Co-organised by Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (University of Manchester) and Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (University of Manchester)
Provisional Programme – Subject to Change.
Please note that speeches are in both Persian and English. Each panel will include at least one talk in either language.
Attendance is free, Register by email: info@mihan.org.uk
19 July
3pm: Welcoming Remarks, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
3.10pm: Methodological and Historiographical Reflections on the Iranian Left
Chair: Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Missing Labour and Subaltern in the Metanarratives of the Contemporaray Historiography of Iran, Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
On the Historiography of the Fadai Movement, Anush Salehi, Bristol
Q&A (15 minutes)
20 July
9.30am:
Chair: Stephanie Cronin
The National Front in the Middle East: Revolution and Anti-Colonialism in Iran’s Tri-continental Moment, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Manchester
An Italian Communist Woman’s Journey to Iran: An Examination of Maria Macciocchi’s Expedition of 1951, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, University of Manchester
The Early Relations between the Bolsheviks and Iran, Denis Volkov, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Q&A (15 minutes)
11.20am: Internationalism and the Iranian Left
The Iranian Left at the Dawn of the Cold War Era
Chair: Oliver Bast
An Investigation into the Roots of the Tudeh-Firqah Rivalry, Asghar Schirazi, Berlin
The Women Movement and Women's Rights during the Firqah-i Dimukrat Rule in Tabriz 1945-46, Nasser Mohajer, Paris
The Sins of Khalil Maleki, Homa Katouzian, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
The Iranian Labour Movement during World War II, Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Q&A (15 minutes)
Lunch Break
3pm: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left
Chair: Touraj Atabaki
The Left and the Kurdish Question in Iran: Theoretical Ambiguities and Political Anomalies, Abbas Vali, Bogazici University, Istanbul
The Socialist League in the 1960s, Manuchehr Rassa, London
The Tudeh and the Eastern bloc: Perspectives from the Stasi Archives, Ghasem Shafie-Noormohammadi, Berlin
5pm: Concluding Remarks, Oliver Bast, University of Manchester
