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 MullāṢadrā’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