Thirty Years On: The Social and Cultural Impacts of the Iranian Revolution
Conference - Programme
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre,
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
5-6 June 2009
A conference focusing on the developments in the social and cultural lives of Iranians since the revolution.
DAY 1 - Friday 5th June 2009
BGLT (280) |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome Comments Prof. Paul Webley, Director, SOAS |
| Opening Comments Jon Snow, Channel 4 News |
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| 9:30 - 11:00 | Plenary Session 1: RESEARCHING CONTEMPORARY IRAN: HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES Chair: Annabelle SREBERNY |
| 1: Abbas MALEKI Iran's Islamic Revolution and its Future: Domestic Politics and Culture |
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| 2: Soheila SHAHSHAHANI Claiming our terrain in academia |
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| 3: Abdolmohammad KAZEMIPOOR A Generation in Flux: An Empirical Profile of Youth in Post-revolutionary Iran |
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| 4: Pardis MAHDAVI Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Room B102 (68) |
| TEHRAN: CULTURAL CHANGE Chair: Arshin ADIB-MOGHADDAM |
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| 1: Oliver LEAMAN The cultural counter-revolution |
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| 2: Narciss SOHRABI The Bases of Cultural Development of Tehran after the Islamic Republic |
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| 3: Roya RAD Where is the party tonight? |
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Room B111 (40) |
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| JOURNALISM, MEDIA AND BLOGS Chair: Gholam Khiabany |
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| 1: Ehsan BAKHSHANDEH with Mahmoud AHMADI-AFZADI Media Development in Iran; Impacts of the 1979 Revolution |
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| 2: Golnaz NANBAKHSH Changing language use and politeness: Evidence from Iranian family discourses and reality TV |
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| 3: Mehdi MONTAZER-GHAEM Broadcasting In Iran – challenges of qualitative development |
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| 4: Edmund HERZIG The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA): A New Era for News Agencies in Iran |
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| 5: David ARN Unemployment, Poverty And Boredom. The Iranian Press On Drug Addiction 1995-2000 |
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Room B104 (30) |
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| MASCULINITIES Chair: Sarah Stewart, LMEI |
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| 1: Asefeh SADEGHI The formation of the domination of masculine images in the recent advertisements in Iran' |
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| 2: Mehri HONARBIN-HOLLIDAY Masculinities in Urban Iran |
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| 3: Mamali SHAFAHI Art and the representation of masculinity |
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Room G51 |
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| CINEMA Chair: Saeed Zeidabadi-Nejad |
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| 1: Aida FORUTAN Censorship and imagination |
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| 2: Golbarg REKABTALIAEI Cinematic Revolution: The Politicisation of the Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema |
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| 3: Elhum SHAKERIFAR Ali Santouri – Censorship and Film mobility |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | BGLT (280) |
| Plenary Session 2: VISUAL ARTS Chair: Richard Tapper |
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| 1: Iason ATHANASIADIS Mullahs, Martyrs and Non-Alcoholic Mochitos: Iran’s Children of the Revolution Come of Age |
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| 2: Golrokh NAFISI Cartoons |
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| 3: Reza HAERI Film |
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| 4: Mamali SHAFAHI Art |
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| 5: Mehdi VOSOUGHNIA Photography |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Room B102 (68) |
| COMEDY, JOKES AND LAUGHTER Chair: Annabelle Sreberny |
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| 1: Agnès DEVICTOR Laughing at war |
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| 2: Taraneh DADAR TV series: The Nights of Bareh |
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| 3: Katja FOELLMER Satire in the Iranian Media: Development and Diversity |
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| 4: Naghmeh SAMINI Illusion of objection in text message jokes |
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Room B111 (40) |
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| MEDIA, BLOGS AND POLITICS Chair: Massoumeh Torfeh |
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| 1: Shadi ZABET A good self-image: Goffman and Iranian bloggers |
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| 2: Mahmoud ENAYAT Power and Counter-Power in the Persian Webosphere |
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| 3: Erfan SABETI Blog Wars in the Global Age: The Case of Persian Bahai and anti-Bahai Weblogs |
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| 4: Majid TAFRESHI The Grand Ayatollahs and modern electronic media: the transformation of religious leadership |
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Room B104 (30) |
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| DIASPORAS AND MINORITIES Chair: Sarah STEWART |
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| 1: Zuzanna OLSZEWSKA Afghan Refugees in Iran: The Hidden Effects of the Revolution at Society's Margins |
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| 2: Amin MOGHADAM Iran in the United Arab Emirates Between envy and reticence The role of Iranian migration in the "metropolization" of the Gulf |
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| 3: Leili SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI The Diasporic Children Return To Iran |
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| 4: David MATTIN The Flight from Tehran: Iranians in Britain |
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Room G51 |
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| CONTEMPORARY CINEMA Chair: Nacim Pak |
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| 1: Maryam GHORBANKARIMI The Women in Frame: Representation of Women in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema |
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| 2: Saranaz ABDOLLAHZADE BARFOROUSH Narrative analysis in Iranian popular cinema, before and after the Islamic revolution |
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| 3: Saeed ZEYDABADI-NEJAD Film censorship and the problem of reception |
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| 19:30 | BGLT (280) |
| STAND-UP COMEDY TICKETED EVENT Introduced Poooneh GHODOUSI (nobat e shoma, BBC PTV) |
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| Patrick MONAHAN Shappi KHORSANDI |
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| Separately ticketed |
DAY 2 - Saturday 6th June 2009
BGLT (280) |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome Comments |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Plenary Session 3: Chair: Ziba Mir-Hosseini |
| 1: Elaheh KOOLAEE Changes in Iranian Women's Role after the Islamic Revolution |
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| 2: Mahboubeh ABBASGHOLIZADEH Video as a tool for social change |
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| 3: Azadeh KIAN Social and Cultural Change and Women's Rights Movement in Iran |
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| 4: Zari TASHAKOR Women and public space |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Room B102 (68) |
| WOMEN'S RIGHTS & WRONGS Chair: Annabelle SREBERNY |
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| 1: Elaheh ROSTAMI-POVEY Women's movement in Iran - Divided they can stand united |
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| 2: Azadeh MOAVENI Lipstick Jihad |
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| 3: Fariba DAVOODI MOHAJER Strategies and tactics of one million signatures campaign |
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Room B111 (40) |
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| ART AND PERFORMANCE Chair: Mohsen BIPARVA |
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| 1: Fatemeh Eftekhari RAD Iranian Women painters since the Revolution |
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| 2: Hamed YOUSEFI KOUPAI Re-orienting Orientalism: The Contemporary Art of Tehran |
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| 3: Mehran HOUSHIAR Three Generations of Painters |
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| 4: Liliane ANJO Contemporary Iranian Theatre |
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Room B104 (30) |
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| CIVIL SOCIETY, PUBLIC SPHERE, DEMOCRACY Chair: Gholam KHIABANY |
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| 1: Bagher ASADI Challenges of the Civil Society in post-Revolutionary Iran: An Historical Overview |
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| 2: Dariush BORBOR End Of Colonialism, Beginning Of Democracy |
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| 3: Mohammadreza KOLAHI with Saeeheh ALLAHDADI Application of the concept of "Public sphere" in Iran |
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Room G51 |
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| WOMEN'S ACTIVISM Chair: Massoumeh TORFEH |
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| 1: Benjamin STACHURSKY and Marcus MICHAELSEN (Net)working for Change: Women's Movement the Iranian Way |
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| 2: Azar MAJEDI New roles for women |
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| 3: Hamid SHESHJAVANI Family Life and Working Women: Spousal Conflict and Iranian working mothers |
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| 4: Mohamad TAGHI GHEZELSOFLA with Houshang JEIRANI Iranian women issues in Development and Reform era |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | BGLT (280) |
| Plenary Session 4: MUSIC AND DANCE Chair: Laudan Noushin |
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| 1: Ahmad KIAROSTAMI Music video |
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| 2: Mozafari PARMIS Dance and the Borders of Public and Private Life in Post-Revolutionary Iran |
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| 3: Ashkan KOOSHA and Negar SHAGHAGHI The New Iranian Underground |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Room B102 (68) |
| URBAN AND RURAL WOMEN Chair: Ziba MIR-HOSSEINI |
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| 1: Marianne BØE New Expressions of Women's Agency in the Legal processes |
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| 2: Tanya LAWRENCE From Shahrestan to Tehran: provincial women studying in Tehran |
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| 3: Anna VANZAN From The Pen To The Rotary Press: Women Publishers In Post Revolutionary Iran |
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Room B111 (40) |
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| ART AND PERFORMANCE Chair: Arshin ADIB-MOGHADDAM |
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| 1: Alice BOMBARDIER Iranian War Painting: new trends |
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| 2: Nacim PAK Cinema as a Reservoir for Cultural Memory |
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| 3: Saeed TALAJOOY Indigenous performance traditions in post-revolutionary theatre |
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Room B104 (30) |
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| MUSIC AND DANCE Chair: Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad |
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| 1: Laudan NOOSHIN Hip-Hop Tehran: Putting Marginalised Voices on the Global Map |
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| 2: Nahid SIAMDOUST Halal or Haram? Islam and Music in Post-Revolutionary Iran |
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| 3: Bronwen ROBERTSON "I am an original Iranian man!" Skinny jeans, Persian carpets, and indie rock: expressions of identity in Tehran's unofficial rock music. |
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| 4: Guy BREYLEY Children's Lives, Leaders' Lies: Women's Rap in 21st-Century Tehran |
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| 19:30 - 21:00 | BGLT (280) |
| CONCERT FONT SIMORGH Separately ticketed |