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202213th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
AIS Executive Committee 2022
Naghmeh Sohrabi (President)
Sussan Siavoshi (Journal Editor)
Rivanne Sandler (Executive Director)
James Gustafson (Treasurer, Secretary for Financial Affairs)
Firouzeh Kashani-Sabet (President-Elect)
AIS Council 2022
Naghmeh Sohrabi (President)
Rivanne Sandler (Executive Director)
James Gustafson (Treasurer, Secretary for Financial Affairs)
Firouzeh Kashani-Sabet (President-Elect)
Nahid Siamdoust
Hosna Sheikholeslami
Fatemeh Shams
Khodadad Rezakhani
Lior Sternfeld
Rowena Adbul Razak
Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli
113th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Program Committee
Chair: Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Members:
Amy Malek (College of Charleston, USA)
Anousha Sedighi (Portland State University, USA)
Antonio Panaino (University of Bologna, Italy)
Carlo Cereti (University of Rome, Italy)
Chiara Barbati (ÖAW, Vienna, Austria)
Claudine Gauthier (University of Bordeaux, France)
Enrico Raffaelli (University of Toronto, Canada)
Haila Manteghi (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany)
Jane Lewisohn (SOAS, London, UK)
Kevan Harris (UCLA, USA)
Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto, Canada)
Matteo Compareti (Shaanxi Normal University, China)
Mirjam Künkler (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden)
Mostafa Abedinifard (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Nahid Siamdoust (Yale University, USA)
Peyman Jafari (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Shaul Shaked (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Yuhan Vevaina (Oxford University, UK)
Conference Chair: Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo (University of Salamanca, Spain)
213th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
2022 Awards
2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 Ehsan Yarshater Book Award
2022 Latifeh Yarshater Award
2022 Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award
2022 Parviz Shahriari Book Award
2022 Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and the Persian
Gulf Studies Book Award
2022 Hamid Naficy Book Award
2022 Neda Nobari Dissertation Award
2022 Conference to Journal Paper Award
313th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
413th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 1. Religions
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Zoroastrianism I Islam I Religious Currents in 19th Century
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Iran up to today I
- Enrico G. Raffaelli: Mount Uši.darǝna or “the - Behzad Borhan: Narration of Miracle or
sojourn of dawn”: exploring Zoroastrian eschatology Miracle of Narration? - Amín Egea: The reception of a quintessential
AATP (American Association of - Najm Yousefi: A Contest of Shia Mourning
- Ruben Nikoghosyan: The character of Tīr in Iranian Religion in Spain
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting Pahlavi Literature: New evidence from the Mādayān Rituals: Rowzeh and Ta‘zieh in Qajar Iran - Mina Yazdani: Shaykh al-Ra’is Qajar (d.
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement ī Wīrāzagān - Seyed Hossein Hoseeini Nassab: 1920) and his Ittihad-i Islam
Award (9:30–11:30) - Sepideh Najmzadeh: Iranian Mythical Kings in Neoplatonic Influences on Ismaili - Omid Ghaemmaghami: The Claims (or
the Shahnameh and the Zamyad Yasht Philosophical Approaches to the Pre-Existence Claim?) of Siyyid ‘Ali-Muhammad Shirazi -
of Muhammad: Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī (fl. the Bab
AIS council meeting 971CE) and Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī (d.
(9:30–11:30) 1021CE)
Coffee break
11:30- Zoroastrianism II Islam II Religious Currents in 19th Century
13:00 Iran up to today II
Inaugural lecture by - Domenico Agostini: New light on the Iranian - Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola: The Persian
Apocalypse in the Late Sasanian Period Translation of Shūshtarī’s Iḥqāq al-ḥaqq in the
Alberto Cantera: - Alessandro Cancian: Authorial Intention,
- John Theodore Good: Zoroastrian Dualism Context of Safavid Translation Projects
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. Context and Esotericism in a 19th-century
against its Critics - Parnia Vafaeikia: Iranian Landscapes of the
Shiʿi Sufi Tafsīr: Sulṭān ʿAlī Shāḥ’s (1835-
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century - Jamie OConnell: The Composition of the Shiʿi Messianism
1909) Bayān al-saʿāda and the Intellectual
(12:00–13:00) Zoroastrian Persian Rivāyats as a Communal - Mehdi Faraji: Beyond and Against Class
History of Early Modern Iran
Endeavor and Family: The Post-Revolutionary Friday
- Azadeh Vatanpour: Online Archives,
Prayer and Making a Revolutionary
Publishing Practices, and the Yārsān’s Quest
Community
for Self-Identification
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Rituals in Avestan Language Zoroastrianism III
16:30
- Jaime Martínez Porro: Editorial problems - Dan Sheffield: Zoroastrian Scripture or
of Avestan texts: regularization, emendation Illuminationist Theurgy? On the Sources of the
and reconstruction Dasātīr
- Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo: Avestan - Kevin Gledhill: Moravians in Isfahan: Friedrich
Footnotes Wilhelm Hocker's Travel Journal as a Source on the
- Céline Redard & Kerman Daruwalla: Post-Nader Shah Wars of Succession
Ritual directions of the Zoroastrian Long
Liturgy in the Indian tradition
Coffee break
17:00- Zoroastrianism IV
18:30
- Mariano Errichiello: Beyond the reformers-
AIS Opening orthodox paradigm: towards a new interpretive model
for 19th and 20th centuries-Parsi community
AIS Presidential Address - Paulina Niechciał: Ancient Religion in the Modern AIS Member Assembly
Award ceremony World: Changes in Contemporary Religious Practices
Book celebration of Zoroastrian Women in the United States of
America
- Claudine Gauthier: Jiyo Parsi: A new shape of
Zoroastrian cultural heritage policies
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
513th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 2. Myth and ritual; Linguistics
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Teaching and learning Persian II Myth and ritual I Middle Iranian Linguistics
11:00 (9:00–11:30)
- Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi: Teaching and learning the - Manya Saadi-nejad: The Indo-European
AATP (American Association of formulaic language in Persian Dragon-slaying Myth: Dragons, the Avestan - Olivia Ramble: Revisiting Sasanian
- Saera Kwak: Flipped learning in elementary Saošiiant, and Possible Connections to the monogram seals
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting Persian class for Korean learners Iranian River Goddess - Carlo Cereti: The written tradition in late
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement - Jaan Lahe: Mithra and the sun – Mithra as Sasanian and early Islamic Iran
Award (9:30–11:30) the Sun: The solarity question of the god - Zohreh Zarshenas: “šyr” in Buddhist
Mithra in Iranian religious history from the Sogdian Texts
point of view of comparative religious studies
AIS council meeting - Shekoufeh Mohammadi Shirmahaleh: The
(9:30–11:30) Literary Journey of a Myth: from the Story of
Siyavash in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh to the
Medieval Sendebar
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Persian Linguistics Myth and ritual II Old and Middle Iranian Linguistics
13:00 Alberto Cantera:
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. - Ketevan Gadilia: Grammaticalization of numeral - Azadeh Ehsani-Chombeli: King Og and - Francisco Rubio Orecilla: Iranian Dāsa in
“one” in Persian. On the formation of the Moses: Transformation of Biblical and Vedic India? A Linguistic Reappraisal
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century indefiniteness/specificity Talmudic figures based on Iranian literature - Juan Briceño: Negative polarity ‘one’-based
(12:00–13:00) - Rainer Brunner: Who was Franz Steingass? Some - J. F. Marc DesJardins: Persian Wisdom in indefinites in Old Iranian: OAv. aēuuā and
remarks on a remarkable lexicographer of Persian in the eyes of the Tibetans: Indigenous rituals and YAv. aēuuō-cina.
the 19th century myths regarding the Persian source of the Bon - Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa: Polar
- Asmaa Shehata: Political Terms Approved by the religion of Tibet Identity Inversion: A study case of inscriptions
Academy of Persian Language and Literature and - Tamerlan Salbiev: The Proto-Iranian Royal during the Parthian Period
Their Success in Blog Posts Insignia in Ossetian traditional riddle
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Teaching and learning Persian I
16:30
- Anousha Sedighi: Creating Learner-
Centered Web-Based Material for Persian at
Advanced/Superior Levels
- Zahra Etebari Shekarsaraei: A
comparative study of gender representation in
male-authored vs. female-authored textbooks
teaching Persian as a second/foreign language
- Nazila Khalkhali: Teaching Persian as a
Second Language Around the World
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address
Award ceremony
Book celebration
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
613th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 3. Literature I
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Book, Translation and Literature Parrot and Poets of Indo-Persian Embodied Hermeneutics: Meaning-
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Garden Making in Persian Sufi Poetry
- Arham Moradi: Patronizing Persian: Persian
translation, composition and manuscript production - Jane Mikkelson: The Well-Tempered Lyric
AATP (American Association of - Syed Akhtar Husain: Mirza Ghalib: A
at the Aydinid court in Anatolia (8th/14th century) of Bīdel Dehlavī (d.1720): Galenic Humoral
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting Literary Legend of India
- Márton Székely: The manuscript tradition of Theory in Islamic Medical Science, Sufi
- Mahmood Alam: Ghalib and the British Raj
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Manučehri Dāmġāni's divan and the canon-formation Thought, and Persian Lyric Practice
- Md. Abrarul Haque: Tuti Nama: The
Award (9:30–11:30) of early classical Persian poetry in the Safavid era - Austin O'Malley: Perfumed Speech of a
Golistan of Nakhshabi
- Paul E. Losensky: The Poet and the Sayyed: Fahmi Poet-Pharmacist
- Golam Moinuddin: Muhammad Iqbal: A
Kāshāni and the Social Position of Poetry in Taqi-al-
AIS council meeting Poet of Awakening in Indo-Persian Literature
Din’s Kholāsat al-ash‘ār
(9:30–11:30)
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Parallel Universes: Exploring the The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Literature, folklore and religion
13:00 Alberto Cantera: Shāhnāmeh’s spin-off Perso-Islamic Advice Literature:
- Pegah Shahbaz: Representations of the
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. Amīr Khusrow, Kamāl al-Dīn
- Allison Kanner-Botan: Conceiving Eskandar the Buddha in Persian Literary Culture: The case
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century Banā’ī, Hibatullāh Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī, of Belawhar wa Buyūzasf
Great
(12:00–13:00) - Alexandra Hoffmann: A Rostam in New Garb? and ‘Alī Naqī Kamarehī - Sally Morrell Yntema: Dissonant Echoes
On “Shāhnāmian” Masculinities in the ʿAlīnāmeh and Clashing Styles: Sixteenth-Century
- Sahba Shayani: Unadulterated Sweetness: The - Maryam Moazzen: The Rhetoric of Responses to a Ghazal by Hafiz
Case of Shirin from Ferdowsi to Nezami Exemplary Governance in ‘Alī Naqī - Saghar Sadeghian: The Supernatural Power
- Cameron Cross: The Shifting Ontologies of Evil Kamarehī’s Himam al-thawāqib of Trees: Iranian Folklore and Conservation of
in Persian Epic, from Ferdowsi to Iranshah - Chad Lingwood: Brotherly Discord in Iram Caspian Forests
Garden: History and the Didacticism of Kamāl
al-Dīn Banāʾī’s Bāgh-i iram (or Bahrām u
Bihrūz)
- Shaahin Pishbin: The Inimitable Amīr
Khusraw? Khusraw’s “poetic poetry” (shiʿr-i
shāʿirānah) and his influence on Safavid-
Mughal Persian poetics
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Spinning Stories: The Evolution of A Long Story Short: the Narrative and Persian as an Islamic Language
16:30 the Dāstān as a Genre the Lyric in Premodern Persian beyond Iran
Literature
- Mariam Zia: Dāstān: A Theory - Francesca Chubb-Confer: Nightingales and
- Nobuaki Kondo: Ḥamzanāma: The Various Falcons: Iqbal’s Ghazals Between Persian and
- Dominic Parviz Brookshaw: The Poet as Model
Versions Urdu
Lover: narrative and self in the ghazals of Hafiz,
- Julia Rubanovich: What Can Medieval - Stephan Popp: Mughal insha literature:
Jahan, Kamal, and Salman
Persian Folk Narratives in Prose Tell Us Rhetoric strategies and development
- Justine Landau: Fictions of the Lyric: The
about the Poetic Canon(s)? - Pinky Isha: Bridging Languages to trace
Representation of Poetic Performance in the
- Zahra Faridany-Akhavan: Dismembering Connections and Linearities in The Rubaiyaat:
Shāhnāmeh
the Dāstān: The Damage of the separation of A Study
- Domenico Ingenito: “You are here, and yet I exist:”
the text from the illustration in Epic
the performative lyricism of Sa‘di’s Golestān
manuscript Painting and Literature
- Gabrielle Van den Berg: Love mathnavīs in
motaqāreb: metre and subject in early Persian verse
narratives
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening Fitzgerald’s Translation: A Bridge AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address between the East and the West
Award ceremony
Book celebration - Md. Arshadul Quadri: Echo of Edward FitzGerald
in the Urdu Translations of the Rubaiyat of Khayyam
- Pratima Sharma: Salaman and Absal: A Text of
Jami and Its Translation by Fitzgerald
- Geeta Chaudhary: Edward Fitzgerald transmuting
Mantiq al-tayr into The Bird Parliament:
- Asif Iqbal: The Rubaiyat translated by Fitzgerald
refracted in an Urdu translation
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
713th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 4. Literature II
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Poetry and the Poet
11:00 (9:00–11:30)
- Nadeem Akhtar: Hedayat’s Fictional Characters
who Represent Indian Traits and Characteristics
AATP (American Association of - Emil Madsen Brandt: Bīžan Mofīd's City of
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting Tales: Satire, Folklore, and Social Critique in Late
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Pahlavi Iran
Award (9:30–11:30) - Marta Simidchieva: Sadeq Hedayat’s Novel The
Blind Owl and the Advent of Iranian Modernism
AIS council meeting
(9:30–11:30)
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Poetic Interactions
13:00 Alberto Cantera:
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. - Laetitita Nanquette: The literary publishing
industry in Iran from the 1950s to today
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century - Ali Rahmani Ghanavizbaf: Historical
(12:00–13:00) Representation in the Persian Novel after the Islamic
Revolution: The Case of Su-e ghasd be zāt-e
homāyouni
- Maziyar Faridi: The Sacred at the Limits of
Communication: Notes on Bijan Elahi’s Philosophy
of Translation
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Transnational Iranian Literature Contemporary Literature
16:30
- Claudia Yaghoobi: Multiple Consciousness - Julie Duvigneau: Christine and the Kid:
and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Reflections of and on ‘the Self’ in Houshang
Cultural Productions Golshiri’s Fiction
- Kamila Akhmedjanova: Sadriddin Ainī - - Roya Khoshnevis: Petro-violence: petroleum’s
founding father of modern Tajik literature and cultural footprint in Persian petrofiction
his relationship with the Soviet government - Niyosha Keyzad: Sites of Diasporic Return in
- Behnam Fomeshi: A Turn to Left: Gelareh Asayesh's 'Saffron Sky'
Reception of American Literature between
Two Revolutions
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening A Feminine Voice AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address
Award ceremony - Amanda Leong: Contesting Patriarchal Kingship:
The Humayunnama as a Mirror for Princesses
Book celebration - Leila Rahimi Bahmany: Simin Daneshvar and
Bewilderment
- Sahar Maziar: The “Feminism of Inertia”: a
socio-psychological approach to Persian female
writing 2000-2015
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
813th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 5. History I
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Pahlavi Studies I (Roundtable) The Global Turn in Histories of Early Modern and Contemporary
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Political Thought: Conservative, periods
- Roham Alvandi: The Cold War and the Pahlavi Pathbreaking or Both?
Era - Thomas Ricks: The Life and Times of
AATP (American Association of - Gregory Brew: Oil and the Pahlavi Era Howard Coughlin Baskerville from Nebraska
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting - Zhand Shakibi: Ideology and the Pahlavi Era - Faisal Devji: Intimacy and Interest in Indian
and the High Pains of America to the Volcanic
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement - Robert Steele: Cultural Policy in the Pahlavi Era Political Thought
Caldera of Tabriz and Azerbaijan
- Maaike Warnaar: Europe and Iran in the Pahlavi - Jens Hanssen: Ernst Bloch’s Aristotelian
Award (9:30–11:30) Left and a Monument for Avicenna: Arab
- Behzad Zerehdaran: Searching for a Theory
Era of Human Rights among Postrevolutionary
Theory and the Materialism Debate
Iranian Intellectuals: The Case Study of
AIS council meeting - Alexander Nachman: Reading Skinner in
Abdulkarim Soroush and Mohammad
(9:30–11:30) Iran: A Contextualist Reckoning of Islamic
Mojtahed Shabestari
Protestantism’s Friends and Foes
- Abbas Jong: Iranian Student Movements and
- Urs Goesken: Reception of David Hume’s
anti-Western Occidentalism
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by
Iranian Reformist Thinkers and Activists
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Pahlavi Studies II (Roundtable) Mohammad Mossadegh through Towards Modernity
13:00 Alberto Cantera: the Ages
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. - Talinn Grigor: Art and Architecture in the Pahlavi - Negin Nabavi: Censorship and Its
Era Discontents in Qajar Iran, 1870-1908
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century - Houchang Chehabi: Mohammad Mossadegh
- Anja Pistor-Hatam: The Onslaught of
- Kevan Harris: History of development in the and the "Standard of Civilization"
(12:00–13:00) Pahlavi Era Modern Civilisation: Mahbubi-Ardakani on the
- Ali Ansari: The myth of Mosaddeq
- Claudia Yaghoobi: Gender and Literature in the Qajar Era
- Siavush Randjbar-Daemi: The Tudeh Party
Pahlavi Era - Anthony A. Lee: Ghulam-‘Ali Siyah of
of Iran’s Approach towards Mohammad
Yazd: Race and Racial Ambiguity in 19th- and
Mossadegh, 1951-1958
20th-Century Iran
- Beeta Baghoolizadeh: From Slave to
Citizen: A case study examining the life and
legacy of an enslaved Georgian in Iran
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Artistic and Cultural Exchanges The State and Society in the Pahlavi Era A Conversation About the
16:30 Between Russia and (In Honor of Ahmad Ashraf’s Challenges of Producing Academic
Transcaucasia, 19th and 20th Contributions to the Field of Iranian Research on Contemporary Iran
centuries (Roundtable) Studies) (Rountable)
- Rose Wellman
- Seema Golestaneh: Of Access and - Mehrzad Boroujerdi: Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh: - Hosna Sheikholeslami
Archives: Considering Alternative Regimes A Seasoned Intellectual-Statesman
of Evidence in Iran - Touraj Atabaki: Oil, Labour and Developmental
- Janet Afary: Molla Nasreddin and the State: Iran, 1962-1977
Iranian Diaspora Community in - Nayereh Tohidi: Women and Gender in the
Transcaucasia Pahlavi Era, 1925-1979
- Nigar Gozalova: How the Extensive - Misagh Javadpour: Developmentalism in the
Library of Bahram Mirza Qajar arrived at the Periphery; the Case of Gilan 1962-1978
Azerbaijan Manuscript Institute of Baku?
- Kelsey Rice: The Life and Afterlife of
Mirza Alakbar Sabir: From Trans-Imperial
Truth-Teller to National Sage
- Elham Malekzadeh: The Tudeh Party and
Iran’s Cultural Exchanges with the Soviet
Union
- Zahra Kazemi: Molla Nasreddin’s Satire
and the Iranian Majles
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening The encroaching state? Modernisation AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address and resistance in late Qajar/early
Award ceremony Pahlavi Iran
Book celebration
- Houri Berberian: Consent and Dissent: Armenian
Women’s Organizations and State Modernization
(1890s-1941)
- Talinn Grigor: End to Revival: from
Constitutionalism to Race-Based Nation-State
Architecture
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
913th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 6. History II
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Education Sainthood, Power and Martyrdom:
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Life Writing in Modern Iran (1905
- Rudi Matthee: Foreign Schools in Late Qajar – 1989)
AATP (American Association of Iran: From Competition to Controversy
- Mina Khanlarzadeh: Ideologies of Modernity, - Maxim Alontsev: Self-narrating Sainthood:
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting Technology and Engineering Amongst Iranian Khomeini’s Mystical Poetry as
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Intellectuals, 1900-1979: Ahmad Kasravi, Autohagiography
Award (9:30–11:30) Fakhreddin Shadman, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Hossein - Kayhan Nejad: Memoirs of
Nasr Betrayal:Narrating the Soviet Socialist
- Hossein Rohanisadr: The Committee for Republic of Iran (1920-1921)
AIS council meeting Protection of Eyesight and the First School for Blind - Denis V. Volkov: Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh
(9:30–11:30) Student in Iran: An Oral History Project (1878-1970): Writing the Self in Iran’s
Modernity
- Evgeniya Nikitenko: Self-narrative in the
testimonies of Iranian combatants
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Competing Childhoods: The Origins Nationalism and Identity
13:00 Alberto Cantera: and Changing Portrayals of Children in
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. - Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa: The
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Emergence of a Pre-National Iranian Identity
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century Iran in the Eighteenth Century
(12:00–13:00) - Daniel Amir: Zionist Constitutionalism and
- Sivan Balslev: Re-Imagining Childhood in Qajar Constitutional Zionism in late Qajar Iran
Iran - Ali Niroumand: Whose Nation? Emergence
- Shervin Malekzadeh: The Arab Child as a and Transformation of Iranian Post-
Cautionary Tale of Failed Nationalism in the revolutionary Diaspora Nationalism(s)
Primary School Curriculum of Postrevolutionary
Iran, 1979-2009
- Shaherzad Ahmadi: Working-Class Children in
Pahlavi Iran
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- The Iranian Left: Continuity and Political history I
16:30 Change across Three Generations
- Siavash Saffari: Between Critique and
(Roundtable)
Acquiescence: Marxism, Islam, and the Ambivalent
Secularism of the Tudeh Party
- Siavash Saffari: The Question of Religion
- Leonard Michael: The Modernist Opposition in
Traced through Generations of the Left
Late Reza-Shah Iran: The Origins of the Tudeh Party
- Touraj Atabaki: Labour, Developmental
Revisited
State and the Perplexity of the Iranian Marxist
- Bianca Devos: Religion, media and politics:
Left in 1960s and 1970s Iran
Mohammad Reza Shah’s pilgrimages to Mecca and
- Siavush Randjbar-Daemi: A Red Think
Mashhad
Tank: The Rah-e Fadai Group and its
Analysis of the Iranian Left, 1979-1981
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening Political history II AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address
Award ceremony - Iurii Demin: The Communist Movement in Iran
Book celebration (1920s-early 1930s): national, regional and
international contexts
- William Figueroa: Red Star Over Persia - Iranian
Maoism and Sino-Iranian Relations, 1965-1972
- Stephanie Cronin: Towards a Global History of
Iran: The Revolution, the Islamic Republic and the
“Red 1970s”
- Vahid Mahdavi Mazdeh: History and Politics:
Readings of the Constitutional Revolution in Post-
1979 Iran
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1013th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 7. History III
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Iran beyond Borders Ghaznavi, Mongol and Khaljī
11:00 (9:00–11:30) periods
- Fariba Zarinebaf: Caravans of Silk and Imperial
Armies: Ottoman- Safavid Rivalry over the Silk Hub - Kaveh Niazi: Historical Considerations
AATP (American Association of of Tabriz regarding Muḥammad Karajī’s Inbāṭ al-miyāh
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting - Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer: Safavid Shiism, al-khafīya
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Ottoman Sunnism, and the Border Formation in - Daniel Beben: Alexander the Great and the
Award (9:30–11:30) between “Stranger Turn” in Mongol Central Asia
- James Clark: Interpreting the Shaykh Obayd - Blain Auer: “The Second Alexander” and
Kurdish Incursion of 1880 the Projection of Kingship by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn
AIS council meeting Muḥammad Shāh Khaljī (r. 695-715/1296-
(9:30–11:30) 1316)
- Nazak Birjandifar: Beyond Defense: The
Fortresses of Gilan and Mazandaran in the
Medieval and Early Modern Era
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Safavid period Written in the Stars: The Kitāb-i
13:00 Alberto Cantera: Ḥakīm Jāmāsp and foretelling the
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. - James M. Gustafson: The Ecology of Empire in
future to make sense of the past in
Late Safavid Iran: An Environmental Perspective on
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century Iran’s Early Modern Transformation Mongol Iran
(12:00–13:00) - Emine Yüksel: Stuck Between Two Empires:
Transformation of Religio-Political Structure of - Stefan Kamola: Lords of the age: astronomy
Qizilbash in Safavid Iran and Ottoman Empire (17th and astrology in the Kitāb-i Ḥakīm Jāmāsp
and 19th Centuries) - Bruno de Nicola: Arabs, Seljuqs and
- Kazuo Morimoto: Publicizing the Virtues of Mongols: The historical value of the Kitāb-i
Sayyids in the Second Safawid Century: Mir Ḥakīm Jāmāsp
Muhamad-Ashraf ‘Amili’s Fada’il al-sadat - Shervin Farridnejad: The Legacy of
Jāmāsp: Zoroastrian Contributions to the
Kitāb-i Ḥakīm Jāmāsp and the Heritage of the
Aḥkām-i Jāmāspī
- Majid Montazer Mahdi: Kitāb-i Ḥakīm
Jāmāsp: A biblio-palaeographical History
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Iran between East and West Forms of Companionship in Early Documents and the Economics of
16:30 Modern Persianate South Asia Land in Ancient and Medieval Iran
- Mikiya Koyagi: The Many Faces of the and Afghanistan
“East”: Iranian Representations of Japan, - Mana Kia: Sociability, Ethical Service, and Good
circa 1880-1960 Governance in eighteenth-century Timurid - Thomas Benfey: Middle Persian Documents
- Isabelle Headrick: Iranian Conditions: Hindustan and the Making of the Islamic Fiscal System
Health Problems and Medical Practices in the - Emma Kalb: “Alas for that Invaluable Jewel”: - Arezou Azad: The Practice of Land
Voices of the Staff of the Alliance Israélite Attachment, Companionship and Loss in the Court Economics in the Medieval Eastern Islamicate
Universelle, 1900-1940 of Aurangzeb World
- Fatemeh Masjedi: The International - Neha Vermani: Bonds of Bread and Salt: - Zhan Zhang: How to Draw a Contract of
Dimension of a German Factory Petag Examining the Ideas of Service and Companionship Land Purchase in Bactrian?
(Persische Teppich-Gesellschaft) in Early at the Mughal Court (16th to Early 18th century)
Twentieth-Century Iran
- Hengameh Ziai: The ‘Gift of Skill’:
Experiments in Vocational Training by the
Near East Foundation in Iran
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening Timurid and Early Safavid periods AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address
Award ceremony - Georg Leube: Towards a Critical Edition of the
Corpus of Qara- and Aqquyunlu Epigraphy: Some
Book celebration Practical Considerations
- Gennady Kurin:The Shah's Retrospect, or the Five
Stories of Tahmasp-e Safavi: Some Notes Towards a
Textual History
- Colin Mitchell: Prophets and Icons: Historical
Sensibility and the Early Safavids
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1113th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 8. Arts
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Liminal Bodies: Performing Iranian Material Culture and Architecture
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Modernities
- Fateme Montazeri: Whose Serving is
Grandeur? Two Inscriptions from the reign of
AATP (American Association of - Leila Pourtavaf: From Court Eunuch to Wealthy
Shah Abbas alluding to religious transition
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting Urbanite: The Life and Afterlife of Aziz Khan
- Samira Fathi: Walking the City and the
- Golbarg Rekabtalaei: The Reel “Modern Girl”:
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Cinematic Reiterations of a Global Typecast in Iran
Urban Landscape of Early Nineteenth-Century
Award (9:30–11:30) Isfahan
- Hamed Yousefi Koupai: Monir: The
- Pantea Karimi: Iranian Archaeological
Anthropological Unconscious of Iranian Modernism
Relics in the 19th Century: National Myths or
AIS council meeting - Delaram Hosseinioun: Mirroring the Other: The
Oriental Superstitions?
Metamorphosis of Feminist Persian Art in works of
(9:30–11:30) - Yui Kanda: “If I Circumambulate around
Monir Farmanfarmaian
Him, I Will Be Burnt”: Brass Candlesticks
Endowed to the Mausoleum of Imām Mūsā al-
Kāẓim, Kazimayn
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Image, Translation, and Portals of Textiles and Iconography
13:00 Alberto Cantera: Memory: Film and Literature of the
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. Iranian Diaspora - Roxana Zenhari: The Change of Motifs and
Shiʿi Messages in Royal Grave Rugs: From the
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century Safavid to the Qajar
(12:00–13:00) - Amy Motlagh: Practices and Institutions of
- Asal Dianat: Antiquity of Kurdish Dress
Translation in the Iranian Diaspora
Presented via Sanjar Khan’s Series
- Persis Karim: Writing Memory - Literary
- Faezeh Faezipour: Portraits of the
Genealogy, Storytelling and the Poetics of Exile
Constitutional Revolution of Iran
in Disoriental and Call Me Zebra
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Digital media and Music Cinema Iconography
16:30
- G. J. Breyley: Shaking Haze, Shaping - Mazyar Mahan: The representation of women in - Delphine Poinsot: Animals in Sealing
Waves: New Music and Nocturnal Tehran Iranian art-house cinema: The exceptional case of Practices from Ancient Iran
- Saeedeh Shahnahpur: Iranian-made War Jafar Panahi - Nina Mazhjoo: Persianism in Mithraic
Games in the Twenty-First Century - Pedram Partovi: The Hidden Archive: Studying iconography: the cultic scenes of the Hawarte
Popular Iranian Cinema Mithraeum
- Nima Behroozi: Spatial Closure, Temporal - Abolfazl Moshiri: The Faces of a Rebellious
Displacement: Nostalgia and Utopia in Sage: The Depiction of Iblis in Perso-Islamic
Contemporary Iranian Cinema Miniatures
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening Contemporary Architecture AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address
Award ceremony - Ahmadreza Hakiminejad: In Search of A Ruined
Book celebration City; Revisiting Tehran’s Red-Light District
- Mahsa Alami Fariman: Unmasking Tehran;
texts, images and walls
- Narciss Sohrabi Molayousefi: The Cultural
Heritage of Jews in Tehran: Censored Identity or
Unwillingness to be Recognized
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1213th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 9. Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, Sociology
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Diaspora Studies I Local histories of the Iranian Sociology and Space
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Revolution: networks, cultures and
- Ayda Golrokhi: The multi-character phenomenon spaces of contention and - Jaleh Jalili: Perceptions and Experiences of
in the Iranian diaspora literature Inequality in Tehran’s Public Spaces
AATP (American Association of mobilization - Maryam Alemzadeh: Liminal States:
- Firouzeh Dianat: Food Historiographer: The Smell
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting of Home Winding Through Three Generations and Everyday Practice as Revolutionary Politics in
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Three Cultures in Donia Bijan’s Maman’s Homesick - Mary Elaine Hegland: Face-to-face 1979 Iran
Award (9:30–11:30) Pie Networks and Interactions: Conduits of - Azam Khatam: The Rise and Fall of the
- Sajedeh Hosseini: Familiar Iran: Urban Political/Religious Revolution in Shiraz and Development State in the post-Revolutionary
Imaginaries in “Daughter of Persia” “Aliabad” Iran
AIS council meeting - Misagh (Mohammadreza) Javadpour:
(9:30–11:30) Local History of the Iranian Revolution;
Demonstrations in Rasht
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Diaspora Studies II Unpacking resistance in post- Sociology
13:00 Alberto Cantera: revolutionary Iran: imaginaries of
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. - Parisa Delshad: Towards a Canon of Iranian struggle and spaces of negotiation - Mattin Biglari: ‘Nationalisation “From
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century Migration Studies Below”: The 1951 General Strike of Oil
- Nima Naghibi: Writing Tehranto: Stories of Workers and Students’
(12:00–13:00) - M. Stella Morgana: Resistance in Their
Toronto's Iranian Diaspora - Mahsa Alimardani: Iran’s Challenge with
Own Words: the Iranian Revolution in
- Navid Fozi: Liminal Counterpublics: Internet Sovereignty: Telegram, National
Workers’ Slogans and Memories
Diasporization of Iranian Transit Asylum Seekers in Messengers, and Localisation Laws
- Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi: The
Turkey - Zep Kalb: Corporatism without party: Labor
Cyberfeminism and Politicizing “Celebrity”:
- Sheida Besozzi: Exploring civil resistance through and the state in post-revolutionary Iran
(Self-)Promoting Resistance in Contemporary
the narratives of first-generation Iranian diaspora
Iran
subjects living in Spain
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Iranian Diaspora Studies: Thinking Diaspora and Revolution Crossing the Gulf: Migration,
16:30 Emerging Within and Connecting Across Generations (Rountable) Materiality and Spirituality
to Other Disciplines (Roundtable)
- Persis Karim: Engaging Dissident Discourses in - Anne Storch: Sweet Crossings
- Neda Maghbouleh: Iranian Diaspora Iran and the US: the Transatlantic Formations of - Lindsey Stephenson: Cooking, Carrying,
Studies as a Sociological Puzzle / Puzzle for Diaspora and Crafting: How Iranian Migrants Reshaped
Sociology Everyday Life in Kuwait and Bahrain, 1900-
- Persis Karim: Moving from Margin to 1950
Center - Manami Goto: Gulf Connectivity through
- Nima Naghibi: Reflections on Iranian the Mask: Materials, Perceptions, and Products
Diaspora Studies - Sara Zavaree: Crossing Spirits – Zār rituals
- Manijeh Moradian: Intersectional in the Gulf
Feminism and the Iranian Diaspora
- Amy Motlagh: Our Languages, Ourselves
- Farzaneh Hemmasi: Area Studies,
Expatriate Nationalism, and the Challenge of
Iranian Diaspora Studies
- Amin Moghadam: Capital Flows in Iranian
Diaspora Studies
- Ida Yalzadeh: The Role of Ethnic Studies in
Iranian Diaspora Studies
- Amy Malek: Iranian Diaspora Studies as a
Global Field
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening History and Anthropology of Legal AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address Praxis
Award ceremony
Book celebration - Farzin Vejdani: Murder, Qisas, and Jurisdictional
Authority in Nineteenth-Century Shiraz
- Maziyar Ghiabi: Living prohibition in modern
Iran, from late 19th to 21st century
- Milad Odabaei: The Islamic State and the
Minimum Temporality of Shariʿa
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1313th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 10. Gender Studies
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Gender Studies in contemporary period Gender in Law and Politics
11:00 (9:00–11:30)
- Camron Amin: Does Gender Difference Lead to - Nadia Aghtaie: Theorization of Coercive
AATP (American Association of Different Professional Experiences for Iran Control and Gender Based Violence within
Specialists in American Academia? Muslim Context
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting - Joanna de Groot: Gender and history writing on - Maral Sahebjame: Shades of Gray and
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement modern Iran: a commentary on getting past White: Where Marriage, Civil Law, and
Award (9:30–11:30) blindness and bias in the twenty-first century Religious Discourse Cohabit in Iran
- Ayda Melika: Women Change-Makers: Social and - Maryam Lashkari: Iranian state’s
Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Iran: nationalist discourses of gender and sexuality
AIS council meeting - Sean Widlake: Reading Rumi in Boston: Gender, within the geopolitical conflict of the Middle
(9:30–11:30) Diaspora, and Iranian Counterpublics East
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Sexualities and Intimate Relations I:
13:00 Alberto Cantera: Culture and Politics
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals.
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century - Farhad Gohardani: Masculinity in crisis,
(12:00–13:00) femininity at risk: from battle of sexes to battle of
cultures
- Pardis Mahdavi: Sexuality, Politics, and Sexual
Politics in Modern Iran
- Rose Wellman: The Politics of Kin Marriage in
Iran
- Diane Tober: Truck Drivers, Brothels and Sigheh:
Problematics of Sex in the Iranian Public Health
System
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- Gender Models Sexualities and Intimate Relations II:
16:30 Conflict and Violence
- Proshot Kalami: Soudabeh Desires: a
comparative study of gender performativity, - Zahra Tizro: Gender Dynamics, Embodiment and
gender politics and female desire in Phaedra, Violence in a Cross-cultural Context
Zulaikha, and Soudabeh - Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Tamkin and marital rape:
- Maryam Mavaddat: The Education of the sexuality and inequality in Iranian family law
Women in the Manuscript Dar bayân-e
ta’dib-e zanân va aršad-e owlâd-e zokur
- Serpil Atamaz: Pressing Forward:
Women’s Journals and Political Activism in
Ottoman Turkey and Qajar Iran (1905-1918)
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening Sexualities and Intimate Relations III: AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address LGTB stories
Award ceremony
Book celebration - Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh: The Untellable
Persian Bisexual Stories
- Emmanuel Shokrian: Historical Review of the
Iranian Queer Non-movement
- Bahar Azadi: Iranian Trans-Subjectivities. Trans
body beyond legalization, normalization and
resistance
- Parvaneh Hosseini: Alternative Femininity vs
Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity in Sports
Fields in Iran
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1413th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 11. Politics, Economy
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Iran and the United Nations, 1943-1968 Iran’s New Century: The Political Science and Theory
11:00 (9:00–11:30) Reckoning of Iran’s National
- Jennifer Jenkins: “From the Tehran Conference Identity - Noof Aldosari: Wilayat al Faqih Ideology
AATP (American Association of to the Korean War: Iran as a ‘Test Case’ for the between State and Society
United Nations, 1943-1953” - Aram Hessami: The Two Landmarks of - Oliver Scharbrodt: Islamizing Democracy /
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting - Rowena Abdul Razak: Britain and Iran’s Early Democratizing Islam?: the concept of shawra
Iranian National Identity
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement Membership to the United Nations, 1941–1946 - Abbas Vali: Power and National Identity in (consultation) in the political thought of
Award (9:30–11:30) - Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi: “Sovereignty and Modern Iran Mahmud Taleqani (1911-1979)
Rights in the Age of Global Governance” - Ehsan Kashfi: Mapping the Nation: Street - Kian Tajbakhsh: The Origins of Modern
Names and Iranian identity Local Government in Iran during the Mashruteh
AIS council meeting Period (Implications for understanding the
(9:30–11:30) Islamic City Councils under the Islamic
Republic of Iran)
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by New Perspectives on Developmental Foreign Policy I Economy
13:00 Alberto Cantera: History in Iran I:
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. Actors, Infrastructures and Trajectories - Stanisław Jaśkowski: Do not give us to the - Mary Yoshinari: Primary Sources versus
Red Caps! – Armenian runaways from the Historiography: Economic Modernization in
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century Ottoman Empire to the region of Salmas in the
- Peyman Jafari: Oil and water in the making of Iran, 1921-1946
(12:00–13:00) 1890s - Mohammad Sayyadi: The Nature and
modern Iran
- Fernando Camacho Padilla: Spanish foreign Causes of the Formation of Neo-Prebendalism
- Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani: Dangerous
policy towards Iran during the Franco Regime in Iran's Political Economy (1989-2017)
Development: Gas Energy and Public Safety in Iran,
(1939-1975) - Simon Theobald: “You’ll become perfect”:
1960-2000
- George Sanikidze: Iran and South Caucasus Get-rich-quick schemes and revolutionary
- Gregory Brew: The Petrochemical Paradise:
after the 2020 War: New Realties, New utopianism in Mashhad
Iranian Capital and American Expertise in
Challenges - Eshragh Motahar: The Growing Strategic
Khuzestan, 1956-1963
Relationship between China and Iran
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- American-Iranian Dialogues: New Perspectives on Developmental Foreign Policy II
16:30 Reassessing Transnational and History in Iran II: Genealogies and
- Mehran Haghirian: Objectives and
Cultural Ties from Constitution to Geographies of Development
Determinants of Iranian Foreign Policy
White Revolution (Rountable) Decision-Making Calculus: Continuities and
- Kaveh Ehsani: Golden Key to Modernity? Changes
- Camron Amin: Professional Genealogy of Grand Development Projects in Iran - Eric Lob: Iranian Reconstruction and
Transnationalism and Iranian-American - Arang Keshavarzian: “Completing the Nation’s Development in Syria: Geopolitical Interests,
Im/mobility in Michigan Seas”: Envisioning Development in Late Pahlavi Conflict-Based Drivers, and Transnational
- Gregory Brew: De-Nationalized: Iran and Planning Free Zone Projects from Linkages
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Consortium, Khuzestan to Kish - Bayram Sinkaya: The Role of IRGC in
and Global Oil, 1954-64 - Bita Mousavi: Land reform and religious critique Iranian Foreign Policy: The Case of Iran-Syria
- Kyle Olson: Heritage Diplomacy and US- in Pahlavi Iran, 1960-1979 Relations
Iran Relations: The Case of the Iranian
Antiquities Law
- Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi: We Learned How
to Be Friends’: What Oral History Tells Us
about the American Peace Corps in Iran
- Matthew Shannon: Alborz, Bethel, and
Community: Missionary Institutions in
Postwar Tehran
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening Shah’s Passive Revolution? Revisiting AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address Development and Planning in
Award ceremony Monarchic Iran
Book celebration
- Sara Larijani: Hydro-modernization Projects in
Khuzestan as the Forerunner of Development in Iran
- Kaveh Ehsani: Golden Key to Modernity?
Genealogy of Grand Development Projects in Iran
- Firoozeh Farvardin: The Politics of Reproduction
in Iran: Transformations of Family Policies and
Population Control in Iran
- Nader Talebi: Time, Progress, and the Iranian
State
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1513th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 12. Special Sessions
30.08 31.08 01.09 02.09
9:30- Conference Registration Franklin Books Programs on Screen “Derbent:
11:00 (9:00–11:30) and in Retrospect: The Discussion of What Persia Left Behind” (2020)
Franklin Books Programs and By Pejman Akbarzadeh
AATP (American Association of screening of “Dimensions” (1974), a (Special session + Film)
Teachers of Persian) annual meeting rarely seen film about Franklin/Tehran
+ AATP Lifetime Achievement (Special session)
Award (9:30–11:30)
- Kamran Rastegar: The Socialist Imaginary and
Franklin Books: Translations of Jack London by
AIS council meeting Mohammad Ja’far Mahjoub and Mohammad Ghazi
(9:30–11:30) - Elizabeth Marie Holt: Petromodernism in the
Middle East
Coffee break
11:30- Inaugural lecture by Space and Society in Tehran: Two
13:00 Alberto Cantera: Images of Modern and Modernization
Great Avesta and Zoroastrian Rituals. of the City (Special session + Film)
The Avestan Texts in the 21st century
(12:00–13:00) - Azam Khatam: Beyond the Highway
Lunch break Mentorship Lunch break
15:00- An Archive of Ones Own: A Abdol Hossein Sardari, Iranian
16:30 Conversation with Afsaneh Diplomat (Special session + Film)
Najmabadi and Naghmeh Sohrabi
(Special session)
Coffee break
17:00- AIS Opening The Chronicle of Triumph: Aesthetics AIS Member Assembly
18:30 AIS Presidential Address of the Sacred Defense Culture in the
Award ceremony Works of Morteza Avini and Sadegh
Book celebration Ahangaran
(Special session + Film)
- Kaveh Abbasian: Sinama-ye Eshraghi:
Rethinking Morteza Avini’s Film Theory and
Practice in Comparison to the Theories and Practices
of Dziga Vertov and Bertolt Brecht
- Maryam Aras: Heartache and Heroism (hozn va
hemaseh) Sadegh Ahangaran's Performances of
Maddahi-Rituals in the War Documentaries
Chronicles of Triumph
19:00- Guided sightseeing tour Concert
20:00
1613th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 1. Religions
- Rituals in Avestan Language: Organizer: Alberto Cantera; Chair: Alberto Cantera
- Editorial problems of Avestan texts: regularization, emendation and
reconstruction: Jaime Martínez Porro
- Avestan Footnotes: Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
- Ritual directions of the Zoroastrian Long Liturgy in the Indian tradition: Céline
Redard & Kerman Daruwalla
- Zoroastrianism I: Chair: Dan Sheffield
- Mount Uši.darǝna or “the sojourn of dawn”: exploring Zoroastrian eschatology:
Enrico G. Raffaelli
- The character of Tīr in Pahlavi Literature: New evidence from the Mādayān ī
Wīrāzagān: Ruben Nikoghosyan
- Iranian Mythical Kings in the Shahnameh and the Zamyad Yasht: Sepideh
Najmzadeh
- Zoroastrianism II: Chair: Claudine Gauthier
- New light on the Iranian Apocalypse in the Late Sasanian Period: Domenico
Agostini
- Zoroastrian Dualism against its Critics: John Theodore Good
- The Composition of the Zoroastrian Persian Rivāyats as a Communal Endeavor:
Jamie OConnell
- Zoroastrianism III: Chair: Jamie OConnell
- Zoroastrian Scripture or Illuminationist Theurgy? On the Sources of the Dasātīr:
Dan Sheffield
- Kevin Gledhill: Moravians in Isfahan: Friedrich Wilhelm Hocker's Travel
Journal as a Source on the Post-Nader Shah Wars of Succession
- Zoroastrianism IV: Chair: Alberto Cantera
- Beyond the reformers-orthodox paradigm: towards a new interpretive model for
19th and 20th centuries-Parsi community: Mariano Errichiello
1713th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
- Ancient Religion in the Modern World: Changes in Contemporary Religious
Practices of Zoroastrian Women in the United States of America: Paulina Niechciał
- Jiyo Parsi: A new shape of Zoroastrian cultural heritage policies: Claudine
Gauthier
- Islam I: Chair: Parnia Vafaeikia
- Narration of Miracle or Miracle of Narration?: Behzad Borhan
- A Contest of Shia Mourning Rituals: Rowzeh and Ta‘zieh in Qajar Iran: Najm
Yousefi
- Neoplatonic Influences on Ismaili Philosophical Approaches to the Pre Existence
of Muhammad: Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī (fl. 971CE) and Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī (d.
1021CE): Seyed Hossein Hoseeini Nassab
- Islam II: Chair: Claudine Gauthier
- The Persian Translation of Shūshtarī’s Iḥqāq al-ḥaqq in the Context of Safavid
Translation Projects: Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola
- Iranian Landscapes of the Shiʿi Messianism: Parnia Vafaeikia
- Mehdi Faraji: Beyond and Against Class and Family: The Post-Revolutionary
Friday Prayer and Making a Revolutionary Community
- Religious Currents in 19th Century Iran up to today I: Organizer: Omid
Ghaemmaghami; Chair: Mina Yazdani
- The reception of a quintessential Iranian Religion in Spain: Amín Egea
- Shaykh al-Ra’is Qajar (d. 1920) and his Ittihad-i Islam: Mina Yazdani
- The Claims (or Claim?) of Siyyid ‘Ali-Muhammad Shirazi - the Bab: Omid
Ghaemmaghami
- Religious Currents in 19th Century Iran up to today II:
- Authorial Intention, Context and Esotericism in a 19th-century Shiʿi Sufi Tafsīr:
Sulṭān ʿAlī Shāḥ’s (1835-1909) Bayān al-saʿāda and the Intellectual History of Early
Modern Iran: Alessandro Cancian
- Online Archives, Publishing Practices, and the Yārsān’s Quest for Self-
Identification: Azadeh Vatanpour
1813th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 2. Linguistics
- Teaching and learning Persian I: Chair: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
- Creating Learner-Centered Web-Based Material for Persian at
Advanced/Superior Levels: Anousha Sedighi
- A comparative study of gender representation in male-authored vs. female-
authored textbooks teaching Persian as a second/foreign language: Zahra Etebari
Shekarsaraei
- Nazila Khalkhali: Teaching Persian as a Second Language Around the World
- Teaching and learning Persian II: Chair: Nazila Khalkhali
- Teaching and learning the formulaic language in Persian: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
- Flipped learning in elementary Persian class for Korean learners: Saera Kwak
- Persian Linguistics: Chair: Anousha Sedighi
- Grammaticalization of numeral “one” in Persian. On the formation of the
indefiniteness/specificity: Ketevan Gadilia
- Who was Franz Steingass? Some remarks on a remarkable lexicographer of
Persian in the 19th century: Rainer Brunner
- Political Terms Approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
and Their Success in Blog Posts: Asmaa Shehata
- Myth and ritual I: Chair: Azadeh Ehsani-Chombeli
- The Indo-European Dragon-slaying Myth: Dragons, the Avestan Saošiiant, and
Possible Connections to the Iranian River Goddess: Manya Saadi-nejad
- Mithra and the sun – Mithra as the Sun: The solarity question of the god Mithra
in Iranian religious history from the point of view of comparative religious studies: Jaan
Lahe
- The Literary Journey of a Myth: from the Story of Siyavash in Ferdowsi’s
Shahnameh to the Medieval Sendebar: Shekoufeh Mohammadi Shirmahaleh
- Myth and ritual II: Chair: Manya Saadi-nejad
- King Og and Moses: Transformation of Biblical and Talmudic figures based on
Iranian literature: Azadeh Ehsani-Chombeli
1913th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
- Persian Wisdom in the eyes of the Tibetans: Indigenous rituals and myths
regarding the Persian source of the Bon religion of Tibet: J. F. Marc DesJardins
- The Proto-Iranian Royal Insignia in Ossetian traditional riddle: Tamerlan Salbiev
- Middle Iranian linguistics: Chair: Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
- Revisiting Sasanian monogram seals: Olivia Ramble
- The written tradition in late Sasanian and early Islamic Iran: Carlo Cereti
- “šyr” in Buddhist Sogdian Texts: Zohreh Zarshenas
- Old Iranian Linguistics: Chair: Olivia Ramble
- Iranian Dāsa in Vedic India? A Linguistic Reappraisal: Francisco Rubio Orecilla
- Negative polarity ‘one’-based indefinites in Old Iranian: OAv. aēuuā and YAv.
aēuuō-cina: Juan Briceño
- Polar Identity Inversion: A study case of inscriptions during the Parthian Period:
Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
2013th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
Room 3. Literature I
- Spinning Stories: The Evolution of the Dāstān as a Genre: Organizer: Mariam Zia;
Chair: Mariam Zia; Discussant: Julia Rubanovich
- Dāstān: A Theory: Mariam Zia
- Ḥamzanāma: The Various Versions: Nobuaki Kondo
- What Can Medieval Persian Folk Narratives in Prose Tell Us about the Poetic
Canon(s)?: Julia Rubanovich
- Dismembering the Dāstān: The Damage of the separation of the text from the
illustration in Epic manuscript Painting and Literature: Zahra Faridany-Akhavan
- Book, Translation and Literature: Chair: Eva Orthmann
- Patronizing Persian: Persian translation, composition and manuscript production
at the Aydinid court in Anatolia (8th/14th century): Arham Moradi
- The manuscript tradition of Manučehri Dāmġāni's divan and the canon-
formation of early classical Persian poetry in the Safavid era: Márton Székely
- The Poet and the Sayyed: Fahmi Kāshāni and the Social Position of Poetry in
Taqi-al-Din’s Kholāsat al-ash‘ār: Paul E. Losensky
- Parallel Universes: Exploring the Shāhnāmeh’s spin-offs: Organizer: Alexandra
Hoffmann; Chair: Alexandra Hoffmann
- Conceiving Eskandar the Great: Allison Kanner-Botan
- A Rostam in New Garb? On “Shāhnāmian” Masculinities in the ʿAlīnāmeh:
Alexandra Hoffmann
- Unadulterated Sweetness: The Case of Shirin from Ferdowsi to Nezami: Sahba
Shayani
- The Shifting Ontologies of Evil in Persian Epic, from Ferdowsi to Iranshah:
Cameron Cross
- A Long Story Short: the Narrative and the Lyric in Premodern Persian Literature:
Organizer: Justine Landau; Chair: Dominic Brookshaw; Discussant: Julia Rubanovich
- The Poet as Model Lover: narrative and self in the ghazals of Hafiz, Jahan,
Kamal, and Salman: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
- Fictions of the Lyric: The Representation of Poetic Performance in the
Shāhnāmeh: Justine Landau
2113th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2022)
University of Salamanca, August 30–September 2, 2022
- “You are here, and yet I exist:” the performative lyricism of Sa‘di’s Golestān:
Domenico Ingenito
- Love mathnavīs in motaqāreb: metre and subject in early Persian verse
narratives: Gabrielle Van den Berg
- Fitzgerald’s Translation: A Bridge between the East and the West: Organizer: Md.
Arshadul Quadri; Chair: Md. Arshadul Quadri
- Echo of Edward FitzGerald in the Urdu Translations of the Rubaiyat of
Khayyam: Md. Arshadul Quadri
- Salaman and Absal: A Text of Jami and Its Translation by Fitzgerald: Pratima
Sharma
- Edward Fitzgerald transmuting Mantiq al-tayr into The Bird Parliament: Geeta
Chaudhary
- The Rubaiyat translated by Fitzgerald refracted in an Urdu translation: Asif Iqbal
- Parrot and Poets of Indo-Persian Garden: Organizer: Syed Akhtar Husain; Chair:
Eva Orthmann
- Mirza Ghalib: A Literary Legend of India: Syed Akhtar Husain
- Ghalib and the British Raj: Mahmood Alam
- Tuti Nama: The Golistan of Nakhshabi: Md. Abrarul Haque
- Muhammad Iqbal: A Poet of Awakening in Indo-Persian Literature: Golam
Moinuddin
- The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Perso-Islamic Advice Literature: Amīr Khusrow,
Kamāl al-Dīn Banā’ī, Hibatullāh Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī, and ‘Alī Naqī Kamarehī:
Organizer: Maryam Moazzen; Chair: Colin Mitchell
- The Rhetoric of Exemplary Governance in ‘Alī Naqī Kamarehī’s Himam al-
thawāqib: Maryam Moazzen
- Brotherly Discord in Iram Garden: History and the Didacticism of Kamāl al-Dīn
Banāʾī’s Bāgh-i iram (or Bahrām u Bihrūz): Chad Lingwood
- The Inimitable Amīr Khusraw? Khusraw’s “poetic poetry” (shiʿr-i shāʿirānah)
and his influence on Safavid-Mughal Persian poetics: Shaahin Pishbin
- Persian as an Islamic Language beyond Iran: Organizer: Ali Karjoo-Ravary; Chair:
Geeta Chaudhary
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