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The study of Iranian nationalism has undergone significant changes
during the past decade. As older paradigms of culture and society have
given way to new critical and theoretical insights, a trend within the
historiography of modern Iran has begun the task of questioning the
received assumptions and conceptual habits long defining the history
of modern Iran. Marked primarily by a shift away from perspectives
that reified its object of knowledge, shared its selfsame assumptions,
and which was traditionally written from within the ideological
parameters of nationalism, the newer approach to the history of Iranian
nationalism has instead sought to engage theoretical, conceptual, and
comparative perspectives derived from the wider fields of nationalism
studies, social history, literary theory, and postcolonial studies.
The result is an emerging nascent approach within the field of Iranian
studies which has already shed new light on the making of modern
Iranian nationhood.
This conference brings together scholars broadly engaged in this new
scholarship. The goal is to share ongoing research, to combine efforts, to
chart new areas of analysis, and collectively to rethink the historiography
of Iranian nationalism.
The five panels focus on:
• Centers, Peripheries, and National Identities
• Imagining Iran: Ideology & Historiography
• Islam and Nationalism
• Ethnicity, Gender, and Subaltern Identities
• Transnational and Comparative Studies
• Revolution, Nationalism, and the Islamic Republic
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presenters
Kamyar Abdi, Associate Professor, Science and Research University in Tehran
Kamran Scot Aghaie, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Wali Ahmadi, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Camron Amin, Professor, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Ali Anooshahr, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Touraj Atabaki, Professor, University of Leiden
Talinn Grigor, Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
Hanan Hammad, Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Mana Kia, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University
Brian Mann, Doctoral Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
Afshin Marashi, Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento
Afshin Matin-Asgari, Associate Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
Farzin Vejdani, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Haggai Ram, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Monica Ringer, Assistant Professor, Amherst College
Sussan Siavoshi , Professor, Trinity University
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Professor, University Of Toronto
Negar Mottahedeh, Assistant Professor, Duke University
Roxane Varzi, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Wendy DeSouza, Doctoral Candidate, UCLA
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
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saturday 3 april
8:30 a.m. Panel 4: Ethnicity, Gender, and Subaltern Identities
Fawn Shirazi, Chair
Brian Mann
The Khuzistani Arab Movement, 1941-1946: A Case of Nationalism?
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi
Iranian Minority Girls’ Schools and the Construction of
National Identity, 1800s-1940s
Monica Ringer
Iranian nationalism and Zoroastrian identity During the Pahlavi period
10:15 a.m. Panel 5: Transnational and Comparitive Studies
Kamran Scot Aghaie, Chair
Haggai Ram
East is East, West is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet? Post-1979 Iran
and the Fragile Fiction of Israel as a Euro-American Space
Wali Ahmadi
The Literary and the Political in the Poetry of the Iranian and the
Afghan Constitutional Eras
Hanan Hammad
Relocating a Common Past: Islamic and Secular Nationalism(s)
in Egypt and Iran
12:00-2:00 p.m. Break for Lunch
2:00 p.m. Panel 6: Revolution, Nationalism, and the Islamic Republic
Hossein Haghshenas, Chair
Talinn Grigor
Enduring Nationalism: Royal Architecture after 1979
Kamyar Abdi
Iran’s Pre-Islamic Past Under Fire: Anti-Nationalism and Historiographic
Pseudo-Deconstructionism in Contemporary Iran
Roxane Varzi
Figuring the Future: Portraiture and Nationalism in Post-War Iran
Sussan Siavoshi
Nationalism and the Construction of the “Other”: The Iranian 2009
Post-Presidential Case
Negar Mottahedeh
Calling the Nation Into Being: A Comparison of the Unrest
of 1953, 1978-79, and 2009
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friday 2 april
8:30 a.m. Panel 1: Centers, Peripheries, and National Identities
Moh Ghanoonparvar, Chair
Touraj Atabaki
Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity and Construction of
New Histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Mana Kia
Persianate Community and the Land of Iran, 1722-1835
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Mapping Iran: Nationalism and Ethnic Narratives in the Borderlands
10:15 a.m. Panel 2: Imagining Iran: Ideology & Historiography
Jason Brownlee, Chair
Ali Anooshahr
Fascism, Nazism, and the Orient: The Case of Franz
Babinger and Walther Hinz
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Visualizing Iran
Afshin Marashi
Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
Camron Amin
An Iranian in New York: An Iranian Journalist’s Description of the
Non-Iranian on the Eve of the Cold War
12:15–2:00 p.m. Break for Lunch
2:00 p.m. Panel 3: Islam and Nationalism
Afshin Marashi, Chair
Afshin Matin-Asgari
The Corbin Circle and the Construction of an Islamic Nativist
Critique of the West
Farzin Vejdani
The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography
Kamran Scot Aghaie
Putting the Nation Back at the Center of Nationalism:
The Case of Religious Nationalism in Iran
Wendy DeSouza
Mystical Scholarship and Scholarly Mysticism: Preliminary Thoughts
on Race, Nation and Exoticism in French Iranology
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