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Session 1 | Queens Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m.

PERSIANINSTRUCTIONChair:M. M. Khorrami, New York UniversityRamin Sarraf, National University, USAThe Online Persian Language Program: Challenges andSolutionsAzita Mokhtari, National University, USABeyond Borders: Developing Online Task-Based Teaching

Materials for Language Learners of PersianLudmila Yaneva, Soa University St. Kliment OhridskiBulgarian Textbooks for Teaching Persian Language: StudentssFirst Contact with the Iranian IdentityAnousha Sedighi, Portland State University|TeachingPersian to Persian Speakers

Session 2 | Queens Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m.

PERSIAN LECTURESERIES

Chair: Rudi Matthee, University of DelawareMostafa Azkia, Tehran UniversityThe Nature of Rural Development Programs in Iran Before and

After the Revolution

Session 3 | Hazelton | 9:00-10:30 a.m.

WORKSHOP: ENCOUNTERSBETWEENEARLYMODERN

SANSKRITANDPERSIANCULTURES:

ETHICALANDPOLITICALTEXTS

Chair: Manan Ahmed, University of Chicago

Pasha Mohamad Khan, Columbia UniversityAjay Rao, University of TorontoSunil Sharma, Boston UniversityDan Shefeld, Harvard UniversityAudrey Truschke, Columbia University

Session 4 | University East | 9:00-10:30 a.m.

TRACESOFMEMORY

Chair: Marta Simidchieva, University of TorontoSarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan UniversityRemembering the Muslim Conquest of Iran

Mehrdad Shabahang, Ecole Pratique Des Hautes

Etudes, SorbonneThe Comparison of Old Iranian Farrah and Shiite Nr-iWelayatBryan Averbuch, Harvard UniversityThe Newly-Discovered Judeo-Persian Letter: Date, Provenance,and Historical Context

Break | 10:30-11.00 a.m.

Session 5 | Queens Park South11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

PERSIANLINGUISTICS

Chair: Azita Taleghani, University of Toronto

Mehrdar Naghzguy Kohan, Bu-Ali Sina UniversitySociolinguistics Factors Conditioning the Plural in ContemporaryPersianYasaman Rafat, University of TorontoA Socio-phonetic Investigation of Rhotics in PersianFarzaneh Foroodi-Nejad, University of Alberta& Johanne Paradis, University of AlbertaTransfer between the two Languages in Early Bilinguals fromImmigrant Families

Session 6 | Queens Park North11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

PERSONALIDENTIYANDCULTURALSCHIZOPHRENIA

Chair: Touraj Atabaki, Leiden UniversityHouchang E. Chehabi, Boston UniversityThe Introduction of Family Names in IranSuzanne Levi-Sanchez, San Francisco Sate UniversityIranian Myth and the Social Construct of Narrative InuenceMansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan UniversitySecularization, State Religiosity, and Cultural Duality Findings

from Values Surveys

Session 7 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.


Park Hyatt LobbyWednesday, 30 July 20082:00-8:00 p.m.Thursday, 31 July 20088:00-9:00 a.m.

REGISTRATION

Bellair BoardroomWednesday, 8:00 p.m.,30 July 2008

ISIS BOARD MEETING

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PRACTICALARTSANDSCIENCES

Chair: Christopher Minkowski, Oxford UniversityRajeev Kinra, Northwestern UniversityKim Plofker, Brown UniversityEnrico Raffaelli, University of Toronto

Session 8 | University East | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

ARTSANDPATRONAGE

Chair: Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario MuseumDenise-Marie Teece, New York UniversityVessels of Verse: Persian Anthologies for Quyunlu PatronsRaya Shani, The Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Shii-oriented Su component in epigraphic Nishapur potteryof the early eleventh centuryMaryam Ekhtiar, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtIsmail Jalayer: Mystic Painter of the Naseri EraNigel Westbrook, University of Western AustraliaThe Architecture of the Site Museums in Persepolisand Pasargadae

Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Session 9 | Queens Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m.

HISTORICALANDCOMPARATIVELINGUISTICS

Chair: Mohammad Mehdi Vahedi, University of Tarbiyat

MudarrisZohre Zarshenas, Institute for Humanities and CulturalStudies, TehranFemales and Feminine Words in Some Manichean SogdianWritingsJudith A. Lerner, Independent Scholar, New YorkThe Persistence of Hellenism: The Sealings on the BactrianDocumentsMehrnaz Ahmadi Joobaneh, University of Western

OntarioGrammatical gender markers in Persian compared to English,German and ArabicSoha Safa, Paris III UniversityKW Words in Iranian Languages

Session 10 | Queens Park North | 2:00-3:30 p.m.

SAFAVIDANDMUGHALARTSANDPOLITICS

Chair: Maria Subtelny, University of TorontoAnn Lucas, University California, Los AngelesMusic Fit for a King: The Changing Role of Music from theTimurid Court to the Safavid CourtAbolghasem Dadvar, Al-Zahra University

Iranian Impacts on Mughal Culture During the 16th and 17thCenturiesMaryam Moazzen, University of TorontoThe Curriculum of Religious Higher Learning in Safavid IsfahanAbolala Soudavar, Independent ScholarFrom Rivalry to Fratricide: Shah Tahmasb and Sam Mirza

Session 11 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m.

WORKSHOP: ENCOUNTERSBETWEENEARLYMODERN


MYSTICALANDMETAPHYSICALTEXTS

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Chair: Supriya Gandhi, Harvard UniversityMuzaffar Alam, University of ChicagoShankar Nair, Harvard UniversityParimal Patil, Harvard University

Session 12 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m.

POSTREVOLUTIONARYCONSTELLATION

Chair: Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University

Kamran Safamanesh, The Urban Research Institute,TehranArchitectural Environment of the Post-Revolution TehranKambiz Behi, Harvard UniversityStructure and Process of Legal Change in Post-Revolutionary Iran:The Emergence of New Constitutionalism.Shahram Kholdi, University of ManchesterPolitical Memoirs and the Historiography of the 1979 RevolutionEdward Wastnidge, University of ManchesterA Dialogue Among Civilized Nations ? Irans Cultural ForeignPolicy During the Khatami Era

Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m.


THEORETICALLINGUISTICS

Chair: Mohammad Reza Bateni, University of TehranSaera Kwak, Tehran of University, Iran

Negation in PersianParviz Parsafar, Yuba CollegeSyntax, Morphology, and Semantics of IzafahMohammad Mehdi Vahedi, University of TarbiyatMudarris

A Survey of two types of Alternating Agentive Nominals (inPersian)Azita Taleghani, University of Toronto

Verbal Complex Predicates in Persian: Evidence from Future andProgressive Tense

Session 14 | Queens Park North4:30-6:00 p.m.

KERMAN: ANURBANPORTRAITINCOMMERCEAND

COMPETITION

Chair: Sussan Babaie, University of MichiganDiscussant: Renata Holod, University of PennsylvaniaLisa Golombek, Royal Ontario Museum, TorontoCeramics and Demographics: what pottery tells us about SafavidKermanNozhat Ahmadi, Alzahra University, Tehran

Considering the Waqf Documents of Ganj Ali KhanRudi Matthee, University of Delaware

Kerman in the later Safavid Period: Political and EconomicConditionsFariba Kermani, Iranian Cultural Heritage OrganizationLooking at the Complexes of the Kerman Bazaar after theSafavid period

James M. Gustafson, University of Washington

The Political Economy of the Kermani Governorship under Sultan

Abd al-Hamid Mirza Nasir al-Dawla (r. 1880-1892)

Session 15 | Hazelton | 4:30-6:00 p.m.

VISTASOFIRANIANOIKOUMENEINTHELATEANTIQUE

ANDMEDIEVALPERIOD

Sponsored by TheAssociation for the Study of PersianateSocieties

Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State UniversityDiscussant: Carlo G. Cereti, University of Rome La

SapienzaRichard Payne, Princeton UniversityIranian Adelsheilige: East Syrian Martyrology and Aristocratic

Memory in Late Antique IranParvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State UniversityParthian Dynastic Families and the Arab Conquest of IranDan D.Y. Shapira, Bar Ilan UniversityLate Sasanian and post-Sasanian Zoroastrian ApocalypseRika Gyselen, Centre National de la RechercheScientique, France

Arabo-Sasanian Copper: A Mirror on the Cultural, Religiousand Linguistic Osmosis in Umayyad Fars


IRANIANFEMINISM

Chair: Valentine M. Moghadam, Purdue UniversityMorteza Nouraei, University of IsfahanTheSocio-political Participation of Female in Iran during1960-70s: A Critical StudyCharles Kurzman, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill

A Feminist Generation in Iran?Golbarg Bashi, Columbia UniversityTowards Democratic Feminisms: Lessons for Iran

Session 17 | University West | 4:30-6:00 p.m.

WORKSHOP:The Century of Oil (1908-2008)Chair: Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University

Break | 6:00-6:30 p.m.

Session 18 | University | 6:30-7:30 p.m.

PLENARYLECTUREINPERSIAN

Chair: Hossein Samei, Emory UniversityMohammad Reza Bateni, University of Tehran

Assessing the State of Contemporary Persian

Break |7:30-8:00 p.m.

Session 19 | Queens Park Ballroom

8:00-10:00 p.m.O R

The Saidi-Sirjani Book AwardThe Latifeh Yarshater AwardThe Lois Roth Prize

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Sanskrit-Persian ranslation Project PashaMohamad Khan, Columbia UniversityGiving Flesh: A Storys Circulation Trough Sanskrit,Persian and Urdu exts.Shankar Ayillath Nair, Harvard UniversityPreliminary Remarks on the Muntakhab-i Jug Basisht: MirFindiriskis Commentary on the Laghu-Yoga-Vasistha

Session 23 | University East | 9:00-10:30 a.m.RETROSPECTIVESONUS-IRANIANRELATIONSChair: Uzi Rabi, el Aviv UniversityKamrouz Pirouz, Montclair State UniversityTe ruman-Churchill Proposal to Resolve the Iran-U.KOil Nationalization DisputeRamin Asgard, US Consulate General, Dubai

US-Iran Cultural Diplomacy: A Historical PerspectiveHosseinDerakhshan, University of LondonNew York imes versus Iran: News Narratives on Oiland Atom

Break | 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Session 24 | Queens Park South |11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.POLITICALPRISONERSOFIRAN: NARRATINGINSUBORDINATION, DESIRINGTRUTHChair:Shahrzad Mojab, University of orontoDiscussant: Payam Akhavan, McGill University

Shahla alebi, Arizona State UniversityA Story of an Archive: Love and Death in Prison LettersKaveh Shahrooz, New York-based AttorneyRemembering 1988: A Legal and Political Analysis of theDemand for AccountabilityShokoufeh Sakhi, York UniversityTe Arrival of a New Regime: orture and the Aesthetics ofResistanceSaeed Yousef, University of ChicagoPoetics of Horror: Iranian Poets and the 1988 MassExecutions

Session 20 | Queens Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m.SCRIPTINGWOMENChair: Rivanne Sandler, University of orontoLeila Pazargadi, University of California at Los AngelesTe Womb of the Universe: Figuring Woman as the Nationin Goli araghis Khanah dar AsimanSharareh Frouzesh Bennett, University of California,IrvineBetween Resistance and the Law: Parsipurs Women WithoutMen As A Meditation on the Ubiquity of InjusticePouneh Saeedi, University of orontoDemonization of the Muse: From Rudabeh to Zan-iLakkatahFereshteh Molavi, University of oronto

Literary Self-disclosure and the Female DiscloserSession 21 | Queens Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m.

AREWEALLDUPEDBYMORALITY?Chair: Victoria ahmasebi, University of orontoVictoria ahmasebi, University of orontoo Sex or de-Sex: Te Visual Representations of FemaleEthical Performativity in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary IranAlireza Haghighi, University of orontoHobbes and Machiavelli in Iranian Ethico-politicalDiscourseNazli Kamvari, University of orontoSex, Moral Panic, and the Anxieties Surrounding Mutah

Leila Dorostan, City University LondonTe Institution of emporary Marriage in Iran

Session 22 | Hazelton | 9:00-10:30 a.m.ENCOUNTERSBETWEENEARLYMODERNSANSKRIT

ANDPERSIANCULTURES: MUGHALANDPOST-MUGHALTRANSLATIONSChair: Ajay Rao, University of orontoDiscussant: Muzaffar Alam, University of ChicagoAudrey ruschke, Columbia UniversityTe Power of ranslation: Mughal Reflections on Akbars

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Session 25 | Queens Park North |11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.CONSTRUCTINGIRAN: CULTURALPRODUCTIONANDNATIONALIDENTITYChair: Janet Alexanian, University of California, IrvineIda Meftahi, University of orontoRaqs-i Milli: Choreographing National Identity in Pre-

revolutionary Iranian DanceJennifer Gay Breyley, Monash University, AustraliaFrom Qerti to Heyaati: Youth, Music and Belief in ehranElham Gheytanchi, Santa Monica CollegeCensored but Wired: Iranian related videos on Youtube andthe InternetJanet Alexanian, University of California, IrvinePerforming identity, constructing the nation: intellectuals inpost-revolutionary Iran

Session 26 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.THEEIGHTEENTHCENTURYFRACTURINGOFTHE

PERSIANATEWORLD

C: Sunil Sharma, Boston UniversityDiscussant: Paul E. Losensky, University of Indiana atBloomingtonMana Kia, Harvard UniversityAccounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Auto-biographical ravel Narratives of Muhammad Ali HazinLahiji and Abd al-Karim KashmiriRajeev Kinra, Northwestern UniversityTe Place of Place in Early Modern Indo-PersianComparative PhilologyMatthew Smith, Harvard UniversityA Debate on Authenticity: Literary Return and the IndianStyle

Sunil Sharma, Boston UniversityFrom Aisheh to Nur Jahan: Women Poets and the Shaping ofthe Classical Persian Literary Canon


LITERARYRUPTURESChair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, IrvineAli Mir-Ansari, Te Centre for the Great Encyclopedia ofIslam, ehranTe ransformation of Womens Portrait in Persian PlaysKoorosh Angali, University of exas at AustinSadeq Hedayat: Te Source of His ImageryWali Ahmadi, University of California, Berkeley

Rupture and rauma in Contemporary Literature ofAfghanistan: Te Limits of DissentKorosh Hadissi, University of orontoAhmad Shamlu as a Journal Editor

LUNCH | 12:30-2:00 P.M.

Session 28 | Queens Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m.TOPICSINTHEHISTORYOFSLAVERYINIRANChair:Pardis Minuchehr, University of PennsylvaniaTomas M. Ricks, Independent ScholarBounded by Slavery: Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian

OceanNahid Mozaffari, PEN/Independent ScholarCourtier Eunuchs: Te Case of Besharat KhanAnthony A. Lee, University of California, Los AngelesPresence and Erasure: Recovering a History of African Slavesin Iran: Te Case of Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum,Servants of Mirza Ali-Muhammad, the BabNegin Nabavi, Montclair State University

From Haji Firuz to the Black Harlequin: Slaves and BlackDomestic Servants in Iran

Session 29 | Queens Park North | 2:00-3:30 p.m.RE-TERRITORIALIZEDLIVESChair: Victoria ahmasebi, University of orontoMaryam Abolfazli, Independent ScholarA Doreh in Nashville: Acceptance and Rejection of FemaleEmpowerment in the Iranian DiasporaVahideddin Namazi, University of MontrealHistory of Professional Life of wo Iranian Immigrants inCanadaFoojan Zeine, Institute for Personal Growth

Immigration and Acculturation

Session 30 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m.ENCOUNTERSBETWEENEARLYMODERNSANSKRITAND

PERSIANCULTURES:PUBLICDISCUSSIONChair: Ajay Rao, University of orontoManan Ahmed, University of ChicagoMuzaffar Alam, University of ChicagoAhmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of MarylandChristopher Minkowski, Oxford UniversityRamin Jahanbegloo, University of oronto

Session 31 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m.CIRCULARORIENTALISMChair: Mansour Bonakdarian, University of orontoJennifer L. Jenkins, University of orontoExcavating Zarathustra: Ernst Herzfeld in IranIsabelle Gadoin, Universit Paris IIITe Role of English Artists in the (Re)discovery of Persian Artin 19thCentury Britain (1850-1900)Laetitia Bif, University of LondonNew Orientalist Narratives from the Natives: Reading MoreTan Chahdorrt Djavann in Paris

Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m.


BREAKINGTHEMOLD: YOUNGIRANIANGIRLSINTRANSITIONChair: Homa Hoodfar, Concordia UniversityMahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Meydaan ZananLife after Prison: Young Iranian Women Re-adjusting toSocietyMehri Honarbin-Holliday, Canterbury Christ ChurchUniversityNarratives of Autonomy and Resistance: Young Iranian

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Womens Struggles to Become VisibleNadia Aghtaie, University of BristolDomestic Violence: Clash between Policy and Religion inrelation to Womens Rights in Iran


P A S C IChair: Kamran alattof, University of Arizona

Discussant: Houchang Chehabi, Boston UniversityKamran alattof, University of ArizonaPersian Dance in Pre-Revolutionary Movies: Seduction, Sin,and SalvationJane Lewisohn, University of LondonTe Golha Radio Programs (1954-76) and their Impact onPersian Culture and SocietyNahid Siamdoust, University of OxfordOut of une: Islam as a Contested Idiom in Iranian Rapand Pop MusicGloria Shahzadeh, Independent Scholar and ArtistCultivating Emotional Bankruptcy: Popular Arts in Pre-revolutionary Iranian Society

Session 34 | Hazelton | 4:30-6:00 p.m.ZOROASTRIANISMANDTEXTUALTRANSMISSIONSChair: Richard Foltz, Concordia UniversityMartin Schwartz, University of CaliforniaTe eleological Composition of the Gathas: PouruchistasWedding (Yasna 53)Jean Kellens, College de France, ParisNew Perspectives on the History of the Avestan extCarlo G. Cereti, University of Rome La SapienzaNotes on the ranscription of Avestan forms in Pahlavi


CINEMATICMODERNITYAND MUSICALNATIONALISMChair: Nima Naghibi, Ryerson UniversityM.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of exas at AustinFilm Adaptations and Narrative Change in Persian FictionKhatereh Sheibani, University of AlbertaTe Reel History of Modernity in Bayzais AestheticsSiavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of LondonTe Story of a Song: Te role of Ey Iran in ContemporaryIranian Nationalist DiscourseNegin Djavaherian, McGill UniversityA Classical Persian Mystical Poem and Teatrical/Architectural Discourse: Te Conference of the Birds andPeter Brooks Teatre

Break | 6:00-6:10 p.m.

Session 36 | Queens Park Ballroom | 6:10-7:10 p.m .PLENARYLECTUREChair: Ali Banuazizi, Boston CollegeA E, Former President, Atomic EnergyOrganization of Iran (AEOI)I Q N EDiscussant: Gholamreza Afkhami, Foundation for IranianStudies

Break | 7:10-7:30 p.m.

Session 37 | Queens Park Ballroom | 7:30-9:00 p.m.S P THEGLASSHOUSE

Session 38 | Queens Park Ballroom | 9:00-10:00 p.m. W: M THEGLASSHOUSEChair: Marjaneh Halati, Omid-e-Mehr FoundationMahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, Meydaan ZananFarnaz Aliakbar-Gordan, Omid-e-Mehr FoundationMelissa Hibbard, Fictionville StudiosLadan Zahra Kani, Omid-e-Mehr FoundationHamid Rahmanian, Fictionville Studios

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Session 39 | Queens Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m.PARADISEANDITSDISCONTENTS: ESCHATOLOGICAL

THOUGHTINISMAILI, HEKMATI, SHAYKHI,BABIANDBAHAITHOUGHTChair: odd Lawson, University of orontoElizabeth Alexandrin, University of ManitobaSpiritualBirth and Resurrection in the Majlis al-MuayyadiyyahJalalBadakhchani, the Institute of Ismaili Studies, LondonNotions of Paradise in the Ismaili works of Nasir al-Dinusi.Jamel Velji, University of California, Santa BarbaraParadise Postponed: Apocalyptic Containment and theNizari qiyamat

Session 40 | Queens Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m.

READINGPERSIANMYSTICALTEXTSChair: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, University of exas atAustinMahdi ourage, Colgate UniversityTe Gender of Creativity in the Androcentric Context ofRumis MathnawiSafoura Nourbakhsh, University of MarylandIrigarays Sexual Difference and Sufi NarrativesEliza asbihi, Concordia UniversityReading Sabzawaris Commentary on Rumis Mathnawi: APhilosophical ApproachUmberto Cicchetti, Concordia University

Dreams and Visions in the MathnaviSession 41 | Hazelton | 9:00-10:30 a.m.ZOROASTRIANCONFIGURATIONSChair: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State UniversityBahman Moradian, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,ParisTe Place of Water in the Avestan ext of Yasna and ItsCeremonyRichard Foltz, Concordia UniversityZoroastrianism: Te Worlds Original EnvironmentalistReligion?

Enrico G. Raffaelli, University oforonto

TeYashts and the Days of theZoroastrian MonthParvonakhon Jamshedov, ajik-RussianSlavonic UniversityTe Sayod Calendar of Badakhshan

Session 42 | University East | 9:00-10:30 p.m.SOCIALPOLICIESINCONTEMPORARYIRANChair: Amir Hassanpour, University of orontoJanne Bjerre Christensen, Roskilde UniversityChanging Drug Policies in eheran: Institutionalizing aNew Social OrderAzim Fazlipour, Nanterre University-ParisIran Narcotics Control StrategyIsabel Heck, Universit de MontralPoor? How women talk about poverty in low-incomeneighborhoods in urban IranRoksana Bahramitash, Universit de MontralFemale-Headed Households and Micro Credit in Iran

Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m.

Session 43 | Queens Park South11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

INBETWEENLIVESANDINSTITUTIONSChair: odd Lawson, University of orontoNobuaki Kondo, okyo University of Foreign StudiesShii Ulama and Ijaza During the Nineteenth Centuryomoko Morikawa, Hokkaido UniversityPilgrims and Customs at the Iran-Iraq Border in the LatterHalf of the 19thCenturyJoanna de Groot, University of YorkMaking, Unmaking and Remaking of an Iranian Heroine:Te Appropriation of Qurrat al-AynBernard Hourcade, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique (CNRS)Geography and Politics: New trends on Ethnicity,

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Nationalism and Globalization in Iran


GENDERRELATIONS, SEXUALITYANDLOVEINIRANIANCINEMAChair: Frank Lewis, University of ChicagoPedram Partovi, University of Chicago

Constituting Love in the Iranian commercial cinemaChristopher Gow, Independent ScholarMasculinities of the New Iranian CinemaSaeed Zeydabai-Nejad, University of LondonTe place of Women Filmmakers in Iranian CinemaNoor Al-Qasimi, New York UniversityShe Is What She Wears: Costume Superfluity, Femininity andthe Articulation of Gender

Session 45 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.ZORASTRIANISMANDCULTURALDIALOGISMChair: Zohre Zarshenas, Institute for Humanities andCultural Studies, ehran

Asya Asbaghi, University of PotsdamTe influence of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism onclassical Iranian literatureGhazzal Dabiri, California State University, FullertonTe Iranian Epic Heroes from the Avesta to the Mantiq al-ayrMaria E. Subtelny, University of orontoZoroastrian Elements in the Islamic Ascension NarrativeDan Sheffield, Harvard UniversityBetween Den and Dharma: Indian Zoroastrian exts fromthe Medieval and Early


PUBLICOPINIONANDYOUTHCOUNTER-CULTUREChair: Sima Shakhsari, Stanford UniversityPegah Zohouri Haghian, Universit Ca Foscari, VeniceKhatamis Administration and the Iranian Public Opinion:Beyond a Civil Societys DiscourseHadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign& Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Virginia echVoting for Populism: An Analysis of Irans 2005 PresidentialElectionAliakbar Jafari, University of WolverhamptonCultural Globalisation, Reflexivity, and the Project of Self :the Case of Iranian Youth Culture

Session 47 | University West | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.PERSIANLECTURESERIESChair: Homa Katouzian, University of OxfordPari Barkeshli, Conservatoire National de Musique,FranceOral Art and the Musical Note

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CULTURALINDUSTRIESChair: Richard Foltz, Concordia UniversityIvn Sznt, Etvs Lornd University of Sciences(ELE)Te Smell of Iran: Collecting Persian Art in HungaryAyeh Naraghi, Ecole des Hautes Etude en SciencesSocialesTe Development of Cultural Industries in the Field ofIranian Contemporary ArtManya Saadi-Nejad, Concordia UniversityCulture, Myth, and Artistic Production in ContemporaryIran


DIRECTIONSINFOLKNARRATIVERESEARCHOFGREATERPERSIAChairs: Margaret Mills, Ohio State UniversityUlrich Marzolph, Enzyklopaedie des MaerchensNegotiating Folklore in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Erika Friedl, Western Michigan UniversityFolktales in Analysis: Ethnophilosophy in Boir Ahmad,Southwest IranAfsaneEftekharzade, Independent ScholarCollecting Folktales in BaluchestanMargaret Mills, Ohio State UniversityFrom the Gold-Monkey to Hatam at-ayy: ypes, Frames,Temes and Performer Identity in wo Performances of anInternational ale

Session 50 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m.PERSIANLECTURESERIESChair: Ahmad Ashraf, Columbia University

Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani-Parizi, University of ehranEarly Iranian Encounters with Canada

Session 51 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m.DIASPORICSELF-REFASHIONINGChair: Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm UniversityMahdi Bermy, Centre of Strategic and DiplomaticStudies (CEDS, France)Iranian Diaspora: A Force For Democracy?Farzaneh Foroodi-Nejad & Johanne Paradis, University ofAlbertaransfer between the two Languages in Early Bilinguals fromImmigrant Families

Raha Bahreini, University of orontoFrom Perversion to Pathology: Discourses and Practices ofGender Policing in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Session 52 | University West | 2:00-3:30 p.m.Exilic MemoryChair: Shahrzad Mojab, University of orontoFarideh Dayanim Goldin, Old Dominion UniversityIranian Jewish Women Writers: Voices from Exile

Nima Naghibi, Ryerson Universityruth elling and rauma in Nemats Prisoner of ehranand Entekhabi-Fards Camelia: Save Yourself by elling theruthMarta Simidchieva, University of orontoMarjane Satrapis Persepolis: Sketching Iran for the Rest ofUsManijeh Mannani, Athabasca University

Reading Beyond Jasmine and Stars: Reading more thanLolita in ehran

Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Session 53 | Queens Park Ballroom | 4:30-5:30 p.m.PLENARYSESSION: THESHAHNAMAHMILLENNIUMChair: Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopaedia IranicaCharles Melville, University of CambridgeFirdawsis Shahnamah and its ReceptionDiscussant: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University ofMaryland

Break | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Session 54 | Roy Tomson Hall | 7:30-7:50 p.m.ISIS L A AEhsan Yarshater, Encyclopaedia IranicaMohammad Reza Shafii-Kadkani, University of ehranO A L AAli Banuazizi, Boston College

Session 55 | Roy Tomson Hall | 8:00 p.m.

THESHAHNAMAHMILLENNIUMCONCERToronto Symphony OrchestraBehzad Ranjbaran, ComposerJoAnn Falletta, Conductor

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Sunday, August 3

Session 56 | Queens Park South | 9:00-10:30 a.m.THEENCOUNTERWITHGODINMODERNPERSIANLITERATUREChair: Ali Ferdowsi, Notre Dame de Namur UniversityDiscussant: M. R. Ghanoonparvar, University of exas atAustinHoura Yavari, Columbia University

God and Modern SufisMehdi Khorrami, New York UniversityTe Literary Confrontation of God and Satan in the Post-Revolutionary Persian FictionAli Ferdowsi, Notre Dame de Namur UniversityChubak, the Writer and His God: From Ideological Ridiculeto Ontological EncounterFarshid Delshad, University of Berne, SwitzerlandCase of Religiosity Among the Persian Religious Minorities inPost-Revolutionary Iran

Session 57 | Queens Park North | 9:00-10:30 a.m.VIOLENCE, DIVERSITY, ANDPOLITICALMODERNITY

Chair: David Menashri, Center for Iranian Studies,el AvivDaniel sadik, Hebrew UniversityOn the Eve of the Constitutional Revolution: Te Jews ofIran in Te Muzaffari Era, 1896-1906Mehrdad Amanat, Independent ScholarViolence and Modernity A Reexamination of ForcedConversion of Mashhad JewsMina Yazdani, University of orontoReconstructing the Imbrie (Saqakhanah) Affair, July 1924Hossein Mesbahian, ehran UniversityModernity and its Other: Te Logic of Inclusive Exclusion

Session 58 | Hazelton | 09:00-10:30 a.m.LOVEANDDESIREINPREMODERNPERSIANPOETRYChair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, IrvineFranklin Lewis, University of ChicagoSexual Occidentation: the Politics of Boy-love and Christian-love in AttarDominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchestero Be Feared and Adored: urks in the Kulliyat of Ubayd-iZakaniAlyssa Gabbay, University of ChicagoDeconstructing Hierarchies: Te Male/Female Dynamic in

Amr Khusraws Story of Bahram Gur and the Slave GirlPaul Losensky, University of Indiana at BloomingtonA Kiss in the Mirror of Beauty: A Study of Saebs opicalAnthology Merat al-Jamal

Session 59 | University East | 9:00-10:30 a.m.LINGUISTICPECULIARITIESChair: Carlo G. Cereti, University of Rome La Sapienza

Matthias Andreas Fritz, Free University of BerlinTe Status of Iranian within Armenian from a LexicologicalPoint of ViewKazuo Morimoto, University of okyoAn Arabic Vocabulary from Late Saljuq Khurasan: A Studyof Ibn Funduqs Azhr al-Riy al-MaraEkatreina Fein, University of St.PetersburgGenre of ravelogue in Persian Prose of the 1 stpart of theXIX century and its linguistic peculiarities

Break | 10:30-11:00 a.m.

Session 60 | Queens Park South11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.INTELLECTUALTRENDSINTWENTIETH-CENTURYIRANIChair: Farzin Vahdat, Vassar CollegeMarek Smurzynski, Jagiellonian University Krakow,PolandTe Philosopher Without Te Book, Ahmad Fardid, 1910-94Evaleila Pesaran, University of CambridgeFrom Al-e Ahmad to Ahmadinejad: racing Discourses ofAnti-Westernization in Iran 77Philip Grant, University of California, IrvineTe Synthetic Intellectual in Contemporary Iran


SCIENCEANDKNOWLEDGEChair: Enrico Raffaelli, University of orontoofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, RiversideHistory of Science and echnology in PersiaMahdi Farhani Monfared, Al-Zahra University (ehran)Te Decline of Mathematical Sciences after the Death ofUluq Beg, 853/1449Ali Nayeri, University of California, Santa BarbaraScience and Science-seeking in Iran: Te Sociocultural Effects

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Session 62 | Hazelton | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

PERSIANLITERATUREChair: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University ofManchesterJocelyn Sharlet, University of California, DavisObservation as an Approach to Desire, Subjectivity, andObjectification in Nasibs by Farrukhi, Unsuri, andManuchehriJanis Esots, University of LatviaSome Connotations of the erms Rind and Qalandar in thePoetry of HafizShokoufeh aghi, Uppsala UniversityTe Meaning of Baxt in Shahnameh and Wis o Ramin: AComparative Analysis of Gender DifferencesEva L. Witte, University of ehranPersian Haiku Writing: A Preliminary Exposition

Session 63 | University East | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.ALLTHENEWSTHATSFITTOPRINT?Chair: Fariba Amini, Independent JournalistErfan Sabeti, Lancaster UniversityBlog Wars in the Global Age: Te Case of Persian Bahai andanti-Bahai WeblogsShirin Sadeghi, University of LondonIranian Internet Use: Participatory Values and theirDemocratic OffspringOmid Habibinia, University of BernPersian Satellite V, New challenge for IRI

Session 64 | University West | 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.PERSIANLECTURESERIESChair: Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani-Parizi, University ofehranShamsoddin Najmi, University of KermanShahnamah-khani in the Safavid Era

Lunch | 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Session 65 | Queens Park South | 2:00-3:30 p.m.INTELLECTUALTRENDSINTWENTIETH-CENTURYIRANIIChair: Mansour Bonakdarian, University of orontoRamin Jahanbegloo, University of orontoFurughi and Dialogical ModernizationAfshin Matin-asgari, California State University, LosAngelesTe Corbin Circle and the Making of Irans Shii ModernityFarzin Vahdat, Vassar College

Nasr and the Critique of ModernitySession 66 | Queens Park North | 2:30-3:30 p.m.

WITHEREXILE, ENTERDIASPORA? TRANSNATIONALFEMINISTAPPROACHESTOTHECULTURALPOLITICSOFTHEIRANIANDIASPORAChair: Minoo Moallem, University of California,BerkeleyDiscussant: Roksana Bahramitash, Universit de MontralNiki Akhavan, Catholic UniversityMenacing Portent for the Future: Te Iranian Diaspora and

the Rise of Exclusionary Nationalisms onlineHossein Khosrowjah, University of RochesterCarried by the Wind: Exilic Autobiographies and IranianDiasporaSima Shakhsari, Stanford UniversityChic of Queer, Lure of Diaspora: Te Iranian QueerDiaspora and the Politics of Representationargol Mesbah, New College, San Francisco

House and Home: Psychogeography, Property, and theIranian Diaspora

Session 67 | Hazelton | 2:00-3:30 p.m.DIASPORICIRANChair: Parvonakhon Jamshedov, ajik-Russian SlavonicUniversityGulnara Mendikulova, Institute of Oriental Studies,Ministry of Education and Science-KazakhstanTe Kazakhs: as Diaspora in Iran and Repatriates inKazakhstanAshraf Zahedi, University of California, BerkeleyFilipino Brides in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Crossing

Religious, Cultural, Racial, and National Boundaries

Session 68 | University East | 2:00-3:30 p.m.WOMENSEDUCATIONANDEMPLOYMENTChair: Marym Moazzen, University of orontoMahshid Abdollahi, University of IsfahanTe Educational System and Female Social Participation inIsfahan, 1925-1950Mina Mahdavinia, Ontario Institutefor Studies in Education,In Search of Excellence: Te Meaning of DevelopingProgressive Education for Iranian GirlsMaryam Rezaee, University of YorkIsmaili Women and their Participation in ertiary

Education in IranShiva Sadeghi, University of orontoTe Making of a Nation: Curriculum and CitizenshipEducation in Iran

Session 69 | University West | 2:00-3:30 p.m.WORKSHOPONTRANSLATIONChair: Rivanne Sandler, University of orontoMohammad Reza Bateni, University of ehranCollocations and Idioms and Teir ranslatability

Break | 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Session 70 | Queens Park Ballroom | 4:30-6:00 p.m.

PERFORMINGARTSChair: Mohamad avakoli-arghiMorshed Valiolah orabi, NaqqalBehzad Ranjbaran, ComposerFarzaneh Kaboli, DancerPari Barkeshli, Musician

Session 71 | Queens Park Ballroom | 7:00-8:00 p.m.CLOSINGSESSION(icketed Event)Morshed Valiollah orabiShahnamahkhani & Pardahkhani

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