Rethinking the Iranian Revolution: A Student Symposium

The Department of History and the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies present "Rethinking the Iranian Revolution: A Student Symposium".

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Symposium Schedule

5:10-5:15
Opening Remarks
Mohamad Tavakoli

5:15-5:30
The Photographic Revolution
Priya D’Souza McDonough

5:30-5:45
Refashioning the Red Scare in Revolutionary Tehran
Desiree Dashtban

5:45-6:00
The Genealogy of the 1979 Revolution and the Shah’s White Revolution
Amir Banitaba

6:00-6:15
Remembering Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in the Iranian Revolution
Daston Babakan

6:15-6:30
Fadaiyan and Mojahedin: The Characger of Armed Struggle in Revolutionary Iran
Daniyal Ansaripour

6:30-6:45
Tabriz and the 1978-1979 Revolutionary Fever
Sadra Emami

6:45-7:00
Urban Cartographies of the 1979 Revolution
Laleh Sahraei

7:00-7:15
The Legacy of 1978-1979 Women Revolutionaries
Nandini Jain

7:15-7:30
How Michel Foucault Misinterpreted the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution
Helia Karami

7:30-7:45
The Genealogy of the Islamic Revolutionary State
Charlie Lecheng Zeng

7:45-8:00
Revolutionary Exception: Why Iran’s Monarchy Collapsed While Other Middle Eastern Monarchies Endured
Martin Tieu

8:00-8:15
The 1979 Iranian Revolution and the January to February 2026 Protest Movement in Iran
Rojina Bagheri

8:15-8:30
The Revolution and the Novelistic Form
Mohsen Maleki

8:30-8:45
Melancholia of Sovereignty: From Monarchy to Clerical Claims
Mojtaba Shahsavari

8:45-8:50
Concluding Remarks
Mohamad Tavakoli