Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967): 40-year anniversary conference

9:30- 11 a.m.
Forugh and Iran

'Farrokhzad's Apocalyptic Prophecies'
Sirous Shamisa, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran (in Persian)

'Reminiscences of Forugh Farrokhzad'
Pouran Farrokhzad, Poet and writer, Tehran (in Persian)

11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Forugh and Translation

'Notes about the anthology, One Day My Death...'
Nima Mina, SOAS

'Alien Rebirths of Another Birth'
Moh Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin

'Translating Forugh Farrokhzad'
Sholeh Wolpe, Poet and translator, Los Angeles

Lunch Break
12.30-2.30 p.m

2:30- 4:30 p.m.
Forugh and Film: 'The House is Black'

'Black Slate and Chalk: The interplay of text and image in Farrokhzad's 'The House is Black''
Roxanne Varzi, UC Irvine

'The House is Black': a Timeless Visual Essay'
Maryam Ghorbankarimi, University of Edinburgh

10 a.m.-noon
Forugh's poetry and her self

'Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad'
Homa Katouzian, St Antony's College, Oxford

'The Poetry of Life in Farrokhzad's Poems: Personal Rebellion and Social Revolt'
Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona

'The Reciprocity of the Self and the Mirror in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad'
Leila Rahimi Bahmany, Free University of Berlin

Lunch Break
12-2 p.m

2-3:30 p.m.
Gendered Affinities

'Men and Women Together: Love, Family, and Gender in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad'
Marta Simidchieva, York University, Toronto

'Romancing the Muse'
Rivanne Sandler, Toronto University

'Forugh as Iranian-American Diasporic Muse'
Persis Karim, San Jose State University

3:30-5 p.m.
Poetic Construction

'The "fiery pleasure of desire" or the text-ure of love in Farrokhzad's poetry'
Leili Anvar Chenderoff INALCO, Paris

'The Home and the Garden in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad'
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Manchester

'The Metaphysics of Sound in Forugh Farrokhzad's Poetry'
Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine