Empires and Revolutions: Iranian-Russian Encounters since 1800
Conference - Programme
Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London
12-13 June 2009
Conference on Russian-Iranian encounters since the early nineteenth century.
Empires and Revolutions:
Iranian-Russian Encounters since 1800
Organized by the Iran Heritage Foundation, London Middle East Institute (SOAS) and Soudavar Memorial Foundation
12-13 June, Khalili Lecture theatre
SOAS
Friday 12 June
| Iran and Imperial Russia 1800-1917 | |
| 10.15 - 10-45 | Registration, Tea/Coffee |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | Welcome and introductory remarks Stephanie Cronin (Convenor) |
| 11.00 - 13.00 | PANEL ONE: Travellers and Entrepreneurs (Chair: Heidi Walcher, SOAS) |
| 1: Vanessa Martin (Royal Holloway, University of London) Russian Land Purchases in northern Iran during the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries |
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| 2: Shireen Mahdavi (University of Utah) The Persian Gaze on Russia: Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb and other Travellers |
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| 3: Irina Pavlova (Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg, Russia) The Lianozov Caspian Fisheries Concession in Iran |
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| 4: Fatema Soudavar (independent scholar, UK) How the Russians hosted the entrepreneur who gave them indigestion: new revelations about Malek ut-Tujjar and the Russian connection |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 16.00 | PANEL TWO: Shahs, Tsars and Officials (Chair: Shirin Akiner, SOAS) |
| 1: Maziar Behrooz (San Francisco State University) From Confidence to Fear: Early Qajar Iran Interaction with Russsia |
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| 2: Elena Andreevna (Virginia Military Institute, USA) Russian Deserters in Iran and Russian Responses in the Nineteenth Century | |
| 3: Firuza Abdullaeva (University of Oxford) Khusraw Mirza's mission of 1829 to St Petersburg (on the material of the diary of its secretary Mirza Afshar) |
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| 4: John Tchalenko (University of the Arts London) and Hassan Ghazi Kurdish Portraits by Alexander Iyas |
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| 16.00 - 16.30 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.30 - 18.00 | PANEL THREE: The Transcaucasian Dimension (Chair: Touraj Atabaki, University of Leiden) |
| 1: Hirotake Maeda (Osaka University, Japan) An Armenian Family crossing Two Empires: the Enikolopian family between Iran and Russia in the nineteenth century |
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| 2: Joanna de Groot (University of York) Socialist Iranians? Iranian Socialisms: Iranian-Russian ideological encounters and the constitutional revolution in Iran |
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| 3: Sohrab Yazdani (Dept. of History, Teachers Training University, Tehran, Iran). The Question of the Iranian Ijtimaiyun Amiyun Party |
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Saturday 13 June
| Iran and Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, 1917-2009 | |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Registration, Tea/Coffee |
| 10.45 - 13.00 | PANEL ONE: the Soviet Union and Iran, 1917-1941 (Chair: Stephanie Cronin) |
| 1: Solmaz Rustamova-Tohidi (Institute of Oriental Sciences, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences) A Community in Turmoil: The Iranians of the Caucasus and the Russian Revolution of 1917 |
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| 2: Oliver Bast (University of Manchester, UK) The Iran-Soviet Agreement of 1921 |
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| 3: Touraj Atabaki (University of Leiden, the Netherlands) Labour Activism in Interwar Iran and the Soviet Comintern response |
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| 4: Kaveh Bayat The Nejat Comite of Rezaieh and the Jam'iate Azarbaijan of Tabriz, Winter of 1941, A Prelude to the Crisis of Azerbaijan Samples of Soviet film propaganda about Iran introduced by Touraj Atabaki FILM: "The Baku Congress of the People of the East, 1920" FILM: "The Other Side of Ars" (Iranian Azerbaijan, 1945-1946) |
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| 13.00- 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | PANEL TWO: Cultural Exchanges (Chair: Heidi Walcher, SOAS) |
| 1: Emily O'Dell (Harvard) A Russian-Iranian Cinematic Encounter: The Birth of Iranian Film |
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| 2: Saeed Talajooy (University College, London) The Impact of the Russian Contact on Iranian Theatre: The Case of Nushin |
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| 3: Nima Mina (SOAS) Jaleh Isfahani's Autobiographical Writings about her Exile in the Soviet Union |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | PANEL THREE: The Islamic Republic of Iran and Soviet and post-Soviet Russia (Chair: Edmund Herzig, University of Oxord) |
| 1: Afshin Matin-asghari (California State University) Russia/Soviet Union as the Alternate Model of Iranian Modernity |
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| 2: Muriel Atkin (George Washington University, USA) Russia, Iran and the Civil War in Tajikistan, 1992-1997 |
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| 3: Clément Therme (IFRI, Paris and Graduate Institute, Geneva) Iran and Russia: Towards an Alliance? |
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