| Biography | Calendar | Writings | Installations | Film | Contact |
NEWS! I have been awarded grants to workshop and produce my play "Splinters of a Careless Alphabet" at UCI next year, if you’re in theater and interested in participating please reach out to me via email! |
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“Henry Corbin: A Philosopher in Tehran” The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (I U A E S), Commission on the Anthropology of the Middle East Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology [info]Jagiellonian University, Krakow, PolandAugust 26, 2019 |
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Play reading and workshop of "Splinters of a Careless Alphabet"A full length play by Roxanne VarziHopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, Germany [info]August 21, 2019 |
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Act One to The End: Ask the Ayatollah, a One-Act Play with Henry Corbin in Soundproof RoomJournal
of Comparative and Continental Philosophy, July 24, 2019 [info] |
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Finding
Home, Special Edition on Moon landing Anniversary, Journal of Humanistic
Anthropology, July 11, 2019 [info] |
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Play Reading of "Splinters of a Careless Alphabet"117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Hammer Theater, San Jose, California (Hosted by the Society of Visual Anthropology)November 15, 2018 [info] |
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Interview
in CaMP Anthropology |
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"Hijacking
the Elevator", Cultural Anthropology |
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Nicht hier und nicht dort, Le Monde diplomatiqueJuly 7, 2018 [info] |
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"The
Knot in the Wood: The Call to Multimodal Anthropology", American
Anthropologist |
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Hybridity as Resistance: Storytelling Through diverse Arts, Sponsored by Poets and Writers and Hosted by LibroMobile, Santa Ana, CA March 29,2018, [info] |
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Digital Persianate, UCSD, San Diego, CAJanuary 12 2018 [info] |
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Trump and the Protesters From Iran to Orange County, Counterpunch, January 8, 2018 [info] |
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In
Conversation with the Aftab Committee |
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August 2017, Miami Independent Film Festival, (MINDIE) Miami, FL and Online |
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I was delighted to have my multimedia project Salton Sublime included at the Soundpedro cultural event. |
JUNE 3, 2017 Angels Gate Cultural Center San Pedro, CA 90731 |
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Media Festival, CAMRA AT PENN, Philadelphia, PA, March 2017Panelist on Experimental Methods in Ethnographic ResearchScreening of Salton Sublime at Off-Screen Festival [info] |
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Pannelist on "Engaging Iran" conference.October 21, 2016 [info]San Jose State University |
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Book Reading and Signing at the Book Culture Book Store August 24, 2016 [info] 450 Columbus Ave., New York, New York
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Book Reading and Signing at the Elliot Bay Book Company June 20, 2016 [info] 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 |
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| BOOKS COMBINED | Biographical Essay: Persia is my Heart, January 2016, [info] |
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Book Reading and Signing at Pages Bookshop December 15, 2015 19560 Grand River Ave., Detroit, MI 48223 [info] |
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"Iran nuclear deal offers flicker of hope to Persians in Southern California", Interview for the article, JULY 22, 2015 [info] |
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“Fictive Truths” Aeon Magazine of Ideas and Culture, June 2015 [info] | |
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“Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between” Savage Minds, Anthropology blog [info] | |
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“Keeping it Reel: ‘Reality’s’ Role in the Production and Reception of Independent Iranian Cinema” Film International Volume 12 no. 3 [info] |
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Impolite Conversations, meta-ethno-non/fictional representation of the conversations; An online web series by John Jackson Jr. and Cora Daniels, November 25, 2014 [info] |
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Pictura Poesis: The interplay of poetry, image and ethnography in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black, vol 18, issue 9/Sept 2014 [info] |
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ANTHROPOLOGIES NUMÉRIQUES / 2ND EDITION, Le Cube, Paris, March 19-20, 2014 [info] |
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Media Festival, CAMRA AT PENN, Philadelphia, Sunday March 2, 2014 [info] | |
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Performing Iran Conference, February 22, 2014 [info] | |
Spaces for the Future: Religion in Urban Place-making group member since 2014 [info] |
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Facing the Future: The Artistic and Diasporic Afterlife of the Iran-Iraq War, Anthropology of the Middle East, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2013, pp. 40-62(23) [info] |
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Iran Art & Discourse, Oct 26, 2013, Asia Society, NYC, [info] |
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Noor Iranian Film Festival, Oct 18-24, 2013 Los Angeles [info] |
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"Whole World Blind", online sound installation and accompanying essay, Public Books, April 2013 |
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The Whole World Blind, Ethnographic Terminalia at SOMArts, In collaboration with American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2012 San Francisco, CA |
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January 25, 2012, 9:30 PM PST Roxanne Varzi at Soundwalk and other projects[info] | |
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December 16, 2012 Berlin: Sound performance and Talk @ Project Uqbar | |
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My documentary film "Plastic Flowers Never Die" is distributed through DER | |