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THURSDAY, 7 JULY
6.00-7.00 Reception
7.00-8.30 Film Screening
Under the Skin of the City [Zir-i Pust-i Shahr]
A film by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
FRIDAY, 8 JULY
9.00-9.30 Registration/Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
9.30-9.40 Opening Remarks
Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto
A. Reza Sheikholeslami, Soudavar Chair of Persian Studies, Oxford University
Farhad Hakimzadeh, Iran Heritage Foundation
Elahe Mir-Djalali Omidyar, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute
 Akbar Ghahary, Persian Cultural Foundation
9.40-11.00 Session 1: The Royal Court and the Qajar State
Chair: Hafez F. Farmayan, University of Texas at Austin
Yann Richard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III
European Eyes on Persian Lives in late Qajar Iran
Mansoureh Ettehadieh, University of Tehran
The Private Purse of Muzaffar al-Din Shah
11.00-13.00 Session 2: Hybrid Spaces, Hybrid Lives
Chair: Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University
Mana Kia, Harvard University
Naming Kinship and Difference in Travel Narratives to and from Iran
Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford
Secluded Voices: Women at the Court of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar
Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Melding Private Lives and Public Spaces: Iranian-Armenian Memoirs and Historical Narrative
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session 3: Merchant Lives
Chair: Homa Katouzian, St. Antony’s College
Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
Merchants and their Life-World in Late Qajar Iran
Shireen Mahdavi, University of Utah
The Transition of the Household of an Isfahani 'Sarraf' to a Tehrani merchant: Structure, Function and Relations Therein
Habib Ladjevardi, Harvard University
Personal Values and Corporate Policies: The Case of Haj Seyed Mahmoud Ladjevardi and the Behshahr Industrial Group
16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
16.30-17.50 Session 4: Public Lives and Public Buildings
Chair: Camron Amin, The University of Michigan-Dearborn
Kamran Safa-Manesh, Urban Research Institute-Tehran
The Transformation of Public Space in Modern Iran
Mina Marefat, Library of Congress
Streets & Squares of Tehran
17.50-19.00 Session 5: Private in Public/Public in Private: A Conversation with Mahnaz Afkhami
Discussants:
Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto
Nasrin Rahiemieh, McMaster University
SATURDAY, 9 JULY
9.00-9.30 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
9.30-10.50 Session 6: Privately Public
Chair: Houra Yavari, Columbia University
Homa Katouzian, St. Antony's College
Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran
Abbas Milani, Stanford University
Character as Destiny: The Portrait of the Shah as a Young Man
10.50-12.10 Session 7: Publicly Private
Chair: Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford
Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas-Austin
Of Sexual Matters: Popular Religious Practices of Women
Willem Floor, Independent Scholar
Venereal Disease, A Public Affair
12.10-13.30 Session 8: Violence and Romance
Chair: Ali Banuazizi, Boston College
Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia
Kill a Cat: Tame the Shrew
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Romantic Love in Iranian Cinema
13.30-14.50 Lunch/Film
The Ladies Room (Zananeh)
Directed by Mahnaz Afzali, Iran, 2003, 55min., in Persian, Eng. Sub., Dist. Women Make Movies
14.50-16.10 Session 9: The Politics of Mating
Chair: Habib Ladjevardi, Harvard University
Shahla Ezazi, University of Tehran
Selecting Mates in Contemporary Iran
Fataneh Farahani, Stockholm University
Diasporic Sexual Narratives
16.10-17.00 Tea/Coffee/Refreshments
17.00-18.00 Session 10: Filming Private Lives: A Conversation with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Discussants:
Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto
Nasrin Raheimieh, MacMaster University
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
SUNDAY, 10 JULY
9.00-9.30 Tea/Coffee/Refreshmants
9.30-10.50 Session 11: Not So Private Lives
Chair: Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
Houra Yavari, Columbia University
Is Public life Publishable? Ask Shaykh Ibrahim Zanjani!
Elham Ghaytanchi, Santa Monica College
I Turn off the Lights: The Private Sphere in Contemporary Iranian Women's Novels
10.50-12.10 Session 12: Privacy and Sociability
Chair: Richard Tapper, SOAS
Ali Banuazizi, Boston College
Aspects of Self-Construal and Identity in Persian Culture
Lois Beck, Washington University
Reconfigurations of Private and Public: Examples from Qashqa'i Society
12.10-13.30 Session 13: Sites and Lives
Chair: Roxanne Varzi, University of California-Irvine
Camron Amin, University of Michigan–Dearborn
Blurring Private and Professional Lives by Design: Faculty and Student Housing at Isfahan University of Technology, 1977-2005
Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University
Tehran Arcades
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.50 Session 14: Dating Places
Chair: Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas-Austin
Mahsa Shekarloo, Journalist
Publicly Intimate Tehran: Desiring Subjects in Buses and Cabs
Janet Alexanian, University of California, Irvine
Publicly Intimate Online
16.00-17.30 Session 15: Historicizing Private and Public Lives: A Public Discussion
Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto, St. George/Mississauga
The Purity of the body and the Body Politic
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