophy’ in Practice”11

VerdunTHE CROWD IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART AND VISUAL CULTURE [Am2]CONVENORS: Pamela Karimi, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Andrea D. Fitzpatrick,University of Ottawa1. Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, University of Ottawa. “The Crowd as Human Tapestry in the Art of SadeghTirafkan”2. Ayda Melika, University of California, Berkeley. “Building Power: War of Memorials inContemporary Tehran”3. Sanaz Mazinani, Stanford University. “We Are the Time: A New Vernacular Photography and theDigital Imagery of the Crowd”4. Aydin Matlabi, Concordia University. “Landscape Revolution People”LachineFOREIGN RELATIONS AND FOREIGNERS IN IRAN UNDER THE PAHLAVIS [P11]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston UniversityLasalle1. David Collier, Boston University. “A Justice for Iran: William O. Douglas and Iranian Democracy inthe 20 th Century”2. Shay Rozen, University of Haifa. “The Prime-Minister’s Farm: Israeli-Iranian Relations and IranianRefugees, 1948-1951”3. Neta Feniger, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. “Building a ‘New Middle East’: The State ofIsrael and an Israeli Planning Team in the Rebuilding of Qazvin, Iran”4. Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, Fullerton. “The Peace Corps in Iran, 1962-1976”RELIGIO-ETHNIC MINORITIES AND IRANIAN NATIONALISM [Hm6]CONVENOR: Lior Sternfeld, University of Texas at AustinCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin1. Mikiya Koyagi, University of Texas at Austin. “Baluchs, Sikhs, and the Baluchistan Frontier in theEarly Pahlavi Period”2. Mardin Aminpour, University of Texas at Austin. “The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism in PrintCulture”3. Lior Sternfeld, University of Texas at Austin. “Iran Is My Homeland, Jerusalem Is My Qiblah:Iranian Jews between Zionist and Iranian Identities”4. Mahyar Entezari, University of Texas at Austin. “Representations of Afghans in Iranian Cinema”12

FundyPERSIAN COMMUNITY OR HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: COLLABORATION FORIMPROVEMENT [LG1]CONVENOR: Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Macquarie University, SydneyCHAIR: Azita Taleghani, University of TorontoDISCUSSANT: Jaleh Pirnazar, University of California, Berkeley1. Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Macquarie University, Sydney. “Persian Community LanguageLearning: A Case Study of Four Persian Community Language Schools in Sydney, Australia”2. Shahnaz Ahmadeian, San Diego State University. “The Effect of Teacher Training and ProfessionalDevelopment for Heritage Language Teachers”3. Naghmeh Babaee, University of Manitoba. “The Challenges of Maintaining Farsi as a HeritageLanguage in an Iranian Diaspora Community in Canada”LongueuilFEMINISMS, ISLAMIC AND SECULAR [G3]CHAIR: Nahid Tavassoli, Independent ScholarDISCUSSANT: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto1. Sharareh Shahrokhi, Contra Costa College. “Is the Future of Feminism Intertwined withSecularism in Iran?”2. Mona Tajali, Concordia University. “Strategic framing: Women’s framing processes for politicalrepresentation in Iran and Turkey”3. Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi and Leila Mouri, Columbia University. “Sorting Between TwoIdeologies: Iranian Women’s Activists Between Islamism and Islamophobia”Pointe-aux-TremblesCONVERSION VERSIONS I: MAKING THE MONGOLS MUSLIM [Hc1]CONVENOR: Stefan Kamola, Princeton UniversityCHAIR: Charles Melville, University of Cambridge1. Jonathan Brack, University of Michigan. “From Convert to Mahdi: Ghazan Khan’s AlternativeConversion Narratives”2. Selim Kuru, University of Washington. “In Praise of Ghazan: Gülşehri, His Felekname and IlkhanidLiterary Patronage in Anatolia”3. Vered Shurany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Conversion to Islam in Mongol-ruled Hexi(China): The Life and Times of Prince Ananda”13

Jacques CartierPERSIAN NIGHTINGALE IN INDIAN GARDEN [Lm2]CONVENOR: Syed Akhtar Husain, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityDISCUSSANT: Aleem Ashraf Khan, University of Delhi1. Ramzan Ahmed, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Maulana Azad: An Exponent of Indo-PersianLiterature”2. Sheikh Abdullah, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Reception of Rustam and Sohrab in an UrduTranslation”3. Golam Moinuddin, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “The Poetry of Iqbal: A Swansong of Indo-Persian Literature”4. Nadeem Akhtar, Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Tracing the Footsteps of Hedayat in India”11:00 am—12:30 pmSt PierreDISCOURSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN SAFAVID IRAN [R3c]CONVENOR: Alberto Tiburcio, McGill UniversityDISCUSSANT: Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced1. Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University. “Anti-Sufi Discourses in Late Safavid Iran: Three Case Studies”2. Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota. “‘May God Draw Away from Them’: ‘Alial-Karaki and La‘n in Twelver Shi‘ism”3. Nazak Birjandifar, McGill University. “Provincial Elite and Safavid Center: The Case of KhanAhmad Gilani II”4. John Dechant, Indiana University. “The Shaykhs of Jam: A Case Study on Hereditary Power andIdentity in the Era of Sufi Orders”VerdunHISTORY IN MOTION: CINEMATIC IMAGINARIES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN [C1]CONVENOR: Golbarg Rekabtalaei, University of TorontoDISCUSSANT: Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University1. Golbarg Rekabtalaei, University of Toronto. “A Cinema Beyond-the-Nation: the Making of aCosmonational Cinema in Iran”2. Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University. “Oil: Pastoralism and Modernity in the Golestan Film Cycle”3. Kaveh Askari, Western Washington University. “The Archive of Second-hand Cinema: MasoudKimiai’s Pesar-e Sharghi and the Celluloid Album”4. Sara Saljoughi, University of Minnesota. “‘Namayesh ba zendegi’: Fereydoun Rahnema and theAntagonistic Image”14

LachineROUND TABLE: DISCUSSING ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN’S WORK [Hm7]CONVENOR: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, AmsterdamLasalleMaziar Behrooz, San Francisco State UniversityKaveh Ehsani, DePaul UniversityAzadeh Kian, University of Paris 7 DiderotAfshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los AngelesVal Moghadam, Northeastern UniversityMohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of TorontoMehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse UniversityIRAN: ALONE IN THE WORLD [P3]CONVENOR: Sam Razavi, Privy Council Office, Government of CanadaDISCUSSANT: Thomas Juneau, University of OttawaFundy1. Sam Razavi, Privy Council Office, Government of Canada. “Iran in the Levant”2. James Devine, Mount Allison University. “Rouhani and Iranian-Saudi Relations”3. Thomas Juneau, University of Ottawa. “Alone in the World”4. Peter Jones, University of Ottawa. “Iran and the Emerging Middle East”ROUND TABLE: PERSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING: CURRICULUM AND STANDARDS [LG2]CONVENOR: Pardis Minuchehr, George Washington UniversityLongueuilLatifeh Hagigi, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)Farima Sadigh Mostowfi, Georgetown UniversityJaleh Pirnazar, University of California, BerkeleySaeid Hooshangi, Universidad Complutense de MadridShahrzad Shams, University of WashingtonSaera Kwak, Hankuk University of Foreign StudiesGENDER POLITICS AND THE DYNAMICS OF COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE IN IRAN [G4]CHAIR: Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University1. Nafiseh Sharifi, SOAS, University of London. “The Politics of Sex in Iran: Women’s MultigenerationalNarratives of Embodiment”15

2. Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University and Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Toronto.“Iranian Women’s Hybridized Fashion Statements: A Socio-political Response to the Veil”3. Ghazaleh Haghdad Mofrad, Université Catholique de Louvain. “Courtship, Dating, and Marriageamong Young Iranian Women and Men in Tehran”4. Elli Dehnavi, University of Alberta. “Dynamics of Female Virginity in Iran”Pointe-aux-TremblesCONVERSION VERSIONS II: THE ILKHANID LEGACY IN COMMUNAL IDENTITY [Hc2]CONVENOR: Stefan Kamola, Princeton UniversityCHAIR: Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford1. Stefan Kamola, Princeton University. “Rashid al-Din’s History of Oghuz as a Gloss on the MongolPast”2. Domenico Ingenito, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “The Virtuous Efforts ofHulagu’s Dynasty: ‘Obayd-e Zakani’s Satirical Writings and the Origins of Persian Anti-MongolResentment”3. Patrick Wing, University of Redlands. “The ‘Ilkhanid Legacy’ and the Re-imagining of DynasticRulership under the Jalayirids and Qara Quyunlu”4. Derek Mancini-Lander, Dickinson College. “Making Yazd Mongol: Rashiduddin Fazlullah and theRise of the Sayyids in Yazd’s Local Historiography”Jacques CartierMIRZA `ABD AL-QADIR “BIDEL” (1644-1720): POETRY, PROSE AND PROSOPOGRAPHY [Lc1]CONVENOR: Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University1. Jane Mikkelson, University of Chicago. “The Fifth Element? Pervasive Bleakness in Bidel’sGhazals”2. Hajnalka Kovacs, University of Chicago. "‘The Foundation of the Universe Rests on Sound’: TheProblem of Speech and Silence in Bidel’s Muhit-i A‘zam”3. Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University. “Bidel’s Portrait”2:00 pm—3:30 pmSt PierreVOICES FROM THE OTHER WORLD: JALAL AL-DIN RUMI AND THE POETRY OF ECSTASY [R9c]Panel sponsored by the Rumi Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, and the University of ExeterCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Leonard Lewisohn, University of Exeter1. Hülya Küçük, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya. “A Tongue for Shams of Tabriz: Mawlana Jalalal-Din Rumi”2. Alan Williams, University of Manchester. “Bewilderment and Ecstasy: The Narrative Structure of16

the Masnavi-ye Ma‛navi”3. Bilal Kuşpınar, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya. “Isma‛il Anqarawi and the Exposition ofMystical States”4. Roderick Grierson. Rumi Institute, Near East University, Nicosia. “The Anguish of the Mutrib: ALiturgy of Ecstasy and its Abolition”VerdunWHO IS ARBY? WHAT IS ARBY? ENCOUNTER WITH THE THEATRE AND CINEMA OF ARBY OVANESSIAN [C2]CONVENOR: Negin Djavaherian, Independent Scholar1. Negin Djavaherian, Independent Scholar. “Evoking Architecture: Theatre of Arby Ovanessian andIts Architectural Expression”2. Ramin Jahanbegloo, York University. “Transcendental Style in the Cinema of Arby Ovanessian:An Analysis of ‘La Source’ (Cheshmeh, 1971)”3. Majid Lashkari, Independent Scholar. “In Touch with the Unknown: A Testimony on theTheatrical and Cinematic Approach of Arby Ovanessian”4. Bardia Saadi-nejad, Independent Scholar. “Arby Ovanessian: A Significant Cinematic PresenceFollowed by a Self-intended Speechlessness”LachineIRAN AND RUSSIA IN THE 19 TH AND 20 TH CENTURY: WAR, DIPLOMACY, ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND CULTURE (1) [Hm2]CONVENOR: Rudi Matthee, University of DelawareDISCUSSANT: Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military InstituteLasalle1. Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware. “Infidel Aggression: The Russian Assault on the HolyShrine of Mashhad, April 1913”2. Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach. “Nest of Revolution: The Caucasus,Iran, and Armenians”3. Elena Dunaeva, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “TheRussian Orthodox Church in Iran”4. Svetlana Ravandi-Fadai, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.“Nikolai Markov: From Russian Captain to Iranian General and Architect”PARTIES, POLITICS, AND ELECTIONS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN [P8]CHAIR: Ali Banuazizi, Boston College1. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University. “Electoral Behavior in Restive Provinces in PostrevolutionaryIran”2. Alireza Namvar-Haghighi, University of Toronto Mississauga. “Iran’s Post-Khomeini PresidentialElections: A Comparative Perspective”17

Fundy3. Farzan Sabet, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. “NationalSelf-determination in 20 th -century Iran: The case of Mansour Hekmat and the Communist Partyof Iran, 1983-1991”4. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Oxford. “The Imam’s Troubled Children: TheHistorical Evolution and Transformation of the Mojahedin Organization of the Islamic Revolutionand Its Contribution to the Discourse of Political and Religious Reform in Post-revolutionary Iran”PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART IN QAJAR AND IN MODERN TIMES [Am5]1. Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Yale University. “Photograph as Text, Photograph as Painting: TheRupture of Real in the Early Photography of Iran”2. Hajar Anvar, Université de Montréal. “A Speculative Approach to Photography: Exploration ofthe Book ‘Aksiyyeh Hashriyyeh by Mohammad ibn Ali Meshkat ol-Molk, 1889”3. Raheleh Filsoofi, Florida Atlantic University. “Three Women Potters in Iran: Issues of Art, Craftand Gender”4. Samine Tabatabaei, McGill University. “Contemporary Art and Everyday Life in Tehran”LongueuilANCIENT, LATE ANTIQUE, AND EARLY ISLAMIC IRAN: SOURCES AND RESOURCES [Z1]DISCUSSANT: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University1. Daniel Beckman, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Achaemenid Satraps and theAegean Frontier”2. Abolala Soudavar, Independent Scholar. “The Origins of the Sasanian Dynasty”3. D. Gershon Lewental, University of Oklahoma. “Rostam’s Death at al-Qadisiyyah: EarlyRepresentations of Iranian Identity in Islamic Narratives”4. Nahid Ghani, Independent Scholar. “Temporary Marriage in Pre- and Post-Islamic Iran accordingto Jurisprudential Texts”Pointe-aux-TremblesTHE PERSIANATE WORLD: MONGOLS, ILKHANS, MUGHALS, AND QAJARS [Hc7]1. Michael O'Neal, Tel Aviv University. “Rural Resistance to the Mongols: Remarks on MilitaryAuthority in Eastern Iranian Society in the Age of Chinggis Qan”2. Ryoko Watabe, University of Tokyo. “Fiscal Problems of the Ilkhanids and the Development ofBookkeeping System in 14 th -century Iran”3. Stephan Popp, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. “Gifts at the Court ofJahangir and Their Depiction”4. Kevin Gledhill, Yale University. “Geographic Boundaries in the Caspian Littoral: A Study ofNarrative Sources, 1750-1830”18

Jacques CartierNEW APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF BADAKHSHAN [Hc4]CONVENOR: Daniel Beben, Indiana UniversityCHAIR: Mushegh Asatryan, Independent ScholarDISCUSSANT: Gabrielle van den Berg, Leiden University1. Nourmamadcho Nourmamadshoev, SOAS, University of London. “The Mirs and Shahs ofBadakhshan: The Politics of Rule from the 11 th to the 15 th Centuries”2. Shafi Gulamadov, University of Toronto. “Nasir-i Khusraw and the Moral-Ethical Ideals of theIsma‘ilis of Badakhshan”3. Daniel Beben, Indiana University. “The Silk-i guhar-riz and the Persianate Ismaili Tradition inEarly-modern Central Asia”4. Sharaf Oshurbekov, York University, Toronto. “Places beyond the ‘Real’: Chronotope of theSacred Sites in Badakhshan Region of Tajikistan”4:00 pm—5:30 pmSt PierreON THE RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION OF SUHRAWARDI’S ILLUMINATIONIST PHILOSOPHY (IN MEMORIAM: HOSSEINZIAI) [R5c]CONVENOR: John Walbridge, Indiana University.1. John Walbridge, Indiana University. “The Transmission of the Works of Suhrawardi theIlluminationist and His School”2. David Bennett, King’s College London. “Dealing with Mystical Philosophy”3. Eiyad al-Kutubi, Indiana University. “The Illuminative Perspective of Falsafa”4. Ahmed Alwishah, Pitzer College. “Ziai on the Distinction between Peripatetic and IlluminationistEpistemology”LachineIRAN AND RUSSIA IN THE 19 TH AND 20 TH CENTURY: WAR, DIPLOMACY, ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND CULTURE 2 [Hm3]CONVENOR: Rudi Matthee, University of DelawareDISCUSSANT: Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University1. Irina Fedorova, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “D.Komissarov: A Russian Diplomat in Iran”2. Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute. “Russian Government Actions against RussianDeserters in Iran in the 19 th Century”3. Nugzar Ter-Oganov, Tel Aviv University. “K. N. Smirnov’s Letters Sent from the Caucasian Front as19

Lasallea Source for the Study of Iran’s Military and Political Conditions in 1915-1916”4. Firuza Abdullaeva-Melville, University of Oxford. “Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov and Persia: ANew Interpretation.”IRAN: THE RE-TURN OF RADICAL SOCIAL DEMOCRACY? [p4]CONVENOR: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of TorontoFundy1. Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta. “The Limits of Liberal Paradigm for Iran’sDemocratization: Towards a Social Democracy from Below?”2. Hossein Mesbahian, University of Toronto. “From Marx to his Specters? PhenomenologicalEncounter with the Philosophy of Marx in Iran”3. Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, University of Toronto. “The Cartography of Gender in Liberal andConservative E-Diasporic Communities”4. Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria. “Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search ofthe Missing Link”MODERN IRANIAN CINEMA: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL [C4]CHAIR: Mahdi Tourage, University of Western Ontario1. Marie Ostby, University of Virginia. “The Persian World Cinema: Global Palimpsests of theIranian New Wave”2. Asal Bagheri, University of Rennes 1. “A Semiological Analysis of the Relationships between Manand Woman in Iranian Post-revolutionary Cinema”3. Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto. “Family and (De-)Familiarization in Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’and ‘Le Passé’”4. Mohsen Azarm and Faezeh Mohammadi Ardehali, Independent Scholars. “A Filmmaker inConfrontation with Present Time: Asghar Farhadi, the Most ‘Contemporary’ Artist of Iran”LongueuilREEVALUATING THE EMPIRE OF THE ORIENT: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF SASANIAN AFFAIRS [Z5]CONVENOR: Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine1. Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine. “Historiography of the Sasanian Empire: The DarkSide of the Moon in Late Ancient Studies”2. Yuhan Vevaina, Stanford University. “Pahlavi and Periodization: The Use and Value of the Term'Late Antique' for Zoroastrian Literature”3. Ali Mousavi, Visiting Professor of Iranian Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA). “Characteristics of the Archaeological Materials in Sasanian Iran”4. M. Rahim Shayegan, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “Beyond the Late AntiqueParadigm: Towards a New Concept of Empire for Sasanian Iran”20

Pointe-aux-TremblesHISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND TRAVELOGUES [Hc6]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Heidi Walcher, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich1. Maryam Ala Amjadi, University of Kent and Universidade do Porto. “Washing Away Fear,Bewitching the Saddle: Iranian Travel Rituals in Safavid Travel Texts”2. Gregory Aldous, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. “The First Safavid Civil War as IllusoryHistoriographical Assumption”3. James Clark, American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS), New York. “Fact and Fiction: A Look atTwo Works by Mirza Hasan Khan E‘temad os-Saltaneh”4. Sarah Dusend, University of Bonn. “Private and Public Space in the Travelogues of HaggiyeHanum ʿAlaviyyeh Kermani (1882) und Sakineh Sultan Vaqar ad-Douleh (1900)”Jacques Cartier48. TAJIK LITERATURE IN TRANSMISSION AND SOCIAL LIFE [Lm3]CONVENOR: Benjamin Gatling, Duke University1. Evelin Grassi, Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. “The Tatars in Bukhara and Their Role inthe Diffusion of the First Tajik Pedagogical and Literary Works (1900s-1930s)”2. Gabrielle van den Berg, Leiden University. “Representations of Everyday Life in Central Asia: TheMemoirs of Sadriddin Ayni and Muhib”3. Andreas Wilde, University of Bamberg. “Iranian-Uzbek Encounters in the Nadirid Age (1737-1747)”DAY 3—SATURDAY AUGUST 9, 20149:00 am—10:30 amSt PierreREADER RESPONSE AND MYSTICAL NARRATION IN PERSIAN SUFI LITERATURE [Lc3]CONVENOR: Abolfazl Moshiri, University of TorontoDISCUSSANT: Franklin D. Lewis, University of Chicago1. Parisa Zahiremami, University of Toronto. “Mystical Texts, Variations, and Recreations:Recrafting the Anecdotes of Asrar al-tawhid in Halat va sukhanan-i Abu Sa‘id-i Abu al-Khyar,Mantiq al-tayr, and Bustan”2. Austin O'Malley, University of Chicago. “Heuristics of the Mosibat-nama”3. Abolfazl Moshiri, University of Toronto. “Devil's Advocate: Rumi, Exoneration of Iblis and SufiResponse to the Dilemma of Theodicy”4. Leila El-Murr, McGill University. “Seeing God: The Use of Theories of Vision in Jami’s Yusuf-o21

Zulaykha”VerdunPERSIAN POETRY, MODERN AND POSTMODERN [Lm4]DISCUSSANT: Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University ofMaryland1. Solmaz Naraghi, Independent Scholar. “The Revolution and the Defloration:[Mirzade Eshqi’s‘Three Portraits of Maryam’]”2. Eden Naby, Independent Scholar. “Village Life on the Urmia Plain: Hannibal Alkhas’s ‘Nostalgia’”3. Amr Ahmed, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. “Dowlatabadi’s FailedAttempt at Poetic Modernization”4. Kaveh Bassiri, University of Arkansas. “The Scorned Avant Garde: Reconsidering Tundar Kiya andthe Emergence of Iranian Postmodern Poetry”LachineLIVES IN THE 19 TH CENTURY—PERSIAN AND INDIAN PERSPECTIVES [Hm12]CHAIR: Mehrdad Amanat, Independent ScholarLasalle1. Assef Ashraf, Yale University. “Loyalty, Largesse, and Lucre: Gift-exchange in Early Qajar Iran”2. Leila Pourtavaf, University of Toronto. “Harems, Households, and Gendered Space: Revisiting theWomen’s Quarter in Late 19 th -century Golestan Palace”3. Mahbubeh Moqadam, Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Archival Project, Harvard University“Archeology of Women’s Rights Movement during the Naseri Period”4. Belal Asdaque, University of Delhi. “Reviewing the World of the 19 th Century through EarlyPersian Newspapers of India: A New Dimension for Research in Iranian Studies”POLITICAL POWER AND ITS DISCONTENTS [P12]CHAIR: Saeed Rahnema, York University, TorontoFundy1. Ali Dizboni, Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, and Ahmad Hashemi, RoyalMilitary College of Canada and University of Oxford. “How to Keep the Political Power in Check?A Comparative Assessment of the Iranian Constitutions of 1906-7 and 1979”2. Mateo Farzaneh, Northeastern Illinois University. “How the Shah’s Imperial Army Failed toProtect the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1979”3. Peyman Malaz, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). “The Cultural Revolution in theUniversities of Iran, 1981-87”4. Nima Barazandeh, University of Sheffield. “The Paradox of Nationalism in Contemporary Iran:National Minorities, and the Right to Self-determination and Secession”22

DIVINE DELUSIONS: VISIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN PERSIANATE PAINTING [Ac6]CONVENOR: Zahra Faridany-Akhavan, Independent ScholarCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Laurie Blanton Pierce, University of Chicago1. Zahra Faridany Akhavan, Independent Scholar. “Div ya Delbar: The Visual Paradox of the Demonin Persian and Mughal Miniature Painting”2. Nahid Assemi, SOAS, University of London. “Simorgh”3. Sara Kuehn, Independent Scholar. “The Interplay of Spiritual Beings, Ophidian Creatures, and theFirst Prophet in Islamic Visual Traditions (15 th to 17 th Centuries)”4. Behrang Nabavi Nejad, University of Victoria. “Historical Fact or Popular Narrative: Sources forthe Representations of Wondrous Animals as Depicted in the Inju Style of Painting”LongueuilADYAN O ‘AQA’ED: IRANIAN RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY (in Persian) [R12c]DISCUSSANT: Soroush Dabbagh, University of Toronto Mississauga1. Firoozeh Qandehari, University of Tehran. “Yazd Srosh and the Retrieval of His Traits andFunctions in the Shahnameh”2. Leyla Rasouli Narimani, University of Sydney. “Personal Names in the Manichaean Community”3. Seyed Mohsen Saeidzadeh, Independent Scholar. “The Ismailis of Qa’en: Political and MilitaryOrganization, Cultural Centres, Financial Establishments”4. Javad Abbasi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. “Ilkhans and Tashayyo: External Motivation orInternal Development?”Pointe-aux-TremblesIRANIAN MODERNIZATION AND ISSUES OF MODERNITY [P7]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Haideh Moghissi, York University, Toronto1. Hassan Makaremi, IEA, la Sorbonne - Paris 1. “A Strategy Focused Outlook on Pre-revolutionaryModernization Processes in Iran (1906-1979)”2. Delbar Khakzad, University of Toronto. “New Time and Calendric Contestations in Modern Iran”3. Donya Ziaee, York University, Toronto. “Rethinking the Gendered Making of Iranian Modernity:The Role of Capitalist Development”4. Kara Abdolmaleki, University of Alberta. “An Elephant Missing from a Dark Room: Iran’s Strivingfor Modernity in a Post-modern Age”Jacques CartierTHE IMPRINT OF DIASPORA ON LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND FILM [D4]CHAIR: Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto23

1. Ludmila Yaneva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria. “Afghan Women and Children through the Lens ofIranian Women Film-directors”2. Abdollah Zahiri, Seneca College. “A Contrapuntal Reading of the Iranian Diaspora in ‘The Houseof Sand and Fog’”3. Parvaneh Hosseini, University of Arizona. “Negotiating on the Name of One’s Nationality byImmigrant Iranians through a Double-voiced Word of Persian vs. Iranian”4. Laetitia Nanquette, University of New South Wales. “Iranian Writers in Australia and TheirRelation to the Global Iranian Diaspora”11:00 am—12:30 pmSt PierreCONTESTING MYSTICISM AND PHILOSOPHY IN SAFAVID IRAN [R1c]CONVENOR: Sajjad Rizvi, University of ExeterDISCUSSANT: Elizabeth Alexandrin, University of Manitoba1. Ahab Bdaiwi, University of St Andrews. “The Emergence of Shi’i Mysticism in Early Safavid Iran:A Study of Ghiyath al-Din Dashtaki’s Maqamat al-‘arifin wa manazil al-sa’irin”2. Ata Anzali, Middlebury College. “Shah Muhammad Darabi and the Emergence of Shi‘iteDiscourse on ‘Irfan”3. Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Princeton University and University of South Carolina. “PhilosophicalLettrism in Safavid Iran: Mir Damad and His Sources”4. Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter. “‘Philosophy Contaminated by Monism’: Contesting Hikmat inSafavid Iran”VerdunCOMMITMENT IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN LITERATURE [Lm8]CONVENOR: Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, University of OxfordCHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland1. Fatemeh Shams, University of Oxford. “Commitment and Disillusionment: Notes on the Politicsof Poetry-reading in Post-revolutionary Iran”2. Samad Alavi, University of Washington. “Multiple Engagements, Singular Vision: Fifty Years ofShafi‘i-Kadkani’s Poetry”3. Aria Fani, University of California, Berkeley. “The Emergence of a Religious Discourse in Sh‘ir-iMuqavimat-i Afghanistan: The Case of Khalilullah Khalili”4. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, New York University. “Committed Writing or Committed Reading:Revisiting the Hierarchy of the Senses to Read Persian Modernist Fiction”5. Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona. “Rebellion and Metaphorical Constructs: UnlikelyPortrayals in Contemporary Persian Poetry”24

LachineROUND TABLE: WOMEN’S WORLDS IN QAJAR IRAN [Hm8]CONVENOR: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard UniversityAzadeh Tajpour, Harvard UniversityMaryam Momeni, Harvard UniversityJasmin Khosravie, University of BonnDominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of OxfordAfsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard UniversityLasalleTHE SOVIET UNION AND IRAN, 1917-1991 [Hm9]CONVENOR: Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political ScienceCHAIR: Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, AmsterdamFundy1. Denis Volkov, University of Manchester. “‘Grooming’ Persians for Social Conversion: PersianStudies and Foreign Policy towards Persia in Early Soviet Russia”2. Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics and Political Science. “Flirting with Neutrality: TheFailed Bid for a Soviet-Iranian Non-aggression Treaty in 1959”3. Clement Therme, CADIS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). “Iran and theSoviet Union during the First Decade of the Islamic Revolution: Beyond Ideological Hostility?”4. Rowena Abdul Razak, University of Oxford. “‘But What Would They Think of Us?’ BritishPropaganda and the Manipulation of the Anglo-Soviet Occupation of Iran, 1941-1946”WONDERS OF THE WORD: DUALITY AND DICHOTOMY IN THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF EPIC STORYTELLING [Lc5]CONVENOR: Pasha M. Khan, McGill UniversityCHAIR/ DISCUSSANT: Zahra Faridany-Akhavan, Independent Scholar1. Nasrin Askari, University of British Columbia. “Ardashir’s Battle against the Giant Worm”2. Laurie Blanton Pierce, University of Chicago. “Of Monsters and Men: Humanity, Gender, and theDemonic in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh”3. Mariam Zia, University of Sussex. “The Adventures of Amir Hamza and the Question of ‘theUncanny’”4. Pasha M. Khan, McGill University. “Dastans and Disenchantment: The Storyteller Mir Baqir Ali ofDelhi and the Romance of Amir Hamzah”Longueuil25

ZOROASTRIANISM, PRE-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS, AND EARLY ISLAM: NEW PERSPECTIVES [Z4]CHAIR: Richard Foltz, Concordia University1. Pooriya Alimoradi, University of Toronto. “The Local Provenance of ‘Orthodox’ ZoroastrianDogma? Fars and Its Canonical Productions”2. Daniel Sheffield, Princeton University. “On the Sources of Azar Kayvan’s Mysticism”3. Spyridon Loumakis, Concordia University. “The Local River God Oxus-Wakhsh in Pre-IslamicBactria”4. Khadijeh Baseri, National Museum of Iran, Tehran. “Koranic Inscriptions on Arab SassanianCoins”Pointe-aux-TremblesURBAN MODERNISM AND GENTRIFYING POLITICS IN TEHRAN’S NEIGHBORHOODS [P5]CONVENOR: Azam Khatam, York University, TorontoDISCUSSANT: Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University1. Azam Khatam, York University, Toronto. “Beyond Navab Highway: Urban Modernism and theCreation of ‘Non-neighborhoods’ in Tehran”2. Mina Saidi, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV). “HowGrand Bazaar Resists Gentrification”3. Sepideh Parsapajouh, Independent Scholar. “Creation of Social Order: An Example of an IranianSelf-built Neighborhood”4. Sarah Karimi, RShP Institute for Urban Research, Tehran. “The Story of the Construction of theNew Mosque in the Palestine Neighborhood”Jacques CartierIslamic Ghazni: Epigraphic Memory and Material Culture [Ac1]CONVENOR: Viola Allegranzi, Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3DISCUSSANT: Lisa Golombek, Royal Ontario Museum1. Viola Allegranzi, Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 and Università degli Studi di Napoli“L'Orientale.” “Persian Inscriptions from Ghazni: The Links with the Poetic Tradition”2. Martina Massullo, Aix-Marseille Université. “Shapes and Voices of Marble: FuneraryMonuments from Ghazni (16th – 18th c.)”3. Valentina Laviola, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. “Islamic Metalwork from Ghazni: the RawzaMuseum Collection”4. Agnese Fusaro, Sapienza University of Rome. “Re-discovering Ghazni: New Data on the PotteryCorpus from Islamic Ghazni”2:00 pm—3:30 pm26

St Pierre6. RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY, DOCTRINE AND MINORITIES IN PERSIANATE SHI’ISM [R6c]CONVENOR: Alessandro Cancian, Institute of Ismaili Studies, LondonDISCUSSANT: Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London1. Mushegh Asatryan, Independent Scholar. “Religious Authority and Divine Delegation among theGhulat and the Nusayris”2. Miklós Sárközy, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. The Kitāb-i Naqz and Twelwer Shi’i PoliticalIdeology in 12 th -century Northern Iran”3. Alessandro Cancian, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. “The Sufi Master as the True Marjaʿ?Authority, Legitimacy and Mysticism in Contemporary Iran”4. Naofumi Abe, University of Tokyo. “The Survival of Sheykh Safi's Shrine after the Collapse of theSafavid Dynasty”VerdunBACK TO THE LITERARY FUTURE? REAPPRAISALS OF THE BAZGASHT-I ADABI IN 18 TH AND 19 TH -CENTURY IRAN,AFGHANISTAN, AND INDIA [Lm1]CONVENOR: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of OxfordDISCUSSANT: Franklin D. Lewis, University of Chicago1. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford. "Gender and the Nation in the Limits of theBazgasht-i adabi: Two Women Poets and their Practice of Literary Return in 18 th and 19 th -centuryIran and Afghanistan”2. Kevin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley. “Rivalry and Debate on the Margins ofBazgasht in 19 th -century India”3. Stefano Pellò, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. “Away from Where? Cosmopolitanism,Localization, and the ‘Purity’ of Persian in and beyond 18 th -century South Asia”LachineDIVAS AND DANCING BOYS, RESPECTABLE MEN AND DISREPUTABLE WOMEN (1): GENDER AT THE MARGINS OF IRANIANLIFE [G1]CONVENOR: Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of TorontoDISCUSSANT: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University1. GJ Breyley, Monash University, Melbourne. “Metal-music Fandom and Gender Relations inContemporary Iran”2. Jairan Gahan, University of Toronto. “The Islamic Revolution Inside-out: Prostitution inContemporary Iran”3. Behzad Sarmadi, University of Toronto. “From Boys to Men: The Ethics of Masculinity amongWorking-class Iranians in Dubai”4. Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of Toronto. “Of Singing and ‘Suffocation’: Performances of Powerand Powerlessness among Female Vocalists in Exile”27

LasalleROUND TABLE: DISCUSSING HOSSEIN BASHIRIYEH’S WORK [P6]CONVENOR: Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse UniversityFundyMehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse UniversityAli Mirsepassi, New York UniversityAlireza Namvar-Haghighi, University of Toronto MississaugaHosein Ghazian, Independent ScholarFarideh Farhi, University of Hawai’i at ManoaNAZM O NASR O TARH: REFLECTIONS ON PERSIAN LITERATURE, LITHOGRAPH PUBLISHING, AND GARDEN DESIGN (INPERSIAN) [Lm6]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona1. Soroosh Mozaffar Moghaddam, Mashhad University. “The Eternity of Time as Evinced in theIncorporated Narratives of Iranian Origin in The Arabian Nights”2. Javad Faal Alavi, Independent Scholar. “The Transition from Traditional Hikayats to NovelLiterary Forms in the Prose Narratives from the Period of the Constitutional Revolution”3. Leila Ghaleh taki, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. “A Comparative Study of BoundlessSpace and Its Relationship to Boundless Time in the Works of Paul Éluard and Iranian GnosticPoets”4. Orkideh Torabi, Azad University, Tehran. “Lithography during the Qajar Era: A Case Study of Oneof the Most Prominent Works of Ali-quli Khui”5. Fariba Kermani, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Tehran. “Safavid Garden DesignReconsidered: Bayramabad and the Topography of Kerman”LongueuilPAHLAVI NARRATIVES AND THEIR PERMUTATIONS [Z3]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Zohre Zarshenas, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran1. Mohsen Zakeri, University of Göttingen. “Ayin-namak Revisited”2. Enrico G. Raffaelli, University of Toronto. “Pahlavi Wisdom Literature and the Tradition of theHemerologies in Pre-Islamic Iran”3. Azadeh Ehsani-Chombeli, Concordia University. “Onkelos, Son of Kolonikos, and the ParallelIranian Character: Narratives from the Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 56b-57a) and the Arda-Virafnaamak”4. Manya Saadi Nejad, Concordia University. “Sudabeh and Rudabeh: Opposing Aspects of FemalePower”Pointe-aux-Trembles28

SHAPING MODERN IRAN: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TRENDS [CS2]1. Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Columbia University. “From Tobacco Revolt to Youth Rebellion: ASocial History of Smoking in Iran”2. Negin Nabavi, Montclair State University. “Reading Rooms, Books, and Print-media in Early 20 th -century Iran”3. Nikolay Kozhanov, St. Petersburg State University. “History of Iran in the Late 19 th and 20 thCentury and Its Reflection in Iranian Postage Stamps”4. Houshyar Ansarifar, Independent Scholar. “M. A. Foruqi and the Founding of Modern Persian”Jacques CartierQAJAR BORDERLANDS: LOCATING THE GLOBAL WITHIN THE LOCAL IN THE GREAT GAME [Hm5]CONVENOR: James M. Gustafson, Indiana State University1. H. Lyman Stebbins, La Salle University. “Learning the Great Game: Knowledge, Empire, and theQajar Borderlands”2. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania. “The ‘Daughters of Quchan’ Reconsidered:Iran's Frontier Experiences in Central Asia”3. James M. Gustafson, Indiana State University. “The Qajar Great Game and the Henna ofNarmashir”4. Ranin Kazemi, Kansas State University. “Towards a Bottom-up History of 19 th -century Herat”4:00 pm—5:30 pmSt PierreMESSIANISM IN IRANIAN ISLAM: FROM CONCEPTIONS TO RE-CONCEPTIONS [R4m]CONVENOR: Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)CHAIR: Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston UniversityDISCUSSANT: Todd Lawson, University of Toronto1. Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton University (The State University of New York). “After a Breakin the Sequence: Moses and the Messiah in Early and Modern Shi`i Literature”2. Issam Eido, University of Chicago. “The Shi‘i Mahdi and the Sunni Mahdi: Towards a ComparativeStudy”3. Zackery Heern, Murray State University. “The Baha’i Faith and Islamic Messianism in Iran”4. Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky University. “Islamic Ecumenism in Mid 20 th -century Iran: AReaction to a Messianic Movement?”Verdun29

REFASHIONING PERSIANATE HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PERIODS [Hc5]CONVENOR: Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of LondonDISCUSSANT: John E. Woods, University of Chicago1. Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of London. “The Intellectual Self between theMamluks and the Timurids: Ibn al-Jazari and His Autobiographical Writings”2. Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford. “Spiritual Authority, Political Hierarchy, and Parallel Pasts inRashid al-Din’s Historiography”3. Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University. “History in the Making: Zayn Khwafi’s Tabaqat-i Baburi”4. Devin DeWeese, Indiana University. “The Works of Badr al-Din Kashmiri: HistoricizingHagiography in the 16 th Century”LachineDIVAS AND DANCING BOYS, RESPECTABLE MEN AND DISREPUTABLE WOMEN (2): GENDER AT CENTER STAGE IN IRANAND IN INDIA [G2]CONVENOR: Farzaneh Hemmasi, University of TorontoDISCUSSANT: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard UniversityLasalle1. Houman Sarshar, Center of Iranian Jewish Oral History. “Zanpush: The Boy Dancers of Iran”2. Marjan (SZ) Moosavi, University of Toronto. “The Quest for Female Corporeal Agency on IranianStage”3. Rashna Nicholson, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. “From Reform to Profit, Profligacy,Prostitution and Paranoia: The Rise and Fall of the Irani Natak”BAZM-E BOKHARA: A SPECIAL SESSION WITH ALI DEHBASHI, CHIEF EDITOR OF THE BUKHARA MAGAZINE (IN PERSIAN)[C3]FundyARTISTIC BOUNDARY-CROSSINGS [Ac5]CHAIR: Ruba Kana’an, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto1. Sahar Hosseini, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “Dwelling in Herat: Negotiating Safavid-Qizilbash Identity in the Timurid Dar-al-Saltaneh”2. Raya Shani, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “The Commercial Turkman Style: Its Origins,Places of Production, and Distribution”3. Valerie Behiery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. “‘Persian Art’ and the Making of the MontrealMuseum of Fine Arts’ Collection of Islamic Art”Longueuil30

MODERN USES OF THE PRE-ISLAMIC IRANIAN HERITAGE [Z2]CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jamsheed Choksy, Indiana University Bloomington1. Mehmet Alici, Istanbul University. “Iranians Celebrate Nowruz in Istanbul in the Late OttomanEmpire: The Case of ‘Kounchkavey Dar Zarthost’”2. Richard Foltz, Concordia University. “Zoroastrian Symbolism and Tajik Nation-building”3. Ali Mozaffari, Curtin University, Perth. “The Heritage ‘NGO’: A Case Study on the Role of GrassrootsHeritage Societies in Iran and Their Perception of Cultural Heritage”4. Nazila Khalkhali, University of Ottawa. “Achaemenid Inscriptions in Modern Iran”Pointe-aux-TremblesIranian Networking in Transition [P13]CONVENOR: Tomoko Yamagishi, Meiji UniversityCHAIR: Arezoo Fakhrejahani, Meiji University1. Sachiko Hosoya, Toho University. “The Roles of NGOs for Creating a Network among DisabledPeople in Iran”2. Gi Yeon Koo, Seoul National University. “Love: The Prohibited but Thrilling Emotion among theIranian Youth”3. Yuko Suzuki, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (Mondes Iranien etIndien). “Tribal Women’s New Relationship with the Cellphone: Social Changes in Kohgiluye vaBoirahmad Province”4. Pirayeh Parvaresh, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Institut de Santé etSociété. “The New Population- and Birth-control Policies in Iran, and Their Socio-demographicRepercussions”Jacques CartierEMPIRE AND SOCIETY UNDER THE QAJARS [Hm10]1. Fatemeh Masjedi, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. “Beyond Empire: Violence and Foreignersin Qajar Tabriz, 1905-1908”2. Serkan Kececi, London School of Economics and Political Science. “The Grand Strategy of theRussian Empire in the Caucasus against Its Southern Rivals (Ottoman Turkey and Qajar Persia)(1820-1833)”3. Akihiko Yamaguchi, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo. “The Evolution of the Centre-Periphery Relationships as Seen from Local Clerics’ Appointment Orders: A Case of the ArdalanProvince in the 18 th and 19 th Centuries”4. Farzin Vejdani, University of Arizona. “The Politics of Water in Late Qajar Iran”31