Thursday, 7 July

18.00-19.00

Reception

19.00-20.30

Film Screening
Under the Skin of the City [Zir-i Pust-i Shahr]
A film by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

Friday, 8 July

9.00-9.30

Registration/Tea/Coffee/Refreshments

9.30-9.40

Opening Remarks
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
A. Reza Sheikholeslami, University of Oxford
Farhad Hakimzadeh, Iran Heritage Foundation
Dr Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute
Akbar Ghahary, Persian Cultural Foundation

9.40-11.00

Session 1: The Royal Court and the Qajar State
Chair: Hafez Farmanfarmayan, University of Texas, Austin

Yann Richard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III
European Eyes on Persian Lives in late Qajar Iran

Mansoureh Ettehadieh, University of Tehran
The Private Purse of Muzaffar al-Din Shah

11.00-13.00

Session 2: Hybrid Spaces, Hybrid Lives
Chair: Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University

Mana Kia, Harvard University
Naming Kinship in Travels to and from Iran

Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford
Secluded Voices: Women at the Court of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar

Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Melding Private Lives and Public Spaces: Iranian-Armenian Memoirs and Historical Narrative

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Session 3: Merchant Lives
Chair: Homa Katouzian, St. Anthony's College

Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
Merchants and their Life-World in Late Qajar Iran

Shireen Mahdavi, University of Utah
The Transition of the Household of an Isfahani 'Sarraf' to a Tehrani Merchant: Structure, Function and Relations Therein

Habib Ladjevardi, Harvard University
Personal Values and Corporate Policies: The Case of Haj Seyed Mahmoud Ladjevardi and the Behshahr Industrial Group

16.00-16.30

Tea/Coffee/Refreshments

16.30-17.50

Session 4: Public Lives and Public Buildings
Chair: Camron Michael Amin, The University of Michigan, Dearborn

Kamran Safamanesh, Urban Research Institute, Tehran
The Transformation of Public Space in Modern Iran

Mina Marefat, Library of Congress
Streets & Squares of Tehran

17.50-19.00

Session 5: Private in Public/Public in Private - A Conversation with Mahnaz Afkhami
Discussants:
Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto
Nasrin Rahimieh, McMaster University

Saturday, 9 July

9.00-9.30

Tea/Coffee/Refreshments

9.30-10.50

Session 6: Privately Public
Chair: Houra Yavari, Columbia University

Homa Katouzian, St. Antony's College
Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran

Abbas Milani, Stanford University
Character as Destiny: The Portrait of the Shah as a Young Man

10.50-12.10

Session 7: Publicly Private
Chair: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford

Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas, Austin
Of Sexual Matters: Popular Religious Practices of Women

Willem Floor, Independent Scholar
Venereal Disease, A Public Affair

12.10-13.30

Session 8: Violence and Romance
Chair: Ali Banuazizi, Boston College

Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia
Kill a Cat: Tame the Shrew

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Romantic Love in Iranian Cinema

13.30-14.50

Lunch/Film
The Ladies Room (Zananeh)
A film by Mahnaz Afzali

14.50-16.10

Session 9: The Politics of Mating
Chair: Habib Ladjevardi, Harvard University

Shahla Ezazi, Alamah Tabatabai University
Selecting Mates in Contemporary Iran

Fataneh Farahani, Stockholm University
Diasporic Sexual Narratives

16.10-16.45

Tea/Coffee/Refreshments

16.45-18.00

Session 10: Filming Private Lives - A Conversation with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Discussants:
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
Nasrin Rahimieh, MacMaster University
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Sunday, 10 July

9.00-9.30

Tea/Coffee/Refreshments

9.30-10.50

Session 11: Not So Private Lives
Chair: Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego

Houra Yavari, Columbia University
Is Public life Publishable? Ask Shaykh Ibrahim Zanjani!

Elham Gheytanchi, Santa Monica College
I Turn off the Lights: The Private Sphere in Contemporary Iranian Women's Novels

10.50-12.10

Session 12: Privacy and Sociability
Chair: Richard Tapper, SOAS

Ali Banuazizi, Boston College
Aspects of Self-Construal and Identity in Persian Culture

Lois Beck, Washington University
Reconfigurations of Private and Public: Examples from Qashqa'i Society

12.10-13.30

Session 13: Refiguring Subjects
Chair: Roxanne Varzi, St. Antony's College

Camron Michael Amin, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Blurring Private and Professional Lives by Design: Faculty and Student Housing at Isfahan University of Technology, 1977-2005

Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University
Tehran Arcades

13.30-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.50

Session 14: Dating Places
Chair: Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas, Austin

Mahsa Shekarloo, Journalist
Publicly Intimate Tehran: Desiring Subjects in Buses and Cabs

Janet Armineh Alexanian, University of California, Irvine
Cyber Intimacy

15.50-17.00

Session 15: Theorizing and Historicizing Private Lives

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
The Purity of the Body and the Body Politic