- 9:00 OPENING REMARKS
- Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto
- Akbar Ghahary, Persian Cultural Foundation
- 10:00-12:00, PANEL I: TEMPOS AND TIMES (IN PERSIAN)
- Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh, McMaster University
- Ahmad Aboomahbub, University of Tehran
Behbahani's Poetic Journeys - Said Yousef, University of Chicago
A Difficult Step Towards Simplicity: The Limits and Limitations of Simplicity in Contemporary Ghazal - Fereshteh Molavi, Yale University
From Passionate to Maternal; From Ghazal to Narrative - Mohammad Este'lami, McGill University
The People in Simin Behbahani's Poetry - 12:00-1:30 LUNCH
- 1:30-3:30, PANEL II: BODIES AND LIVES
- Chair: Marta Simidchieva, University of Toronto
- Rivanne Sandler, University of Toronto
Simin Behbehani's 'Conversation' in the Context of her Times - Mahdi Tourage, University of Toronto
Textual Bodies in the Poetry of Simin Bihbahani - Shadab Vajdi, University of London
Immortality in Poetry - Dominic Brookshaw, McGill University
Innovative neoclassicism: detecting the old and the new in the poetry of Simin Behbahani - 3:30-4:00 REFRESHMENTS
- 4:00-6:00, PANEL III: POETICS AND POLITICS
- Chair: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto
- M. R. Gahnoonparvar
The Life and Fiction of Simin Behbahani - Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona
Simin Behbahani's Work and Sociopolitical Discourse: A Poet for All Times - Hura Yavari, Columbia University
TBA - Reza Baraheni, University of Toronto
"The Poetics of Simin Behbahani's New Ghazals" - 7:00-9:00 Poetry Reading
- SIMIN BEHBAHANI
