PERFORMING IRAN

PERFORMING IRAN<br />
Location: Wagner Theater, Theater and Dance Department,<br />
University of California, San Diego<br />
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Schedule: <br />
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction<br />
Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego)<br />
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9:15-10:30 a.m. Keynote Address<br />
w Mahmood Karimi-Hakak<br />
(Siena College, Professor of Creative Arts)<br />
"Iran is the Stage and the Youth, Its Major<br />
Players: A seven-year excursion into<br />
Contemporary Iranian Theater!"<br />
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10:30-10:45 a.m. Break<br />
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10:45-12:00p.m. A (re) Look at Naqqali<br />
w Gordafarid<br />
(Naqqal and Intangible Heritage Researcher)<br />

"The Art of Naqqali: its Past and Present" <br />
<br />
w Shahroukh Yadegari (UC San Diego) <br />
"Staging Scarlet Stone: Moving Images and<br />
Interactivity at the Ghahvekhooneh"<br />
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12:00-12:45 p.m. Lunch Break <br />
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12:45-2:00 p.m. A (re) Look at Taziyeh <br />
w Tourj Daryaee (UC Irvine)<br />
<br />
The Performance of Pain, Remembrance<br />
and Revenge in Late Ancient Iran <br />
w Roshanak Kheshti (UC San Diego)<br />
<br />
Taziyeh and videos of rooftop chanting after
the 2009 elections<br>
<br />
w Elmira Mohebali & Sara Soleimani <br />
(UC San Diego)<br />
<br />
"Segregated Gaze: the Constructed Gender<br />
divide in the Taziyeh Audience"<br />
<br />
Moderator: Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego)<br />
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2:00-2:15 p.m. Break<br />
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2:15-3:15 p.m. Theater of (After) Revolution <br />
w Roxanne Varzi (UC Irvine)<br />
<br />
"Acting out: Contemporary theater in Tehran" <br />
w Torang Yeghiazarian<br />
(Golden Thread Productions; Founding Artisti Director) <br />
w "Dramatic Defiance: Tehran 2010"<br />
<br />
Moderator:<br />
Elham Gheytanchi (Santa Monica College)<br />
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3:30-3:45 p.m. Break<br />
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3:45-5:15 p.m. Restaging Iran in Exile<br />
w Elham Gheytanchi (Santa Monica College) <br />
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"Theater of Exile and Censorship in Iran" <br />
w Rana Salimi (UC San Diego)<br />
<br />
"Performing glimpses of the past in diaspora"<br />
w Staci Scheiwiller<br />
(California State University Stanislaus)<br />
<br />
"Iranian performance art and video art in<br />
global, local, and transnational contexts"<br />
w Allia Homayoun (UC San Diego)<br />
<br />
"Troubling the Home/Land in HBO"<br />
Homeland: The Ghost of 1979 and the <br />
Haunting Presence of Iran in the U.S.<br />
Imaginary" <br />
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Moderator: Roxanne Varzi (UC Irvine)<br />
<br />
5:30-5:45 p.m. Break<br />
<br />
5:45-7:45 p.m. <br />
<br />
DRAMATIC READING: 444 Days<br />
<br />
(A play by Torang Yeghiazarian<br />
Golden Thread Productions;<br />
Founding Artistic Director)<br />
<br />
Q & A<br />
<br />
*Free and Open to the Public<br />
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Sponsored by the Iran Media Program at the Center for Global Communication Studies (University of Pennsylvania), Third World Studies, UC San Diego & Program for the Study of Religion, UC San Diego.<br />
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*Parking is free at UCSD during weekends.<br />
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<br />
Babak Rahimi, <br />
<br />
Director of Third World Studies, <br />
Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Religious Studies<br />
Program for the Study of Religion,<br />
Department of Literature, UC San Diego.<br />
http://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/brahimi.html.<br />
http://www.brill.com/theater-state-and-formation-early-modern-public-sphere-Iran