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Invited Speakers

  • Abbasgholizadeh, Mahboubeh
    Editor-in-chief of Farzaneh
    Life after prison: Young Iranian women re-adjusting to society
  • Abdollahi, Mahshid
    Al-Mahdi University
    The Educational System and Female Social Participation in Isfahan, 1925-1950
  • Abolfazli, Maryam
    Independent Scholar
    A doreh in Nashville: Acceptance and Rejection of female empowerment in the Iranian Diaspora
  • Afary, Janet
    Purdue University
    Addressing the History of Women and Slavery in Iran.
  • Aghtaie, Nadia
    University of Bristol
    Domestic Violence: Clash between Policy and Religion in relation to Women's Rights in Iran
  • Ahmadi, Nozhat
    Alzahra University
    Considering the Waqf Documents of Ganj Ali Khan
  • Ahmadi Joobaneh, Mehrnaz
    University of Western Ontario, Ca
    Grammatical gender markers in Persian compared to English, German and Arabic
  • Ahmadi, Wali
    Rupture and Trauma in Contemporary Literature of Afghanistan: The Limits of Dissent
  • Ahouie, Mahdi
    University of Geneva
    The Uneasy Last Decade of the Shah’s Relationship with Israel: Reading through Alam’s Memories
  • Akbari, Hassan
    Artistic Styles of Jiroft Collections
  • Akbarzadeh, Daryoush
    National Museum of Iran
    China and Cinistan
  • Akhavan, Niki
    University of California at Santa Cruz
    Menacing Portent for the Future": The Iranian Diaspora and the Rise of Exclusionary Nationalisms Online
  • Alexandrin, Elizabeth
    University of Manitoba
    Spiritual Birth and Resurrection in the Majalis al-Mu’ayyadiyyah
  • Alexanian, Janet
    University of California, Irvine
    Performing identity, constructing the nation: intellectuals in post-revolutionary Iran
  • Alvandi, Roham
    St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
    Collusion over the Persian Gulf: the secret Anglo-Iranian negotiations on the Bahrain question, 1968-1970
  • Al-Qasimi, Noor
    New York University
    She Is What She Wears: Costume Superfluity, Femininity and the Articulation of Gender”
  • Amanat, Mehrdad
    Idependent Scholar
    Violence and Modernity A Reevaluation of Forced Conversion of Mashhad Jews,
  • Amlashi, Poormohamadi 
    The Trade Policy of Safavid Era
  • Angali, Koorosh
    University of Texas at Austin
    Sadeq Hedayat: The Source of His Imagery
  • Asbaghi, Asya
    University of Potsdam
    The influence of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism on classical Iranian literature
  • Atabaki, Touraj
    Leiden University, International Institute of Social History
    The Century of Oil (1908-2008) The Making of Working Class in the Iranian Oil Industry
  • Asgard, Ramin
    US Consulate General, Dubai
    US-Iran Cultural Diplomacy: A Historical Perspective
  • Axworthy, Michael
    Lecturer, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
    The Obscure Birth of Nader Shah
  • Badakhchani, Jalal
    Notions of Paradise’ in the Ismaili works of Nasir al-Din Tusi.
  • Badihian, Mahnaz
    New College, San Francisco
    Religio-Sexual Dichotomy: The Erotic Literature Of Diaspora Iranian Women
  • Bahramitash, Roksana 
    Université de Montréal
  • Banijamali, Ahmad
    Azad University-Karaj
    Azad University, Socialization, and Ethnicities Problem
  • Barzegar, Gholamreza
    Cultural Heritage Organization
    Dubai Collection of Sassanid Coins
  • Baradaran, Monireh
    York University
    Revealing Truth and its Transformation into Consciousness
  • Bateni, Mohammad Reza
    University of Tehran
    Collocations and Idioms and Their Translatability
  • Behi, Kambiz
    Harvard University
    Structure and Process of Legal Change in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Emergence of New Constitutionalism.
  • Bermy, Mehdi
    Centre of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies (CEDS, France)
    Iranian Diaspora: A Force For Democracy?
  • Bif, Laetitia
    University of London
    The representation of France and the French in contemporary Iranian writers’ imagery
  • Borjian, Habib
    Independent Scholar
    The Position of Gorgani among Iranian languages
  • Bostanabad, Hosein Sheikh
    Göttingen University
    Sociolinguistics Factors Conditioning Plural in New Persian
  • Breyley Gay, Jennifer  
    Monash University, Australia
    From Qerti to Heya’ati: Youth, Music and Belief in Tehran
  • Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz
    University of Manchester
    To be feared and adored: Turks in the Kulliyat of ‘Ubayd-i Zakani
  • Buyaner, David
    Universität Frankfurt
    Origins and Spelling of the Middle Persian Term for ‘phlegm’: Notes on the Modes of Transliteration of Avestan β in Pahlavi
  • Cantera, Alberto
    University of Salamanca (Spain)
    The Pahlavi Videvdad manuscripts of the family of K1 and the Avestan Digital Archive
  • Cereti, Carlo G.
    University of Rome “La Sapienza”
    Notes on the transcription of Avestan forms in Pahlavi
  • Chaverdi, Alireza Askari
    Tarbiat Modares University
    Archaeological excavations at the Monumental Building called Sasan Palace, Fars, Iran
  • Chehabi, Houchang E.
    Boston University
    The Introduction of Family Names in Iran
  • Christensen, Janne Bjerre
    Roskilde University
    “Changing drug policies in Teheran: Institutionalizing a new social order”
  • Cicchetti, Umberto       
    Concordia University
    Dreams and Visions in the Mathnavī
  • Daad, Sima
    University of Washington
    National Identity in Mohammad Qazvini’s Critical Edition of Chahar Maqala
  • Dabiri, Ghazzal
    California State University Fullerton (CSUF)
    The Iranian Epic Heroes from the Avesta to the Mantiq al-Tayr
  • Dadvar, Abolghasem
    Al-Zahra University
    Iranian Impacts on Mughal Culture During the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • Darkatanian, Gholamreza                       
    Director of Archive and National Library in Southeast Region
    Sheikh Mohammad khiabani's Uprising in Tabriz
  • Dayanim Goldin, Farideh  
    Old Dominion University
    Iranian Jewish Women Writers: Voices from Exile
  • de Groot, Joanna 
    University of York
    Making, Unmaking and Remaking of an Iranian Heroine: The Appropriation of Qurrat al-‘Ayn
  • Delshad, Farshid
    University of Berne, Switzerland
    Case of Religiosity among the Persian Religious Minorities in the Post revolutionary Period of Iran
  • Derakhshan, Hossein        
    University of London
    New York Times versus Iran: News narratives on Oil and Atom
  • Djavaherian, Negin
    McGill University
    The Expression of Silence in The Conference of the Birds, Peter Brook’s Theatre, and Contemporary Architecture
  • Dorbeiki, Babak
    Azad University-Karaj
    Experience of Parallel Institutions Creation in I.R.I Structure: An Overview on Azad Islamic University in Higher Education system
  • Dorostan, Leila          
    City University London
    Temporary Marriages in Iran
  • Eftekharzadeh, Afsane         
    Independent Scholar
    Collecting Folktales in Baluchestan
  • Ehsani, Kaveh        
    University of Illinois in Chicago  
    Survival through Dispossession; Privatization of Public Goods in the Islamic republic *
  • Eimen, Alisa
    University of Minnesota
    The Development of the History of Iranian Modern Art: Case Studies in Exhibition
  • Ejlali, Parviz
    Tehran- Iran
    Persian Language in a Globalized World
  • Ekhtiyar, Maryam
    Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Isma’il Jalayir: An Innovative Qajar Artist
  • Enayat, Mahmood
    Oxford Internet Institute
    Interplay of Internet and Politics in Iran: The significance of context and multilevel analysis
  • Esmailpour, Abolqasem
    Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran
    The Position of Manichaeism in Iran in the First Century after the Rise of Islam
  • Esots, Janis
    University of Latvia        
    Some Connotations of the Terms Rind and Qalandar in the Poetry of Hafiz
  • Ezzabadi kamaladdini, Seied Mohammad  Bagher
    Payam-i Nur University
    Daftar-e-Delgosha Another Imitation from Ferdosi Shahnameh
  • Fa’al Alavi, Javad                                         
    Author
    Afghan Writers in Iran: Cultural Interaction and Deconstruction of Narrative Traditions
  • Torabi Farsani, Soheila
    Islamic Azad University-Najafabad
    Crisis in Irano-Soviet Trade Relations and Establishment of trade Organizations in Iran, 1921-1927
  • Fazlipour, Azim   
    Nanterre University-Paris
    Iran Narcotics Control Strategy
  • Fein, Ekatreina
    University of St.Petersburg, Russia
    Genre of Travelogue in Persian Prose of the 1st part of the XIX century and its linguistic peculiarities
  • Ferdowsi, Ali      
    Notre Dame de Namur University
    Chubak, the Writer and His God: From Ideological Ridicule to Ontological Encounter
  • Foltz, Richard
    Concordia University
    Zoroastrianism: The World’s “Original Environmentalist Religion”?
  • Foroodi-Jegad, Farzaneh
    Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
    Transfer between the two languages in early bilinguals from immigrant families
  • Friedl, Erika
    Western Michigan University
    Folktales in Analysis: Ethnophilosophy in Boir Ahmad, Southwest Iran
  • Fritz, Matthias Andreas
    Free University of Berlin/Brusov University of Yerevan
    The Status of Iranian within Armenian from a Lexicological Point of View
  • Frouzesh Bennett, Sharareh
    University of California, Irvine
    Between Resistance and the Law: Parsipur’s Women Without Men As A Meditation on the Ubiquity of Injustice
  • Gabbay, Alyssa
    University of Chicago
    Deconstructing Hierarchies: The Male/Female Dynamic in Amīr Khusraw’s Story of Bahrām Gūr and the Slave Girl
  • Gadoin, Isabelle
    University Of Paris Iii – Sorbonne Nouvelle
    The Role Of English Artists In The (Re)Discovery Of Persian Art In 19th Century Britain (1850-1900)
  • Geytanchi, Elham
    Santa Monica College
    Iranian related videos in youtube and the Internet
  • Ghaemmaghami, Omid
    University of Toronto
    The World Born Anew: A Comparison of Early Isma'ili, Babi, and Baha'i Thought vis-à-vis the Qa'im, Paradise, and Sacred History
  • Ghanoonparvar, M.R.
    University of Texas at Austin
    Film Adaptations and Narrative Change in Persian Fiction
  • Ghabool, Ehsan                          
    Ferdowsi University
    The Theories of Comparative Literature in Persian Literature
  • Ghassemzadeh, Fatemeh
    Tehran University - Psychology Department
    Under-age working girls in Iran: The dynamics of entrapment
  • Ghereghlou,  Kioumars
    Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
    Sufi Perceptions of Clerical Power in Late Seventeenth Century Iran: The Portrayal of Mulla Muhammad Tahir al-Qummi (d. 1689) in Two Sufi Diatribes
  • Ghodrat-Dizaji, Mehrdad
    Urmia University
    Northern Iran in the Late Sasanian Period: A Research in Administrative Geography
  • Gholaminejad, Mohammad Ali                       
    Ferdowsi University
    The Theories of Comparative Literature in Persian Literature
  • Gow, Christopher
    University of Warwick
    Masculinities of the New Iranian Cinema
  • Grant, Philip
    University of California, Irvine
    The Synthetic Intellectual in Contemporary Iran
  • Gustafson, James M.
    University of Washington
    The Political Economy of the Kermani Governorship under Sultan ‘Abd al-Hamid Mirza Nasir al-Dawla (r. 1880-1892)
  • Gyselen, Rika
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/National Center for Scientific Research, France
    Arabo-Sasanian Copper: A Mirror on the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Osmosis in Umayyad Fars
  • Hadissi, Korosh
    University of Toronto
    Ahmad Shamlu as a Journal Editor
  • Haghighi, Alireza
    University of Toronto
    The Role of Hobbes and Machiavelli in Iranian Ethico-political Discourse
  • Hajimomahammdlou, Azam
    University of Tabriz
    Caravanserais of Azerbaijan During the Safavid Dynasty
  • Haji-Yousefi, Amir M.
    Beheshti (National) University
    Iran and the American Adventurism in the Middle East: Theory and Practice
  • Heck, Isabel
    Université de Montréal, Canada
    Poor? How women talk about poverty in low-income neighborhoods in urban Iran
  • Heidarzadeh, Tofigh
    University of California, Riverside
    History of Science and Technology in Persia
  • Heine, Sebastian
    University of Bonn
    Archaisms in Grammar and Lexicon of Pashto
  • Honarbin-Holliday , Mehri
    Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury
    Narratives of Autonomy and Resistance: Young Iranian Women’s Struggles to Become Visible
  • Hoodfar, Homa  
    Concordia University
    Beyond ethnicity: the making of the Afghan identity among adolescents in Iran
  • Hourcade, Bernard
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Geography and Politics: New trends on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalization in Iran
  • Hosseini-Sarabi, Farahnaz
    University of Tehran
    The Achaemenids: Mazdian or Zuruastrian?
  • Iskandaryan, Gohar
    National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia.
    USA-IRI: Psychological war or real threat?
  • Iván Szántó
    Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE)
    The Smell of Iran: Collecting Persian Art in Hungary
  • Jafari, Aliakbar
    University of Wolverhampton
    Cultural Globalisation, Reflexivity, and the Project of ‘Self’: the Case of Iranian Youth Culture.
  • Jafari, Fatemeh
    University of Tehran
    Improving Teaching Farsi as a Foreign Language: Problems and Solutions

  • Jafarzade, Mehdi     
    Isfahan University
    A Comparative Study of Syntax in Old English and Ancient Iranian Languages
  • Jahanbegloo, Ramin   
    University of Toronto
    Furughi and Dialogical Modernization
  • Jahanpour, Fatemeh
    Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
    A Manuscript of the Vendidad at the Astan-e Qods Library
  • Jamshedov, Parvonakhon
    Independent Scholar
    The Sayod calendar of Badakhshan
  • Japaridze, Paata
    Javakhishvili University, Tbilisi
    History and Subjectivity of Jelaleddin Rumi’s gazelle “It is me myself”

  • Jenkins, Jennifer
    University of Toronto
    Excavating Zarathustra: Ernst Herzfeld In Iran
  • Kaboli, Farzaneh
    Rhythmic Movements Ensemble
    Dancing Challenges in the Islamic Republic of Iran

  • Kajbaf, Aliakbar
    University of Isfahan
    Capitulation during the Safavid Era
  • Kamvari, Nazli
    University of Toronto
    The (Un)holy Temporary Matrimony: Sex, Moral Panic, and the Anxieties Surrounding Mut'a in Iran
  • Karimi Moughari, Zahra
    University of Mazandaran
    Effects of Labour Market Institutions on Growth, Employment, and Income Inequality
  • Kellens, Jean
    College de France, Paris
    New Perspectives on the History of the Avestan Text
  • Ketabi, Mahmood
    Islamic Azad Unversity, Shahreza
    Rentier State and Political Development in Iran, 1953- 2007
  • Khastoo, Rahim        
    Azad University-Karaj
    Azad University, Women, and Political Power
  • Khatam, Azam
    Housing Planning & Economic Studies Office
    Social Inequality and Urban Politics in Iran
  • Kholdi, Shahram
    University of Manchester
    Political Memoirs and the Historiography of the 1979 Revolution
  • Khorasani, Mahboubeh
    Islamic Azad University-Najafabad
    The Genrological Investigation of Dahnamehes in Persian literature
  • Khorrami, Mehdi
    New York University
    The Literary Confrontation of God and Satan in the Post-Revolutionary Persian Fiction
    Panel title: The Encounter with God in Modern Persian Literature
  • Khosrowjah,    Hossein
    University of Rochester
    Carried by the Wind: Exilic Autobiographies and Iranian Diaspora
  • Kia, Mana
    Harvard University
    Accounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Autobiographical Travel Narratives of Muhammad ‘Ali Hazin Lahiji and ‘Abd al-Karim Kashmiri
  • Kirmani, Fariba
    Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
    Looking at the complexes of the Kerman Bazaar after the Safavid period
  • Kinra, Rajeev
    Northwestern University
    The Place of Place in Early Modern Indo-Persian Comparative Philology
  • Kohan, Mehrdad Naghzguy and Bostanabad, Hosein Sheikh
    Bu-Ali Sina University
    Sociolinguistic factors conditioning plural formation in New Persian

  • Kondo, Nobuaki
    Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Shi‘i ‘Ulama and Ijaza During the Nineteenth Century
  • Kordestani, Mohammad Reza Rashid
    Azad Islamic University-Karaj Branch
    Comparative Overview of Political Structure Effect on Azad and State Universities in Iran
  • Kritikou, Maria
    Tuebingen University
    The Christian doctrine as seen through the Shikand-Gûmânîk Vijâr
  • Kurzman, Charles
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    A Feminist Generation in Iran?
  • Kwak, Saera                 
    Tehran University
    Negation in Persian
  • Lee, Anthony A.
    Independent Scholar
    Presence and Erasure: Recovering a History of African Slaves in Iran: The case of Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, servants of Mirza ‘Ali-Muhammad, the Bab
  • Levi-Sanchez, Suzanne 
    San Francisco Sate University
    Iranian Myth and the Social Construct of Narrative Influence
  • Lewis, Franklin
    Chicago University
    Sexual Occidentation: the Politics of Boy-love and Christian-love in ‘Attar

  • Lewisohn, Jane
    School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
    The Golha Radio Programs (1954-76) and their Impact on Persian Culture and Society

  • Lotfalian, Mazyar
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Panel title: Ethnographies of Contemporary Iranian Transnational Dowrehs, Continuity and Change
  • Losensky, Paul   
    University of Indiana at Bloomington
    A Kiss in the Mirror of Beauty: A Study of S?'eb's Topical Anthology Mer'at al-jamal
  • Ann Lucas  
    University California, Los Angeles
    Music Fit for a King: The Changing Role of Music from the Timurid Court to the Safavid Court
  • Maddah, Homa
    Tehran University
    Bringing Work Home: Does Women’s Participation in Outside Work Change their Role in the Family?
  • Maeda, Hirotake
    Hokkaido University
    An Armenian Family of Georgia between Iran and Russia in the 19th Century
  • Mahdavinia, Mina
    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
    In Search of Excellence: The Meaning of Developing Progressive Education for Iranian Girls
  • Manasseh, Cyrus
    University of Western Australia (UWA)
    Cultural Landscapes: The Open-Air Museums of Ancient Rome & Pasargadae
  • Mannani, Manijeh
    Athabasca University
    Reading beyond Jasmine and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran.
  • Marzolph, Ulrich
    Enzyklopaedie des Maerchens
    Negotiating Folklore in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Masjedi, Fatemeh
    Politics and Government Department at Illinois State University
    Feminist Historiography of the Early Twentieth Century of Iran

  • Masoud, Farah and Nourmohammadian, Yeganeh
    University of Qom/Freelance Researcher
    Ta‘ziyah as a Theatrical Event
  • Matin, Kamran 
    Sussex University
    Modernity Against Modernity: International Historical Sociology of Ali Shariati’s Political Thought
  • Matin-asgari, Afshin
    California State University, Los Angeles
    The Corbin Circle and the Making of Iran's Shi'i Modernity
  • Meftahi, Ida
    University of Toronto
    Raqs-i milli: Choreographing National Identity in Pre-revolutionary Iranian Dance
  • Mehrafarin, Reza
    University of Sistan and Baluchestan
    Excavating Tape Gowri in Sistan
  • Mehrvarz, Abbas Zare‘i
    Bu-Ali Sina University- Hamadan
    The Struggle of Constitutionalism in Iranian Kurdistan
  • Melville, Charles
    University of Cambridge
    The Tarikh-i Dilgusha-yi Shamshir Khani and the reception of the Shahnama in India
  • Mendikulova, Gulnara
    Institute of Oriental Studies, Ministry of Education and Science-Kazakhstan
    The Kazakhs: as Diaspora in Iran and Repatriates in Kazakhstan 
  • Mesbah, Targol
    New College, San Francisco
    House and Home: Psychogeography, Property, and the Iranian Diaspora
  • Mesbahian, Hossein
    Tehran University
    Modernity and its Other: The Logic of “Inclusive Exclusion”
  • Mihaela, Timu  
    New Europe College, Bucharest
    Nostalgies of the Beginning: On the Middle Persian usage of ‘Forms’, ‘Nature, and ‘Substance’
  • Mills, Margaret 
    Ohio State University
    From the Gold-Monkey to Hatam at-Tayy: Types, Frames, Themes and Performer Identity in Two Performances of an International Tale
  • Mirjafari, Hossien
    University of Isfahan
    Shah Ismail’s journey to Erzinjan and its importance in the establishment of the Safavid dynasty
  • Moaddel, Mansoor
    Eastern Michigan University
    Secularization, State Religiosity, and Cultural Duality Findings from Values Surveys
  • Moallem, Minoo
    University of California, Berkeley
    Panel title: Wither Exile, Enter Diaspora? Transnational Feminist Approaches to the Cultural Politics of the Iranian Diaspora
  • Moghaddam, Hossein H.
    Australian National University
    Conceptualizing Iranian Foreign Policy
  • Moghbeli, Anahita
    Imagination in Shahnamah Drawings
  • Moghimi, Saeed
    Islamic Azad University-Karaj
    Azad University, New Identity Formation, and Political Modernity

  • Mohsen Khalili
    Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
    The concept of Territory in the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran: Geographical frontiers and doctrinal borderlessness
  • Mojab, Shahrzad
    University of Toronto
    Panel Title: Political Prisoners of Iran: Narrating Insubordination, Desiring Truth
  • Mokhtari, Azita
    National University
    Beyond Borders: Developing Online Task-Based Teaching Materials for Language Learners of Persian
  • Molavi, Fereshteh
    University of Toronto
    Literary Self-disclosure and the Female Discloser
  • Monfared, Mahdi Farhani
    Al-Zahra University (Tehran)
    The Decline of Mathematical Sciences after the Death of Uluq Beg, 853/1449
  • Moradian, Bahman
    Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
    The Place of Water in the Avestan Text of Yasna and Its Ceremony
  • Morimoto, Kazuo
    University of Tokyo
    An Arabic Vocabulary from Late Saljuq Khurasan: A Study of Ibn Funduq’s Azāhīr al-Riyā al-Marī‘a
  • Morikawa, Tomoko
    Hokkaido University
    Pilgrims and Customs at the Iran-Iraq Border in the Latter Half of the 19th Century
  • Mozaffari, Ali
    University of Western Australia (UWA)
    Plotting the Utopia: the rituals of visiting sites in the Parsa-Pasargadae region
  • Mozaffari, Nahid
    PEN/Independent scholar
    Courtier Eunuchs:  The Case of Besharat Khan
  • Nabavi, Negin
    Montclair State University
    From Haji Firuz to the Black Harlequin: Slaves and Black Domestic Servants in Iran
  • Mottalebi Kashani, Nader
    The Library, Museum and Documentation Centre of Majles
    Antoine Ketabchi Khan’s Report Concerning the Natural and Economic Resources and the Political State of Azarbayjan in the 19th Century
  • Naficy, Nahal
    Rice University
    Iranians in the US Capital and Miniature Systems of Power
  • Naghibi, Nima
    Ryerson University
    Truth Telling and Trauma in Nemat's Prisoner of Tehran and Entekhabi-Fard's Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth
  • Nair, Shankar Ayillath
    Harvard University
    Preliminary Remarks on the Muntakhab-i Jug Basisht: Mir Findiriski's "Commentary" on the Laghu-Yoga-Vasistha
  • Namazi, Vahideddin
    University of Montreal
    History of professional life of two iranian immigrants in Canada      
  • Naraghi, Ayeh
    Ecole des Hautes Etude en Sciences Sociales, Paris France
    The Development of Cultural Industries in the Field of Iranian Contemporary Art      
  • Nasiri, Aliakbar
    University of Sistan and  Baloochistan
    Do humans have ‘pre-knowledge’ of God? A Comparison of Reformed Epistemology and Maktab-e Tafkik
  • Nayeri, Ali
    Kavli Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
    Science and Science-seeking in Iran: The Sociocultural Effects
  • Niknam, Ahmadreza
    University of Isfahan
    Representation of the Persian Other in 19th century English travel narratives of Persia            
  • Nouraei, Morteza
    University of Isfahan
    The socio-political participation of female in Iran during 1960-70s; a critical study     
  • Nourbakhsh, Safoura
    University of Maryland
    Irigaray's sexual difference and Sufi narratives
  • Orouji Nikabadi, Fatemeh
    University of Tabriz
    Trades and Guildes Under Early Islamic Iranian Dynasties
  • Paradis, Johanne
    University of Alberta
    Transfer between the two languages in early bilinguals from immigrant families
  • Parviz Parsafar
    Yuba College, CA, USA
    Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics of Izafah
  • Partovi, Pedram  
    University of Chicago
    Constituting Love in the Iranian Commercial Cinema
  • Parvin, Manoucher  
    Determinism and choice: Omar Khayyam, Hafez, Rumi, Avicenna and Neuroscience
  • Payne, Richard
    Princeton University
    Iranian Adelsheilige: East Syrian Martyrology and Aristocratic Memory in Late Antique Iran
  • Pazargadi, Leila   
    University of Calofornia at Los Angeles
    The Womb of the Universe: Figuring Woman as the Nation in Goli Taraghi’s ‘Khaneh dar Aseman’

  • Zohouri Haghian, Pegah
    Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
    Khatami’s Administration and the Iranian Public Opinion: Beyond a Civil Society’s Discourse.
  • Pesaran, Evaleila     
    University of Cambridge
    From Al-e Ahmad to Ahmadinejad: Tracing Discourses of Anti-Westernisation in Iran
  • Pirouz, Kamrouz        
    Montclair State University
    The Truman-Churchill Proposal to Resolve  The Iran-U.K Oil Nationalization Dispute

  • Pitiurishvili, Thea
    Tbilisi State University, Georgia
    Some Features of Emerging of Nationalism in Iran
  • Posht-Mashhadi, Marjan
    University of Rehabilitation and Social Welfare
    Challenges of empowerment and identity with disadvantaged young women in Iran
  • Pourshariati, Parvaneh
    Ohio State University
    Parthian Dynastic Families and the Arab Conquest of Iran
  • Rafat, Yasaman Rafat
    University of Toronto
    A socio-phonetic Investigation of Rhotics in Farsi
  • Rafati, Naysan 
    St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
    The Man Who Would Be Shah: Teimur Bakhtiar's Political Activity in Iraq    
  • Raffaelli, Enrico G
    University of Toronto
    The Yashts and the days of the Zoroastrian month

  • Rahimiyan, Orly R.                                 
    Ben-Gurion University
    Zero Degree Orbit – Holocaust, Jews and Zionists in the Eyes of the Iranians
  • Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush
    University of London
    The Story of a Song: The role of ‘Ey Iran’ in Contemporary Iranian Nationalist Discourse      
  • Rezaee, Maryam
    The University of York
    Ismaili Women and their Participation in Tertiary Education in Iran
  • Rezvanian Ghodsieh
    University of Mazandaran
    Language and Mind in Qazaliyat-i Shams
  • Ricks, Thomas M.
    Independent Scholar
    Bounde by Slavery: Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean

  • Rizvi, Sajjad H.
    The Confluence of the Two Seas:
    The School of Ibn ʿArabī and Shiʿi Theology in Mullāadrā’s Discussion of Paradise
  • Russell, James
    Harvard University
    St. Gregory of Narek’s Exegi Monumentom
  • Sadr, Shadi                           
    Lawyer
    Women’s Strategies in Claiming Maternal Nationality
  • Sadeghi, Shirin
    University of London
    Iranian Internet Use: Participatory Values and their Democratic Offspring  
  • Sadeghi, Mahvand
    Kings College London
    Aging in Contemporary Iran: Society Leaves Its Elderly Behind
  • Saeedi, Pouneh
    Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
    Demonization of the Muse: From Rudabeh to Zan-e Lakkateh
  • Saadi-nejad, Manya
    Concordia University
    Culture, Myth, and Artistic Production in Contemporary Iran

  • Sabeti, Erfan
    Lancaster University
    Blog Wars in the Global Age: The Case of Persian Bahai and anti-Bahai Weblogs

  • Sadeghi, Shirin        
    University Of London
    Iranian Internet Use: Participatory Values And Their Democratic Offspring
  • Sadeghi, Shiva
    University of Toronto The Making of a Nation: Curriculum and Citizenship Education in Iran.
  • Sedighi, Anousha
    Portland State University
    Teaching Persian to Persian Speakers
  • Safamanesh, kamran  
    The Urban Research Institute,Tehran
    Architectural Environment of the Post-Revolution Iran (Case study: Tehran)
  • Safaï, Soha
    Paris III University
    KW- words in Iranian languages
  • Salami, Reza
    Independent Scholar
    The Second Women of the East Congress, 1932
  • Salehi Esfahani, Hadi
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Voting for Populism: An Analysis of Iran's 2005 Presidential Election
  • Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad
    Virginia Tech
    Voting for Populism: An Analysis of Iran's 2005 Presidential Election
  • Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad
    Virginia Tech
    Youth transition to Adulthood in Iran: Education, employment, and family formation
  • Sakhi, Shokoufeh
    York University
    The Arrival of a New Regime: Torture and the Aesthetics of Resistance
  • Sarraf, Ramin
    National University
    The Online Persian Language Program: Challenges of and Solutions
  • Savant, Sarah Bowen
    Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
    Remembering the Muslim Conquest of Iran
  • Shabahang, Mehrdad
    Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne
    The Comparison of Old Iranian Farrah and Shiite Nûr-i Welayat
  • Shadchehr, Farah
    Ohio State University
    Jami's letters: a non-tradition source of history        
  • Shahrooz, Kaveh
    International Law Firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
    Remembering 1988: A Legal and Political Analysis of the Demand for Accountability           
  • Shaked, Shaul
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    The notions of wisdom and knowledge in the Pahlavi writings

  • Shaker, Farya
    Carleton University
    A Comparative study of the concept of justice in Plato’s “Republic” and “Nameh-ye Tansar”   
  • Shakhsari, Sima
    Stanford University
    The Chic of Queer, the Lure of Diaspora: The Iranian Queer Diaspora and the Politics of
  • Shani, Raya
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    The Shi‘i-oriented Sufi component in epigraphic Nishapur pottery of the early eleventh century
  • Shapira, Dan D.Y.
    Bar Ilan University
    “Late Sasanian and post-Sasanian Zoroastrian Apocalypse”
  • Sharlet, Jocelyn
    University of California, Davis
    Observation as an approach to desire, subjectivity, and objectification in nasibs by Farrukhi, ‘Unsuri, and Manuchehri    
  • Sharma, Sunil     
    Boston University
    From Aisheh to Nur Jahan: Women Poets and the Shaping of the Classical Persian Literary Canon

  • Sheffield, Dan
    Harvard University
    Between Dēn and Dharma: Indian Zoroastrian Texts from the Medieval and Early Modern
  • Schilling, Alexander M.
    University of Tuebingen
    From Persia to India. Eastern Iran and Kashmir According an Anonymous Armenian Itinerary
  • Shahzadeh, Gloria
    Independent Scholar and Artist
    Cultivating Emotional Bankruptcy: Popular Arts in Pre-revolutionary Iranian Society
  • Sheibani, Khatereh
    University of Alberta
    The Reel History of Modernity in Bayzai’s Aesthetics
  • Siamdoust, Nahid
    St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
    Out of Tune: Islam as a Contested Idiom in Iranian Rap and Pop Music
  • Simidchieva, Marta    
    University of Toronto
    Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: Sketching Iran for the Rest of Us
  • Smith, Matthew  
    Harvard University
    A Debate on Authenticity: Literary Return and the Indian Style  
  • Smurzynski, Marek
    Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
    The Philosopher Without The Book, Ahmad Fardid (1910-94). The Paradigmatic Mistrust Of The Written Text
  • Soudavar, Abolala
    Independent Scholar
    From Rivalry to Fratricide: Shāh Tahmāsb and Sām Mirzā
  • Subtelny, Maria E.
    University of Toronto
    Zoroastrian Elements in the Islamic Ascension Narrative
  • Szantos, Ivan
    Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE)
    The Smell of Iran: Collecting Persian Art in Hungary
  • Talattof, Kamran
    University of Arizona
    Persian Dance in Pre-Revolutionary Movies: Seduction, Sin, and Salvation
  • Talebi, Shahla 
    Arizona State University
    A Story of an Archive: Love and Death in Prison Letters
  • Talebian, Mohammad-Hassan
    Parsa-Pasargadae Research Foundation
    New findings and challenges ahead of the Parsa-Pasargadae cultural landscape
  • Tahmasebi, Victoria
    University of Toronto
    To Sex or de-Sex: The Visual Representations of Female Ethical Performativity in Pre and Post Revolutionary Iran
  • Tasbihi, Eliza
    Concordia University
    Reading Sabzawārī’s Commentary on Rūmī’s Mathnawī: A Philosophical Approach
  • Tavassoli, Nahid
    Editor-in-Chief of Nafeh
    Husband Murdering

  • Teece, Denise-Marie
    New York University
    ‘Vessels of Verse’ : Persian Anthologies for Quyunlu Patrons
  • Tork Ladani, Safoura
    University of Isfahan
    Iranology and European Missionaries During the Safavid Era
  • Tourage, Mahdi
    Colgate University
    The Gender of Creativity in the Androcentric Context of Rumi’s Mathnawi
  • Tsadik, Daniel
    Hebrew University
    On the Eve of the Constitutional Revolution: The Jews of Iran in The Muzaffari Era, 1896-1906
  • Vahdat, Farzin
    Nasr and the Critique of Modernity
  • Vahedi, Mohammad Mehdi
    University of Tarbiyat Mudarris, Tehran
    A Survey of Two Types of Alternating Agentive Nominals
  • Velji, Jamel
    University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paradise Postponed: Apocalyptic Containment and the Nizari qiyamat
  • Wastnidge, Edward
    University of Manchester.
    ‘A Dialogue among Civilised Nations’? Iran’s ‘cultural foreign policy’ during the Khatami era
  • Westbrook, Nigel
    University of Western Australia (UWA)
    The architecture of the site museums in Persepolis and Pasargadae
  • Yaneva, Ludmila
    Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
    Bulgarian Textbooks for Teaching Persian Language: Students’s First Contact with the Iranian Identity

  • Yavari, Houra
    Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University
    God and Modern Sufis   
  • Yazdani, Afshin
    Parse Pasargadae Research Foundation
    An Archaeo- Zoological Research on the Real Animal Bas-reliefs of Persepolis
  • Yazdani, Mina
    University of Toronto
    The Clergy, State, and Mob Violence in Twentieth Century Iran
  • Yousef, Saeed
    University of Chicago
    Iraj Pezeshkzad’s Asemu-Rismun and the Poets
  • Yousefi, Najma 
    Virginia Tech
    The Secular Knowledge, Social Authority, and the Rise of Sciences, ca. 700-800 CE

  • Zahedi, Ashraf
    University of California, Berkeley
    Filipino Brides in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Crossing Religious, Cultural, Racial, and National Boundaries
                   
  • Zarei Mehrvarz, Abbas
    Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan
    The Struggle of Constitutionalism in Iranian Kurdistan
  • Zarshenas, Zohre
    Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran
    Females and Feminine Words in Some Manichean Sogdian Writings
  • Zeine, Foojan
    Institute for Personal Growth
    Immigration and Culturation
  • Zeydabadi-Nejad, Saeed       
    University of London
    The place of Women Filmmakers in Iranian Cinema

  • Zirinsky, Michael                  
    Boise State University
    The Great War And Iranian Relations With The West
  • Zohouri Haghian, Pegah
    Università Ca' Foscari, Venice
    Khatami’s Administration and the Iranian Public Opinion: Beyond a Civil Society’s Discourse