Symposium

Photography and Cinematography in Qajar Era Iran

In Memoriam: Farrokh Ghafari (1921-2006)
(27-28 August 2011)

Conveners

Dr. P. Khosronejad
(Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews)

Prof. M. M. Eskandari-Qajar
(President, IQSA; Director, Middle East Studies Program, Santa Barbara City College, USA)

Speakers

-Julia Allerstorfer, Catholic Private University Linz, Austria

The Photographical Depiction of Women in the Imperial Qajar Harem

-Fereydoun Barjesteh, International Qajar Studies Association, Austria

Persia through the Lens of a Dutch Industrialist: the Albert Hotz Collection of 19th Photographs at Leiden University

-Mirjam Brusius, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Image Problems: Photographic (self-) representations of Persia by Nasser Al-Din Shah and European travelling artists in the mid 19th century (late Qajar Era)

-Layla Diba, Independent Researcher, U.S.A.

Qajar Photography and its Influence on Modern and Contemporary Persian Painting

-Ali Gholipoor, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Photographic Documentation of Tazieh and Taqlid during the Qajar Era in Iran

-Carmen Perez Gonzalez, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany

World Art Studies and Local Photography: A Comparative Visual Analysis between Nineteenth-Century Iranian Portrait Photography and Persian Painting

-Nasim Khalesi and Sana Khalesi, Islamic Azad University, Abadan Branch, Abadan, Iran

Photography and Its Impact on the Qajar Era Seven-Color Tiling in Shiraz

-Basak Kilerci, PhD Candidate, Bogazici University, Turkey

Portraiture in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Approach

-Ali Mir-Ansari, Head of Persian literature Department, in The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran, Iran

Theatre or Cinema? The Impact of Two Dramatic Arts on Political and Social Thought in Iran during the Constitutional Period, 1903-1925

-Golbarg Rekabtalaei, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Canada

Picturing Modernity: Early Cinema in Qajar Era Iran

-Mehrnaz Soleimani, Elmi Karbordi Higher Education Institute, Tehran, Iran

A Research on Photos of Iran’s Constitution Era

- Mohammad Reza Tahmasb-pour, Independent Researcher, Iran

Eighty Three Years of Qajar Photography

- Website of conference:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/qajar/conference/

- For booking your place and registration, please visit:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/registration/

- For Enquiries, additional information and details, please contact:

Dr Pedram Khosronejad (nafa2011@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Prof. Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar (president@qajarstudies.org)