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• 19-20 October 2007 | University of Toronto

• Co-conveners, Homa Katouzian and Mohamad Tavakoli

Event Posters

Speakers

Programme

Friday, 19 October 2007

The first day of conference will be held at Great Hall, Hart House 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto (click here for map)

10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks
Linda Northrup, University of Toronto
Dr. Akbar Ghahary, Persian Cultural Foundation

10:10-10:50 Stephanie Cronin
Conceptualizing Modern Iran: a re-evaluation

10:50-11:30 Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Literary Historiography

11:30-12:10 Azita Taleghani
Persian Linguistics in 20th Century

12:10-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:10 Touraj Daryaee
Ancient Iranian Studies

2:10-2:50 Monica Ringer
The ‘Dakhmeh’ Debate and the Zoroastrian Reform Movement

2:50-3:30 Janet Afary
Iran's Unfinished Sexual Revolution

3:30-4:00 Coffee and Tea

4:00-4:40 Mansour Bonakdarian
Britain & Iran Studies in the 20th Century

4:40-5:20 Bert Fragner
Changing Discourses: Walther Hinz and his followers in historical research on Iran in Germany

5:20-6:00 Ali Banuazizi
Iranian Studies in the United States

Saturday, 20 October 2007

The second day of conference will be held at Room 150, Earth Science Centre 5 Bancroft Avenue, University of Toronto (click for map)

10:00-10:40 Rivanne Sandler
Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto

10:40-11:20 Hossein Shahidi
Iranian journalism and the law and in the 20th century

11:20-12:00 Homa Katouzian
Persian Literature in The Twentieth Century

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 M. Hashem Pesaran  and Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Iranian Economy in Twentieth Century: A Global Perspective

2:00-2:40 Kamran Safamanesh
The Transformation of Iran’s built environment in the twentieth century

2:40-3:20 Negar Mottahedeh
Iranian Cinema

3:20-4:00 Coffee and Tea

4:00-4:40 Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
All that was Holy in Iran

4:40-5:30 Ambassador Ken Taylor
North American Relations with Iran: A Discussion

5:30 Closing Remarks
Homa Katouzian