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sponsors Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

The Simorgh Foundation, Vienna

The Simorgh Iran Heritage Foundation, London

Atieh International, Vienna

Atieh International

Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, Honolulu

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Roxcel Group of Companies Ahmad Porkar

Welcome from the President

Iranian Studies Report

Welcome from the Institute of Iranian Studies

ISIS Officers and Council

Program Committee

Vienna Organizing Committee

Iran and Vienna: A personal field guide

Book Exhibition

Program Overview

Conference Program

Participant Index

Thematic Index

Index of Advertisers

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The City of Vienna

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sponsors Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

The Simorgh Foundation, Vienna

The Simorgh Iran Heritage Foundation, London

Atieh International, Vienna

Atieh International

Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, Honolulu

R SHAN

Roxcel Group of Companies Ahmad Porkar

Welcome from the President

Iranian Studies Report

Welcome from the Institute of Iranian Studies

ISIS Officers and Council

Program Committee

Vienna Organizing Committee

Iran and Vienna: A personal field guide

Book Exhibition

Program Overview

Conference Program

Participant Index

Thematic Index

Index of Advertisers

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The City of Vienna

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welcome from the president It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Eleventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies. Since its foundation in 1967, as a professional academic platform bringing the field of Iranian studies into the realm of critical inquiry of the social sciences and humanities, we are very proud to alternate our biennial on both sides of the Atlantic. What makes the Eleventh Biennial Conference of ISIS different is that it is being held in a European country with a long history of political, economic and cultural interaction with Iran. The move of the ISIS Biennial Conference to Vienna had a twofold target. Firstly, to highlight the transcontinental and inclusive dimension of ISIS, going once more beyond the North Atlantic world. Secondly to draw attention to the status of Austria as a major Germanophone country with some particularity of its own, partly due to its long standing history of bringing East and West of Europe and beyond together, even before the time of the Habsburg Empire. I hope the conference participants along with active engagement with the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimable programme, find time to explore beautiful Vienna. Austria in this conference provides opportunities for all of us to become more acquainted with the academic research activities of scholars in Europe in general and the Germanophone countries in particular. It thus fills me with great joy that our colleagues at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences have agreed to host this conference and share their scholarship with us at this conference. This conference would not have been possible without the unstinting support of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for which I would like to express my gratitude. I need also to thank Iran Heritage Foundation, Roshan Institute, The Simorgh Foundation and the City of Vienna for their generous support.

The organization of the Eleventh Biennial Conference of the ISIS is the result of the assiduous endeavor and devotion of many colleagues. In addition to Florian Schwarz, the Conference Chair, Camron Amin, the Programme Committee Chair and Rivanne Sandler, our Executive Director, other colleagues both in Vienna and beyond significantly contributed to the admirable organization of this conference. Thanks are also due to Pendar Yousefi, Creative Direction and Hamoun Hayati, Website Manager as well as the members of the Conference Committee, Vahideh Ghandi, Bettina Hofleitner, Bijan Khajehpour, Jaleh LacknerGohari, Pari Namazie, Giorgio Rota and Sibylle Wentker. I am deeply grateful to them for their dedication and ingenuity. My final appreciations go to the publishers who are participating in the Book Exhibit. I wish you all an inspiring intellectual exchange in glorious Vienna!

Touraj Atabaki President of International Society for Iranian Studies

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Touraj Atabaki President of International Society for Iranian Studies

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Homa Katouzian Iranian Studies Farewell Report, 2016 In this, my last year of tenure as the journal’s chief editor, I shall not endeavour to present a lengthy and detailed report as I have been used to doing. For that, I refer my colleagues to the earlier reports. To date, we have published four issues of the 2016 volume 49, and the remaining two are set to be published in September and November. As usual, this year we received a large number of submissions, which, as they were destined for publication in 2017 and beyond, they were dealt with by the chief editor designate Professor Ali Gheissari and the team of Associate Editors. I was made chief editor of the journal in January 2004. It was then a rather irregularly published quarterly. But, since my tenure as editor, each and every issue has been published in or before the due month. In 2007, on the suggestion of the publishers, Routledge of Taylor and Francis, we increased publication to five issues a year.

From 2011 we have been publishing the journal every other month, after Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi and I negotiated a very favourable contract with the publishers. In the same year, the journal was elevated to the status of an ISI journal and listed in the prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index, backdated to 2008. All the while there has been a steady improvement in the form and content of the journal. According to the publishers’ report, the journal’s impact factor for 2015 which has just been released was more than three times that of the previous year. The number of our individual subscribers has increased by more than eightfold since 2004. Thus, under my editorship, the journal went from strength to strength so that I can now deliver it into the capable hands of Ali Gheissari as the flagship of Iranian Studies, the world over.

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welcome from the institute of iranian studies The Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences extends a warm welcome to the participants of the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference. It is a great honor to host this event, and we are immensely grateful to the International Society for Iranian Studies to have entrusted the Institute for Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with the task of organizing the 2016 conference. The Institute for Iranian Studies (Institut für Iranistik) was established in 2002 by expanding a smaller research cluster with a focus on Iranian linguistics and philology that had existed since 1969. A research unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Institute has developed since 2002 into one of the largest non-university research institutes in this field in Europe. It covers a wide range of themes in Iranian Studies and is embedded in a rich academic environment that fosters the study of Iranian themes in various other disciplines, such as numismatics, archaeology, art history, anthropology and linguistics. The Institute for Iranian Studies is dedicated to scholarly research on all aspects of Iranian Studies. The core research projects aim to explore cultural processes in Iranianate and Persianate societies and communities and cross-cultural contacts and transfers between Iran, its wider Asian context, and Europe. The Institute promotes theoretical and methodological diversity and comparative approaches in Iranian studies. It has an international research staff with backgrounds in history, linguistics, literary studies and art history, including specialists in Old Indo-Iranian and Middle Iranian linguistics and philology, medieval, early modern and modern Iranian and Central Asian history, classical and modern Persian and Kurdish literatures, the art and architecture of medieval and modern Iran, and manuscript studies. Larger projects include the following: The corpus of Iranian personal names (Iranisches Personennamenbuch or IPBN), an international collaborative project based at the Academy since 1969; Christian Sogdian book culture, funded by the Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology; a bio-bibliographical database of military

slaves in the Safavid Empire; Persian poetics and metrics; travelogues in the persophone world in the 18th to early 20th centuries; the Austro-Hungarian presence in Qajar Iran since the middle of the 19th century to the First World War; Persian Art in the South-East European context; and “Seeing like an archive”, a six-year project funded by the START program of the Austrian Science Fund and exploring the concept of “culture of documentation” in a case study on the archive of the Khans of Khiva. Members of the institute coordinate international research networks on modernity and modernism in persophone literary history and on shari’a in the Russian Empire. Persianate cultures in South Asia are an area of vital interest of the institute as well. Connectivity, authorship, cultures of documentation and manuscript cultures are some of the major themes and concepts explored in these projects. The Institute is a research institute and offers no academic courses or degrees. It engages, however, in various ways in academic training, mostly at the graduate level. It has held summer schools on Persian codicology (2008) and the social history of modern Central Asia (2012). Staff members have been teaching as affiliate or visiting professors and

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lecturers at Universities in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United States. The Institute publishes two monograph series in Iranian studies with the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. After the 6th European Conference on Iranian Studies in 2007, the Institute for Iranian Studies is now for the second time in its 14-year existence hosting one of the big international Iranian Studies conferences. Organizing an event like the Biennial Iranian Studies Conferences of the International Society for Iranian Studies is a formidable challenge and a collective effort, and it would not have been possible without the generous support and the hard work of many people. It has been a true pleasure and enriching experience to work with Touraj Atabaki, President of ISIS, Rivanne Sandler, Executive Director of ISIS, Mehrzad Borujerdi, past president of ISIS, Camron Amin, chair of the Program Committee, Pendar Yousefi, Creative Direction, and Hamoun Hayati, Website assistant.

The conference would not have been possible without the generous support of a number of sponsors. We would like to thank Iran Heritage Foundation (London), Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute (Honolulu), the City of Vienna, The Simorgh Foundation, Atieh International, and Mr. Ahmad Porkar, Roxcel Group of Companies (all Vienna). The Austrian Academy generously matched the Institute for Iranian Studies’ own contribution. The Institute for Iranian Studies wishes the participants of the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference an interesting and successful conference, and a pleasant stay in Vienna.

Florian Schwarz Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies

Our thanks go to the members of the Program Committee for their critical, diligent and timely contribution to the preparation of the program. At the University of Vienna we wish to thank Florian Weber and Gerald Schneider of the University Event Management for their professional and responsive support. As Chair of the organizing committee in Vienna I thank its members for their tireless and thoughtful work on all the major and minor tasks that go into the organization of a conference: the ‘core group’ from the administrative and research staff of the Institute for Iranian Studies, Vahideh Ghandi, Bettina Hofleitner, Giorgio Rota and Sibylle Wentker; Sasan Djalali for his assistance immediately before and during the conference; and Bijan Khajehpour, Jaleh Lackner-Gohari and Pari Namazie for their constant support, encouragement, advise and help on many critical issues. The Vienna Organizing Committee thanks the participants of the Book exhibit for their important contribution to this event. A very special word of thanks goes to Wolfgang Maderthaner, Director General of the Austrian National Archive, Thomas Just, Director of the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, to support the idea of a small exhibition on the history of Iranian-Austrian relations, and in particular to Ernst Petritsch, archivist at the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, for preparing the exhibition in collaboration with Sibylle Wentker.

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The International Society for Iranian Studies Executive Committee 2016 Touraj Atabaki, President, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam Rivanne Sandler, Executive Director & Treasurer, University of Toronto Homa Katouzian, Journal Editor, University of Oxford Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Past-President, Syracuse University

2016 Council Touraj Atabaki, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, President (2015-2017) Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford, Journal Editor (2012-2016) Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto, Executive Director & Treasurer (2008- ) Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Past President, Syracuse University (2015-2017) Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine, PresidentElect (2016-2018) Kamran Scot Aghaie, University of Texas at Austin (20142016) Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute (2016-2018) Susan Babaie, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (20142016) Alyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2015-2017) Afshin Marashi, University of Oklahoma (2016-2018) Florian Schwarz, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2015-2017) Assef Ashraf, Yale University (2014-2016) Peyman Jafari, Student Council Member, Leiden University (2015-2017) Pendar Yousefi, Creative Direction Hamoun Hayati, Website Manager

Program Committee Adjudicators Camron Amin, University of Michigan, Dearborn, (Chair) Paul E. Losensky, Indiana University Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, Fullerton Parveneh Pourshariati, New York City University of Technology - CUNY Persis Karim, San Jose State University Victoria Tahmasebi, University of Toronto Pardis Manuchehr, George Washington University Pedram Partovi, American University Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter Mojgan Mokhatebi-Ardakani, Macquarie University Fatemeh Kesharvarz, University of Maryland Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania Roham Alvandi, London School of Economics Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced Kamran Aghaie, The University of Texas at Austin Afshin Marashi, University of Oklahoma Staci Scheiwiller, California State University, Stanislaus Ida Meftahi, University of Maryland Fatemeh Shams-Esmaeli, University of Oxford Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford Brian Kudron, Assistant to the Committee Chair

Organizing Committee in Vienna Florian Schwarz (Chair) Vahideh Ghandi Bettina Hofleitner Bijan Khajehpour Jaleh Lackner-Gohari Pari Namazie Giorgio Rota Sibylle Wentker

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Florian Schwarz Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies

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Organizing Committee in Vienna Florian Schwarz (Chair) Vahideh Ghandi Bettina Hofleitner Bijan Khajehpour Jaleh Lackner-Gohari Pari Namazie Giorgio Rota Sibylle Wentker

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When a well-known specialist of Mongol history came through Vienna a few years ago, he asked me to take him to Perchtoldsdorf, a small town south of Vienna. A small patch of heath near the town, a popular destination for family outings, marks, as he explained, the western tip of the Central Eurasian steppe belt. This gives an interesting turn to the famous and not well-intended bonmot of the Austrian diplomat and statesman Metternich, who after the Congress of Vienna of 1815 liked to state that Asia began just behind his palace in Vienna’s southeastern Third District.

professional interpreters and diplomats. Professors and alumni of this academy engaged in an impressive activity of translation from Persian, especially classical Persian poetry. These efforts have left a deep mark on German literature. Among the most important representatives of those diplomats-cum-scholars was Joseph von HammerPurgstall (1774-1856) whose translations of Hafiz inspired Goethe.

Ecologically speaking, Metternich was not so far off the mark. Historically speaking, it was mostly the engagement of the Habsburg Empire with the Ottoman Empire, in war as in peace, and the close relations of Vienna with a number of polities or communities with long histories of direct dealings with the Iranian world – such as Venice, Poland, Portugal, or Armenian diaspora communities – that shaped the perception of and contacts with Iran until the 19th century. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Published on behalf of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)

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An active interest in Iran and the Persian language emerged in Austria with the establishment of regular diplomatic contacts between the Habsburg Empire and Iran in the 16th century. In the second half of the 17th century – a period of particularly intensive relations between Austria and the Near and Middle East, which is often misleadingly reduced to the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 –, three major works on Persia and Persian were printed in Vienna: Gianbattista Podestà’s grammar of Persian, Arabic and Turkish (1669), the Persian-Armenian Pedros Bedik’s fascinating history and description of Persia entitled Cehil Sutun (1678), and the monumental and influential Thesaurus linguarum Orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae… by François de Mesgiens (Meninski) (1680-87). Attempts to establish Oriental languages, including Persian, at the University of Vienna in the 17th century, however, met with little success. A serious interest in Persian language, literature and history began almost one century later, not at the university, but at the Oriental Academy, an institution founded by Empress Maria Theresia in 1754 to train

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J. von Hammer-Purgstall, bust in the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Around the middle of the 19th century Austria entered a phase of rapidly intensifying direct engagement with Iran. The first mo dern Iranian diplomatic mission, led by Mirza Abd al-Husayn Khan Shirazi, had reached Vienna in 1819 en route to London. Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall gave them a tour of the Oriental Academy. Mirza Abd al-Husayn thanked his host with a prose description in Persian of this visit in which he praises the Persian speaking skills of the

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students and hints at the linguistic relationship between Persian and German.

Semitic motivation for this denial is likely. Without the habilitation Tedesco could not teach at the university, so he earned a living teaching Latin and Greek at various schools in Vienna while carrying on his groundbreaking research on Middle Iranian. The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany brought the careers of the two Jewish scholars in Austria to an abrupt halt. Both were able to emigrate to the United States. Geiger taught for many years at the Asia Institute in New York and at Columbia University. Tedesco taught at Yale University from 1952-66. In 1938 a very promising development in Iranian Studies in Vienna had come to a screeching halt. Only in the 1950s the numismatist Robert Göbl and since 1966 the indoeuropeanist Manfred Mayrhofer brought a new momentum to Iranian Studies in Vienna. Both were active members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and all Iran related research at the Academy today (Institute of Iranian Studies; Parthian and Sasanian numismatics) goes back to their initiatives.

Persian Diplomats in Vienna, 1819 (Institute of Iranian Studies)

*** Austrian experts like the medical doctor Jacob Eduard Polak, the civil engineer Anton Gasteiger, or the artillery expert August Krziz – to name only a few – were invited to Iran to advance technical modernization and establish European-style medical, technical and military education and training in Qajar Iran. Polak’s role in cultural transfer was the topic of a project carried out by Afsaneh Gächter at the Institute of Iranian Studies, while the official missions of military experts to Iran are studied by Sibylle Wentker and Giorgio Rota. The official visit of Nasir al-Din Shah to Vienna in 1873 for the opening of the “Persian Pavilion” at the World Fair and the formal establishment of mutual diplomatic representations in Vienna and Tehran in the same year belongs to this context. Iranian Studies as an academic discipline were to develop only slowly in Vienna, despite the efforts of HammerPurgstall (in 1847-49 the first president of the Academy of Sciences) and Polak, whose role in raising awareness and popularizing knowledge on Iran to the Austrian public can hardly be overstated. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that Vienna became one of the European hubs for Iranian linguistics and philology. Two names stand for this period: Bernhard Geiger (1881-1964; father of American Concert Pianist Ruth Geiger, 1923-2016) and his student Paul Maximilian Tedesco (1898-1980). Geiger was appointed associate professor of Indian and Iranian philology at the University of Vienna in 1919 and taught classes ranging from Avestan through Middle Persian to New Persian, Balochi and Ossetian. His student Paul Tedesco was denied twice the habilitation, and an anti-

The actual purpose of this text is not to tell the history of Austrian-Iranian relations and Iranian studies in Austria, but to provide a small guide to manifestations of these relations in the forms of artefacts, buildings, or even visions that never materialized but are still part of the genius loci to the informed visitor. The following sketch is very personal and by no means complete. It includes some of the top tourist destinations of Vienna Schönbrunn, St.Stephen’s Cathedral, the Belvedere, the Imperial Treasury, the Museum of Natural History, the Kunsthistorisches Museum – and invites you, while you indulge in the bygone glory of the Habsburg or the thrill of a moving dinosaur model – to look out for Iranian objects and references. But while you may have most or all of those attractions on your post-conference to-do-list anyway, I encourage you to also consider visiting a few less known (even to the Viennese!) museums and buildings included in this field guide. When it comes to the quality, diversity, and sheer quantity of museums, Vienna can claim a place among the top destinations worldwide. Yet it lacks one type of museum that many of its international peers boast: There is no museum, (almost) not even a museum department dedicated to pre-Islamic or Islamic art and artefacts from Western, Central and South Asia. This might at first seem odd, given the long and intense history of contacts with the Islamic world, especially the Ottoman Empire. As a matter of fact, museums and other public collections in Vienna contain rich holdings in objects from pre-Islamic and Islamic Western, Central and South Asia. A detailed

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survey of Islamic objects in Viennese collections, carried out by Barbara Karl in the framework of a project at the Institute of Iranian Studies, yielded an estimate of close to 40,000 relevant objects (Karl 2011:7). These objects are dispersed over a number of museums and libraries, including most of the major museums in the city. The Museum of Military History (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) should be mentioned here as well, although it holds no “Iranian” objects. The museum displays fascinating objects from the long centuries of HabsburgOttoman military confrontation. The former Ethnographic museum is currently closed; when it reopens in the fall of 2017 with a new name and concept as “Weltmuseum Wien” (World Museum Vienna), one of its halls will be dedicated to ‘Orientalia’. Perhaps to say that Iranian or Islamic artefacts are dispersed over many museums is not the right way to put it. They just have never been brought together in one place by 19th-, 20th- or 21st-century museum planners or collectors. Remaining in historically grown collections, many of the objects retain much of the multiple contexts that are part of their cultural significance. In this regard, the Vienna non-museum of Islamic art may have an edge over many famous specialized collections. At least a virtual museum of Islamic art in Vienna exists, initiated and “curated” by art historian Ebba Koch and her students, and although the website is in German, it is worth a visit (see list of websites below). The one partial exception is the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art), whose relevant collections are so rich that I recommend to simply go and explore. The Textiles and Carpets collection with its “Polish” and “Portuguese” Iranian carpets highlights the cultural, political and commercial connections between Europe and the Persianate world. The MAK also owns 60 folios of the Hamzanama, the largest part of this famous manuscript from the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar in any museum. The Hamzanama folios were acquired by the museum during the World Fair in 1873.

of the Habsburgs. But already in June 1606 the Habsburgs granted religious freedom to the reformed Hungarians and made Bocskai Grand Prince of Hungary and Transylvania. After Bocskai’s death a few months later the crown came into the possession of the Habsburgs.

Crown of István Bocskai and Case, Imperial Treasury, Wien

The gold crown itself is now generally considered to be a product of the Ottoman court workshops (Karl 2011:43). Its wooden case, however, is decorated with an exquisite figural silk fabric produced in Safavid Iran around 1600. In this case a piece of Safavid silk came to Vienna already as part of an Islamic artefact – the case for the crown of István Bocskai.

But apart from the MAK, the lover of Iranian art in Vienna should be prepared to set out on a treasure hunt. Why not begin this treasure-hunt at the Treasury with capital T, the Imperial Treasury! The Imperial Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer) preserves and displays a number of stunning silk fabrics produced in Iran between the late 16th and the 18th centuries. Two will be highlighted here. When the Calvinist Hungarian nobleman István (Stephen) Bocskai sought Ottoman support in his revolt against Habsburg counter-reformism and centralism, Sultan Ahmed I sent him in November 1605 a gold crown to make him King of Transylvania and Hungary under Ottoman suzerainty. The traditional crown of Hungary, the famous Crown of Saint Stephen, had since 1551 been in the hands

Clerical Garment with Persian Silk, Imperial Treasury, Wien

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students and hints at the linguistic relationship between Persian and German.

Persian Diplomats in Vienna, 1819 (Institute of Iranian Studies)

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Crown of István Bocskai and Case, Imperial Treasury, Wien

Clerical Garment with Persian Silk, Imperial Treasury, Wien

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But Iranian silk fabrics were also highly valued objects of trade in their own right. Armenians played an important role in the trade of Iranian luxury wares to the Habsburg dominions. The Imperial Treasury contains several clerical garments that incorporated pieces of Safavid silk fabric, like the so-called “Green Persian garment” (Grüner Persianer) (Karl 2011, 41-45.). Iranian luxury fabrics were coveted by the Habsburgs already long before the 16th century. When Duke Rudolf IV, the builder of St Stephen’s Cathedral and founder of the University of Vienna, died in 1365, he was buried in a garment made from a large piece of silk and gold cloth. It has an Arabic inscription that names the Mongol ruler of Iran, Abu Sa‘id (r. 1316-1335) and thus allows the attribution of the cloth to the Ilkhanid court workshop in northwestern Iran. Within 30 years after the death of Abu Sa‘id, the luxury fabric had reached Vienna, where it was tailored into the burial garment.

The West Gallery of St. Stephen’s Cathedral where the Burial Shroud of Duke Rudolf IV is Currently Displayed

The burial garment of Duke Rudolf IV has been the object of a detailed study by Markus Ritter (now at the University of Vienna) in a project based at the Institute for Iranian Studies. It is preserved in the Cathedral Museum (Domund Diözesanmuseum). The museum is currently closed, but a selection of its most important objects, including

Duke Rudolf’s burial garment, is on display in a special exhibition in St. Stephan’s Cathedral. It is a bit hard to find, but worth the effort (and don’t be deterred by the somewhat claustrophobic elevator). Entering the Cathedral through the main entrance, turn right to the security door. You have to press a button to call the elevator. You will be rewarded not only by the exhibition, but also by a unique perspective on the interior of the Cathedral from its western gallery (a view into the innards of the organ included). Pay also attention to the small 14th-century portrait of Duke Rudolf IV at the start of the exhibition. One of the earliest individual portraits in medieval European art, it shows the Duke apparently wearing a garment made from a Near Eastern and possibly Iranian brocade (not the same as his burial garment). The treasure hunt leads us now to the Museum of Natural History, where one of my personal favorite objects is displayed: the “Persian Turquoise” in the Naturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Natural History, or NHM). Most visitors of the popular NHM may be after the dinosaurs, the prehistorical and archaeological showrooms with the famous 29,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf, or the world’s largest exhibition of meteorites. In Hall 4, a bouquet made of more than 2,000 diamonds and over 700 precious stones will immediately catch your eyes. It was a present of Maria Theresia to her husband Emperor Franz Stephan. Once you have satisfied your desire for pure rococo indulgence, turn to the display cases along the walls and look for an object highlighted as one of the museums Top 100 objects: The “Persian Turquoise”. It is a turquoise of the size of an ostrich egg fitted in a gold frame. Both the stone and the frame carry Persian inscriptions which identifies the stone as a gift to Emperor Franz Joseph I. At the top of the framing are the emperor’s crown and monogram, flanked to the left and right by the Qajar lion and sun coat of arms. The inscription, pledging the prayers of the Muslims for the triumph of the emperor, the shape resembling a talisman, and the years 1914 and 1915 written left and right of the stone place this object in the context of the first year of World War I. The person who dedicated this stone to the AustroHungarian monarch in 1915 identifies himself in German and Persian as Mehdi Gassem/Mahdi Qasem from Mashhad. Besides its specific historical significance, the “Persian Turquoise” nicely reflects a number of aspects that characterize the history of contacts and interactions between the Iranian world and Austria: the importance of the trade in luxury goods since the Middle Ages; the role of diplomatic or personal gifts in the formation of collections of “Oriental” art; and the intensification of direct contacts and mutual awareness and knowledge between the two countries during the parallel rules of the almost coeval rulers of Iran and Austria, Nasir al-Din Shah (1831-1896)

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and Franz Joseph I. (1830-1916) who both accessed the throne in 1848.

these jade vessels originally came from (Samarqand and Herat have been hypothesized) and how they reached the imperial court (perhaps via Lisbon through Portuguese intermediaries), but what is certain is that they reflect the role of trade and diplomatic gifts in early modern cultural exchange and the appreciation of Iranian luxury objects by European elites (Karl 2011, 48).

The Persian Turquoise. © Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien Alabastron of Xerxes I, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien

From the Museum of Natural History you need only to cross the park-like square and enter its architectural and historical twin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts) to find more precious stone artefacts of Iranian provenance or context. Hall VI exhibits a small number of Achaemenid artefacts, including a small fragment from the Persepolis reliefs; personally I find the Egyptian alabaster vase displayed below it more remarkable. A particularly elegant member of a family of similar vases – five of its siblings are preserved in museums in Paris, London, Philadelphia and New Haven – it bears the name and title of Xerxes I in Egyptian, Old Persian, Elamitic and Babylonian. While this artefact entered the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum relatively recently by purchase in 1993, the next objects take us to the very origins of the Imperial collections that form the core of the museum. The Kunstkammer, the Habsburg collection of precious and exotic objects, goes back to the 16th century. It contains a number of Islamic objects. Of particular importance is a small group of Timurid jade vessels, at least one of which is already listed in an inventory of the collection made for Emperor Rudolf II in 1607/11. It is not known where

Timurid (or Timurid-style) stone vessels found their way also into the Treasury of the Teutonic Order. Today the Grand Master of the Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary’s hospital in Jerusalem has his seat in the Deutschordenshaus in Vienna, in the building closest to St. Stephen’s cathedral. Its treasury is open to the public (entrance from Singerstrasse 7). The restricted opening hours according to the website (in German only) are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 am to 12 noon and on Wednesdays and Fridays from 3 to 5 pm. When you go there don’t miss the late gothic church and the courtyard of the baroque mansion of the order. Among the several “Asian” artefacts in the exhibition you will find an elegant boat- or kashkul-shaped bowl of light green nephrite and a dark jade jug in a European mount, which may have come from the collection of the Habsburg archduke Maximilian III, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1590 to 1618. (Karl 2011, 78; Rührdanz 2011)

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The West Gallery of St. Stephen’s Cathedral where the Burial Shroud of Duke Rudolf IV is Currently Displayed

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and Franz Joseph I. (1830-1916) who both accessed the throne in 1848.

The Persian Turquoise. © Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien Alabastron of Xerxes I, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien

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Timurid (?) Nephrite Stone Vessel, Treasury of the Teutonic Order, Wien

Fast forward to the 19th century. Nasir al-Din Shah has already been mentioned. The Qajar shah looms prominently in the modern history of Iranian-Austrian relations. You may want to pay him a visit while you are in Vienna. As in the case of the Turqoise, you probably would not be thinking of visiting the Upper Belvedere palace to see a portrait of the famous Qajar king, but rather to check one top item off your to-do list for Vienna: Gustav Klimt’s Kiss. So much for love; the Qajar Shah appears in a more warlike pose in a larger-than-life portrait. He stands before the muzzle of a cannon (he had either very much faith in the loyalty of his artillery, or very little faith in their aiming accuracy).

H. Hovnatanjan: Nasir al-Din Shah, © Belvedere, Wien

The painting, which bears no signature, has been attributed to an Armenian artist, Hakov Hovnatanjan (1806-1881), and is believed to have been painted between 1860 and 1870. The scion of a famous dynasty of painters, Hovnatanjan is known for his adaptation of European style – not unlike his Qajar peer Abu l-Hasan Ghaffari Sani‘ al-Mulk – and for his fine portraits of the Tiflis high society. In contrast to other representations of the young Nasir al-Din Shah in a military context, the king appears not in European uniform and as a solitary royal figure. There is an intriguing contrast between the two principal paraphernalia of the king in this painting: a European artillery telescope, and a medallion showing a traditional representation of Imam Ali: Apparently they represent the two main foundations for Nasir al-Din’s aspirations: European military technology, and the intercession of Imam Ali. It is known that the Shah commissioned his court painter Abu l-Hasan Ghaffari with painting a medallion of Imam Ali. The dress of the shah shows striking similarities to a portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah in the Louvre Museum by Abu l-Hasan Ghaffari, dated 1858 (Diba p.242 No.74), while the pose and also the background recalls another painting by Ghaffari, dated 1852-53 (http://www.christies. com/lotfinder/paintings/the-young-nasir-al-din-shahqajar-signed-5780324-details.aspx). It is possible that reproductions of these two paintings served as models for Hovnatanjan’s painting, which he must have made in Tiflis or perhaps in Tabriz. It is not precisely known how and when the painting came to Vienna, but since it came to the Belvedere in 1921 from the Imperial Gallery it was very likely that it had been given or sent to Emperor Franz Joseph I. as an official gift. From the Belvedere, the baroque summer palace of Eugene of Savoy, we continue to Schönbrunn, the baroque summer residence of the Habsburg family and a UNESCO world cultural heritage site since 1996. Two aspects make Austria’s most-visited tourist site relevant for this field guide. The obvious one is the Feketin Cabinet, better known today as the Millionenzimmer (Millions Room) due to its rich decoration. The walls are covered with collages of miniatures from 17th- and 18th-century Mughal and Deccani manuscripts and albums that were cut up, reassembled, and partially retouched and supplemented by an unknown artist (or artists) in the 18th century to fit the 60 cartouches of the rococo wood panelling. Ebba Koch has pointed out the unprecedented attention the “Schönbrunn painter” paid to his Mughal models in his own overpaintings, supplementary paintings and retouches. The Millions Room is a unique example of the faithful and skilled adaptation of Indo-Persian art in a European context. The other “Iranian” aspect of Schönbrunn is hidden; no, not even hidden: it never materialized from the realm of

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ideas into built reality. In 1688 Johann Bernhard Fischer (1656-1723; since 1696 Fischer von Erlach), commissioned by Emperor Leopold I to build a new summer palace at Schönbrunn, presented an ideal project that was never even meant to become reality.

of Fischer’s architectural vision of the Habsburg Emperor as the “new Cyrus”.

J.B. Fischer von Erlach: Reconstruction of Persepolis. © National and University Library, Zagreb J.B. Fischer von Erlach: Project for Schönbrunn. © National and University Library, Zagreb

Five years after the Habsburg had overcome one of the most severe crises of the Empire, the Ottoman siege of 1683, Fischer’s original project was an ideal manifestation of reestablished Imperial grandeur. The great baroque architect had a highly developed interest in the history of architecture, not only European, but worldwide. For his original Schönbrunn project he took his inspiration from Iran. In the two decades prior to his project the ruins of Persepolis had become known to a wide audience in Europe through engravings of drawings by European travelers. By the time of Fischer’s project the drawings of Persepolis by André Daulier Deslandes (who visited Persepolis in 1665) and Jean Chardin (around 1674) had been published. It was not before 1721 that Fischer published a baroque reconstruction of Persepolis – then believed to have been built by Cyrus - in his Draft for a historical architecture (Entwurff einer historischen Architektur). But the first Schönbrunn project is clear evidence that already in 1688 Fischer was aware of Persepolis and was struck by the concept of an imperial palace built on layered terraces and symbolically overlooking the Empire. A preparatory sketch for the project, kept in the National Library of Croatia in Zagreb, shows the sequence of terraces with the characteristic double stairways, topped by the palace. Fischer wrote below the sketch: “First project how I wanted to build Schönbrunn on the top of the hill, not at the bottom”. In the end, the palace was built in a less grand fashion at the foot of the hill; the pavilion on the top of the hill, the famous Gloriette, is only a faint reminiscence

We stay with architecture. The final stop on our tour takes us to the outskirts of Vienna. The Zacherlfabrik (Zacherl factory) is names after its builder, Johann Zacherl (18141888). A pewterer from Munich, Zacherl traveled widely, as was customary for young craftsmen. His travels took him to the Russian Empire, and in the middle of the 19th century he lived for more than a decade in Tiflis, the cosmopolitan metropolis of the “Russian Caucasus”. There he became acquainted with the traditional use of a powder made from flowers of a Caucasian chrysanthemum (Tanacetum coccineum) as a powerful insecticide. Settling in Vienna, he began in 1863 with the production of his own insecticide, Zacherlin, initially still using raw material imported from the Caucasus. Zacherlin became a synonym for insecticide and a worldwide bestseller due to its quality, safety and easy handling, but also as a result of very effective marketing. The central element of the marketing strategy was the figure of a fierce Circassian in his exotic uniform, armed to the teeth with cartridge belt, pistol and sabre – and a spray can of Zacherlin, which he uses to fight off a swarm of insects. The orientalism of the Zacherlin marketing is also reflected in the new factory which Johann Zacherl’s son Johann Evangelist Zacherl opened in around 1890 in the suburbs of Vienna. He commissioned architects Wiedenfeld and Mayreder with an orientalizing building, complete with a life-size bronze sculpture of Johann Zacherl in Circassian uniform (but without the spray can). While the interior of the building is decorated in a “Moorish” style, the impressive façade, complete with a dome and two slim minarets, evokes Timurid architecture and decoration.

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Timurid (?) Nephrite Stone Vessel, Treasury of the Teutonic Order, Wien

H. Hovnatanjan: Nasir al-Din Shah, © Belvedere, Wien

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of Fischer’s architectural vision of the Habsburg Emperor as the “new Cyrus”.

J.B. Fischer von Erlach: Reconstruction of Persepolis. © National and University Library, Zagreb J.B. Fischer von Erlach: Project for Schönbrunn. © National and University Library, Zagreb

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Zacherlfabrik, Wien.

The façade can be admired from the street, while the interior – including the wonderfully preserved original production and storage halls – can be visited only by appointment with the owner, the great-grandson of Johann Zacherl (address: Nusswaldgasse 14, 1190 Wien).

Websites: Belvedere Museum: https://www.belvedere.at/en Cathedral Museum (Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, currently closed): http://www.dommuseum.at/dm/ home.php Imperial Treasury (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer): http:// www.kaiserliche-schatzkammer.at/en/ Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts): http:// www.khm.at MAK (Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art): http://www.mak.at Museum of Military History (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum): http://www.hgm.at Naturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Natural History, NHM): http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/ Schönbrunn: http://www.schoenbrunn.at/en.html Treasury of the Teutonic Order (Schatzkammer des Deutschen Ordens): http://www.deutscher-orden. at/site/ordenshausinwien/schatzkammerVirtual museum of Islamic art in Vienna: http://www. museumislamischerkunst.net/ Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna; to open in 2017): http://www.weltmuseumwien.at Zacherlfabrik: http://www.zacherlfabrik.at

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Selected literature: Barbara Karl, Treasury – Kunstkammer – Museum: Objects from the Islamic World in the Museum Collections of Vienna, Wien 2011. Ebba Koch, “The `Moghuleries’ of the Millionenzimmer, Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna”, in Arts of Mughal India: Studies in Honour of Robert Skelton, London 2004, pp.152-67. Kristian Sotriffer, Die Blüte der Chrysantheme: Die Zacherl – Stationen einer anderen Wiener Bürgerfamilie, Wien a.o. 1996. B.W. Robinson, “Persian Royal Portraiture and the Qajars”, in: C.E. Bosworth and R. Hillenbrand (eds.), Qajar Iran: Political, Social and Cultural Change, Edinburgh 1983, pp.291-311. Layla S. Diba, with Maryam Ekhtiar (eds.), Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925, London and New York 1998. Karin Rührdanz, “‘Ein kändlein von schwartzgriener igiada’: Persianate nephrite vessels” in Mediaeval and Modern Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies held in Vienna on 18-22 September 2007 by the Societas Iranologica Europaea, eds. Maria Szuppe, Anna Krasnowolska and Claus V. Pedersen (= Cahiers de Studia Iranica 45), Paris 2011, pp. 179-192.

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Zacherlfabrik, Wien.

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Wednesday 3 August 2016

Unless otherwise stated all events take place at the University of Vienna, main building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna

Morning panels

Morning sessions Afternoon sessions

08:45 am - 10:00 am 10:30 am - 12:00 noon 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Coffee breaks Großer Festsaal Between morning panels and between afternoon panels Information and registration desk

1st floor, Oktogon

“Documents on the history of Austrian-Iranian relations”

Special session: Iran and the Future of Oil Room 33 (1st floor) 12:15 - 02:00 pm Afternoon panels Opening and award ceremony and reception 06:00 - 09:00 pm Audimax (lower ground floor) Reception: Großer Festsaal

Thursday 4 August 2016 Morning panels

Please register for the following events at the Registration/Info desk:

Special session: Vienna Nuclear Talks: One Year Later Room 33 (1st floor) 12:15 - 02:00 pm

Reception by the City of Vienna Guided tours to the archive exhibition

Afternoon panels

book exhibition

Reception by the City of Vienna 07:30 pm Venue: Rathaus (City Hall), Rathausplatz

Kleiner Festsaal Wed 3 August 09:00 am - 06:00 pm Thu 4 August 09:00 am - 06:00 pm Fri 5 August 09:00 am - 05:00 pm

Friday 5 August 2016

Reception for Homa Katouzian Großer Festsaal (1st floor) 06:00 - 07:00 pm

Tuesday 2 August 2016 Registration 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm 1st floor, Oktogon

in the Austrian State Archive / Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv On the occasion of the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference the Austrian State Archive has prepared a special exhibition on “Documents on the history of Austrian-Iranian relations” (Organizers: Ernst Petritsch, Sibylle Wentker). Conference participants are offered guided tours of the exhibition and of the historical archive building. Group size per tour is limited to 25 persons (registration at conference info desk). Wednesday 3 August, 02:30-03:15 pm meeting time at the conference info desk: 02:00 pm Thursday 4 August, 11:00-11:45 am meeting time at the conference info desk: 10:30 am Friday 5 August, 02:00-03:00 pm meeting time at the conference info desk: 01:30 pm The exhibition can also be visited individually during the regular opening hours of the archive. Address: Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv Minoritenplatz 1, 1010 Wien (Within easy walking distance from the University main building) Opening hours: Mon - Wed 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Thu 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Fri 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Morning panels Special session: Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran 12:15-02:00 pm Room 33 (1st floor) ISIS General meeting 05:00-6:00 pm Fare-well reception 6:00-09:00 pm

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program overview General Information

Wednesday 3 August 2016

Unless otherwise stated all events take place at the University of Vienna, main building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna

Morning panels

Morning sessions Afternoon sessions

08:45 am - 10:00 am 10:30 am - 12:00 noon 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Coffee breaks Großer Festsaal Between morning panels and between afternoon panels Information and registration desk

1st floor, Oktogon

“Documents on the history of Austrian-Iranian relations”

Thursday 4 August 2016 Morning panels

Please register for the following events at the Registration/Info desk:

Special session: Vienna Nuclear Talks: One Year Later Room 33 (1st floor) 12:15 - 02:00 pm

Reception by the City of Vienna Guided tours to the archive exhibition

Afternoon panels

book exhibition

Reception by the City of Vienna 07:30 pm Venue: Rathaus (City Hall), Rathausplatz

Kleiner Festsaal Wed 3 August 09:00 am - 06:00 pm Thu 4 August 09:00 am - 06:00 pm Fri 5 August 09:00 am - 05:00 pm

Friday 5 August 2016

Reception for Homa Katouzian Großer Festsaal (1st floor) 06:00 - 07:00 pm

Tuesday 2 August 2016 Registration 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm 1st floor, Oktogon

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Großer Festsaal (1st floor)

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new Perspectives on iranian languages

Chair: Firoozeh Qandehari | University of Toronto Helen Giunashvili | Ilia State University Studies on Middle Iranian Onomastics in Greek Inscriptions of (Pre)-Christian Georgia Mohsen Roudmajani | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

۱۳۹۲‫تا‬۱۳٤۰ ‫بررسی نام گﺬاری ایرانیان از سال‬

Chiara Barbati | Austrian Academy of Sciences Identifying Scribal Hands: A Few Notes on Christian Sogdian Manuscript Fragments Coming From Turfan Ketevan Gadilia | Russian State University of Humanities Meaning of (In)definiteness in Iranian Languages. Some Semantic and Grammatical Features.

002 08:45 am - 10:15 am

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mysticism and text i

Chair: Leila Rahimi Bahmany | Freie Universität Berlin Farzad Sharifian | Monash University Cultural Conceptualisations of Del ‘Heart/Stomach’ in Persian Abolfazl Moshiri | University of Toronto From the Sun of Tabriz to the Sun of the Soul: Reassessing Shams-i Tabrizi’s Influence on Rumi Through an Esoteric Reinterpretation of the First Tale of the Masnavi. Leila Rahimi Bahmany | Freie Universität Berlin Pardi-yi Asrār: Esoteric Veil of Mystery in Persian Literature Salour Evaz Malayeri | University of St Andrews Ideology and Resistance in the Poetry of Naser-e Khosrow

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003 08:45 am - 10:15 am

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tehran 1943 i: international actors, transnational actions

Convenor: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | University of Toronto Chair: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani | University of Toronto Discussant: Lior Sternfeld | Penn State University Lydia Wytenbroek | York University “We are failing here”: American Medical Missionaries in Iran and the Second World War Sabrina Guerrieri | University of Toronto From Tehran to Tehran; Nasrollah Entezam at the United Nations Ida Meftahi | University of Maryland WWII and the Allies’ Recreational Diplomacy and Performative Politics in Iran Jennifer Jenkins | University of Toronto The Conference and the City: The Local Context of the Tehran 1943 Diplomatic Meeting

004 08:45 am - 10:15 am

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theological innovations in the islamic republic of iran

Convenor / Chair: Banafsheh Madaninejad | Southwestern University Banafsheh Madaninejad | Southwestern University Ijtihad as Ethically Falsifiable: The New Jurisprudence of Abolqassem Fanaei Ata Anzali | Middlebury College The Making of a New Religious Movement in Iran: the Case of “Inter-Universal Mysticism” (‘Irfan-i Kayhani)

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WEDNESDAY

005 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 30

008 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 33

012 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 33

015 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 23

Organic Prose: (Post)Modern Persian Fiction and the Idea of Iranian Literary Modernity

The Foreign Relations of the Islamic Republic: Self-Perception and Reception

State and Non-State Institutions in Contemporary Iran

Roundtable: Rethinking the Iranian Left: History, Diversity and Prospects

Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto Chair: Saharnaz Samaeinejad | University of Toronto

Imad Khalaf | Independent Scholar A Look at Contemporary Persian Novel Titles Hamid Rezaei Yazdi | University of Toronto The Hikāyat of Modernity: Re-Periodizing Modern Iranian Literature Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto Ahrīman in Iran’s Embrace: ‘Alavī, Hidāyat and Romantic Nationalist Demonology

006 08:45 am - 10:15 am Richter State and Religion in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iran

Chair: Maryam Kamali | Harvard University

Sholeh Quinn | University of California, Merced Rival Empires with a Common Heritage: Interconnections in Early Modern Persianate Universal Histories Hamzeh Kaffash | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

‫والیت نامه گونه ادبی خاص شیعی در قرن نهم‬

Jawan Shir Rasikh | University of Pennsylvania Forgotten Societies: Islamization of the Hinterland of Ghur, and its Post-Conversion Afterlives, c. 998-1245 CE Rachel Howes | California State University, Northridge Iranian Courts and the Tenth and Eleventh century Mobile Elite

007 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 23 New Perspectives on Pahlavi Iran

Chair / discussant: Roham Alvandi | London School of Economics Pedram Partovi | American University Modernization and the Socialization of Alienated Youth in Pahlavi Iran Roman Siebertz | Univerisity of Bonn Making a Living in Reza Shah’s Iran, 1940-41 Bianca Devos | University of Marburg Archaeology in the 1930s: Propagandistic and Business Interests Behind the Press Coverage of the Excavations in Persepolis G J Breyley | Monash University Fear and Hope, Tears and Laughter: Urban Popular Entertainment in the Early 1960s

Convenor / discussant: Rouzbeh Parsi | Lund University Dina Esfandiary | King’s College The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic: The View From the GCC States Ariane Tabatabai | Georgetown University Fatwas and Centrifuges: The Iranian Nuclear Narrative Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi | King’s College EU-Iran relations: From Dialogue to Nuclear Talks Janne Bjerre Christensen | Danish Institute for International Studies In the Name of Drugs: Security, Morality and Contested (Dis)engagements in Iran’s Drug Diplomacy With the EU

009 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 27 Philosophy and Culture in Iranian History

Chair: Hadi Salehi Esfahani | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hadi Salehi Esfahani | University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Social Protection, Gender, and the Consumption Patterns of the Poor: The Role of NGOs in Poverty Reduction in Iran Bayram Sinkaya | Yildirim Beyazit University Revolutionary Guards and Iranian Politics: The Evolution of IRGC-Politics Relationship under the Rouhani Government Roozbeh Safshekan | University of Alberta Towards Human Development: Breaking the Cycle of Failed Development Policies in Post-revolution Iran Summer Sutton | American University in Dubai The Navab Regeneration Project and the Urban Ideal Détournement

Chair / discussant: Sajjad Rizvi | University of Exeter

013 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 26

Seyed Hossein Hosseini-Nassab | University of Toronto The Prophet Muhammad in the Works of the Early Falasifa up to Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi (d. 1191) Urs Gösken | University of Bern The Perception of Heidegger’s Philosophy as NonReductionist by Iranian 20th Century Intellectuals Hunter Bandy | Duke University Emotional Significance in 17th Century Indo-Iranian Philosophy Sharare Shahrokhi | Contra Costa College Epistemological Shifts and their Impacts on Iranian Feminist Thoughts

Mysticism and Text II

010 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 31 Slavery in 19th and 20th Century Iran

Convenor: Pedram Khosronejad | Oklahoma University Chair: Thomas Ricks | Independent Scholar

State

Thomas Ricks | Independent Scholar The Iranian Diaspora Trading Communities inthe Indian Ocean: A Reassessment of the Iranian Slave Trade in 19th century Qajar Iran Heidi Walcher | LMU Munich (University of Munich) About the Slave Trade and Abolitionism in Qajar Iran. Pedram Khosronejad | Oklahoma State University Photography of African Slavery in Modern Iran (1840s-1960s)

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Chair: Ghazzal Dabiri | University of Ghent Ali Ferdowsi | Notre Dame de Namur University Dah-Namah: Love-Mysticism as a Floating Signifier Mozhgan Malekan | University of Cincinnati

‫ بررسی برخی تشابهات‬:‫تعبیر عرفانی دایره ی وجود‬ ‫موجود پیرامون قوس صعود و نزول در گلشن راز‬ ‫شبستری و فصوص الحکم ابن عربی‬

Ghazzal Dabiri | University of Ghent Universalism and Conversion in ‘Attār’s Elahīnāmeh Leila Ghaleh Taki | University of Ahvaz

‫درونمایه های شعر عرفانی فارسی در شعر سوررئالیست‬ ‫ مکان در شعر موالنا و پل الوار‬:‫فرانسه‬

Convenor: Afshin Matin-Asgari | California State University, Los Angeles Discussant: Touraj Atabaki | International Institute of Social History Mojtaba Mahdavi | University of Alberta The Muslim Left: Social Justice and Spirituality? Peyman Vahabzadeh | University of Victoria A Creative, Egalitarian Future is Already Here: On the Rising Intellectuals of the Iranian Left Kamran Matin | University of Sussex Marxist Theory and the Iranian Left’s Praxis Maziar Behrooz | San Francisco State University The Left and Use of Violence Naser Mohajer | Independent Scholar The Iranian Left in Diaspora Azadeh Kian | University of Paris 7-Diderot Gender, Intersectionality and Social Justice in Iran

016 10:30 am - 12:00 pm RICHTER Alter-fiction, Alternative Criticism: The Heterodox Origins of Iranian Literary Modernity

Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto Chair: Hamid Rezaei Yazdi | University of Toronto

Shayesteh Sadat Mousavi | University of Marburg The Influence of the 1960s Literary Miscellanea on the Trend of Modernism in Iranian Fictions Roya Khoshnevissansari | Leiden University ‘Oil Fiction’ in Iranian Literary Modernity Nefise Kahraman | University of Toronto Comparison as a Method of Literary Reappraisal in 19th Century Iranian and Ottoman Literary Criticism

014 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 32 Tehran 1943 II: Politics and Political Contestation

Convenor / discussant: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | University of Toronto Chair: Homa Katouzian | Oxford University Victoria Tahmasebi | University of Toronto The Invisible Decade: Feminist Conversations, Contestations, and Coalition Building in 1940s Iran Mina Yazdani | Eastern Kentucky University A Convenient Scapegoat: Baha’is Amidst the People, the Clerics and the Government Alireza Namvar Haghighi | University of Toronto Religious Publicity and its Impact on Iran’s Politics in 1940s ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

WEDNESDAY

005 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 30

008 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 33

012 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 33

015 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 23

Organic Prose: (Post)Modern Persian Fiction and the Idea of Iranian Literary Modernity

The Foreign Relations of the Islamic Republic: Self-Perception and Reception

State and Non-State Institutions in Contemporary Iran

Roundtable: Rethinking the Iranian Left: History, Diversity and Prospects

Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto Chair: Saharnaz Samaeinejad | University of Toronto

006 08:45 am - 10:15 am Richter State and Religion in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iran

Chair: Maryam Kamali | Harvard University

Sholeh Quinn | University of California, Merced Rival Empires with a Common Heritage: Interconnections in Early Modern Persianate Universal Histories Hamzeh Kaffash | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

‫والیت نامه گونه ادبی خاص شیعی در قرن نهم‬

007 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 23 New Perspectives on Pahlavi Iran

009 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 27 Philosophy and Culture in Iranian History

Chair: Hadi Salehi Esfahani | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair / discussant: Sajjad Rizvi | University of Exeter

013 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 26

Mysticism and Text II

010 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 31 Slavery in 19th and 20th Century Iran

Convenor: Pedram Khosronejad | Oklahoma University Chair: Thomas Ricks | Independent Scholar

State

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

Chair: Ghazzal Dabiri | University of Ghent Ali Ferdowsi | Notre Dame de Namur University Dah-Namah: Love-Mysticism as a Floating Signifier Mozhgan Malekan | University of Cincinnati

Ghazzal Dabiri | University of Ghent Universalism and Conversion in ‘Attār’s Elahīnāmeh Leila Ghaleh Taki | University of Ahvaz

‫درونمایه های شعر عرفانی فارسی در شعر سوررئالیست‬ ‫ مکان در شعر موالنا و پل الوار‬:‫فرانسه‬

016 10:30 am - 12:00 pm RICHTER Alter-fiction, Alternative Criticism: The Heterodox Origins of Iranian Literary Modernity

Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto Chair: Hamid Rezaei Yazdi | University of Toronto

014 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 32 Tehran 1943 II: Politics and Political Contestation

WEDNESDAY

017 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 27

019 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 7

022 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 31

023 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 26

The Tholozan Photographic Collection – Locating Photographic Archives in the Study of Iranian Social and Cultural History

Roundtable: The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities

Digital Iran: Social Media, Society and Politics After 2009

Claims and Agency: The Contested Urban Landscape in Contemporary Iran

Convenor: Corien J.M. Vuurman | HAN University of Applied Sciences

Elahe Helbig | University of Geneva Invisible History: Photography as Sights of Modernity Reza Sheikh | Independent Scholar The Photograph-Albums of the Golestan Palace - A Window on to the Social History of Iran during the Qajar Era Corien J.M. Vuurman | HAN University of Applied Sciences An introduction to the Tholozan photograph collection: searching for social and cultural tracks in the photography of Iran

018 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Weinzierl

Women in Islamic Republican Society

Chair / discussant: Camron Michael Amin | University of Michigan-Dearborn Djavad Salehi-Isfahani | Virginia Tech Pills and Pens: The Impact of Rural Family Planning on Literacy of Rural Women in Iran Nafiseh Sharifi | University of London Moving Beyond Resistance: Women’s Multi-Generational Narratives of Body and Sexuality in Tehran Gi-yeon Koo | Seoul National University Iranian Women’s Social Movement Through Social Media: Focusing on a Facebook Page “My Stealthy Freedom” Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Kourosh Rahimkhani | Syracuse University Women’s Paradoxical Advancement in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Convenor: Anousha Sedighi | Portland State University Organized by the American Association of Teachers of Persian Pouneh Shabani Jadidi | McGill University Current State and Challenges of Persian Instruction in Canada Haideh Sahim | Columbia University Current Problems of the Teachers of Persian Latifeh Hagigi | University of California, Los Angeles Iranian Studies at UCLA Sahba Shayani | Oxford Need for Permanent Instructor in Charge of Language Teaching Soheila Kian | University of California, Irvine Current Issues and Problems in the Persian Language Pedagogy Ladan Hamedani | University of Hawai’i at Manao The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities Farima Mostowfi | Georgetown University Statues of Teaching Persian

020 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 30 Intellectual Networks and Issues of Provenance and Attribution in Pre-Modern Iran Convenor: Colin Mitchell | Dalhousie University Chair: Christoph Werner | University of Marburg

Colin Mitchell | Dalhousie University Inspiration and Aspiration: Oscillating Between the Past and Future in the Formulaic Epistles of Qazi Mir Husain Maybudi Reza Pourjavady | Goethe University Frankfurt Mīr Ḥusayn Maybudī’s Thoughts Between Philosophy and Sufism Dennis Halft | Freie Universität Berlin / Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo Twelver Shīʿī Reception of Arabic Bible Translations in Safavid Persia

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

Convenor: Babak Rahimi & Marcus Michaelsen | University of California, San Diego Discussant: David Faris | Roosevelt University Nima Rassooli | University of California, San Diego Balatarin: Gatekeepers and the Politics of a Persian Social Media Site Marcus Michaelsen | University of Amsterdam Shaping Perceptions: Social Media and Public Diplomacy in Iran Babak Rahimi | University of California, San Diego Instagram Iran: Digital Photography, Social Change and Politics Under the Islamic Republic Niki Akhavan | The Catholic University of America Frenemies: Social Media and Iran-US Relations

Convenor: Mohammad Eskandari | Clark University

Azam Khatam | York University Spatiality of Discontent in Tehran’s ‘Revolution Street’, Two Historical Snapshots Mina Saidi | ENSAPLV/ Mosaique-Le LAVUE-CNRS Gender and Urban Claim in Tehran. The Women’s Demands in a Moving Metropolis. Nastran Saremi | Islamic Azad University Reclaiming the City: Towards the Rights-Based Environmental Activism Farshid Moqadam Salimi | Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies Historical Heritage and Gentrifying Actors in Contested Site of the Kaboud Mosque in Tabriz

SPECIAL SESSION 1

024 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 24

12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Room 33

Zoroastrianism and Culture

Iran and the Future of Oil

Convenor: Bijan Khajehpour | Managing Partner, Atieh Group Djavad Salehi-Isfahani | Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech University Helmut Lananger | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Serinus Energy Jafar Haghpanah | University of Tehran Javad Yarjani | Former National Representative of Iran at OPEC Bijan Khajehpour | Managing Partner, Atieh Group

Chair: Enrico G. Raffaelli | University of Toronto Mahvash Shahegh | Independent Scholar The Influence of the Zoroastrian Doctrine in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Amir Ahmadi | Monash University Do the Gāthās Describe a Ritual Course? Enrico G. Raffaelli | University of Toronto Dahmā Āfriti, a Zoroastrian Prayer-Deity

025 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 30 New Approaches to Persian Literature

Chair: Khatereh Sheibani | York University Claudia Yaghoobi | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of Armenian Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s “The Day Before Easter” Laetitia Nanquette | University of New South Wales Iranian Publishers Abroad and Online: The Circulation of Iranian Texts Around the World Juan Cole | University of Michigan Omar Khayyam as a Frame Story Faryaneh Fadaeiresketi | University of Heidelberg Once Again, Singing Pearls Knocking on the Roof: Hasā Sheʿr and the Contemporary Poetry of Gilan and Mazandaran

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

WEDNESDAY

017 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 27

019 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 7

022 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 31

023 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 26

The Tholozan Photographic Collection – Locating Photographic Archives in the Study of Iranian Social and Cultural History

Roundtable: The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities

Digital Iran: Social Media, Society and Politics After 2009

Claims and Agency: The Contested Urban Landscape in Contemporary Iran

Convenor: Corien J.M. Vuurman | HAN University of Applied Sciences

018 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Weinzierl

Women in Islamic Republican Society

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

Convenor: Mohammad Eskandari | Clark University

SPECIAL SESSION 1

024 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 24

12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Room 33

Zoroastrianism and Culture

Iran and the Future of Oil

025 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 30 New Approaches to Persian Literature

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

WEDNESDAY

026 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 32

029 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Richter

Tehran 1943 III: Occupation and Economic Modernization

Chair: Yui Kanda | University of Tokyo

Chair: Golriz Farshi | University of Michigan

Kaveh Niazi | Independent Researcher Inbāṭ al-Miyāh al-Khafīya: An Early Work on Hydrology Yui Kanda | University of Tokyo Safavid Ceramic Tombstones: Reconstruction of Funerary Practice in 17th Century Iran Charles Melville | University of Cambridge The Mechanical Clock of Kashan in the Safavid Period Peyvand Firouzeh | University of Cambridge Mahan Carpet Fragments: Patronage and Aesthetic Connections with the Shrine of Shah Ne‘matollah Wali

Philip Bockholt | Freie Universität Berlin Popularity and Readership in the Manuscript Age – A Chronicle and its Way Through the Centuries Golriz Farshi | University of Michigan A Struggle for Legitimacy: Construction of Political Memory in Tārīkh-i Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭb Shāhī Arham Moradi | University of Marburg A Genealogical Examination of the Manuscripts of Saʻdī’s Kullīyāt Alyssa Gabbay | University of North Carolina, Greensboro The Case of the Missing Holograph and Amir Khusraw’s Vasat al-Hayat: An Eclectic Approach as a Means of Establishing Authorial Intent

Convenor: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | University of Toronto Chair: Massoud Karshenas | SOAS, University of London Discussant: Jennifer Jenkins | University of Toronto Mikiya Koyagi | New York University Molding Iranian Railway Workers in the 1940s Mary Yoshinari | University of Toronto What Happened to Iran’s National Economy During the 1940s? Ali Saeidi | University of Tehran The Power of Family Capitalism During the Pahlavi Period, 1940s-1970s

027 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 7 The International Impact of the Iranian Revolution: The View from Ankara, Moscow, and Brussels. Convenor: Claudia Castiglioni | University of Florence Chair / discussant: Roham Alvandi | London School of Economics

Claudia Castiglioni | University of Florence Western Europe and the Iranian Revolution of 1979: Political, Strategic, and Energy Aspects Jim Goode | Grand Valley State University Between Washington and Tehran: Turkey Engages the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1982 Clement Therme | CADIS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Iran and the Soviet Union during the First Decade of the Islamic Revolution: Beyond Ideological Hostility?

028 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 23 Cultural Impact of the Constitutional Period

Chair: Janet Afary | University of California, Santa Barbara Janet Afary | University of California, Santa Barbara Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda and the Project of Religious Reform Layla Diba | Independent Scholar The Making of a Modern Iranian Artist: Hoseyn Taherzadeh Behzad and the Illustrated Constitutional Era Press Negin Nabavi | Montclair State University Anjomans, the Press, and Political Activism in Early Twentieth Century Iran Hossein Pourbagheri | Leiden University Taqizadeh: Constitutionalist, Babi or Revolutionary?

Timurid and Safavid Technology and Culture

030 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 31 Seven Sides of a Cylinder: A Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion on Representations of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Convenor: Haleh Anvari | Independent Artist Discussant: Pamela Karimi | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Discussant: Hamed Yousefi | Filmmaker and Cultural Critic

031 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 27 Lifting the Veil: New Research on the Life and Work of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Tahirih Convenor: Sasha Dehghani | Bahai World Centre Chair / discussant: Negar Mottahedeh | Duke University

Moojan Momen | Independent Scholar Women and the Religious World of Nineteenth Century Qazvin Sahba Shayani | University of Oxford Unveiling the Re-Veiled through Literary Imitation: A Selection of Poems Attributed to Ṭāhere Qorrat al-’Ayn Sasha Dehghani | Bahai World Centre Tahirih in East and West Omid Ghaemmaghami | State University of New York “God Has Made Love His Religion”: Some Introductory Notes on the Prose Works of Tahirih

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

032 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm

Weinzierl

Persian Manuscript Culture

033 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 33 Roundtable: A Comparative Sociological Retrospective on the Green Movement in Iran

Convenor / discussant: Ali Akbar Mahdi | California State University, Northridge Ali Akbar Mahdi | California State University, Northridge On the Sociological Nature of the Green Movement: A New Social Movement? Azadeh Kian | University of Paris Women Rights and a Movement Without Revolution Saeed Paivandi | University of Lorraine The 2009 Green Movement and the 1979 Iranian Revolution: A Comparative Perspective Mehrzad Boroujerdi | Syracuse University How Does the Green Movement Measure Up When Compared to the Arab Spring Movements? Ata Hoodashtian | Umef University Reflections on the Leadership and Organizational Issues in the Green Movement

034 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm weinzierl Zoroastrianism in Text and Culture

Chair: Chiara Barbati | Austrian Academy of Sciences Shima Jaafari | University of Tehran Kinds of Heresy and the Heresiarch According to Avesta and Middle Persian Zoroastrian Texts Pooriya Alimoradi | University of Toronto Māh ī Frawardīn Rōz ī Hordād: Alternative Insights to Ancient Myths Velizar Sadovski | Austrian Academy of Sciences Inherited Lexicon and Poetical Collocations in the Avesta and Veda

035 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 33 Social Justice Activism and Democratization from Within Convenor: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani | University of Toronto

Victoria Tahmasebi | University of Toronto The Virtual as the New Social? Iranian Women’s Online Activism Mojtaba Mahdavi | University of Alberta Rethinking Structure and Agency in Democratization: Iran after the Green Movement Peyman Vahabzadeh | University of Victoria A Glance into the Future: Actual and Possible Co- and Cross-Articulations of Social Justice and Democracy in Iran Siavash Saffari | Columbia University Public Religiosity and the Struggle for Socio-Economic Justice: A Theology for Mobilizing the Poor?

036 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 30 Iran-Iraq War Literature (1980-1988)

Convenor: Asghar Seyed-Gohrab | Leiden University Discussant: Rebecca Gould | University of Bristol Faryaneh Fadaeiresketi | University of Heidelberg War and Nature: Descriptions of Nature and Landscape Imagery in Iran-Iraq War Poetry Alireza Korangy | University of Virginia Landscape and the Imaginary Mind in the Poetics of IranIraq War Saeedeh Shahnahpur | Leiden University Female Martyrs in Esmāʻil Fasih’s Fictional Works Mahnia Nematollahi Mahani | Binesh Institute for Persian Studies Mystical Love in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)

037 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 31 Comparative Approaches to Modern Iran and Turkey Chair: Shahla Talebi | Arizona State University

Shahla Talebi | Arizona State University Whose Dreams of Nationhood? Iranians and Turkish Television Dramas Sevil Çakir Kilincoglu | Leiden University Women in the Radical Leftist Organizations in Iran and Turkey during the 1970s Nasrollah Salehi | Farhangian University

‫ترجمه از زبان ترکی عثمانی به فارسی در دورة ناصری‬

Mahfarid Mansoorian | Technical University of Berlin Peaceful on the Surface, Conflictive Inside: Struggle for Reclaiming the Neighbourhood in Tehran and Istanbul

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

WEDNESDAY

026 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 32

029 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Richter

Tehran 1943 III: Occupation and Economic Modernization

Chair: Yui Kanda | University of Tokyo

Chair: Golriz Farshi | University of Michigan

028 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 23 Cultural Impact of the Constitutional Period

Timurid and Safavid Technology and Culture

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

032 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm

Weinzierl

Persian Manuscript Culture

033 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 33 Roundtable: A Comparative Sociological Retrospective on the Green Movement in Iran

034 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm weinzierl Zoroastrianism in Text and Culture

035 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 33 Social Justice Activism and Democratization from Within Convenor: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani | University of Toronto

036 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 30 Iran-Iraq War Literature (1980-1988)

037 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 31 Comparative Approaches to Modern Iran and Turkey Chair: Shahla Talebi | Arizona State University

‫ترجمه از زبان ترکی عثمانی به فارسی در دورة ناصری‬

Mahfarid Mansoorian | Technical University of Berlin Peaceful on the Surface, Conflictive Inside: Struggle for Reclaiming the Neighbourhood in Tehran and Istanbul

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

WEDNESDAY

039 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Richter

042 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 23

State and Society in Qajar Iran

Tradition and Authority in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature

Chair: Hoorieh Saeidi | National Library and Archives of Iran Hoorieh Saeidi | National Library and Archives of Iran

‫ وجوه مشترك و متمايز آن‬-‫فرمان هاي آقا محمد خان قاجار‬ ‫با ديگر فرمان هاي دوره قاجار‬

Solmaz Naraghi | Independent Scholar The Revolution and the Defloration: Mirzade Eshghi’s “Three Portraits of Maryam” Abbas Zarei Mehrvarz | Bu-Ali Sina University

‫بررسی نقش کارگزاری امور خارجه در تحوالت کردستان‬

040 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 27 Women, Gender and Literature

Chair: Anna Heller | Philipps-Universität Marburg Discussant: Persis Karim | San Jose State University Shaahin Pishbin | University of Oxford Paradigms of Modern Literary Canonisation: Forugh Farrokhzad through the Lens of her Poetic Successors Michelle Quay | University of Cambridge Corporeality in the Lives of Female Awliya’: From Sulami to Jami Nima Naghibi | Ryerson University The Perils of Nostalgia and Return: Diasporic Journalists in Iran

041 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 32 On the Walls of Tehran

Convenor: Haleh Anvari | Independent Artist Haleh Anvari | Independent Artist Tehran’s Chattering Walls : An Everyday Reading of the Wall Writings and Murals of Post-Revolutionary Tehran Pamela Karimi | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Murals and the Media: Tourism, Voyeurism, and the Media Ecologies of Tehran’s Mural Arts

Chair / discussant: Paul E. Losensky | Indiana University

Ilse Sturkenboom | University of Vienna The Visual Aesthetics of the Persian Qaṣīda in Anthologies Produced for Iskandar b. ʿUmar Shaykh Shahla Farghadani | Islamic Azad University Critical Remarks in Early Modern Tazkiras: Literary Criticism, Intertextual Dialogue, or a Mere Question of Taste? Theodore Beers | University of Chicago Reflections of the Persian ‘Canon’ in Tazkirahs of Poets Sally Morrell Yntema | Indiana University From Poet to King, to King of Poets: Responses to a Panegyric Ghazal by Hāfez

043 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 26 New Perspectives on Historical Ties Between Iran and India Chair: Alexander Jabbari | University of California, Irvine

Stephan Popp | Austrian Academy of Sciences An Elephant as an Order: Shah Jahan’s Awards and the Careers of his Officers Mana Kia | Columbia University Defining a Modern Persianate Self: The Indian Friend as Ethical Interlocutor in the late 19th-century Kaveh Yazdani | International Institute of Social History From India to Persia – Parsi Development Aid and the Rise of Persia’s Zoroastrian Community (1853-1925) Alexander Jabbari | University of California, Irvine Indian Scholars in the Pahlavi Shah’s Court: The Impact of Urdu Scholarship on Iranian Literary Historiography

Wednesday 3 August, 6:00 pm Auditorium maximum

Opening and Award Ceremony Auditorium Maximum (Audimax) Lower groundfloor, North wing

Welcome Iran Heritage Foundation Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute

Awards The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award The Saidi-Sirjani Book Award The Latifeh Yarshater Award The Rahim M. Irvani Dissertation Award The Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award The Lois Roth Prize ISIS 2016 Honorary Member The Lifetime Achievement Award

followed by a reception Großer Festsaal (Grand Festival Hall) First floor

044 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 7 Change in Text and Art in Modern Iran Chair: Joanna De Groot | York University

Houri Berberian | California State University, Long Beach Revolutionary Ideas in Motion: “Little Age of Revolutions” and Print Across Frontiers Siamak Delzendeh | Independent Scholar Pictorial Shifts and Problematics of Defining Iranian Modernist Art (from the Qajar Period to the Pahlavi Era) Ali Boozari | Art University

‫تطبیق سبکشناسی سه نگاره از نسخ ٔە خطی هزار و یک‬ ‫شب با سه تصویر چاپ سنگی رموز حمزه به منظور‬ ‫شناسایی یکی از نقاشان نسخ ٔە خطی هزار و یک شب‬

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

WEDNESDAY

039 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Richter

042 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 23

State and Society in Qajar Iran

Tradition and Authority in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature

Chair: Hoorieh Saeidi | National Library and Archives of Iran Hoorieh Saeidi | National Library and Archives of Iran

‫ وجوه مشترك و متمايز آن‬-‫فرمان هاي آقا محمد خان قاجار‬ ‫با ديگر فرمان هاي دوره قاجار‬

Solmaz Naraghi | Independent Scholar The Revolution and the Defloration: Mirzade Eshghi’s “Three Portraits of Maryam” Abbas Zarei Mehrvarz | Bu-Ali Sina University

‫بررسی نقش کارگزاری امور خارجه در تحوالت کردستان‬

040 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 27 Women, Gender and Literature

041 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 32 On the Walls of Tehran

Chair / discussant: Paul E. Losensky | Indiana University

043 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 26 New Perspectives on Historical Ties Between Iran and India Chair: Alexander Jabbari | University of California, Irvine

Wednesday 3 August, 6:00 pm Auditorium maximum

Opening and Award Ceremony Auditorium Maximum (Audimax) Lower groundfloor, North wing

Welcome Iran Heritage Foundation Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute

followed by a reception Großer Festsaal (Grand Festival Hall) First floor

044 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 7 Change in Text and Art in Modern Iran Chair: Joanna De Groot | York University

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

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tHUrsDAy AUgUst 04, 2016 045 08:45 am - 10:15 am

room 30

untimely Poiesis: Persian Poetics and the making of literary modernity Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LATE ANTIQUE IRAN AND IRAQ 4 August 2016

Room 33

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

CONVENER michael Pregill, Boston university

PRESENTERS touraj Daryaee, university of California, Irvine Isabel toral-Niehoﬀ, georg-August-universität göttingen shai secunda, the Hebrew university of Jerusalem teresa Bernheimer, soAs, university of London

DISCUSSANT Khodadad Rezakhani, Freie universität Berlin

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eLeVentH BIennIAL IrAnIAn stUDIes ConFerenCe 2016

Pranav Prakash | University of Iowa Setting Sail in Sipihrī’s Qāyiq: Emotions, Religious Sensibilities and Literary Modernity in Iran Henry Bowles | Harvard University Linguistic Realism or Literary ‘Modernity’? The Ontology of the Poetic from Sohravardî to Ṣâ’eb Saharnaz Samaeinejad | University of Toronto In the Cold, Quiet Dream of Phoenixes: Temporality and The Annihilation of the Absolute Subject in Furūgh Farrukhzād’s Poetry

046 08:45 am - 10:15 am

room 33

book of senses: building blocks of sensory reading of Persian literature Convenor: Mehdi Khorrami | New York University Discussant: Michael Beard | University of North Dakota

Mehdi Khorrami | New York University Scent of the Acacia: Sensory Protagonists of Parviz Davai’s Fiction Asghar Seyed-Gohrab | Leiden University Senses of Love in Nezami Ganjavi’s Romantic Epics Franklin Lewis | University of Chicago Toward a Poetics of Synethesia and a Tasteful Aesthetics: Gustatory and Tactile Imagery, Visual Poetics, and the Iconography of Musical Performance

047 08:45 am - 10:15 am

room 32

histories of urban life: society, space and cosmopolitan tehran

Convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling | University of Copenhagen Discussant: Houchang Chehabi | Boston University Shireen Walton | University of Oxford Virtual Cosmopolitans: Digital Dimensions of Urban Life Going On(line) in Tehran Roya Khoshneviss Ansari | Leiden University Multicolored Image of Tehran in ‘Underground Rap Music’ Golbarg Rekabtalaei | University of Toronto Tehran or Farangistan: Visions of a Cosmopolitan City in the Early Twentieth Century Lior Sternfeld | Penn State University The Making of Cosmopolitan Tehran During WWII

048 08:45 am - 10:15 am

WEinZiErl

Persian capers: foreign intelligence and spying in iran in the 19th-20th centuries. Part i. Convenor: Elena Andreeva | Virgnia Military Institute Discussant: Ali Ansari | St. Andrews University

Rowena Abdul Razak | University of Oxford Slick Intrigues: The British, the Tudeh Party and the 1946 Khuzistan Strikes Nikolay Kozhanov | Carnegie Moscow Center Between Soviet Scylla and British Charybdis: The Untold Story of the Abdication of Reza Shah Firuza Melville | University of Cambridge Brothers Willock Against Brothers MacDonald and Sisters Campbell Viktor Magomedkhanov | Yelets State University The Secret War in Iranian Kurdistan: Soviet Intelligence Against the Abwehr and SD

eLeVentH BIennIAL IrAnIAn stUDIes ConFerenCe 2016

THURSDAY

049 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 26

052 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 23

056 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 33

058 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 32

Technopolitics and the Urbanization of Nature in Iran

Minorities and identity Formation in Iran: From the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic. Part I

New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq

Tehran Noir Urbanism: Dark Visions of Life and Death in the Iranian Metropolis

Anja Pistor-Hatam | Kiel University Religious Minorities in the Islamic Republic and the ‘Right to have Rights’ Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | University of Toronto The Cyrus Cylinder and the Rights Question Tim Greenwood | University of St. Andrews Suspicion, Mistrust and Misrepresentation: Armenia and Iran in Late Antiquity Haideh Sahim | Columbia University Minorities in Qajar Iran: A View from Within and Without

Touraj Daryaee | University of California, Irvine How the Sasanians Saw the Late Antique World: A Persianate View of the Interconnectedness of Eurasia Isabel Toral-Niehoff | Georg-August-Universitat Göttingen Al-Hira: An Arab Late Antique Metropolis in Sasanian Iraq Shai Secunda | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem East LA: Margin and Center in Late Antiquity Studies and the New Irano-Talmudica Teresa Bernheimer | University of London The Revolt of Qatari b. al-Fuja’a (d. 79/698) and the Kharijite Revolts of Early Islamic Iran: Social Change between Late Antiquity and Early Islam

Convenor: Mohammad Eskandari | Clark University

Mohammad Eskandari | Clark University Fueling the Hydro-dream: Political Economy of Large Dams in Iran Mohammad Salari | Iranian Sociology Association The Impact of Legal and Political Shift Crisis on the SocioEconomic Structure of the ZayandeRud Valley Sarah Karimi | Raha-Shar Institute for Urban Research The Challenged History of Urbanization of Water in Tehran Hesam Salamat | University of Tehran Commodification of Nature in “the North”: Historical Mechanisms and Socio-economic Implications

050 08:45 am - 10:15 am Richter Sources for Qajar Imperial History

Convenor: James M. Gustafson | Indiana State University James M. Gustafson | Indiana State University The Mi’rat al-Buldan Project: Geographical Knowledge and Networks of Power in Qajar Iran Assef Ashraf | Yale University On the Edge of Empire: Governing the Caucasus in Early Qajar Iran Maryam Moazzen | University of Louisville Jami’-e Nasiri, a Qajar Legal Compendium

051 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 27 Enduring and Contested Cultural Symbols

Chair: Pardis Minuchehr | George Washington University D. Gershon Lewental | University of Oklahoma Under the Banner of Iran: The Derafsh-e Kāveyān as a Changing Emblem of Iranian Identity from the Sāsānian Era to the Present Pardis Minuchehr | George Washington University The Persian Poetics of Creation (From Medieval to Modern Times)

Convenor: Anja Pistor-Hatam | Kiel University Discussant: Dominic Brookshaw | Oxford University

053 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 7 New Directions in the Ethnographic Study of the Iranian Diaspora

Chair: Camron Michael Amin | University of MichiganDearborn Navid Fozii | Middle East Technical University Emergent Pluralism in a Fragmented and Polarized Diaspora: Politics of Iranian Diasporic Identity Formation in Malaysia Sonja Moghaddari | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Juggling Resources. Within Group Relations and Social Mobility Among Iranian Migrants in Hamburg Behzad Sarmadi | University of Toronto Properties of Aspiration and Persons in Exile: Middle Class Iranians in Dubai

054/55 08:45 am - 12:00 pm Room 31 Double Panel: Screening and Discussion of “The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid” Convenor: Ali Mirsepassi | New York University

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | University of Toronto Fardid and the Politics of Intellectual History in Iran Daryoush Ashouri | Independent Scholar The Impossibility of Fardid’s Venture for Philosophical Explanation of Our Historical Situation Abbas Amanat | Yale University Fardid of All Seasons: Shades and Shadows Ali Mirsepassi | New York University The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid Hamed Yousefi | Filmmaker and Cultural Critic Fardid and Avant-Garde Art in Post-Revolutionary Iran

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

sponsored by ILEX Foundation Convenor: Michael Pregill | Boston University Discussant: Khodadad Rezakhani | Freie Universität Berlin

057 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 24 Ethics, Politics, and the Court Literature: The Role of Ethical and Cultural Values in Linking Different Literary Genres, Political Domains, and Social Strata in Medieval Iran and Anatolia Convenor: Parisa Zahiremami | University of Toronto

Parisa Zahiremami | University of Toronto Political Ethics in Sufi Poetry: Sanā’ī’s Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqah wa sharī‘at al-ṭarīqah as An Early Politico-Ethical Advice Manual Nasrin Askari | University of British Columbia Elite Folktales: An Exquisite Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Kitāb-i Dāstān in the Ouseley Collection of the Bodleian Libraries Louise Marlow | Wellesley College The Biography and Wisdom of Buzurgmihr in Qazvīnī’s Tārīkh-i Guzīdeh Lale Javanshir | University of Toronto The Turkish Translations of Qābūsnāmeh in Anatolia

Convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling | University of Copenhagen Chair / discussant: Cyrus Schayegh | Princeton University Rasmus Christian Elling | University of Copenhagen From Tehrân-e Makhuf to Jangal-e Âsfâlt: Fear and Loathing in the Capital Pedram Dibazar | University of Amsterdam Ghostly Streets of Tehran: The Visual Culture of the Contemporary Iranian Everyday Street Narges Ghandchi | Independent Scholar Emotion and Commotion in the Representations of Urban Apocalypse of Tehran. A Study of Emotional Geographies in two Contemporary Novels Summer Sutton | American University in Dubai Open Source Representations of a Dystopic Tehran

059 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Weinzierl

Persian Capers: Foreign Intelligence and Spying in Iran in the 19th-20th Centuries. Part II. Convenor: Elena Andreeva | Virginia Military Institute Chair: Firuza Melville | University of Cambridge Discussant: Mary Yoshinari | University of Toronto

Elena Andreeva | Virginia Military Institute Gevork Vartanian and Tehran-43: What do we know about the legendary Soviet spy? Denis Volkov | University of Manchester Carpetbagger, Russian Spy or Simply Pursuing His Own Agenda? ‘Bloody Shapshal’ at the Qajar Court Nugzar Ter- Oganov | Tel Aviv University Who are you, Haji-Murat Muguev? Lana (Svetlana) Ravandi-Fadai | Russian Academy of Sciences Multiple Identities: Female Agents in Iran in the 1930s and 40s

060 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 27 Civic and Sacred Space in Iran

Chair: Lorenz Korn | University of Bamberg Lorenz Korn | University of Bamberg Interior Space Design and Proportioning in the Architecture of Iranian Dome Chambers of the Saljuq Period Ali Mozaffari | Curtin University Shushtar No’w: Urban Image and Fabrication of Place in an Iranian New Town, and its Relation to the International Discourse on Regionalism ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

THURSDAY

049 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 26

052 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 23

056 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 33

058 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 32

Technopolitics and the Urbanization of Nature in Iran

Minorities and identity Formation in Iran: From the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic. Part I

New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq

Tehran Noir Urbanism: Dark Visions of Life and Death in the Iranian Metropolis

Convenor: Mohammad Eskandari | Clark University

050 08:45 am - 10:15 am Richter Sources for Qajar Imperial History

051 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 27 Enduring and Contested Cultural Symbols

Convenor: Anja Pistor-Hatam | Kiel University Discussant: Dominic Brookshaw | Oxford University

053 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 7 New Directions in the Ethnographic Study of the Iranian Diaspora

054/55 08:45 am - 12:00 pm Room 31 Double Panel: Screening and Discussion of “The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid” Convenor: Ali Mirsepassi | New York University

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

sponsored by ILEX Foundation Convenor: Michael Pregill | Boston University Discussant: Khodadad Rezakhani | Freie Universität Berlin

059 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Weinzierl

060 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 27 Civic and Sacred Space in Iran

THURSDAY

061 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Richter

064 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 26

Special Session 2

067 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 23

New Perspectives on Safavid Iran

Iran and India in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Social, Cultural, and Political Connections

12:15 pm - 02:00 pm Room 33

Praise of the Patron, the Palace, and the City: Form and Function in Topical Persian Panegyrics

Chair: Sholeh Quinn | University of California, Merced Mahroo Moosavi | University of Sydney Building Existence: Redefining Realities in Safavid Persia Walter Posch | National Defense Academy Queen of the Caucasus - Parikhan Khanum I and Her Three Husbands Ferenc Csirkes | University of Chicago Between Turkic and Persian: Sadiqi Beg and Literary Practices in Safavid Iran Mohsen Bahram Nezhad | Imam Khomeini International University The Importance and Necessity of Investigating the Ekhvani Documents in Understanding Historical Events of Safavid Era

062 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 30 Border Stories: Connectivity and Remoteness Across Khurasan (19th – early 20th Century) Convenor: Paolo Sartori | Austrian Academy of Sciences Discussant: Bert Fragner | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Paolo Sartori | Austrian Academy of Sciences Remoteness from Connectivity: The Transcaspian Railway and the Marginalization of Khorezm Christine Noelle-Karimi | Austrian Academy of Sciences On the Edge: Eastern Khurasan in the Perception of Qajar Officials Ulfatbek Abdurasulov | Austrian Academy of Sciences Taking Stock of the Turkmens: The Many Forms of Khivan Sovereignty

063 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 23

Convenor: Afshin Marashi | University of Oklahoma Chair / discussant: Afshin Marashi | University of Oklahoma Afshin Marashi | University of Oklahoma “Sword of Freedom”: Abdulrahman Saif Azad and Interwar Iranian Nationalism Ali Karjoo-Ravary | University of Pennsylvania Reading Outside the Lines: Literary Exchanges between Iran and India in the 19th Century Talinn Grigor | Brandeis University Reveil de l’Iran: Freemasonry and Artistic Revivalism from Parsi Bombay to Qajar Tehran Farzin Vejdani | Ryerson University The Iranian Migrant Poor, Teahouses, and Urban Culture in Bombay, 1870-1920

065 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 7

Convenor: Mehrzad Boroujerdi | Syracuse University Chair: Touraj Atabaki | International Institute of Social History Roham Alvandi | London School of Economics and Political Science The United States and the Shah’s Nuclear Programme Mohsen Milani | University of South Florida The Impact of the Nuclear Deal on Iran’s Regional Policies Laura Rozen | Al-Monitor Can US, Iran Maintain Ties After Obama? Seyyed Kazem Sajjadpour | School of International Relations, Tehran Iranian Diplomacy and the Nuclear Negotiation Mehrzad Boroujerdi | Syracuse University Reception of the Nuclear Deal in Iran

Roundtable: Iranian Literary Modernity as a Guiding Paradigm Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto

Jairan Gahan | University of Toronto Affective Narrativization and Modern Forms of Charity: Literature on the Red-light District of Tehran (1920s-1970s) Hamid Razaei Yazdi | University of Toronto The Hikāyat of Modernity: Re-Periodizing Modern Iranian Literature Parisa Vaziri | University of California, Irvine Racialized Modernity and the Anthropology of Winds: Nasser Taghvai’s Bad-e Jinn Milad Odabaei | University of California, Berkeley Translation and Cultural Regeneration

Minorities and Identity Formation in Iran: From the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic Part II Convenor: Anja Pistor-Hatam | Kiel University

Josef Wiesehoefer | Kiel University Greek Exiles in the Achaemenid Empire: A Case of Divided Loyalities? Houchang Chehabi | Boston University Jews in Official Biographies of Shiite Clerics in Iran Arash Guitoo | Kiel University Making the Others Invisible: The IRI and its Undesirable Minorities Ali Ansari | University of St. Andrews Iran and its Turkish Question

Vienna Nuclear Talks: 1 Year Later

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

Convenor / discussant: Justine Landau | Harvard University

Paul E Losensky | Indiana University The Palace as Locus and Emanation of Royal Virtue in the Sāqi-nāma of Ẓuhūrī Turshīzī Dominic Brookshaw | University of Oxford Performing Kingship: Structure, Function, and Presentification in the Injuid and Muzaffarid Qasida Sunil Sharma | Boston University Built to Last: Amir Khusraw Dehlavi’s Praise for Delhi and Its Monuments Domenico Ingenito | University of California, Los Angeles ‘Tabriz, the Soul of the World, Overshadows all Maraghes’: Salmān Sāveji and the Revival of the Qaside Under the Jalāyerids

068 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm

Weinzierl

The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics

066 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 7 New Perspectives on the Iranian Diaspora

Chair / discussant: Sonja Moghaddari | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Solmaz Rustamova-Tohidi | Institute of Oriental Studies of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences The Iranian Community in Azerbaijan: An Historical Perspective and New Steps in Its Formation Torang Asadi | Duke University Religious Innovation in the Iranian Diaspora in Northern California Nader Vahabi | National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations The Migratory Dynamics of the Iranian Diaspora Since the 1979 Revolution Pari Namazie | The Simorgh The Impact and Relevance of the Iranian Diaspora in Europe

Convenor: Anousha Sedighi | Portland State University Discussant: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi | McGill University Anousha Sedighi | Portland State University Persian as a Heritage Language Pouneh Shabani Jadidi | McGill University Persian Psycholinguistics Pollet Samvelian | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Specific Features of the Persian Syntax : The Ezāfe Construction, Differential Object Marking, Complex Predicates

069 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 30 Achaemenid Texts and Contexts: Syntax, Stylistics and Text Linguistics

Convenor: Velizar Sadovski | Austrian Academy of Sciences Discussant: Rüdiger Schmitt | University of Saarbrücken Adriano Rossi | L’Orientale University The Strategy of the List in the Textual Organization of the Royal Achaemenid Inscriptions (together with Ela Filippone, Tuscia University) Velizar Sadovski | Austrian Academy of Sciences Between Syntax, Phraseology and Word Formation Maria Carmela Benvenuto & Flavia Pompeo | Sapienza University of Rome Constructional Approach to Old Persian Argument Structure

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

THURSDAY

061 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Richter

064 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 26

Special Session 2

067 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 23

New Perspectives on Safavid Iran

Iran and India in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Social, Cultural, and Political Connections

12:15 pm - 02:00 pm Room 33

Praise of the Patron, the Palace, and the City: Form and Function in Topical Persian Panegyrics

063 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 23

065 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 7

Roundtable: Iranian Literary Modernity as a Guiding Paradigm Convenor: Arshavez Mozafari | University of Toronto

Minorities and Identity Formation in Iran: From the Achaemenids to the Islamic Republic Part II Convenor: Anja Pistor-Hatam | Kiel University

Vienna Nuclear Talks: 1 Year Later

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

Convenor / discussant: Justine Landau | Harvard University

068 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm

Weinzierl

The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics

066 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 7 New Perspectives on the Iranian Diaspora

069 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 30 Achaemenid Texts and Contexts: Syntax, Stylistics and Text Linguistics

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

THURSDAY

070 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 33

073 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 32

075 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Richter

078 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 27

Gender and Urban Space in Tehran

Labor in Iranian Studies: Historiography and Histories of Everyday Life, Workplace and Activism

Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the West: Sectarian Divide, Borderlands, and Diplomacy

War and Gender in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Convenor / chair: Rasmus Christian Elling | University of Copenhagen Jairan Gahan | University of Toronto Plateaus of Morality: Sex-Work in Tehran, 1921-1979 Alexander Shams | University of Chicago Heterosexualizing Tehran Masserat Amirebrahimi | Independent Researcher Women’s Experiences of Public Spaces in Tehran, A Generational Perspective Leila Pourtavaf | University of Toronto Inside Out: Locating the Golestan Harem in the City Center During Nasser al-Din Shah’s Reign Ahmadreza Hakiminejad | University of West London Women Versus Cities: the Masculinity of Urban Space in Traditional and Modern Iran

071 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 27 Western Diplomatic Perspectives on Modern Iran

Chair: Amir Irani-Tehrani | United States Military Academy (West Point) Mark Gasiorowski | Tulane University US Perceptions of the Communist Threat in Iran, 19411954 Sibylle Wentker | Austrian Academy of Sciences Information and Knowledge – A Way of Understanding Iran: Austrian Residence Reports

072 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 26 Philosophy and Theology in the First Safavid Centuries Convenor: Jari Kaukua | Academy of Finland

Convenor: Peyman Jafari | Leiden University Chair: Afshin Matin-Asgari | California State University Discussant: Ervand Abrahamian | Bauch College, CUNY

Convenor: Fariba Zarinebaf | University of California, Riverside Discussant: Ali Gheissari | University of San Diego

Roksana Bahramitash | University of Montreal Women’s Labor & Modernization: A Historical Overview Peyman Jafari | Leiden University Living and Working in Times of War: Iranian Oil Workers in the 1980s Abdolreza Alamdar-Baghini | Leiden University Labour Force Formation and Labour Relations at Sarchashmeh Copper Mine in Iran, 1966-1979 Serhan Afacan | Leiden University Iranian Craft Industries in the Age of Factorization: LargeScale Industrialization and Small-Scale Industries in Isfahan during the 1930s Touraj Atabaki | International Institute of Social History Chronicle of a Strike Foretold, Abadan 1946: A Critique of Historiography from Above

Fariba Zarinebaf | University of California, Riverside Azerbaijan Between Two Empires: Ottoman Administration of a Borderland Province Başak Kilerci | University of Oxford Legal Situation of the Iranians in the Ottoman Empire within the Context of Nasir al-Din Shah’s Istanbul Visit (1873) Sabri Ates | Southern Methodist University The Notion of Frontier in Ottoman-Iranian Relations Rudi Matthee | University of Delaware Safavid Iran and the “Turkish Question,” or How to Avoid a War on Two Fronts

074 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 31 Public Space and Modern Iranian Society

Chair: Manata Hashemi | University of Oklahoma Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee The Transformation of Social Life and Public Spaces in Tehran, 1850 to 1950 Manata Hashemi | University of Oklahoma The Face Game: Moral Capital in Contemporary Iran Samar Saremi | University of Montreal Governing Place of Refuge: A Boulevard Around the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad-Iran (1912-1935)

Sajjad Rizvi | University of Exeter Philosophy as Religion: Mullā Ṣadrā on the Concept of Dīn Jari Kaukua | Academy of Finland The Problem of Falsity in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Theory of Knowledge Sayeh Meisami | University of Dayton The Power of Synthetic Discourse: Epistemology and Authority in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

076 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 24 Culture in Post-Timurid Iran

Chair: Raya Shani | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discussant: Georg Leube | University of Bayreuth Chad Lingwood | Grand Valley State University Persian Ghazals in White Sheep Tabriz: The Amatory Poetry of Two Āq Qoyūnlū Statesmen from Sāva Yusen Yu | University of Heidelberg Brushwork in Persianate Painting of Fifteenth Century: Its Relation to China August Samie | University of Chicago Banāʾī›s Shaybānīnāma: A Post-Timurid Source

077 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 26 Hedayat Came, Saw and Conquered India

Convenor: Syed Akhtar Husain | Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Marta Simidchieva | York University, Toronto Syed Akhtar Husain | Jawaharlal Nehru University Hedayat in Harmony with the Savants of Indo Persian Literature Nadeem Akhtar | Jawaharlal Nehru University Indian Motifs in the Works of Hedayat Marta Simidchieva | York University India--Reflected and Refracted--in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl Md Arshadul Quadri | Jawaharlal Nehru University Reception of Sadegh Hedayat in India

Convenor: Camron Amin | University of MichiganDearborn Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh | Northeastern Illinois University Women in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) Shahrzad Mojab | University of Toronto Framing of War: State, Gender, Ideology and the Archive of Iran-Iraq War

079 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 33 Protest and Dissidence in Contemporary Iran

Chair: Laudan Nooshin | City University of London Discussant: Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi | New York University Paola Rivetti | Dublin City University Killing Us Will Only Make Us Stronger. Protest Cycles, Authoritarian Resilience and the ‘Government of Dissent’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran Laudan Nooshin | City University London ‘Happiness is our People’s Right’: Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’

080 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 32 Masculinity, Patriarchy and Gender in Persian Literature

Chair: Nacim Pak-Shiraz | University of Edinburgh Alireza Shomali | Wheaton College Natural Inequality of Men: The Idea and its Implication in Perso-Islamic Thought Nahid Tavassol | NAFeH Magazine

‫پدرساالری‬/‫سنگی بر گور مرد‬

A Stone on the Grave of Patriarchy Nacim Pak-Shiraz | University of Edinburgh Shooting the Isolation and Marginality of Masculinities in Iran

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

THURSDAY

070 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 33

073 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 32

075 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Richter

078 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 27

Gender and Urban Space in Tehran

Labor in Iranian Studies: Historiography and Histories of Everyday Life, Workplace and Activism

Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the West: Sectarian Divide, Borderlands, and Diplomacy

War and Gender in the Islamic Republic of Iran

071 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 27 Western Diplomatic Perspectives on Modern Iran

072 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 26 Philosophy and Theology in the First Safavid Centuries Convenor: Jari Kaukua | Academy of Finland

Convenor: Peyman Jafari | Leiden University Chair: Afshin Matin-Asgari | California State University Discussant: Ervand Abrahamian | Bauch College, CUNY

Convenor: Fariba Zarinebaf | University of California, Riverside Discussant: Ali Gheissari | University of San Diego

074 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 31 Public Space and Modern Iranian Society

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

076 02:15 pm - 03:45 pm Room 24 Culture in Post-Timurid Iran

077 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 26 Hedayat Came, Saw and Conquered India

079 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 33 Protest and Dissidence in Contemporary Iran

080 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 32 Masculinity, Patriarchy and Gender in Persian Literature

Chair: Nacim Pak-Shiraz | University of Edinburgh Alireza Shomali | Wheaton College Natural Inequality of Men: The Idea and its Implication in Perso-Islamic Thought Nahid Tavassol | NAFeH Magazine

‫پدرساالری‬/‫سنگی بر گور مرد‬

A Stone on the Grave of Patriarchy Nacim Pak-Shiraz | University of Edinburgh Shooting the Isolation and Marginality of Masculinities in Iran

ELEVENTH BIENNIAL IRANIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016

THURSDAY

081 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 7

085 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 31

087 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Richter

The Reception of Modern “Western Philosophy” and Methods of Philosophical Comparison in Iran

Spaces of Development: Urban Planning, Architecture and Change

Chair: Maryam Sabbaghi | University of Chicago

Convenor: Roman Seidel | Freie Universität Berlin

Ali Gheissari | University of San Diego “Reception of Continental Philosophy in Iran” Hussein Banai | Indiana University Uneven Reception of Analytic Philosophy in Iran Ali Paya | Islamic College for Advanced Studies Introducing Critical Rationalism to the Iranian Public: An Account of a Personal Intellectual Journey Roman Seidel | Freie Universität Berlin Apologetic Comparision and Alternative Designs. Methodological Considerations on Contemporary Philosophical Discourse in Iran

082 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 23 Peace Corps Volunteers in Iran: Witnesses to the 1960s

Convenor: Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi | California State University, Fullerton Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi | California State University, Fullerton “The Peace Corps in Iran: A Case Study of US-Iran Relations in the 1960s” Thomas Ricks | Indiana University Kurdish Peasantry and Persian Sepah-e Danesh Unrest in West Azerbaijan Mary Elaine Hegland | Santa Clara University From Agriculture to Urban Real Estate: A 21st Century Perspective on the 1962 Aliabad Land Reform John Lorentz | Shawnee State University The Early Years of the Peace Corps in Iran (1962-64): A Volunteer’s Perspective

083 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 30 Orientalism and Occidentalism in Iranian Culture Chair: Anahita Arian | University of Groningen

Convenor: Rasmus Christian Elling | University of Copenhagen Chair: Dariush Borbor | Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies Discussant: Talinn Grigor | Brandeis University Pamela Karimi | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Perfecting Life in the Islamic Republic: Tourism and the Construction of New Resorts and Gated Communities in the Caspian Region Azadeh Mashayekhi | Independent Researcher Urban Transformation and Modernization of Tehran After the Islamic Revolution Rana Habibi | University of Leuven Tehran Modern Middle-Class Housing Morphology and International Inspirations Faegheh Shirazi | University of Texas at Austin Halal and Religious Tourism Development in Mashhad, Iran

086 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Weinzierl

Iranian and Russian Borderlands

Chair: George Bournoutian | Iona College George Bournoutian | Iona College The Russian Surveys of 1819, 1820, and 1828-1832 as Primary Sources for the Demography and Economy of the Iranian Khanates of Shirvan, Sheki, and Nakhichevan in the Last Years of Qajar Rule Fatemeh Masjedi | Freie Universität Berlin Tabriz During the First World War Kevin Gledhill | Yale University The Russian Trading Settlement at Astarabad (1781-1782) and Early Qajar Interaction with the Caspian Trade George Sanikidze | Ilia State University In the Search of the Lost Kingdom: Activities of Georgian Princes During 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War

Nahid Pirnazar | University of California, Los Angeles Simantov Melamed, The Judeo Persian Writer and Poet Nina Mazhjoo | Concordia University Breaking a Metanarrative in Mithraic Studies: A Transmission From Colonial to Post-Colonial Approaches Anahita Arian | University of Groningen The Politics of Identification and Alternative Forms of SelfOther Relations: The Travelogue of Muhammad Ibrahim and His Journey to Siam in the 17th Century Dariush Rahmanian | University of Tehran

Art and Culture in Safavid Iran

Barry Wood | Bogaziçi University Visualizing the Imagined Past: Three Late-Safavid Illustrated Histories of Shah Isma’il Sarah Kiyanrad | University of Heidelberg Between the Lines – Bibliomancy in Ṣafavīd Iran Hani Khafipour | University of Southern California Patronage, Gratitude, and the Mantle of Authority in Safavid Iran Naciem Nikkhah | University of Cambridge Muraqqa‘-i 1633: A Case Study of Text and Image Relationship in Safavid Paintings

Thursday 4 August, 6:00-7:00 pm

Grosser Festsaal

Reception in honor of homa katouzian Reception To honor the achievement of Homa Katouzian as Editor of Iranian Studies Großer Festsaal (Grand Festival Hall) First floor

Thursday 4 August, 7:30 pm CITY HALL

Reception BY THE CITY OF VIENNA Reception by the City of Vienna Rathaus (City Hall), Arcades Rathausplatz, entrance from Lichtenfelsgasse The Rathaus is located immediately south of the University main building. The gothic revival landmark building, separated by a park from the Ring, is easily recognizable by its central tower.

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THURSDAY

081 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 7

085 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 31

087 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Richter

The Reception of Modern “Western Philosophy” and Methods of Philosophical Comparison in Iran

Spaces of Development: Urban Planning, Architecture and Change

Chair: Maryam Sabbaghi | University of Chicago

Convenor: Roman Seidel | Freie Universität Berlin

082 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 23 Peace Corps Volunteers in Iran: Witnesses to the 1960s

083 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm Room 30 Orientalism and Occidentalism in Iranian Culture Chair: Anahita Arian | University of Groningen

086 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Weinzierl

Iranian and Russian Borderlands

Art and Culture in Safavid Iran

Thursday 4 August, 6:00-7:00 pm

Grosser Festsaal

Reception in honor of homa katouzian Reception To honor the achievement of Homa Katouzian as Editor of Iranian Studies Großer Festsaal (Grand Festival Hall) First floor

Thursday 4 August, 7:30 pm CITY HALL

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Memories of a Bygone Age Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia 1853-1902 prince arfa ʿ Translated by: M I C H A E L N O Ë L - C L A R K E

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Persian beyond Persia

Convenor: Syed Md Kazim | Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Syed Akhtar Husain | Jawaharlal Nehru University Syed Md Kazim | Jawaharlal Nehru University Rustam and Sohrab and Sohrab and Rustam: A Comparative Study Nahid Morshedlou | Jawaharlal Nehru University Amir Khosrow the Father of Indo-Persian literature Golam Moinuddin | Jawaharlal Nehru University Poet Begets Poet: Ghalib and Iqbal A Case in Point Ramzan Ahmed | Jawaharlal Nehru University Reception of Hafez in the Works of Azad Zeyaul Haque | Jawaharlal Nehru University Capital Punishment in Indo-Islamic Advice Literature: Ideas and Practice

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studying War torn iran: the Effects of the iran-iraq War

Convenor: Shaherzad Ahmadi | University of Texas at Austin Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh | University of California, Irvine Shaherzad Ahmadi | University of Texas at Austin The “Persians” of Iraq: Exile and Diaspora in the Iran-Iraq War Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani | University of Pennsylvania Military Technology and the Iran-Iraq War: Internalizing Iranian Victimhood Liora Hendelman-Baavur | Tel Aviv University Digitalized Martyrs: Online Commemoration of the “Imposed War” Laura Fish | University of Texas at Austin Life After Death: FilmFarsi and Technological Revitalization

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shi’i Eschatologies across the millennium: 900-1900

Convenor: Alessandro Cancian | Institute of Ismaili Studies Alessandro Cancian | Institute of Ismaili Studies End of the Time and Mystical Experience: Eschatology and the Hidden Imām in Early Modern Shiʿi Sufi Exegesis Elizabeth Alexandrin | University of Manitoba Breaking Open the Seal: Saʿd al-Din Hamuye›s Messianism and the Endtime Daryoush Mohammad Poor | Institute of Ismaili Studies Resurrection Within Resurrection: A Multi-Layered Narrative Of Qiyāma among Nizārī Ismailis Miklos Sarkozy | Institute of Ismaili Studies Neighbours in Reality, Neighbours in Eschatology Ethnic Groups and Their Representations in the Dīwān-i Qā’imiyyāt Khalil Andani | Harvard University Spiritual Apocalypse: The Qa’im al-Qiyama in the Thought of Nasir-i Khusraw

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097 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 32

099 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Richter

State Policy and Dissent in 20th Century Iran

Women in 19th Century Iran

Revolution and Society in Modern Iran

The Indo-Persian Translation Movement: A Multi-Faceted Phenomenon of Cultural Transmission and Adaptation

Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Women’s Havens in the Patriarchal Landscape: The Feminine Social Life in the 19th Century Tehran Mahbube Moqadam | Middle East Technical University Genealogy of a New Identity of Iranian Women in Late Qajar Era Joanna de Groot | University of York Working for the Home and the World: Towards a ReEvaluation of Gender, Labour, and Culture in Nineteenth Century Iran

Afshan Shafiyeva | Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Seyyed Hasan Taghizadeh’s Role in the Process of Modernization of Iran Kara Abdolmaleki | University of Alberta The Idea of ‘A Return to Self’ in Post-Coup Iran: A Fresh Look. Vahid Tolooei | University of Toronto Rewriting the History of Sociological Imagination in Iran Mansoor Moaddel | University of Maryland, College Park Reflections on Two Revolutions: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 Versus the Revolution of 1979

Chair: Siavush Randjbar-Daemi | University of Manchester Ali Banuazizi | Boston College Shahrokh Meskoob and the Predicaments of Intellectuals in Politics Siavush Randjbar-Daemi | University of Manchester Reform, Delusion and Dissent: The Life and Times of Ayandegan, 1967-1979

093 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 31 Iranian Cinema in the World and At Home

Chair: Michelle Langford | University of New South Wales Maryam Ghorbankarimi | University of St. Andrews The Notion of ‘Trans/National’ in Iranian Cinema Claire Cooley | University of Texas at Austin Microphones, Studios, and Soundtracks: The Coming of Sound to Iranian Cinema Michelle Langford | University of New South Wales Sohrab Shahid Saless - An Iranian Filmmaker in Berlin

094 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 30 Persian Art Across Central Europe from the Mongols to World War II Convenor: Iván Szántó | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Yuka Kadoi | National Gallery of Art Arthur Upham Pope and Persian Art in Interwar Central Europe Juliane von Fircks | University of Mainz Mongol Invasion and Collective Memory in Central Europe - The Chasuble of Saint Hedwig in Hall (Tirol) Zehra Tonbul | Bogaziçi University Parallel Odysseys of Ernst Herzfeld and Ernst Diez Joachim Gierlichs | Qatar National Library Katharina Otto-Dorn and Her View on Persian (Seljuk) Art in Anatolia and Persia

Chair / discussant: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani | University of Toronto

096 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 33 Global Influences on Iranian Religious Doctrine and Practice Chair: Sergio Moya | University of Costa Rica

Meir Litvak | Tel Aviv University Iranian Shiʻi Responses to the Salafi-Jihadi Challenge: From Rapprochement to Takfir Sergio Moya | University of Costa Rica The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Processes for Promoting Shia Islam in Latin America Mirjam Kuenkler | University of Göttingen From the Human Reading of Religion to the Prophetic Reading of the World: Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari’s Hermeneutic Turn Arash Sarkohi | Freie Universität Berlin Religious Reformists in Iran From a Theoretical View Oliver Scharbrodt | University of Chester Khomeini and Muhammad Shirazi (1928-2001): From Velāyat-e Faqīh to Shawrā-ye Foqahā’

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Chair: Mansoor Moaddel | University of Maryland, College Park

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Beyond Azerbaijan: Rethinking the Origins of the Cold War in Iran

Convenor: Alexander Nicholas Shaw | University of Leeds Alexander Nicholas Shaw | University of Leeds Perfidious Albion? Britain, the United States and Triangular Diplomacy with the Qavam Government in Iran, 1946-47 Gregory Brew | Georgetown University Pulling the “Open Door” With Two Hands: American Oil Companies, the Iranian Oil Concession and the 1946 Azerbaijani Crisis Dmitry Asinovskiy | European University The Mahabad Republic: Soviet Puppet or the Result of a Genuine National Movement? Mattin Biglari | University of London Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Tudeh Party during the 1946 Khuzestan General Strike

Convenor: Eva Orthmann | Bonn University

Eva Orthmann | Bonn University The Persian Translation of Varāhamihira’s Bṛhat Saṁhita Arthur Dudney | University of Cambridge Late Eighteenth Century Persian Language Education and the Pull of the Vernacular Soraya Khodamoradi | University of Bonn Adaptation of Indian Mysticism in Persian Sufi Text of Rushd-Nāma of ‘Abd al-Quddūs Gāngohī (d. 1537) Anna Martin | Philipps-Universität Marburg Persianization of Indic Narratives

100 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 23 Reimagining the Iranian Past

Chair: Katja Foellmer | Goettingen University Daniel Beckman | University of California, Los Angeles The Death of Cyrus the Great Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan | Yale University The Liminal Figure of the Angel in the National Imagination of Early 1900s in Iran Kaveh Bassiri | University of Arkansas Rewriting the Past: Exploring Innovations in Postmodern Persian Poetry Katja Foellmer | Goettingen University Reframing the Religious in the Iranian Enlightenment Period

101 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 27 Iran’s Impact on Regional Economics and Politics Laleh Gomari-Luksch | University of St. Andrews and University of Tübingen Beyond Sovereignty: The Iran-Saudi Arabia Cold War in the Middle East Robabeh Motaghedi | National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran The Impact of the Oil Industry on Changing of the Subaltern Social Life in Southern Iranian Oil Fields.

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092 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 27

095 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 23

097 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 32

099 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Richter

State Policy and Dissent in 20th Century Iran

Women in 19th Century Iran

Revolution and Society in Modern Iran

The Indo-Persian Translation Movement: A Multi-Faceted Phenomenon of Cultural Transmission and Adaptation

093 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 31 Iranian Cinema in the World and At Home

094 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 30 Persian Art Across Central Europe from the Mongols to World War II Convenor: Iván Szántó | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Chair / discussant: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani | University of Toronto

096 08:45 am - 10:15 am Room 33 Global Influences on Iranian Religious Doctrine and Practice Chair: Sergio Moya | University of Costa Rica

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Chair: Mansoor Moaddel | University of Maryland, College Park

098 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

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Beyond Azerbaijan: Rethinking the Origins of the Cold War in Iran

Convenor: Eva Orthmann | Bonn University

100 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 23 Reimagining the Iranian Past

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104 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 33

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Special Session 3

Negotiating Translatability in Persianate Literary Culture

From African Slavery to American Immigration: Race and Racial Constructs in the Iranian Context, 1850-present

State Policy and Culture in the Islamic Republic

12:15 pm - 02:00 pm Room 33

Azadeh Ganjeh | Bern University Danish Pastry or Gole Mohammadi? Effects of State Policies on Hamlet Performances in Iran Gholamreza Vatandoust | American University of Kuwait Beyond the Shari’a: “White Marriages” in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran

Convenor: Aria Fani | University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Nasrin Rahimieh | University of California, Irvine Aria Fani | University of California, Berkeley Forging a Rhetoric of Poetic Untranslatability: The Case of Shafi‘ī-Kadkani and His Hafiz Jane Mikkelson | University of Chicago Translation at the Confluence of Two Worlds: The Realignment of Islamic and Hindu Monotheisms in Dārā Shokūh’s Majmaʿ ol-Baḥrayn Samad Alavi | University of Washington Ordinary Renditions: Iranian Prison Memoirs in the Global Market Milad Odabaei | University of California, Berkeley History and Politics in Translation: Mirza Saleh Shirazi’s Safarnameh

Convenor: Beeta Baghoolizadeh | University of Pennsylvania Chair: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi | King’s College London Discussant: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi | King’s College London

Beeta Baghoolizadeh | University of Pennsylvania White, Black, and Iranians in Between: The Racial Language of Difference, 1872-1941 Neda Maghbouleh | University of Toronto Off-White: Iranian-Americans and Race from 1950-present Parisa Vaziri | University of California, Irvine Racialized Modernity and the Anthropology of Winds: Nasser Taghvai’s Bad-e Jinn Mira Xenia Schwerda | Harvard University Seen and Unseen: Depictions of Africans in Qajar Art and Visual Culture

103 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 31

105 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 7

The Margins of the Islamic Republic: An Interdisciplinary Quest

Research on Persian Language Pedagogy

Maziyar Ghiabi | University of Oxford The Medical Republic of Iran: Pathology, Crisis and the Management of the Margins Mitra Asfari | René Descartes University An Integrated Group of Strangers Called Gorbat Kevan Harris | University of California, Los Angeles Capital at the Margins: Logics of Investment Across Iran’s Private and Semi-Public Sectors Fariba Adelkhah | Sciences Po, CERI “Dirty money” is Not Harâm

Saera Kwak | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Grammatical Errors in Persian by Korean Learners Ladan Hamedani | University of Hawai’i at Manoa Teaching Persian to Both Heritage and Foreign Language Learners

Convenor: Maziyar Ghiabi | University of Oxford Chair: Fariba Adelkhah | Science Po, CERI

Chair: Anousha Sedighi | Portland State University Organized by the American Association of Teachers of Persian

106 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 30 Mirzā ‘Ali-Qoli Kho’i The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period

Convenor: Ulrich Marzolph | Goettingen University Ali Boozari | Art University Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi’s Illustrations to Jouhari’s Ṭufān albokā and Other Books of the “Rowże-Khāni” Genre Ulrich Marzolph | Goettingen University Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period Mahbobe Ghods | Columbia University Changing Times and the Time for Change: The Influence and Contribution of Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi to Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art Roxana Zenhari | Goettingen University “Irregular” Illustrations: Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi’s Visual Representation of Saʿdi’s Poems 50

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Chair: Azadeh Ganjeh | Bern University

108 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 26 Gendered Counternarratives of Representation in Qajar Society

Convenor: Staci Gem Scheiwiller | California State University, Stanislaus Chair / discussant: Ilse Sturkenboom | University of Vienna Negar Habibi | Aix-Marseille University Female Artistic Patronage in Pre-Modern Iran Elika Palenzona-Djalili | University of Zurich A Relational Understanding of Gendered Beauty in Early Qajar Painting

Convenor: Nayereh Tohidi | California State University Northridge & Ata Hoodashtian | Umef University Chair: Touraj Atabaki | International Institute of Social History Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari | Independent Scholar Is Islamic Science Possible? Nayereh Tohidi | California State University, Northridge Women’s Studies in Iran’s Universities: A Display of the Paradox of Islamic Republic Ata Hoodashtian | Umef University Human Science, Critical Thought, and Iran Saeed Paivandi | University of Lorraine The Meaning and Trajectory of Islamization of the Humanities in Iran Mohammad-Reza Nikfar | Independent Scholar On Fortunate and Unfortunate Aspects of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran Sadegh Zibakalam | University of Tehran Some First-Hand Experiences and Observations on Challenges Facing Social Sciences in Iran

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closing session International Society for Iranian Studies

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fare-well reception 6:30 - 9:00 pm

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102 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 32

104 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 33

107 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 24

Special Session 3

Negotiating Translatability in Persianate Literary Culture

From African Slavery to American Immigration: Race and Racial Constructs in the Iranian Context, 1850-present

State Policy and Culture in the Islamic Republic

12:15 pm - 02:00 pm Room 33

Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran

Convenor: Beeta Baghoolizadeh | University of Pennsylvania Chair: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi | King’s College London Discussant: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi | King’s College London

103 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 31

105 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 7

The Margins of the Islamic Republic: An Interdisciplinary Quest

Research on Persian Language Pedagogy

Convenor: Maziyar Ghiabi | University of Oxford Chair: Fariba Adelkhah | Science Po, CERI

Chair: Anousha Sedighi | Portland State University Organized by the American Association of Teachers of Persian

106 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 30 Mirzā ‘Ali-Qoli Kho’i The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period

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Chair: Azadeh Ganjeh | Bern University

108 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Room 26 Gendered Counternarratives of Representation in Qajar Society

Friday 5 August, 5:00 - 9:00 pm

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closing session International Society for Iranian Studies

General meeting 5:00 - 6:30 pm followed by a

fare-well reception 6:30 - 9:00 pm

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pArtICIpAnt InDex Abdolmaleki, Kara, 097 Abdurasulov, Ulfatbek, 062 Abrahamian, Ervand, 073 Adelkhah, Fariba, 103 Afacan, Serhan, 073 Afary, Janet, 028, 088 Ahmadi, Amir, 024 Ahmadi, Shaherzad, 090 Ahmed, Ramzan, 089 Akhavan, Niki, 022 Akhtar, Nadeem, 077 Alamdar-Baghini, Abdolreza, 073 Alavi, Samad, 102 Alexandrin, Elizabeth, 091 Alimoradi, Pooriya, 034 Alvandi, Roham, 007, 027, Special Session 2 Amanat, Abbas, 054-055 Amin, Camron Michael, 018, 053, 078 Amirebrahimi, Masserat, 070 Andani, Khalil, 091 Andreeva, Elena, 048, 059 Ansari, Ali, 059, 063 Anvari, Haleh, 030, 041 Anzali, Ata, 004 Arian, Anahita, 083 Asadi, Torang, 066 Asfari, Mitra, 116 Ashouri, Daryoush, 054-055 Ashraf, Assef, 050 Asinovskiy, Dmitry, 098 Askari, Nasrin, 057 Atabaki, Touraj, 015, 073, Special Session 2, Special Session 3 Ates, Sabri, 075 Baghoolizadeh, Beeta, 104 Bahmany, Laila Rahimi, 002 Bahramitash, Roksana, 073 Banai, Hussein, 081 Bandy, Hunter, 009 Banuazizi, Ali, 092 Barbati, Chiara, 001, 034 Bassiri, Kaveh, 100 Beard, Michael, 046 Beckman, Daniel, 113 Beers, Theodore, 042 Behrooz, Maziar, 015 Benvenuto, Maria Carmela, 069 Berberian, Houri, 044 Bernheimer, Teresa, 056 Biglari, Mattin, 098 Blout, Emily, 092

Bockholt, Philip, 032 Boozari, Ali, 106 Boroujerdi, Mehrzad, 018, 033, Special Session 2 Bournoutian, George, 086 Bowles, Henry, 045 Bozari, Ali, 044 Brew, Gregory, 098 Breyley, G.J., 007 Brookshaw, Dominic, 052, 067 Cancian, Alessandro, 091 Castiglioni, Claudia, 027 Chehabi, Houchang, 047, 063 Christensen, Janne Bjerre, 008, 046 Cole, Juan, 025 Cooley, Claire, 093 Csirkes, Ferenc, 061 Dabiri, Ghazzal, 013 Darayee, Touraj, 056 de Groot, Joanna, 044, 095 Dehghani, Sasha, 031 Delzendeh, Siamak, 044 Devos, Bianca, 007 Diba, Layla, 028 Dibazar, Pedram, 058 Dudney, Arthur, 099 Elahi, Babek, 038 Elling, Rasmus Christian, 047, 058, 070, 085 Esfandiary, Dina, 008 Eshkevari, Hassan Yousefi, Special Session 3 Eskandari, Mohammad, 023, 049 Fadaeiresketi, Faryaneh, 025, 036 Fani, Aria, 102 Farghadani, Shahla, 042 Faris, David, 022 Farshi, Golriz, 032 Farzaneh, Mateo Mohammad, 089 Ferdowsi, Ali, 013 Fircks, Juliane von, 094 Firouzeh, Peyvand, 029 Fish, Laura, 090 Foellmer, Katja, 100 Fozii, Navid, 053 Fragner, Bert, 062 Gabbay, Alyssa, 032 Gadilia, Ketevan, 001 Gahan, Jairan, 065, 070 Ganjeh, Azadeh, 107 Gasiorowski, Mark, 071 Ghaemmaghami, Omid, 031

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Ghandchi, Narges, 058 Gheissari, Ali, 075, 081 Ghiabi, Maziyar, 103 Ghods, Mahbobe, 106 Ghorbankarimi, Maryam, 093 Gierlichs, Joachim, 094 Giunashvili, Helen, 001 Gledhill, Kevin, 086 Gomari-Luksch, Laleh, 101 Goode, Jim, 027 Gösken, Urs, 009 Gould, Rebecca, 036 Greenwood, Tim, 052 Grigor, Talinn, 064, 085 Guerrieri, Sabrina, 003 Guitoo, Arash, 063 Gustafson, James M., 050 Habibi, Negar, 108 Habibi, Rana, 085 Haghighi, Alireza Namvar, 014 Haghpanah, Jafar, Special Session 1 Hagigi, Latifeh, 019 Hakiminejad, Ahmadreza, 070 Halft, Dennis, 020 Hamedani, Ladan, 019, 105 Haque, Zeyaul, 089 Harris, Kevan, 103 Hashemi, Abdolnabi, Special Session 1 Hashemi, Manata, 074 Hegland, Mary Elaine, 082 Helbig, Elahe, 017 Heller, Anna, 040 Hendelman-Baavur, Liora, 090 Hickerson, Andrea, 038 Hoodashtian, Ata, 033, Special Session 3 Hosseini-Nassab, Seyed Hossein, 009 Howes, Rachel, 006 Husain, Syed Akhtar, 077, 089 Ingenito, Domenico, 067 Irani-Tehrani, Amir, 071 Jaafari, Shima, 034 Jabbari, Alexander, 043 Jafari, Peyman, 073 Javanshir, Lale, 057 Jenkins, Jennifer, 003, 026 Kadivar, Mohsen, 004 Kadoi, Yuka, 094 Kaffash, Hamzeh, 006 Kahraman, Nefise, 016 Kamali, Maryam, 006

Kanda, Yui, 029 Karim, Persis, 040 Karimi, Pamela, 030, 041, 085 Karimi, Sarah, 049 Karjoo-Ravary, Ali, 064 Karshenas, Massoud, 026 Katouzian, Homa, 014 Kaukua, Jari, 072 Kazim, Syed, 089 Khafipour, Hani, 087 Khajehpour, Bijan, Special Session 1 Khalaf, Imad, 005 Khatam, Azam, 023, 049 Khodamoradi, Soraya, 099 Khorrami, Mehdi, 046 Khoshneviss Ansari, Roya, 016, 047 Khosronejad, Pedram, 010 Kia, Mana, 043 Kian, Azadeh, 015, 033 Kian, Soheila, 019 Kilerci, Başak, 075 Kilincoglu, Sevil Çakir, 037 Kiyanrad, Sarah, 087 Koo, Gi-yeon, 018 Korangy, Alireza, 036 Korn, Lorenz, 060 Koyagi, Mikiya, 026 Kozhanov, Nikolay, 048 Kuenkler, Mirjam, 096 Kwak, Saera, 118 Landau, Justine, 067 Langford, Michelle, 093 Lewental, D. Gershon, 051 Lewis, Franklin, 046 Lingwood, Chad, 076 Litvak, Meir, 109 Lorentz, John, 082 Losensky, Paul E., 042, 067 Madaninejad, Banafsheh, 004 Maddah, Homa, 011 Maghbouleh, Neda, 104 Magomedkhanov, Viktor, 048 Mahani, Mahnia Nematollahi, 036 Mahdavi, Mojtaba, 015, 035 Mahdi, Ali Akbar, 033 Malayeri, Salour Evaz, 002 Malekan, Mozhgan, 013 Malekzadeh, Elham, 088 Mancini-Lander, Derek J., 088 Mansoorian, Mahfarid, 037 Marashi, Afshin, 064 Marlow, Louise, 057

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Martin, Anna, 099 Marzolph, Ulrich, 106 Mashayekhi, Azadeh, 085 Masjedi, Fatemeh, 086 Massie, Eric, 088 Matin, Kamran, 015 Matin-Asgari, Afshin, 015, 073 Matthee, Rudi, 075 Mazhjoo, Nina, 083 Meftahi, Ida, 003 Mehrvarz, Abbas Zarei, 039 Meisami, Sayeh, 072 Melville, Charles, 029 Melville, Firuza, 048, 059 Michaelsen, Marcus, 022 Mikkelson, Jane, 102 Milani, Mohsen, Special Session 2 Minuchehr, Pardis, 051 Mirsepassi, Ali, 054-055 Mitchell, Colin, 020 Moaddel, Mansoor, 097 Moazzen, Maryam, 050 Mofrad, Ghazaleh Haghdad, 011 Moghaddari, Sonja, 053, 066 Mohajer, Naser, 015 Moinuddin, Golam, 089 Mojab, Shahrzad, 078 Momen, Moojan, 031 Moosavi, Mahroo, 061 Moqadam, Mahbube, 095 Moradi, Arham, 032 Morshedlou, Nahid, 089 Moshiri, Abolfazl, 002 Mostowfi, Farima, 019 Motaghedi, Robabeh, 101 Mottahedeh, Negar, 031 Mousavi, Shayesteh Sadat, 016 Movahedi-Lankarani, Ciruce, 090 Moya, Sergio, 096 Mozafari, Arshavez, 005, 016, 045, 065 Mozaffari, Ali, 060 Nabavi, Negin, 028 Naghibi, Nima, 040 Namazie, Pari, 066 Nanquette, Laetitia, 025 Naraghi, Ashkan Rezvani, 074, 095 Naraghi, Solmaz, 039 Nezhad, Mohsen Bahram, 061 Niazi, Kaveh, 029, 102 Nikfar, Mohammad-Reza, Special Session 3 Nikkhah, Naciem, 087 Noelle-Karimi, Christine, 062 Nooshin, Laudan, 079

Odabaei, Milad, 065, 102 Orthmann, Eva, 099 Paivandi, Saeed, 033, Special Session 3 Pak-Shiraz, Nacim, 080 Palenzona-Djalili, Elika, 108 Parsi, Rouzbeh, 008 Partovi, Pedram, 007 Paya, Ali, 081 Pirnazar, Nahid, 083 Pishbin, Shaahin, 040 Pistor-Hatam, Anja, 052, 063 Pompeo, Flavia, 069 Poor, Daryoush Mohammad, 091 Popp, Stephan, 043 Posch, Walter, 061 Pourbagheri, Hossein, 028 Pourjavady, Reza, 020 Pourtavaf, Leila, 070 Prakash, Pranav, 045 Pregill, Michael, 056 Qandehari, Firoozeh, 001 Quadri, Md Arshadul, 077 Quay, Michelle, 040 Quinn, Sholeh, 006, 061

Raffaelli, Enrico, 024 Rahimi, Babak, 022 Rahimieh, Nasrin, 090, 102 Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shabnam, 100 Rahimkhani, Kourosh, 018 Rahmanian, Dariush, 083 Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush, 092 Rasikh, Jawan Shir, 006 Rassooli, Nima, 022 Ravandi-Fadai, Svetlana, 059 Razak, Rowena Abdul, 048 Rekabtalaei, Golbarg, 047 Rezakhani, Khodadad, 056 Ricks, Thomas, 010, 082 Rizvi, Sajjad, 009, 072 Rossi, Adriano, 069 Rostam-Kolayi, Jasamin, 082 Roudmajani, Mohsen, 001 Rozen, Laura, Special Session 2 Rustamova-Tohidi, Solmaz, 066 Sabbaghi, Maryam, 087 Sadeghi, Fatemeh, 011 Sadovski, Velizar, 034, 069

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Saeidi, Ali, 026 Saeidi, Hoorieh, 039 Saffari, Siavash, 035 Safshekan, Roozbeh, 012 Sahim, Haideh, 019, 052 Saidi, Mina, 023 Sajjadpour, Seyyed Kazem, Special Session 2 Salamat, Hesam, 049 Salari, Mohammad, 049 Salehi, Nasrollah, 037 Salehi Esfahani, Hadi, 012 Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad, 018, Special Session 1 Saluschev, Sergey, 088 Samaeinejad, Saharnaz, 005, 045 Samie, August, 076 Samvelian, Pollet, 068 Sanikidze, George, 086 Saremi, Nastran, 023 Saremi, Samar, 074 Sarimi, Farshid Moqadam, 023 Sarkohi, Arash, 096 Sarkozy, Miklos, 091 Sarmadi, Behzad, 053 Sartori, Paolo, 062 Scharbrot, Oliver, 096 Schayegh, Cyrus, 058 Schmitt, Rüdiger, 069 Scheiwiller, Staci Gem, 108 Schwerda, Mira Xenia, 104 Secunda, Shai, 056 Sedighi, Anousha, 019, 068, 105 Seidel, Roman, 081 Seyed-Gohrab, Asghar, 036, 046 Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh, 019, 068 Shafiyeva, Afshan, 097 Shahegh, Mahvash, 024 Shahnahpur, Saeedeh, 036 Shahrokhi, Sharare, 009 Shams, Alexander, 070 Shani, Raya, 076 Sharifi, Nafiseh, 018 Sharifian, Farzad, 002 Sharma, Sunil, 067 Shaw, Alexander Nicholas, 098 Shayani, Sahba, 019, 031 Sheibani, Khatereh, 025 Sheikh, Reza, 017 Shirazi, Faegheh, 085 Shomali, Alireza, 080 Simidchieva, Marta, 077 Sinkaya, Bayram, 012 Siebertz, Roman, 007 Sreberny-Mohammadi, Leili, 079 Sternfeld, Lior, 003, 047

Sturkenboom, Ilse, 042, 121 Sutton, Summer, 012, 058 Szántó, Iván, 094 Tabatabai, Ariane, 008 Tabrizi, Aniseh Bassiri, 008 Tahmasebi-Birgani, Victoria, 003, 014, 035, 095 Taki, Leila Ghaleh, 013 Talebi, Shahla, 037 Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad, 003, 014, 026, 052, 054-055 Tavassol, Nahid, 080 Ter-Oganov, Nugzar, 059 Therme, Clement, 027 Tohidi, Nayereh, Special Session 3 Tolooei, Vahid, 097 Tonbul, Zehra, 094 Toral-Niehoff, Isabel, 056 Vahabi, Nader, 066 Vahabzadeh, Peyman, 015, 035 Vatandoust, Gholamreza, 107 Vaziri, Parisa, 065, 104 Vejdani, Farzin, 065 Volkov, Denis, 059 Vuurman, Corien J.M., 017 Walcher, Heidi, 010 Walton, Shireen, 047 Wentker, Sibylle, 071 Werner, Christoph, 020 Wiesehoefer, Josef, 063 Wood, Barry, 087 Wytenbroek, Lydia, 003 Yaghoobi, Claudia, 025 Yarjani, Javad, Special Session 1 Yazdani, Kaveh, 043 Yazdani, Mina, 014 Yazdi, Hamid Rezaei, 005, 016, 065 Yntema, Sally Morrell, 042 Yoshinari, Mary, 026, 048 Yousefi, Hamed, 030, 054-055 Yu, Yusen, 076 Zahiremami, Parisa, 057 Zarinebaf, Fariba, 075 Zenhari, Roxana, 106 Zia-Ebrahimi, Reza, 104 Zibakalam, Sadegh, Special Session 3

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Thematic panel overview Languages, linguistics, and Language Pedagogy 001 New Perspectives on Iranian Languages 019 Roundtable: The Current State of Persian Instruction at Colleges and Universities 068 The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics 069 Achaemenid texts and contexts: syntax, stylistics and text linguistics 105 Research on Persian Language Pedagogy Religion 004 Theological Innovations in the Islamic Republic of Iran 024 Zoroastrianism and Culture 034 Zoroastrianism in Text and Culture 091 Shi‘i Eschatologies across the Millennium: 900-1900 096 Global Influences on Iranian Religious Doctrine and Practice

Philosophy and intellectual history 009 Philosophy and Culture in Iranian History 020 Intellectual Networks and Issues of Provenance and Attribution in Pre-Modern Iran 054/55 Round table: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid (Film and Discussion) 072 Philosophy and Theology in the First Safavid Centuries 081 The Reception of Modern „Western Philosophy“ and Methods of Philosophical Comparison in Iran

Pre- and Early Modern literary and manuscript Culture 002 Mysticism and Text I 013 Mysticism and Text II 032 Persian Manuscript Culture 042 Tradition and Authority in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature 046 Book of Senses: Building Blocks of Seonsory Reading of Persian Literature 057 Ethics, Politics, and the Court Literature: The Role of Ethical and Cultural Values in Linking Different Literary Genres, Political Domains, and Social Strata in Medieval Iran and Anatolia 067 Praise of the Patron, the Palace, and the City: Form and Function in Topical Persian Panegyrics

Literary modernities 005 Organic Prose: (Post)Modern Persian Fiction and the Idea of Iranian Literary Modernity 016 Alter-fiction, Alternative Criticism: The Heterodox Origins of Iranian Literary Modernity 025 New Approaches to Persian Literature 031 Lifting the Veil: New Research on the Life and Work of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Tahirih 036 Iran-Iraq War Literature (1980-1988) 045 Untimely Poiesis: Persian Poetics and the Making of Literary Modernity 046 Book of Senses: Building Blocks of Sensory Reading of Persian Literature 065 Roundtable: Iranian Literary Modernity as a Guiding Paradigm 080 Masculinity, Patriarchy and Gender in Persian Literature 102 Negotiating Translatability in Persianate Literary Culture

History: Antiquity 052 Minorities and Identity Formation in modern Iran I 056 New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq 063 Minorities and Identity Formation in modern Iran II

History: Medieval to Early Modern 006 State and Religion in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iran 029 Timurid and Safavid Technology and Culture 039 State and Society in Qajar Iran 050 Sources for Qajar Imperial History 052 Minorities and Identity Formation in modern Iran I 061 New Perspectives on Safavid Iran 076 Culture in Post-Timurid Iran 087 Art and Culture in Safavid Iran 106 Mirzā Ali-Qoli Kho‘i The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period 108 Gendered Counternarratives of Representation in Qajar Society

History: Constitutional revolution to Islamic Republic 007 New Perspectives on Pahlavi Iran 015 Roundtable „Rethinking the Iranian Left: History, Diversity and Prospects“ 028 Cultural Impact of the Constitutional Period 048 Persian Capers: Foreign intelligence and spying in Iran in the 19th-20th centuries. Part I

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History: Antiquity 052 Minorities and Identity Formation in modern Iran I 056 New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq 063 Minorities and Identity Formation in modern Iran II

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059 Persian Capers: Foreign intelligence and spying in Iran in the 19th-20th centuries. Part II 063 Minorities and Identity Formation in modern Iran II 071 Western Diplomatic Perspectives on Modern Iran 073 Labor in Iranian Studies: Historiography and Histories of Everyday Life, Workplace and Activism 082 „Peace Corps Volunteers in Iran: Witnesses to the 1960s“ 090 Studying War Torn Iran: The Effects of the Iran-Iraq War 098 Beyond Azerbaijan: Rethinking the Origins of the Cold War in Iran 097 Revolution and Society in Modern Iran

Tehran 003 Tehran 1943 I: International Actors, Transnational Actions 014 Tehran 1943 II: Politics and Political Contestation 026 Tehran 1943 III: Occupation and Economic Modernization 041 On the Walls of Tehran 047 Histories of Urban Life: Society, Space and Cosmopolitan Tehran 058 Tehran Noir Urbanism: Dark Visions of Life and Death in the Iranian Metropolis 070 Gender and Urban Space in Tehran 074 Public Space and Modern Iranian Society

Borders, borderlands and regional and international contexts 008 The foreign relations of the Islamic Republic: selfperception and reception 027 The international impact of the Iranian revolution: The view from Ankara, Moscow, and Brussels 037 Comparative Approaches to Modern Iran and Turkey 062 Border Stories: Connectivity and Remoteness across Khurasan (19th – early 20th Century) 075 Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the West: Sectarian divide, Borderlands, and Diplomacy 086 Iranian and Russian Borderlands 088 Iran‘s Cultural Borderlands 098 Beyond Azerbaijan: Rethinking the Origins of the Cold War in Iran 101 Iran’s Impact on Regonal Economics and Politics

India-Iran 043 New Perspectives on Historical Ties Between Iran and India 064 Iran and India in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Social, Cultural, and Political Connections 077 Hedayat Came, Saw and Conquered India

089 Persian Beyond Persia 099 The Indo-Persian Translation Movement: A Multifaceted Phenomenon of Cultural Transmission and Adaptation

Diaspora, Race and Slavery 010 Slavery in 19th and 20th Century Iran 053 New Directions in the Ethnographic Study of the Iranian Diaspora 066 New Perspectives on the Iranian Diaspora 104 From African Slavery to American Immigration: Race and Racial Constructs in the Iranian Context, 1850-present

Gender 018 Women in Islamic Republican Society 031 Lifting the Veil: New Research on the Life and Work of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Tahirih 040 Women, Gender and Literature 070 Gender and Urban Space in Tehran 078 War and Gender in the Islamic Republic of Iran 080 Masculinity, Patriarchy and Gender in Persian Literature 095 Women in 19th Century Iran 108 Gendered Counternarratives of Representation in Qajar Society

to World War II 106 Mirzā Ali-Qoli Kho‘i The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period

State and non-state agents, policy and society 012 State and Non-State Institutions in Contemporary Iran 022 Digital Iran: Social Media, Society and Politics after 2009 A Comparative Sociological 033 Roundtable: Retrospective on the Green Movement in Iran 035 Social Justice Activism and Democratization from Within 079 Protest and Dissidence in Contemporary Iran 092 State Policy and Dissent in 20th Century Iran 103 The margins of the Islamic Republic: an interdisciplinary quest 107 State Policy and Culture in the Islamic Republic

Cultural production, memory, and heritage 030 7 Sides of a Cylinder: A film Screening and Roundtable Discussion on Representations of Iran’s Cultural Heritage 051 Enduring and Contested Cultural Symbols 083 Orientalism and Occidentalism in Iranian Culture 100 Reimagining the Iranian Past

Urbanism and urban space 023 Claims and Agency: the Contested Urban Landscape in Contemporary Iran 047 Histories of Urban Life: Society, Space and Cosmopolitan Tehran 049 Technopolitics and the Urbanization of Nature in Iran 058 Tehran Noir Urbanism: Dark Visions of Life and Death in the Iranian Metropolis 070 Gender and Urban Space in Tehran 074 Public Space and Modern Iranian Society 085 Spaces of Development: Urban Planning, Architecture and Change

Visual arts, architecture, print, photography, film 017 The Tholozan Photographic Collection – Locating Photographic Archives in the Study of Iranian Social and Cultural History 044 Change in Text and Art in Modern Iran 060 Civic and Sacred Space in Iran 087 Art and Culture in Safavid Iran 093 Iranian Cinema in the World and at Home 094 Persian Art across Central Europe from the Mongols

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