The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London

Plenary Session 1:
Researching Contemporary Iran: Historical, Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Chair: Annabelle SREBERNY

• Abbas MALEKI, Iran’s Islamic Revolution and its Future: Domestic Politics and Culture
• Soheila SHAHSHAHANI, Claiming our Terrain in Academia
• Abdolmohammad KAZEMIPUR, A Generation in Flux: An Empirical Profile of Youth in Post-revolutionary Iran
• Pardis MAHDAVI, Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Breakout Session:
Tehran: Cultural Change
Chair: Arshin ADIB-MOGHADDAM

• Oliver LEAMAN, The cultural counter-revolution
• Narciss SOHRABI, The Bases of Cultural Development of Tehran after the Islamic Republic
• Roya RAD, Where is the party tonight?

Breakout Session:
Journalism, Media and Blogs
Chair: Gholam KHIABANY

• Ehsan BAKHSHANDEH, with Mahmoud AHMADI-AFZADI, Media Development in Iran; Impacts of the 1979 Revolution
• Golnaz NANBAKHSH, Changing language use and politeness: Evidence from Iranian family discourses and reality TV
• Mehdi MONTAZER-GHAEM, Broadcasting In Iran – challenges of qualitative development
• Edmund HERZIG, The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA): A New Era for News Agencies in Iran
• David ARN, Unemployment, Poverty And Boredom. The Iranian Press On Drug Addiction 1995-2000

Breakout Session:
Masculinities
Chair: Sarah STEWART (LMEI)

• Asefeh SADEGHI, The formation of the domination of masculine images in the recent advertisements in Iran'
• Mehri HONARBIN-HOLLIDAY, Masculinities in Urban Iran
• Mamali SHAFAHI, Art and the representation of masculinity

Breakout Session:
Cinema
Chair: Saeed ZEIDABADI-NEJAD

• Aida FORUTAN, Censorship and imagination
• Golbarg REKABTALAEI, Cinematic Revolution: The Politicisation of the Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
• Elhum SHAKERIFAR, Ali Santouri – Censorship and Film mobility

Plenary Session 2:
Visual Arts
Chair: Richard TAPPER

• Iason ATHANASIADIS, Mullahs, Martyrs and Non-Alcoholic Mochitos: Iran's Children of the Revolution Come of Age
• Golrokh NAFISI, Cartoons
• Reza HAERI, Film
• Mamali SHAFAHI, Art
• Mehdi VOSOUGHNIA, A glance at photography in Iran after revolution and introducing Qazvin Photographers Group

Breakout Session:
Comedy, Jokes and Laughter
Chair: Annabelle SREBERNY

• Agnès DEVICTOR, Laughing at war
• Taraneh DADAR, A reading of the TV series "The Nights of Barareh
• Katja FOELLMER, Satire in the Iranian Media: Development and Diversity
• Naghmeh SAMINI, Illusion of objection in text message jokes

Breakout Session
Media, Blogs and Politics
Chair: Massoumeh TORFEH

• Shadi ZABET, A good self-image: Goffman and Iranian bloggers
• Mahmoud ENAYAT, Power and Counter-Power in the Persian Webosphere
• Erfan SABETI, Blog Wars in the Global Age: The Case of Persian Bahai and anti-Bahai Weblogs
• Majid TAFRESHI, The Grand Ayatollahs and modern electronic media: the transformation of religious leadership

Breakout Session:
Diasporas and Minorities
Chair: Sarah STEWART

• Zuzanna OLSZEWSKA, Afghan Refugees in Iran: The Hidden Effects of the Revolution at Society’s Margins
• Amin MOGHADAM, Iran in the United Arab Emirates Between envy and reticence The role of Iranian migration in the “metropolization” of the Gulf
• Leili SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI, The Diasporic Children Return To Iran
• David MATTIN, The Flight from Tehran: Iranians in Britain

16:00-17:30

Breakout Session:
Contemporary Cinema
Chair: Nacim PAK

• Maryam GHORBANKARIMI, The Women in Frame: Representation of Women in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
• Saranaz ABDOLLAHZADE BARFOROUSH, Narrative analysis in Iranian popular cinema, before and after the Islamic revolution
• Saeed ZEYDABADI-NEJAD, Film censorship and the problem of reception

Plenary Session 3:
The Womens' Movements
Chair: Ziba MIR-HOSSEINI

• Elaheh KOOLAEE, Changes in Iranian Women’s Role after the Islamic Revolution
• Maryam Ommi, Video as a tool for social change
• Azadeh KIAN, Social and Cultural Change and Women’s Rights Movement in Iran
• Zari TASHAKOR, Women and public space

Breakout Session:
Women's Rights and Wrongs
Chair: Annabelle SREBERNY

• Elaheh ROSTAMI-POVEY, Women’s movement in Iran - Divided they can stand united
• Azadeh MOAVENI, Lipstick Jihad
• Fariba DAVOODI MOHAJER, Strategies and tactics of one million signature campaign

Breakout Session:
Art and Performance
Chair: Mohsen BIPARVA

• Fatemeh Eftekhari RAD, Iranian Women painters since the Revolution
• Hamed YOUSEFI KOUPAI, Re-orienting Orientalism: The Contemporary Art of Tehran
• Mehran HOUSHIAR, Three Generations of Painters
• Liliane ANJO, Contemporary Iranian Theatre: The Emergence Of An Autonomous Space

Breakout Session:
Civil Society, Public Sphere, Democracy
Chair: Gholam KHIABANY

• Bagher ASADI, Challenges of the Civil Society in post-Revolutionary Iran: An Historical Overview
• Dariush BORBOR, End Of Colonialism, Beginning Of Democracy
• Mohammadreza KOLAHI with Saeeheh ALLAHDADI, Application of the concept of "Public sphere" in Iran

Breakout Session:
Women's Activism
Chair: Massoumeh TORFEH

• Benjamin STACHURSKY and Marcus MICHAELSEN, (Net)working for Change: Women’s Movement the Iranian Way
• Azar MAJEDI, New roles for women
• Hamid SHESHJAVANI, Family Life and Working Women: Spousal Conflict and Iranian working mothers
• Mohamad Taghi Ghezelsofla with with Houshang JEIRANI, Iranian women issues in Development and Reform era

Plenary Session 4:
Music and Dance
Chair: Laudan NOUSHIN

• Ahmad KIAROSTAMI, Music Video
• Parmis MOZAFARI, Dance and the Borders of Public and Private Life in Post-Revolutionary Iran
• Ashkan KOOSHA/Negar SHAGHAGHI, The New Iranian Underground

Breakout Session:
Urban and Rural Women
Chair: Ziba MIR-HOSSEINI 

• Marianne BØE, New Expressions of Women’s Agency in the Legal processes
• Tanya LAWRENCE, From Shahrestan to Tehran: provincial women studying in Tehran
• Anna VANZAN, From The Pen To The Rotary Press: Women Publishers In Post Revolutionary Iran

Breakout Session: 
Art and Performance
Chair: Arshin ADIB-MOGHADDAM

• Alice BOMBARDIER, Iranian War Painting: new trends
• Nacim PAK, Cinema as a Reservoir for Cultural Memory
• Saeed TALAJOOY, The Use of Indigenous Performing Traditions in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatre

Breakout Session:
Music and Dance
Chair: Saeed ZEYDABADI-NEJAD

• Laudan NOOSHIN, Hip-Hop Tehran: Putting marginalised voices on the global map
• Nahid SIAMDOUST, Halal or Haram? Islam and Music in Post-Revolutionary Iran
• Bronwen ROBERTSON, "I am an original Iranian man!" Skinny jeans, Persian carpets, and indie rock: expressions of identity in Tehran's unofficial rock music.'
• Emily BLAYNEY, Children’s Lives, Adults’ Lies: Women’s Rap in 21st-Century Tehran