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2020 |
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June
18 |
Southern
California |
Commentary
in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County edition |
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May
22 |
Online |
Zoom play
reading of "Splinters of a Careless Alphabet" by the Dramatist
Guild in collaboration with 24 HR. Plays in New York City |
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May
2020 |
Durham,
NC |
Article
in Writing Anthropology, Essays on Craft and Commitment Duke University
Press |
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April
30 |
Online |
Ramadan
edition of Cooking with the Professor as part of UCI ILLUMINATIONS Series
|
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April
18 |
Online |
Zoom Play
reading as part of "One Minute Play Festival's Coronavirus"
by Kitchen Theater Company |
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April
13 |
New York,
NY |
Colloquium
with Scholars of Distinction, Barnard College, Columbia University |
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March |
Austin,
TX |
Article
in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, University
of Texas Press |
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February
16 |
Santa
Ana, CA |
Film screening
"Tehran Tourist", The Frida Cinema, 1:30pm |
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February
8 |
Irvine,
CA |
Profile
Article in the New University, UCI |
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January
17 |
Orange
County, CA |
Profile
Article in the Daily Pilot section of the Los Angeles Times |
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January
12 |
Santa
Ana, CA |
Public
Lecture, Libromobile Bookstore |
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2019 |
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November
10 |
Irvine,
CA |
Stage
reading of "Splinters of a Carless Alphabet", Winifred Smith
Hall, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Directed by Elina De Santos |
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August
26 |
Krakow,
Poland |
“Henry
Corbin: A Philosopher in Tehran” The International Union of Anthropological
and Ethnological Sciences (I U A E S), Jagiellonian University |
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August
21 |
Berlin,
Germany |
Play reading
and workshop of "Splinters of a Careless Alphabet" at Hopscotch
Reading Room |
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July
24 |
Online |
Act One
to The End: Ask the Ayatollah, a One-Act Play with Henry Corbin in Soundproof
Room, Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy
|
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July
11 |
Online |
Finding
Home, Special Edition on Moon landing Anniversary, Journal of Humanistic
Anthropology |
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2018 |
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November
15 |
San Jose,
CA |
Play Reading
of "Splinters of a Careless Alphabet", Hosted by the Society
of Visual Anthropology |
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November
7 |
Irvine,
CA |
Film screening
"Tehran Tourist", UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and
Culture |
|
November
5 |
Online |
Interview
in CaMP Anthropology |
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September
26 |
Online |
"Hijacking
the Elevator", Cultural Anthropology |
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July
7 |
Online |
Nicht
hier und nicht dort, Le Monde diplomatique |
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June
5 |
Online |
"The
Knot in the Wood: The Call to Multimodal Anthropology", American
Anthropologist
|
|
March
29 |
Santa
Ana, CA |
Hybridity
as Resistance: Storytelling Through diverse Arts, Sponsored by Poets and
Writers and Hosted by LibroMobile |
|
January
12 |
San Diego,
CA |
Digital
Persianate at UCSD |
|
January
8 |
Online |
Trump
and the Protesters From Iran to Orange County, Counterpunch |
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2017 |
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October
5 |
Washington,
DC |
A Conversation
with the Aftab Committee at the Latela Gallery |
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FALL |
Washington,
DC |
Visiting
Professor at UCDC |
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August |
Miami
FL and Online |
Miami
Independent Film Festival, (MINDIE) |
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June
3 |
San Pedro
CA |
Salton
Sublime, Audiovisual installation at Soundpedro |
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April
25 |
Irvine,
CA |
In
Conversation with Peter Sellars regarding Last Scene Underground |
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April
22 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
book
signing at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Farhang Foundation's Booth,
from 2-4pm |
|
April
5-9 |
Sacramento,
CA |
Keynote
Speaker, Festival of the Arts 2017: Cal State University, Sacramento |
|
March
30-April 1 |
Palo
Alto, CA |
Annual
AES Conference: "Exposure", Stanford University |
|
March
17 &18 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
Salton
Sublime Audiovisual installation, Off-Screen Festival, University
of Pennsylvania |
|
March
17 &18 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
CameraPenn
Media Festival, University of Pennsylvania |
|
March
9 |
Online |
"Bin
ich eine Immigrantin?" GERMAN EDITION OF Le Monde diplomatique |
|
February
21 |
Online |
"Am
I an Immigrant?", LRB Blog |
info |
February
5, 12 |
Berlin,
Germany |
Salton
Sublime, 2017. Audiovisual installation at Ohrenhoch Gallery |
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2016 |
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December
7 |
Online |
FUZUL,The
Future of Iranian Theatre, Curative Archive |
|
October
23 |
Online |
Review
of Last Scene Underground on qantara.de |
|
October
21 |
San Jose,
CA |
Pannelist
on "Engaging Iran" conference |
|
August
24 |
New York,
NY |
Book
Reading and Signing at the Book Culture Book Store |
|
April
14 |
San
Diego, CA |
Book
Reading and Signing at the New Writing Series, UC San Diego |
|
June
20 |
Seattle,
WA |
Book
Reading and Signing at the Elliot Bay Book Company |
|
January |
online |
Biographical
Essay: Persia is my Heart, bookscombined.com,
|
|
January |
Palo
Alto, CA |
Last
Scene Underground: An Ethnographic Novel of Iran, Stanford University
Press |
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2015 |
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December
15 |
Detroit,
MI |
Book
Reading, Pages Bookshop |
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November
18-22 |
Denver,
CO |
American
Anthropology Association conference, Denver Convention Center |
|
November
21-24 |
Denver,
CO |
Middle
East Studies Association conference, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, talk
on TUE NOV 24 @ 11 am |
|
July
22 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
"Iran
nuclear deal offers flicker of hope to Persians in Southern California",
Los Angeles Times, Interview for the article. |
|
June |
online |
“Fictive
Truths” Aeon Magazine of Ideas and Culture |
|
Spring |
Irvine,
CA |
“Anthropology
in Transit” Graduate conference, discussant, UC, Irvine |
|
May |
Santa
Barbara, CA |
MRG Working
Group on Religion in Public Sphere, UCHRI 2015: UC, Santa Barbara |
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2014 |
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November
25 |
online |
Impolite
Conversations, meta-ethno-non/fictional representation of the conversations;
an online web series by John Jackson Jr. and Cora Daniels |
|
October
13 |
online |
“Ethnographic
Fiction: The Space Between” Savage Minds, Anthropology blog |
|
October
28 |
Bloomberg
News |
Filmmakers
clash as Rouhani’s agenda leaves Iranians divided - by Ladane Nasseri,
Bloomberg News, quoted from interview with author |
|
October |
Stockholm,
Sweden |
“Keeping
it Reel: ‘Reality’s’ Role in the Production and Reception
of
Independent Iranian Cinema,” Film International Volume 12 no. 3 |
|
October |
Davis,
CA |
MRG Working
Group on Religion in Public Sphere, UCHRI 2014, UC, DAVIS |
|
September
|
online |
“Pictura
Poesis...” Off Screen, Volume 18, Issue 9 |
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April
25 |
Boulder,
CO |
Anthropology
Conference & paper presentation:“Intimacies of War,” University
of Colorado |
|
March
19-20 |
Paris,
France |
ANTHROPOLOGIES
NUMÉRIQUES / 2ND EDITION, Le Cube |
|
March
2 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
Media
Festival, CAMRA AT PENN |
|
February
22 |
La
Jolla, CA |
Performing
Iran Conference, University of California, San Diego |
|
January
30 |
Irvine,
CA |
"Being
Undisciplined: What Are the Stakes of Interdisciplinary Work Today?"
panelist, Department of History, UCI, |
|
2013 |
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October
26 |
New York,
NY |
Conference:
"Iran:Art and Discourse", Asia Society |
|
October
18-24 |
Los Angeles,
CA |
Noor Iranian
Film Festival. Screening "Plastic Flowers Never Die" |
|
Spring |
New
York/Oxford |
"Facing
the Future: The Artistic and Diasporic Afterlife of the Iran-Iraq War",
Anthropology of the Middle East, Volume 8, Number 1, pp. 40-62(23) |
|
April 8 |
online |
Public
Books website. Sound installation of "Whole World Blind" |
|
April
11 |
New Haven,
CT |
Yale U.
Lecture and Screening "Plastic Flowers Never Die" |
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February
8 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
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2012 |
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November
26 |
Vienna,
Austria |
ROXANNE
VARZI: THE FRENCH CONNECTION: HENRY CORBIN AND IRAN, ISLAM , PHILOSOPHY,
AND REVOLUTION |
|
Fall |
Vienna,
Austria |
Reseearch
Fellow at IFK, University of Vienna |
|
November |
San
Francisco, CA |
The
Whole World Blind, Ethnographic Terminalia at SOMArts, in collaboration
with American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2012 |
|
December |
Caserta |
INTIMATE
LENS ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL |
|
October |
Australia |
Iranian
Film Festival Australia |
|
January
25 |
online
9:30 PM PST |
‘Ear
Meal’ with guest Roxanne Varzi at Soundwalk and other projects |
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2011 |
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December
16 |
Berlin,
Germany |
Sound
performance and Talk @ Project Uqbar |
|
December
16-17 |
Berlin,
Germany |
Conference:
Cinema in Iran, ICI Berlin |
|
October
13 |
PBS
SoCal |
Panelist on "Women, War & Peace" at the Center for Living
Peace; 7pm |
|
October
1 |
Long
Beach, CA |
Sound Walk 2011, 5–10 pm, 4th St, Linden Ave, 1st St, and Elm Ave |
|
September
25 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
2pm:
Speaker at USC's "An Afternoon with Iranian Animator Noureddin ZarrinKelk" |
|
September
13-14 |
Milton Keynes, UK |
Visual
Methods conference, The Open University, Berrill Theatre Tuesday 17:45
Library seminar room 1 Wednesday 15:20 |
|
September
|
The
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 637
No. 1 pp53-63; Iran’s French Revolution: Religion, Philosophy, and
Crowds |
|
June
6 |
Heidelberg,
Germany |
The
Martyrdom Mystique:The Iran-Iraq War and its Artistic Afterlife, RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT
HEIDELBERG |
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2010 |
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September
18-19 |
San
Francisco, CA |
Film
Screening of "Plastic Flowers Never Die", Iranian International
Film Festival at the San Francisco Art Institute |
|
August |
New
York, NY |
Film
Screening: "Plastic Flowers Never Die", Screening NewFilmaker’s
@ Anthology Film Archives |
|
June
|
Los
Angeles, CA |
Plenary
Talk, Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles, Fowler Museum, UCLA |
|
May
|
Chennai,
India |
Film
Screening: "Plastic Flowers Never Die", Screening Third Women's
Film Festival |
|
April
|
Austin,
TX |
“Portraits,”
Rethinking Iranian Nationalisms Conference, University of Texas |
|
April
|
Irvine,
CA |
Film
Screening: "Plastic Flowers Never Die", Screening Film and Media
Center, UCI |
|
March
|
Los
Angeles, CA |
“Reel
Life: Experiments in Ethnographic Film-making,” Anthropology working
group Culture, Power, and Social Change UCLA |
|
March |
Miami,
FL |
Film
Screening: "Plastic Flowers Never Die", Screening, 5th Annual
Women's International Film & Arts Festival |
|
February |
Los
Angeles, CA |
Radio
Show: KCRW To the Point: The Anniversary of Iranian Revolution |
|
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2009 |
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October
22-25 |
Belgrade,
Serbia |
International
Festival of Ethnological Film |
|
October
15-24 |
Mexico
City, Mexico |
4th
International Documentary Film Festival |
|
September
22-30 |
Beirut,
Lebanon |
DocuDays:
Beirut International Documentary Festival |
|
September
9 |
Edinburgh,
Scotland |
Keynote
Address: "Martyrdom in Post-Revolutionary Iran" as part of the
RETHINKING JIHAD CONFERENCE |
|
August
17 |
Irvine,
CA |
Storytelling
in Tehran, Featured Profile on University Website |
|
June 26 |
Brazil |
Epoca
weekly magazineagazine: Interview for article on Iran |
|
June 21 |
New York,
NY |
New York
Times, Interview: News analysis by NEIL MacFARQUHAR |
|
June 19 |
San Francisco,
CA |
New American
Media, interview: Rection to the Iranain election |
|
February
11 |
San Francisco,
CA |
KALW 91.7,
Interview with Sandip Roy on "Your Call" |
|
January
30 |
San Francisco,CA |
"New
America Now" Podcast |
|
|
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|
|
2008 |
|
|
|
November
22 |
Washington,
DC |
Middle
East Studies Association (MESA) FilmFest 2008 |
|
November
21 |
San Francisco,
CA |
Society
for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival |
|
October
23 |
Orange,
CA |
Film
Screening and Discussion at Chapman University |
|
July
31 |
London,
UK |
Review
of "Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit" by Gillian Whitlock,
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, Vol. 30, No. 15 |
|
July
23 |
Berlin,
Germany |
Film
Screening and Discussion at Project Uqbar |
|
July
9 |
Berlin,
Germany |
'Hanna
Arendt in Tehran: Performing the Middle East in Berlin’, Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin |
|
June
12 |
Boston,
MA |
Film
Screening at the Boston International Film Festival |
|
May
28 |
Frankfurt,
Germany |
Department
of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Research Group Transnationalism
and Critical Ethnography |
|
May
26-27 |
Cairo,
Egypt |
American
University in Cairo, Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies
(IGWS): Workshop |
|
April
19 |
London,
UK |
Plenary
Speaker, The Cinema of Rakshan Bani-Etemad, University of London, School
of Oriental and African Studies |
|
January
24 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
Film
Screening in the NewFilmmaker Series LA, at the Museum ofArchitecture
and Design |
|
January
16 |
Berlin,
Germany |
Film
Screening and discussion at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung |
|
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2007 |
|
|
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October
30 |
Claremont,
CA |
“Ethnography
to Film,” Film screening and post-film Colloquium, Anthropology
Department |
|
October
15 |
Palo
Alto , CA |
Abbasi
Program in Islamic Studies Lecture Series, Stanford University |
|
June
& July |
Lund,
Sweden |
University
of California and University of Lund Joint Summer School |
|
May
17 |
Chicago,
IL |
Northwestern
University- Symposium on Media in the Arab World |
|
March
26 |
Philadelphia,
PA |
“Mosques
and Museums,” Anthropology Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania |
|
March
5 |
Wellesley,
MA |
Wellesley
College-Colloquim |
|
|
|
|
|
2006 |
|
|
|
September
20 |
New
York, NY |
The
New School for Social Research-Colloquium |
|
September
15 |
New
York, NY |
Jonathan
Shorr Gallery-"ArteEaste Book Reading" |
|
September
13 |
Binghamton,
NY |
SUNY
Binghamton-Colloquium |
|
September
2 |
Chicago,
IL |
Stop
Smiling Online Magazine-Interview in Two Parts |
|
August
7 |
Seatle,
WA |
TVW.ORG-
Author's Hour |
|
August
23 |
Irvine,
CA |
MSNBC
TV-The Most with Alison Stewart-Interview |
|
August
30 |
Orange
County, CA |
OC
Register-Interview |
|
July |
Laguna
Hills, CA |
Payam-e-Ashena
Persian Community Journal, No 209-Interview |
|
July
25 |
Seatle, WA |
Elliot
Bay Book Company- Reading from Warring Souls |
|
July
24 |
Seatle,
WA |
KUOW-Weekday
with Steve Scher |
|
July
18 |
San
Francisco, CA |
Cody's
Books - Reading from Warring Souls |
|
July
17 |
San
Francisco, CA |
Intersection
for the Arts-Book Party for Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been |
|
July
10 |
Durham,
NC |
WUNC-"The
Story" - Interview |
|
July
9 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
Pacific
Art Center sponsored by the Levantine Center-Reading from Warring
Souls |
|
July
4 |
Palm
Springs, CA |
Time
Warner Cable TV10 - "Conversations with Gloria Greer" |
|
July
2 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
KIRN-
"A night of Insights"- Interview |
|
June
29 |
San
Francisco, CA |
KQED-"The
Forum"- Interview with authors from Let ... |
|
June
19 |
Chicago,
IL |
WBEZ-"Worldview"
- Interview |
|
June
18 |
Beverly
Hills, CA |
Beverly
Hills Public Library-Reading from Let Me Tell
You Where I Have Been, sponsored by the Levantine Center |
|
June
17 |
Palm
Springs, CA |
PepperTree
Bookstore- Reading from Warring Souls |
|
June
15 |
Inland
Southern CA |
Press
Enterprise-Article |
|
June
9 |
Costa
Mesa, CA |
Book
Soup- Reading from Warring Souls |
|
June
8 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
KPFK-Radio
Intifada-interview |
|
May
23 |
Irvine,
CA |
University
of California, Irvine- Book Launch for Warring Souls |
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