Panel 1: Education in Diaspora: Pedagogical Questions and Possibilities
Panel 2: Iranian Refugees & Asylees: Rights, Challenges, and Advocacy
Dr. Omid Tofighian (Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia)
Ally Bolour (ORAM)
Writers Roundtable
Sholeh Wolpé
Anita Amirrezvani
Panel 3: Cultural Production in the Iranian Diaspora: Cutting-Edge Practitioners Speak
Porochista Khakpour, Ayat Najafi, Dr. Mammad Aidani
Panel 4: Holding a Mirror to Ourselves: Critiques and Dialogues
Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Ziba Shirazi
Panel 5: Storytelling: Oral, Visual, and Multimedia Histories of Iranians in Diaspora
Pardis Shafafi (Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Dr. Nasrin Rahimieh
Panel 6: Iranians Online & Offline: Place and Space in Diaspora
Pouya Jahanshahi & Jeff Knowlton
KEYNOTE: Dr. Hamid Naficy
Panel 7: The Production of Diasporic Media: News & Journalism
Mahmood Enayat (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
Panel 8: Race & Profiling: Discrimination, Immigration, and the Pursuit of Justice in Iranian America
Dr. John Tehranian
Mitra Ebadolahi (ACLU)
Nakkisa Akhavan (UCLA School of Law)
Filmmakers Roundtable
Yassaman Ameri (Marginal Road)
Panel 9: Bringing Us Together: Innovative Diasporic Community Organizing
Hoori Sadler (PACI)
Narges Bajoghli (IAAB)
Panel 10: Transnational Activism in and between Iran and the Iranian Diaspora
Video
Interview with Amy Malek (2:11)
KEYNOTE:
Noosheen Hashemi - Excerpt (4:56)
KEYNOTE: Hamid Naficy - Excerpt (5:05)
Media Panel - Excerpt (9:09)
Race & Profiling Panel - Excerpt (12:11)
2012 IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora - co-sponsorsed by the UCLA Department of Anthropology, the UCLA Dean of Social Sciences, and the G.E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.