We are happy to announce that all talks of the “Visual Representations of Iran conference, 13-16 June 2008, University of St Andrews, Scotland” now are on-line. These papers are on-line for students and academics who are interested in this topic (and they are listed below as well).

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/presentations/index.html

However as proceedings of the conference are in publication and also because of copyright, ethical and academic issues, to access the website you will need a username and password. Those who interested in using the website can contact me directly.

Yours truly, P. Khosronejad

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Prof R Dilley
Welcome to the Conference

Prof H Naficy
The Anthropological Unconscious of Iranian Ethnographic Films

Mr M Tahaminejad
Iranian Patterns and Experiences of Anthropological Films

Dr R Husmann
In or Out? Visual Ethnography and the Ethics of Consent

Prof S Haeri
Sacred Canopy: Love and Sex Under the Veil

Prof S Siavoshi
20 Fingers and Elite Factionalism

Ms P Sadegh-Vaziri
Problems of Representing Iranian Women on Film

Ms M Kashani
A Visual Anthropology of Iran: The Ethnographer, the Adventurer, and the Spy

Ms A Malek
Grass and People of the Wind: A Re-Assessment of Context, Ideology, and Ethnography

Mr Shahab Esfandiary
Mehrjui's Social Comedy and the Representation of the Nation in the Age of Globalization; A Comparative analysis of The Lodgers (1986) and Mum's Guests (2004)

Ms V Langer
When the artists of Teheran are performing: an experimental video project

Ms S Ganjaei
Representation of the Iranian Revolution in the BBC documentary "People's Century"

Prof P I Crawford
Transcending the other: visual anthropology and the observation and construction of another 'other'

Dr P Mahdavi
The Politics of Pornography in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ms E Shakerifar
Visual Representations of Transgenders in Iran

Dr M Langford
Practical Melodrama: Private Lives and Public Space in Tahmineh Milani's "Fereshteh Trilogy"

Ms A Bagheri
Red Ribbon: taboos and implicit relations between men and women

Dr M Abecassis
War Iranian Cinema: Between Reality and Fiction

Dr K Rastegar
Bashu and The Runner: War, Trauma and Maturation

Ms M Karimabadi
Manifesto of Martyrdom: Similarities and differences between Avini's Ravaayat e Fath (Chronicles of Victory) and claimed manifestos

Ms N Bolourchi
Visual Imagery, Self Expression, and the Formation of a New Iranian Identity

Prof W O Beeman
Visual Representation and Cultural Truth in Iranian Traditional Theatre-Ta'ziyeh and Ru-hozi

Dr I Flaskerud
Audiovisual Representation of Piety and Ritual: Integrating Research Perspectives and Local Perceptions

Dr G Breyley
'Islamic cool' in 21st-century Tehran: Visual representations of a pop Madah

Ms C Horz
Creating Diasporic Public Spheres: Iranian Immigrants in Public Access TV- Channels in Germany

Ms S Pekerman
Visual Patterns as Spiritual Passages: The Becoming-Indiscernible of the Hero in Iranian Cinema

Ms N Bajoghli
The Outcasts: Reforming the Internal "Other" by Returning to the Ideals of the Revolution

Prof A Behdad
Contact Visions: On Photography and Modernity in Iran

Prof A Sreberny
De-exoticizing the Image: The Representation of Everyday life in Iran

Dr M Lotfalian
Autoethnography as Documentary in Iranian Films and Videos

Dr F Shirazi
Protectors of Chastity, Promoters of War: Images of Iranian Women in Poster Arts and Graffiti

Prof M R Ghanoonparvar
Cinema as Literature, Literature as Cinema

Mr A Kiarostami
Missing Myth in the Mainstream

Mr H Sadr
Alienation of Intellectuals: Anti-Intellectualism in Iranian Films

Various speakers
Reflections on the conference