Theory and Method Symposium

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents a graduate symposium "Theory and Method" on December 11.

4:00 Introduction
        Mohamad Tavakoli

4:10 Social Media, History, and the Public Sphere in the Modern Middle East 
         Sara Green 

4:30 Transforming Masculinities in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
         Sara Eftekharzadeh

4:50 The Issue with the "Islamic": An Art Historical Approach
         D'Souza McDonough 

5:10 Unveiling Connections: Iranian Women's Transnational Feminist Networks, 1910-1945 
        Hanieh Bakhtiari 

5:30 The Arab Conquest in Iranian Historiography
        Daniyal Ansaripour 

5:50 Orientalist Framing of YPJ Women in the Fight Against ISIS
        Jesse Upton 

6:10 Imperial Governmentality in Ottoman Iraq during the Homidian Era 
        Onur Cezik 

6:30 Machiavelli's Portrayal of Cyru
        Shayan Asgharian

6:50 Dangerous Pleasures in Red-light Tehran: Governmentality, Venereal Diseases & Bodily Politics 
        Helia Karami 

7:10 Mapping the Iranian Border: Shaping of Iranian National Consciousness through Maps 
        Hua Tong 

7:30 Reading Zandukht Shirozi: Gender and Persian Literary Modernity
        Sara Molaie

7:50 Internet Censorship during the Arab Spring  
        lmaan Hassan

8:10 Subverting the Gaze: Cinematic Intimacy and Biocinema in Pahlavi Iran
        Negar Banisafa

8:30 The Discourse on the Iranian National Museum 
        Negar Sagharchi 

8:50 Defining "the Other" in the Top-Down Construction of Jordanian Nationalism
        Weiyue Ma

9:10 TBA 
        Sagal Mohamoud

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