NMCGSA Annual Graduate Symposium

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When and Where

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Hart House (7 Hart House Cir. Toronto)

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The NMC Graduate Students' Association (NMCGSA) is hosting its 25th Annual Graduate Symposium on March 10, 2026 at Hart House.

Registration for the 2026 NMCGSA Annual Symposium, Echoes Across Time: Expressions of Power and Dissent in West Asia and North Africa

Symposium Schedule

8:30-9:00 Sign in and Mingling
9:00-9:05 Welcome Message
9:05-9:15 Introductions
9:15-9:45 Keynote: Dr. Adrien Zakar (University of Toronto)
9:45-10:05 Keynote Q&A
10:05-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:10 Panel 1 (Iranian Studies Panel)
10:10-10:25 Maryam Anahita Yousefi (York University)
“When Monarchists and Theocrats Agree: The Aesthetics of Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi’s Threat”
10:25-10:40 Hanieh Bakhtiari (University of Toronto)
“Domestic Fronts of Resistance During WWII in Iran”
10:40-10:55 Savanna Buehlman-Barbeau (University of Toronto)
“THE UNRAVELING: An archaeological case study of the Zagros highlands which challenges how western-based literature has traditionally defined, and clung, to ideas of power in West Asian archaeology.”
10:55-11:10 Sahar Te (Toronto Metropolitan University and York University)
“Reversing Ultramarine Routes: A Semiotic Reorientation of Lapis Lazuli between West Asia and Europe”
11:10-11:30 Panel 1 Q&A
11:30-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-12:25 Panel 2 (Iconography of Authority)
11:40-11:55 Lanka Hamelin (University of Toronto)
“From Egg Heads to Unmummified Bodies: the importance of children’s iconography in Akhenaten’s rule”
11:55-12:10 Lianna Sternklar (University of Toronto)
“Visualizing Royal Space: Iconographic Evidence for Palatial Architecture in the Amarna Tombs”
12:10-12:25 Lisa Marie WolS (University of Toronto)
“Nubian Material at Mirgissa from the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period”
12:25-12:45 Panel 2 Q&A
12:45-1:45 Lunch Break
1:45-2:30 Panel 3 (Resistance in Art)
1:45-2:00 Mariam Mostafa (York University)
“Reclaiming the Future: Recontextualizing Orientalism and the Decolonial Imagination of Middle Eastern Art”
2:00-2:15 Nassim Abu Sarari (York University)
“The Circle: Rounding and Resonating an Afro-Arab Form”
2:15-2:30 Jose Luis Dizon (University of Toronto)
“The Twenty-One Martyrs of Libya in Iconography”
2:30-2:50 Panel 3 Q&A
2:50-3:00 Closing Remarks

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