PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC SPACES IN MODERN IRAN

Conference - Abstracts

Listed alphabetical by author. Click on title to see abstract.

Janet Alexanian, University of California, Irvine

Cyber Intimacy.

Camron Amin, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Blurring Private and Professional Lives by Design: Faculty and Student Housing at Isfahan University of Technology, 1977-2005.

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.

Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach

Melding Private Lives and Public Spaces: Iranian-Armenian Memoirs and Historical Narrative.

Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford

Secluded Voices: Women at the Court of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar.

Mansoureh Ettehadieh, University of Tehran

The Private Purse of Muzaffar al-Din Shah.

Shahla Ezazi, University of Tehran

Selecting Mates in Contemporary Iran.

Fataneh Farahani, Stockholm University

Diasporic Sexual Narratives.

Willem Floor, Independent Scholar

Venereal Disease, A Public Affair.

Elham Ghaytanchi, Santa Monica College

I Turn off the Lights: The Private Sphere in Contemporary Iranian Women's Novels.

Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego

Merchants and their Life-World in Late Qajar Iran.

Mehrangiz Kar, Harvard University

Juridical Islamization and the Transformation of the Private Sphere.

Homa Katouzian, St. Antony's College

Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran.

Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University

Tehran Arcades.

Mana Kia, Harvard University

Contours of Community: Naming Kinship in Travels to and from Iran.

Habib Ladjevardi, Harvard University

Personal Values and Corporate Policies: The Case of Haj Seyed Mahmoud Ladjevardi and the Behshahr Industrial Group.

Shahla Lahiji, Roshangaran Press, Tehran

A New Self in Formation.

Shireen Mahdavi, University of Utah

The Transition of the Household of an Isfahani 'Sarraf' to a Tehrani Merchant: Structure, Function and Relations Therein.

Rochona Majumdar, University of Chicago

Theorizing Private Lives.

Mina Marefat, Library of Congress

Streets & Squares of Tehran.

Abbas Milani, Stanford University

Character as Destiny: The Portrait of the Shah as a Young Man.

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.

Yann Richard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III

European Eyes on Persian Lives in late Qajar Iran.

Kamran Safa-Manesh, Urban Research Institute, Tehran

The Transformation of Public Space in Modern Iran.

Mahsa Shekarloo, Journalist

Publicly Intimate Tehran: Desiring Subjects in Buses and Cabs.

Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas, Austin

Of Sexual Matters: Popular Religious Practices of Women.

Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto

The Purity of the Body and the Body Politic.

Houra Yavari, Columbia University

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