Day 1: 29 April

10.00 - 10.40

Registration, coffee

10.40 - 10.50

Welcome

10.50 - 13.20

Session One
(Chair: Roxanne Varzi; Discussant: Ahmad Karimi Hakkak)
Narguess Farzad, School of Oriental & African Studies
Simplicity and Bliss: Poems of Abbas Kiarostami
Jamsheed Akrami, William Patterson University
Cooling Down a 'Hot Medium'
Rasmus Brendstrup, University of Copenhagen
Who's Milking Who? Abbas Kiarostami's Dialectical Approach to Ethnography

13.20 -14.20

Lunch

14.20 - 16.10

Session Two
(Chair: Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad; Discussant: Laura Mulvey)
Caroline Renard, Université de Provence
Abbas Kiarostami's Recent Work: An Overview
Christopher Gow, University of Warwick
The Particular and the Universal in Kiarostami's 'The Wind Will Carry Us'

16.10 -17.15

Film Screenings
Jamsheed Akrami
Kiarostami 101: An Introductory Collage Jamsheed Akrami
A Walk with Kiarostami
Filippo Trojano
Lines Look Like Wind

Day 2: 30 April

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee

10.30 - 13.30

Session Three
(Chair: Nima Mina; Discussant: Erik Nakjavani)
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
From Kinetic Poetics to a Poetic Cinema: Kiarostami and the Esthetics of Persian Poetry
Michael Beard, University of North Dakota
Film Between Lyric and Maxim
Riccardo Zipoli, Univ Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Uncertain Reality: A Topos in Kiarostami's Poems and Film

13.30 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30 - 17.15

Session Four
(Chair: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw; Discussant: Michael Beard)
Erik Nakjavani, University of Pittsburgh
Abbas Kiarostami: Portrait of the Artist as Tutor and Tyro
Nacim Pak, School of Oriental & African Studies
Religion and Spirituality in Kiarostami's Works
Alberto Elena, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Dream of Light: Kiarostami, Erice and the History of Cinema

Day 3: 1 May

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee

10.30 - 12.30

Session Five
(Chair: Caroline Renard; Discussant: Geoff Andrew)
Gilane Tawadros, Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA)
Trees of Life: The Photography of Abbas Kiarostami
Phlippe Ragel, Université de Toulouse
'The Wind Will Carry Us': Renouncement as a Prior Experience to Learning to See

12.30 - 13.00

Closing Remarks

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.15 - 17.15

Kiarostami's Ta'ziyeh plus Abbas Kiarostami 'in-conversation' with Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Geoff Andrew (ticketed separately, not part of conference registration).