PROGRAMME
20 Years of Iran and the Caucasus :
A Breakthrough
International Conference
Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of
IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS
21-23 October, 2016
Aghveran, Armenia
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS ARE AVAILABLE HERE
The Conference is organised by the International Journal Iran and the Caucasus (BRILL, Leiden-Boston) in the Framework of the Celebration of its 20th Anniversary, in cooperation with Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies, Yerevan; Russian-Armenian State University, Yerevan; Institute of Autochthonous Peoples of the Caucasian-Caspian Region, Yerevan; and ARMACAD.
Conference venue: Aghveran Crystal Resort hotel, Aghveran, Armenia
PROGRAMME
DAY I (October 21, 2016, Friday)
REGISTRATION 10:00-11:30
OPENING CEREMONY 11:30-13:00
Opening Speeches
- Garnik Asatrian, Editor-in Chief,Iran and the Caucasus
- Giusto Traina (Sorbonne), Associate Editor, Iran and the Caucasus
Greetings:
- Pargev Avetisyan, Vice-rector, Russian-Armenian State University
- Garry Trompf (Sydney University)
- Mahmoud Jaafari-Joneydi (Centre for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran)
- Johnny Cheung (INALCO, Paris)
- Dariush Borbor (Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies, Tehran)
- Mikhail Pelevin ( Petersburg State University)
- Murtazali Gadjiev (Dagestan Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Peter Nicolaus (Salzburg / Washington, D.C.)
Key Speeches:
- Giusto Traina (Sorbonne) – Strabo’s Armenia
- Sekandar Amanolahi (University of Shiraz) – The Impacts of Modernization and Westernization on Traditional Identity among the Pastoral Nomads of Iran
LUNCH 13:30-14:30
SESSION I. |
(14:30-16:30) |
Religious Studies |
Room I |
Chairs: Garry Trompf, Dariush Borbor
- Gardner, Iain (University of Sydney) – Did Mani Travel to Armenia?
- Rapp, Stephen (Sam Houston State University) – Gwrobandak’s Voyage: Revisiting the “State of Mixture” in Late Antiquity
- Törne, Annika (Basel University) – Religious Practices of Armenian Descendants from Dersim
- Trompf, Garry (Sydney University) – Report onThe Gnostic World project and the Gnostica Monograph Series
SESSION II. |
(14:30-16:30) |
Language and Literature |
Room II |
Chairs: Moharram Rezayati Kishe-khale, Jahandust Sabzalipur
- Ekbatan, Abdolla (Gilan University) – فعل آغازی در گویشهای گیلانی(گیلکی و تالشی)
- Sabzalipur, Jahandust (Azad Islamic University, Rasht) – بررسی تطبیقی ریشه افعال زبانهای تاتی، تالشی و گیلکی
- Kishe-khale, Moharram Rezayati (Gilan University) – بررسی فرایند تحول در برخی ساختهای واژگانیِ فارسی، تالشی و گیلکی
- Panahi, Abbas (Gilan University), Shadmohammadi, Maryam (Azad Islamic University, Chalus) – تجزیه و تحلیل اندیشه های سیاسی ایرانشهری در آراء و افکارسعدی
- Rajabi, Farhad (Gilan University) – تحلیل شعر اسماعیل خوئی و مظفر النواب بر مبنای تفکر انتقادی و نقد جامعه شناختی
SESSION XI. |
(14:30-16:30) |
Modern History and Political Issues |
Room II |
Chair: Sekandar Amanolahi, Mahmoud Joneydi-Jaafari
- Fayyazi, Maryam (Gilan University) – بررسی سند فرمان ناصرالدینشاه مبنی بر حفظ باغ و عمارت عمادالدوله
- Joneydi-Jaafari, Mahmoud (Centre for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran) – نقش جمهوری اسلامی ایران درخصوص همگرایی قومی در منطقه قفقاز
- Panahi, Abbas (Gilan University) – تاثیر روسیه بر فرهنگ و آموزش نوین در گیلان
- Ranjbar, Mahmoud / Safaee, Ali (Gilan University) – زیست جهان باورهایگالشی
- Kohansal, Hasan Vajargah (Gilan University) – گرویدن ارمنیها به مسیحیت در زمان ساسانیان
SESSION XII. |
(14:30-16:30) |
Linguistics |
Room III |
Chairs: Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi, Ketevan Gadilia
- Kiani, Kianoosh Haft Lang (Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran), Piryaee, Shiva (Tarbiyat Modarres University, Tehran) – An Introduction to Lori Dialects Encyclopaedia
- Beridze, Marina (Tbilisi State University), Bakuradze, Lia (Tbilisi State University) – Fereydanian: A Georgian Dialect in Iran
- Gadilia, Ketevan (Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow) – On Semantic Category of (In)definiteness in Kurdish
- Jaafari-Dehaghi, Mahmoud (Tehran University) – Dialectical Terms in Persian Medical Texts
COFFEE BREAK 16:30-17:00
ROUND TABLE 17:00-18:30
AN ASSESSMENT OF DARIUSH BORBOR’S CONTRIBUTION
TO ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING AND IRANIAN STUDIES
Convenor
Carlo G. Cereti
Professor of Iranian Studies, University of La Sapienza, Rome, and
Italian Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of Italy, Tehran
Chair and Introduction
Garnik S. Asatrian
Professor of Iranian Studies, Editor-in-Chief,
Iran and the Caucasus, Yerevan, Armenia
Short Biographical Film on Life and Work of Dariush Borbor
Discussants
Arash Tabibzadeh Nouri
Architect, Compiler of Oral History of 20th Century Iranian Architects, Tehran, Iran (will discuss Dariush Borbor’s status and standing amongst his twentieth century contemporaries)
Iraj Kalantari
Practicing Architect and Architectural Critic, Tehran, Iran
(will consider and analyze Dariush Borbor’s architectural style and influence)
Ahmad Saeidnia
Professor of Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Iran and
Former Head of Urban Planning Department of BORBOR Consultants
(will expound and explore Dariush Borbor’s urban planning designs and management)
Adriano V. Rossi
Professor of Iranian Philology, University of Naples and
President of IsMEO, Rome, Italy
(will investigate and evaluate Dariush Borbor’s contributions to Iranian Studies)
Dariush Borbor
Architect, Urban Planner, Iranist, Tehran, Iran
Director Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies (RILIS)
(will be in attendance to answer and clarify any questions or queries that may arise)
DINNER 19:30
DAY III (October 23, 2016, Sunday)
SESSION XIII. |
(09:00-11:00) |
Ancient and Medieval History |
Room I |
Chair: Giusto Traina, Leonardo Gregoratti
- Vial-Logeay, Anne (University of Rouen) – Image or Knowledge? Roman representations of the Caucasus (I cent.-II cent. A.D.)
- Coloru, Omar (Nanterre) – Sebeos on the Tomb of the Prophet Daniel in Susa
- Amirdust, Maryam (Concordia University) – Persian Households in Babylonian Demon Trap Bowls
- Gregoratti, Leonardo (University of Durham) – Some Considerations on the so called “Parthian Commonwealth”
- Sárközy, Miklós (Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church) – Armenians, Mongols, fidā’īs and the Fall of the Nizārī Ismaili State in Persia
SESSION XIV. |
(09:00-11:00) |
Religious and Cultural Traditions, Folklore |
Room II |
Chair: Anna Krasnowolska, Suren Zolyan
- Insom, Camilla (MAIKI Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan of Sapienza University, Rome) – Kasnazani Shaykhs of Iraqi Kurdistan: Karamat and Religious Authority
- Krasnowolska, Anna (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) - Aleksander Chodźko's Report on his Excursion to Alamut in 1835
- Niechciał, Paulina (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) – Calendar as an Identity Marker on the Example of Zoroastrian Community in Iran
- Zolyan, Suren (National Academy of Sciences, Armenia) – On Some Areal Semantic Parallels to the Armenian Epic
- Shikhalieva, Sabrina (Dagestan Center, Russian Academy of Sciences) – Metaphor of Colour in Concepts of Emotions
COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:30
SESSION XV. |
(11:30-13:30) |
Social Anthropology |
Room I |
Chairs: Vali Kaleji, Vahe Boyajian
- Kaleji, Vali (Tehran) – Mental and Historical Wrong Stereotypes in Iran regarding the Political and Social Developments of Armenia: Necessity for a Change and Review
- Diaz, Leslie (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan) – An Iranian Experience in Yerevan: A Pilot Study of Labor Migrants’ Perception of Local Reception (via internet)
- Elhan, Nail (Ankara Middle East Technical University) – Banal Nationalism in Iran: Daily Re-production of National and Religious Identity
- Boyajian, Vahe (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA) – Adaptation Advantages for Afgan Migrants in Sarhadd (Iranian Baluchistan)
- Hosseini, Fatemeh (University of Maryland) – Regulation and Containment the Case of Tehran's Red-Light District
- Yepiskoposyan, Levon (Institute of Molecular Biology, NAS RA) – Genetic Landscape of the Armenian Highland
SESSION XVI. |
(11:30-13:30) |
Language and Culture |
Room II |
Chairs: Seyyed Hashem Mousavi, Ebrahim Safari
- Fatemeh, Parchagani (Khwarazmi University) – چالش موضوع متون نمایشی در مشرق (ترکیه، ایران وبلاد شام)
- Safaee, Ali / Ranjbar, Mahmoud (Gilan University) – بازنمایی گفتمان جنسیت در ادبیات عامیانه ایران
- Safari, Ebrahim / Goldust, Roshanak (Farhangian University, Gilan) – نگرش بر احساس حقارت نسل جدید از سخن گفتن به زبان مادری بخصوص در زبان گیلکی
- Mir-Miran, Seyyed Mojtaba / Abedi, Alale Balajaddeh (Gilan University) – ریختشناسی قصههای ترکمن براساس الگوی ریختشناسی ولادیمیر پراپ
- Moradi, Anush (Gilan University) – بازارهای هفتگی شمال ایران و کارکردهای فرهنگی و اقتصادی آن (مطالعه موردی گیلان)
- Mousavi, Seyyed Hashem (Gilan Research Centre) – بازتاب ماکیان داری در ضرب المثل های گیلان
13:30-14:30 LUNCH
14:30 EXCURSION TO THE KECHARIS MONASTERY
19:00 FAREWELL BANQUET
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