Conferences:
Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9)
The European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) is one of Europe’s largest conferences in Iranian Studies. It is held every four years and organized by the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE).
The ninth edition of the conference will be hosted by the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in Germany, taking place from 9–13 September 2019.
Some key topics for ECIS 9 include:
Persian Literature, Iranian Philology, History, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Art and Archaeology, Anthropology
Call for Papers:
Thirtieth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference (AIS 2020)
https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2020
You can submit a Paper/Abstract or a Panel/Roundtable proposal. In addition to individual paper proposals, the AIS website will be able to accommodate poster exhibits. The proposal submission website will open on May 15 and will continue until July 15, 2019, 11:59pm Pacific Time-zone.
Conference Dates / Location 25-28 August -2020
University of Salamanca, Spain, at the Faculty of Philology
Heroes, Heroizations and Heroisms in modern Iranian Culture & Historiography
The project aims to analyse semantic change in the discourse surrounding prefigurative heroes and heroized historical personages in official Iranian historiography of the Pahlavi state (1925–1979) and the Islamic Republic (1979–present). The deadline for Submission is 15 July 2019.
Conference Dates / Location
20-21 February 2020
Freiburg University, Germany
Publications:
Published
Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran
Negar Mottahedeh
Stanford UP, 2019: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31130&fbclid=IwAR3UUNYJuyzWu4plcuWYZXpd7JNQf7jz8t7gLsQH4DdwBwfNhUiS92JQszk
Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Amin Saikal
Princeton UP, 2019
Javier Alvarez-Mon
The Elamite World: https://www.routledge.com/The-Elamite-World/Alvarez-Mon-Basello-Wicks/p/book/9781138999893
The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands: https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-1-57506-799-5.html
Zoroastrianism A Collection of Articles from the Encyclopædia Iranica, Edited by Mahnaz Moazami, 2-volume set, Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation: New York, NY, 2016
Mozaffari, Ali. "Picturing Pasargadae: Visual Representation and the Ambiguities of Heritage in Iran." Iranian Studies 50.4 (2017): 601-634.
Mozaffari, Ali, and Nigel Westbrook. ‘Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat’. In The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents, edited by Trinidad Rico, 47–65. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Mozaffari, Ali, and Nigel Westbrook. “Shustar No’w: Urban Image and Fabrication of Place in an Iranian New Town, and its Relation to the International Discourse on Regionalism.” fusion, no. 6, 2015.
Shokoofeh Azar: The Enlightenment of Greengage Tree (in Persian):
http://www.wilddingopress.com.au/product/the-enlightenment-of-the-greengage-tree-farsi-edition/
Forthcoming:
Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance
Michelle Langford
Bloomsbury Academic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/allegory-in-iranian-cinema-9781350113268/?fbclid=IwAR1KmjxQU38oEV6hWeVSon2KEj46whZOYx5x6uaOyycukaHn_1sIi8txVL8
Scholarly Societies:
Iranian Studies Network: https://www.facebook.com/groups/780791295637541/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
The Iranian Studies Network (ISN) is a UNSW-based but internationally inclusive network where researchers interested in Iranian Studies gather and share thoughts, updates and achievements. 115 researchers from various countries and different academic backgrounds have already joined the Network. Scholars working on any aspect of Iranian Studies, including (but not limited to) literature, linguistics, media, and history, are more than welcome to present their works in progress, as well as to discuss published works in the field.
Association for Iranian Studies: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/
The purposes of this Society is to encourage the study of Iranian culture and society, including the history, languages, literatures, the arts, as well as Iran’s contemporary social, economic, and political situation; to provide unrestricted opportunities in its publications and forums for the presentation of scientific findings on Iran from all perspectives; to work to safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression for its members and other scholars in Iranian studies.
Symposia Iranica: http://symposia-iranica.com/about/
Symposia Iranica is a young, dynamic, and strategically driven philanthropic project. It was established to pilot a concept for a different type of academic conference – one that marries the economy, collegiality, and focus on junior scholars of a graduate conference with the breadth, academic intensity, polish and execution of an international convention.
Middle East Studies Association: https://mesana.org/
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom in accordance with its status as a 501(c)(3) scientific, educational, literary, and charitable organization.
2020 Conferences:
The Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media and Culture (BAMC), - Online September 17-20, 2020. https://tinyurl.com/yyqm3l25
ICAMT – International Committee for Architecture and Museum Technique – Online Conference. October 7-8, 2020. https://tinyurl.com/y64cbdzg
ICHM 2020: 14. International Conference on Historical Musicology, October 22-23, 2020 in London. UK. https://tinyurl.com/y5dmeun5
ICIIS 2020: 14. International Conference on Islam and Islamic Studies, October 22-23, 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey: https://tinyurl.com/y5xp9mf4
ICME 2020: 14. International Conference on Musicology and Ethnomusicology, October 22-23 in London United Kingdom: https://tinyurl.com/y2sxpuo3
ICDH 2020: 14. International Conference on Digital Heritage, October 29-30 in Los Angeles, United States: https://tinyurl.com/y5alvlcc
ICSR: 14. International Conference on Science and Religion, November 19-20, 2020 in London, United Kingdom: https://tinyurl.com/y47ckrqg
ICSHE 2020: 14. International Conference on Social History and Economics, November 19-20, 2020 in Paris, France: https://tinyurl.com/y6rvfe7c
ICPRS 2020: 14. International Conference on Philosophy and Religious Studies, December 1-2, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand: https://tinyurl.com/y2x8ubsy
ICVCS 2020: 14. International Conference on Visual Cultures and Studies, December 3-4 2020 in Sydney Australia: https://tinyurl.com/yxl9armn
3rd ANU Religion Conference - Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy. Canberra, 8-10 December 2020. Proposal deadline 21 June 2020. More info.
ICMEPR: 14. International Conference on Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion, December 10-11, 2020 in Rome, Italy: https://tinyurl.com/yyk2rdqn
ICPTS: 14. International Conference on Philosophy, Theology and Spirituality, December 24-25, 2020 in Vienna, Austria: https://tinyurl.com/y5w3y27u
Recent Publications:
Alvarez-Mon, Javier. The Art of Elam CA.4200-525 BC. Routledge, 2020
Alvarez-Mon, Javier. Monumental Reliefs of Elamite Highlands: A complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC) (Mesopotamian Civilizations Series). Eisenbraun Illustrated ed., 2019
Amanat, Abbas. Iran: A modern history. PB. Yale University Press, 2019 The book of Tehran: A City in short fiction (Reading the city).PB. Edited by, Ahmadi, Fereshteh, Afshin-Navid, Atoosa and Asadi, Kourosh. Comma Press, 2019
Arberry, A.J. The Islamic Art of Persia. PB. UK: Third Millennium Press, 2019
Dabashi, Hamid. The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature. Columbia University Press, 2019
Daftari, Fereshteh. Persia reframed: Iranian visions of modern and contemporary art. I.B. Tauris, 2019
Hafez (Khojasteh, Sajjad). The Complete book of Ghazals of Hafez: In Persian with English translation. PB. CreatSpace Independent Publishing, 2018
Hillenbrand, Robert. The art of Salūqs in Iran and Anatolia (PB). Mazda Publication, 2020.
Langford, Michelle. Allegories in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. (PB). Bloomsbury. Oxford, Sydney, 2020
Nanquette L, 2019, “Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature?: Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field”, in Mattar K; Ball A (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 383 - 406, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the- postcolonial-middle-east.html
Recent Titles in Iranian Studies
From its current issue Iranian Studies will be adding a new section presenting a selective list of scholarly books published in the past four years in different disciplines within the general scope of Iranian studies. It currently includes only works published in European languages. The list is not exhaustive and does not follow a chronological order of publication. Titles that have already been reviewed in the journal are not listed.
Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. Psycho-Nationalism: Global Thought, Iranian Imaginations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Allsen, Thomas T. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Al-Rahim, Ahmed H. The Creation of the Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.
Amanat, Abbas, and Assef Ashraf (eds.). The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Iran Studies, 18), 2019.
Ansari, Ali M (ed.). Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment. London: Gingko Library, 2017.
Arabadzhan, Zaven A. Iranskoe masonstvo i ego rol’ v sotsial’no-politicheskom razvitii strany: (ot istokov po nachalo 20-ogo veka) [Iranian Freemasonry and its role in the socio-political development of the country: from origins to the beginning of the 20th c.]. Moscow: Tovariscchestvo nauchnykh izdanii KMK, 2019.
Asatryan, Mushegh. Controversies in Formative Shiʾi Islam The Ghulat Muslims and their Beliefs. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017.
Askari, Nasrin. The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill (Studies in Persian Cultural History, 9), 2016.
Aube, Sandra. La céramique dans l’architecture en Iran au XVe siècle: les arts qarâ quyûnlûs et âq quyûnlûs. Paris: Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2017.
Ayatollahi Tabaar, Mohammad. Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
For more, please see the journal.