Iran Heritage Foundation

Introduction

SADEQ HEDAYAT CENTENARY CONFERENCE
Programme

Day 1: Friday 28 March 2003

0945 -1045	Registration and Coffee
1030 - 1045	Welcoming Notes
	Eugene Rogan (Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College)
	Farhad Hakimzadeh (Iran Heritage Foundation)
	Elahé Mir-Djalali (Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute)
1045 -1130	Opening remarks and “The Wondrous World of Sadeq Hedayat”
	Homa Katouzian (Oxford University Faculty of Oriental Studies)
1130 -1300	Modernity and Cultural Formation
	Chair: Reza Sheikholeslami (Oriental Institute and Wadham College, Oxford)
	Nasser Pakdaman (University of Paris 7): Hedayat as a Student in France
	Djamchid Behnam: Modernity in Hedayat’s Works
1300 - 1400	Lunch
1400 -1515	Testing Ideas and Politics
	Chair: Floreeda Safiri (Middle East Studies Group, Oxford)
	Mashallah Ajoudani (Library of Iranian Studies, London): Hedayat’s Nationalist Fiction
	Mohammad Tavakoli (Illinois State University): Modernity, Politics and Time in Hedayat’s Works
1515 - 1545	Coffee
1545 - 1800	Realism and Satire
	Chair: Hossein Shahidi (St Antony’ College and Oriental Institute)
	Christophe Balay (Inalco, Paris): Hedayat and the Emergence of Modern Persian Fiction
	Ali Asghar Halabi (Islamic Azad University,Tehran): Hedayat’s Satire
	Firouzeh Khazrai (Princeton University): Satire in ‘Hajji Aqa’
	Jahangir Hedayat (Hedayat Heritage,Tehran): Personal Memories and Family Remembrances
1800 -1900	Conference Reception

Day 2: Saturday 29 March 2003

0930 - 1000	Coffee
1000 - 1115	Fiction, Language and Scholarship
	Chair: Mohammad Tavakoli (Illinois State University)
	Fereshteh Sari: ‘The Blind Owl’ and Individuality
	Nasrin Rahimieh (University of Alberta): Hedayat’s Translations of Kafka
	Shadab Vajdi (SOAS, University of London): Hedayat as a Scholar
1115 - 1145	Coffee
1145 - 1300	Variations on The Blind Owl
	Chair: Anna Enayat (St Antony’s College)
	Michael Beard (University of North Dakota): Influence as Debt - Western Influences in Hedayat’s Fiction
	Bahram Meghdadi (Tehran University): ‘The Blind Owl’ and ‘The Sound and the Fury’
	Marta Simidchieva (York University, Toronto): ‘The Blind Owl’ and the Persian Classics
1300 - 1400	Lunch
1400 - 1500	The Blind Owl as Psychofiction
	Chair: Roya Jahanbin (World University Service, London)
	Sirous Shamisa (Allameh Tabataba’i University): ‘The Blind Owl’ and Archetypes
	Houra Yavari (Columbia University): Hedayat and Us: Split Selves in the Making
1500 - 1530	Coffee
1530 - 1630	Piano recitals and reading of excerpts from Hedayat’s works
	Ariana Barkeshli, Homa Katouzian, Roya Jahanbin and Hossein Shahidi
1630 - 1800	Discussion & Concluding Remarks