SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009
8.45 Registration and Opening Remarks
9.15-9.45 Conference Keynote Address:
Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College, CUNY
The Islamic Republic after Thirty Years
9.50-11.10 RELIGION AND POLITICS: RELIGIOSITY AND THE LAW
Gunes Tezcur, Loyola University, Chicago
Religiosity and Political Rule in the Islamic Republic
Kambiz Behi, Harvard University
Iran's New Constitutionalism
Reza Akbari, Freedom House
The Role of the Guardian Council within the Iranian Government
11.10-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.50 RELIGION AND POLITICS: OPPOSITIONAL MOVEMENTS
Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego
Shi'a Iranian Politics after 30 Years of Revolution
Negin Nabavi, Montclair State University
Reform as Project and Discourse in the Islamic Republic
Mehrdad Mashayekhi, Georgetown University
Transformations of the Post-Revolutionary Oppositional Political Discourse
12.50-1.50pm Lunch Break
1.50-3.50 CHANGES IN IRANIAN SOCIETY
Kevan Harris, Johns Hopkins University
State-Making, War-Making, and Welfare-Making: The Ad Hoc Consolidation of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Mustafa El-Labbad, East Center for Regional and Strategic Studies, Cairo
The role of Family relations in revolutionary Iran
Kjetil Selvik, University of Oslo
Iran's Industrial Entrepreneurs since the 1979 Revolution
Sina Mossayeb, Columbia University
Iran's Intellectual Drain: The Challenges of Developing an Intellectual Community under the Islamic Republic of Iran
Julien Pelissier, University of Toulouse
The Impact of the Revolution on Iran's Finance Industry
3.50-4.10 Coffee Break
4.10-5.05 WOMEN IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University
Women, Work, and Economic Citizenship in Iran: Data and Debates
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania
Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women and Maternalism in the Islamic Republic
5.05-6.00 LITERATURE IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Marek Smurzynski, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
Pain as a rule of the social order in Abu Torab Khosravi's Rud-e ravi
A. Korangy Isfahani, University of Virginia
What does Da'i Jan Napelon mean now?
6.00-6.30 Day One Closing Lecture:
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University
Women Shaping Literature and Art: A Glimpse of Post-Revolutionary Iran
7.00 CONFERENCE DINNER (advance tickets only)*
8.30 HAALE IN CONCERT (ticketed event, $10/5, at the door, Trayes Hall)
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2009
9.00-12.00 SPECIAL FACULTY WORKSHOP SESSION : RESEARCH AND TEACHING ABOUT THE REVOLUTION
Ali Banuazizi, Boston College
Interpreting the Iranian Revolution Three Decades Later
Mark Gould, Haverford College
Theorizing the revolution
Janet Bauer, Trinity College
Imagining the Masses: The Lived Consequences of Misreading the Iranian
Revolution
Peter Chelkowski, New York University
Art at the Service of the Revolution
12.00-1.00 Lunch Break
1.00-2.45 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council
Iran's Post-Revolution Foreign Policy- Continuity or Change?
George Sanikidze, Tbilisi State University
Iran and the South Caucasus
Radwan Ziadeh, Harvard University
The Syrian- Iranian Relationship after the Revolution
Rasmus Elling, University of Copenhagen
The Legacy of Khomeini: Questions of Ethnicity, Nation and National Identity
2.50-3.30 Closing Lecture:
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City College, CUNY
Iranians in Amrika
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