Events

October 15, 2024 Mamad Haghighat Iranian Studies Book Launch: رازها و دروغ‌ها در جشنواره کن و ۴۴ سال حضور سینمای ایران در فرانسه

August 28, 2024 Mohammad-Reza Sargolzaee Midlife Crisis and the Mother Complex in Iranian Cinema / بحران میانسالی وعقده ی مادر در سینمای ایران

June 7, 2024 Saeed Talajooy Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre

May 1, 2024 Iftikhar Dadi Shahscoping Lahore: Elective Affinities in the Era of Regional Cooperation and Development

February 16, 2024 Parisa Vaziri Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive

November 16, 2023 Ida Meftahi In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep Mapping Tehran’s Lalehzar District, 1880-1960

December 2, 2022 Pardis Minuchehr How Women Claim their Rights on or off Screen

November 18, 2022 Simran Bhalla Homework: Film Production and Cultural Exchange at Kanoon, (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults), 1965-1989

October 28, 2022 Niki Akhavan From Defense to Intervention: Iran-Iraq War Cinema in a New Millennium

October 14, 2022 Masoumeh Hashemi Control, Digital Censorship and Totalitarianism: The State Monopolization of Video-on-Demand Platforms in Iran

September 16, 2022 Maziyar Faridi Hauntologies of the Present: Notes on Politics of Friendship in Férydoun Rahnéma’s Modernism

May 6, 2022 Claire Cooley Salaam Mumbai, Salaam Tehran: Pasts and Presents of Collaboration Between Indian and Iranian Cinemas

April 29, 2022 Blake Atwood, Kaveh Askari, Golbarg Rekabtalaei Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

April 22, 2022 Farshid Kazemi New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema

March 11, 2022 Farbod Honarpisheh How Frightening Your Makings: Epidemics, Mass Metamorphoses, and Anguished Bodies of the Iranian New Wave Cinema

February 18, 2022 Saeed Talajooy From Mehrin Negar to Tara: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “The Snake King” (1966) and “The Ballad of Tara” (1978-9)

December 3, 2021 Zahra Khosroshahi Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance

November 19, 2021 Kaveh Askari Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran

November 5, 2021 Roshanak Kheshti The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema

October 21, 2021 Pedram Partovi Subaltern Consciousness in Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman

October 8, 2021 Laudan Nooshin Towards a Cinema of Empathy: Listening to/with Banietemad’s The May Lady

October 1, 2021 Kamran Talattof Poetic Pictures: The Feminization of Iranian Cinema

September 24, 2021 Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Multilinguality and Iranian Cinema

September 10, 2021 Hamid Naficy Iranian Internet Cinema: A Cinema of Embodied Protest

July 9, 2021 Michelle Langford Allegory and Allegoresis in Iranian Cinema

June 25, 2021 Hamed Goharipour A Metropolis on the Screen: Urban Transformations, Characters, and Conflicts in Iranian Cinema

June 4, 2021 Asal Bagheri Male-Female Relationships in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

May 21, 2021 Amir Ganjavie Iranian Cinema and International Film Festivals: A Crossroads between Arts and Politics

April 23, 2021 Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari From Golden City to Felestin: The Onomastics of Cinema Halls in Tehran

April 9, 2021 Nacim Pak-Shiraz Women Depicting Freedom of Movement in Iranian Cinema

March 19, 2021 Khatereh Sheibani Pioneer Female Directors, Writers and Producers in Iranian Cinema

March 5, 2021 Blake Atwood Precarity and Possibility: The Labor of Underground Video Dealers in Iran

February 21, 2021 Maryam Ghorbankarimi Rakhshan Banietemad’s Social Realism

February 5, 2021 Anne Démy-Geroe The International Reception of Iranian Cinema, 2000-2013

January 22, 2021 Golbarg Rekabtalaei The City in Film: Imagining Post-WWII Iran in “Film-Farsi” Popular Cinema

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