Scholars@Duke
Negar Mottahedeh

Negar Mottahedeh

Professor of Literature
Literature
negar@duke.edu
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Office hours By appointment negar@duke.edu  

Selected Presentations & Appearances

“Residual Slick: The discovery of “modern Iran” in Anglo-American oil films” - World Literature Symposium · April 2016 Invited Talk Binghamton University,
“Under the hood: #iranelection” - Faculty Book Watch · March 2016 Lecture Duke University,
“How to See the World: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff” - Forum for Scholars and Publics · March 2016 Lecture Duke University,
“Outrage fatigue, democracy, and activism in the age of information overload: A Conversation with Rahaf Harfoush” - Forum for Scholars and Publics · February 2016 Lecture Duke University,
“Media Dissent, Theory and Practice: #iranelection” · February 1, 2016 Invited Talk Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
“The Future of the Meme: #Iranelection, Activism, Social Media,” - Institute for Advanced Study · January 28, 2016 Invited Talk University of Minnesota., Twin Cities
“Beirut and Paris Attacks and Social Media” - Scholars and Publics · November 19, 2015 Broadcast Appearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwvM742mGQ&feature=share
“Role of Social Media during Beirut & Paris attacks" - IslamiCommentary Storified · November 17, 2015 Broadcast Appearance

https://storify.com/public/templates/slideshow/index.html?src=//storify.com/ISLAMiComment/thebeirut-and-paris-attacks-and-social-media-a-co#1
“Beirut and Paris attacks on Social Media: A Conversation with Laurent Dubois” - Forum for Scholars and Publics · November 2015 Lecture Duke University,
“#iranelection, #Beirutattacks, #PrayforParis” · November 2015 Lecture Tisch School, New York University ,
“Residual Slick: The discovery of ‘modern Iran’ in Anglo-American oil films” · October 2015 Lecture American Studies Association,, Toronto
“Residual Slick: Territorial expansion and Benthic depths in the Golestan film cycle” - Drilling Through the Screen Conference · October 2015 Invited Talk Stockholm University,
“New Texts Out Now: Negar Mottahedeh, #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life” · September 23, 2015 Broadcast Appearance Jadaliyya
“#iranelection” · September 2015 Lecture University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
#iranelection: How solidarity around a hashtag transformed the ecology of online life during the 2009 Iranian election crisis - Iranian Studies Initiative · May 2015 Lecture New York University
“Bearing Witness #Iranelection: Negar Mottahedeh and Phil Bennett on the Lessons of Rosewater” - IslamiCommentary · April 10, 2015 Broadcast Appearance
“Bearing Witness #Iranelection: Negar Mottahedeh and Phil Bennett on the Lessons of Rosewater” - IslamiCommentary · April 10, 2015 Invited Talk
Bearing Witness #Iranelection: Negar Mottahedeh on the Background of Rosewater - IslamiCommentary · April 10, 2015 Lecture
Tweeting Judgment Day - Geographic Imaginaries Conference · April 2015 Lecture UC Merced
An anatomy of the Islamic cyborg - Wednesdays at the Center · April 2015 Lecture Duke University
The Gaze and the Voice in Iranian Cinema · April 2015 Lecture Women's Studies, Duke University
“That selfie isn’t self-love: It’s activism” - <Re/Code> · March 16, 2015 Broadcast Appearance

http://recode.net/2015/03/16/that-selfie-isnt-self-love-its-activism/
“Pop Culture’s Slyest Decoders: Selfie Scholars take the stage” - Forbes/Tech · March 14, 2015 Broadcast Appearance
Negar Mottahedeh and Phil Bennet Screen Jon Stewart’s Iran movies Rosewater March 17 - IslamiCommentary · March 11, 2015 Lecture
Le vent nous portera: Of lovers possessed, times entangled, and bodies carried away - SCMS special program “Winds from the Middle East” · March 2015 Lecture Montreal
Speaking Duckface to Power - SxSW Interactive · March 2015 Lecture Austin, TX
Post-screening conversation of “Rosewater” · March 2015 Other Duke University
Freedom of Speech and Social Media - Kenan Ethics · March 2015 Lecture Duke University
Forum for Public and Scholars lunch conversation with filmmaker James Longley · February 2015 Other Duke University
Crude Extractions: The Quest for Oil and the Construction of an Imaginary Modernity in Iranian Cinema · February 2015 Lecture UNC, Chapel Hill
Post-screening conversation of “The Visitor” · January 2015 Lecture Duke University
“Listen: Tufekci and Mottahedeh talk YouTube, Net Neutrality and Social Movements” - IslamiCommentary · November 4, 2014 Broadcast Appearance
Listen: Tufekci and Mottahedeh talk YouTube, Net Neutrality and Social Movements - IslamiCommentary · November 4, 2014 Lecture
“One Light : Cinema and Islamic Spirituality” - Image Voice Action Conference Media Studies · November 2014 Invited Talk McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema? (with Gohar Homayounpour and Ranji Khanna) - Women's Studies · November 2014 Other Duke University
One Light: Cinema and Islamic Spirituality - Image Voice Action Conference Media Studies · November 2014 Lecture McGill University
Hashtag #Iranelection and the transformation of the ecology of online life · November 2014 Lecture The Office of News and Communications, Duke University
Tweeting Judgment Day - Middle Eastern Studies Conference · November 2014 Lecture Washington, DC
An Anatomy of the Islamic Cyborg · November 2014 Lecture Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
“Oil: pastoralism & modernity in the Golestan film cycle” · October 2014 Lecture Society for Iranian Studies Biennial, Montreal, Canada
“Expanding the Duke Classroom” - Duke Today · September 3, 2014 Broadcast Appearance
Expanding the Duke Classroom - Duke Today · September 3, 2014 Lecture Duke University
Oil: Pastoralism & modernity in the Golestan film cycle - Iranian Studies Conference · August 2014 Lecture Montreal
Abbas Kiarostami’s "Like Someone in Love" - Vision Room Series · April 2014 Lecture Pratt Institute,
Technology and the Sacred: Voices and Faces of the Adhan in Cairo - IslamiCommentary · March 19, 2014 Lecture
“Technology and the Sacred: Voices and Faces of the Adhan in Cairo” - IslamiCommentary · March 19, 2014 Broadcast Appearance
“Collection/Recollection: Iranian Cinema” - Critical Genealogies of the Middle East · 2014 Invited Talk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ,
“Iranian New Wave and its preservation” a conversation with Jamsheed Akrami, · November 1, 2013 Lecture Asia Society, NYC
“The Golestan workshop and the future of the Iranian New Wave” a response to Hamid Naficy · November 1, 2013 Lecture NYU, Hagop Kevorkian Center
“#CNNfail: Embodied acts of dissent in the age of viral reality" · October 1, 2013 Lecture Texas A & M
“The Muslim Sensorium Commune” · June 1, 2013 Lecture IKOS, Oslo University
“Abdu’l Baha’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity" - IslamiCommentary · April 17, 2013 Broadcast Appearance
“I evig Transitt: Akademiske Nomader' - Forskerforum · April 2013 Broadcast Appearance
“Harlem Shake” - IslamiCommentary · March 17, 2013 Broadcast Appearance
“Iranian Cinema: A Women’s Cinema” · March 1, 2013 Lecture Duke University
“Iranian Cinema: the Industrializing Years 1941-1978” · February 1, 2013 Lecture Northwestern University
“Here Comes Everybody” - IslamiCommentary · January 14, 2013 Broadcast Appearance
“Filmmaking in Iran” - KBIA 91.3 Mid-Missouri Public Radio · December 6, 2012 Broadcast Appearance

http://kbia.org/post/filmmaking-iran
http://www.globaljournalist.org/radio/2012/12/06/
Jafar Panahi’s Offside and the fate of the filmmaker in the 2009 post-election uprising. · November 1, 2012 Lecture Rutgers University
The Ta'zieyh and Iranian Cinema · May 1, 2012 Lecture Conference on "The House of the Prophet: Architecture, Ritual, and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Shrines of Ahl al-Bayt", Abu Dhabi
“ Allah-o-Akbar” on the documentary film series “Bridge to Iran” · February 1, 2012 Lecture NYU (Gallatin Theatre)
Transformations in the politics of spectacle · February 1, 2012 Lecture Arab Spring Conference, Duke University
“ Hashtag #Iranelection” · December 18, 2011 Lecture Visible Evidence Conference, NYU
Circulating Photographs: Iranian women in revolt 1953, 1978, 2009 · December 1, 2011 Lecture American University, Washington D.C.
"Citizen Journalism in Iran: Hashtag #Iranelection” · December 2011 Lecture MLA Presidential forum, Seattle
“Calling the Nation into Being” · December 2011 Lecture MESA,
“Where the Future Nests: Babi and Baha’i Photography” - Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran conference · July 2011 Invited Talk University of Toronto,
“Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof tribute at YBCA” - San Francisco Gate · March 20, 2011 Broadcast Appearance
“Iranian Cinema: A Sense-history” · February 1, 2011 Lecture 20th Annual Conference of British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Savannah
“Calling a Nation into Being: Protest and Parapraxis in Iran” · February 1, 2011 Lecture Connecticut College
“Reading The Battle of Algiers” · February 2011 Lecture Pratt Institute,
“Mundus Imaginalis: a response to Hamid Dabashi on the Sites of Iranian cinema” · February 2011 Invited Talk Columbia University, New York, NY
Art of Attention: Contemporary Iranian Art: A Response · December 2, 2010 Lecture
Men in Scarves · December 2, 2010 Interview
Modernscapes and the Secret of Divine Civilization · November 1, 2010 Lecture MESA
On the streets of Tehran: Women Protesting in the streets: 1953, 1979, 2009 · September 1, 2010 Lecture ACS Crossroad, Hong Kong
“Iranian Cinema thrives despite restrictions” - Here & Now (Public Radio) · June 2010 Broadcast Appearance
Iranian Cinema Before and After 1979 · May 1, 2010 Lecture Evergreen State University, WA
Calling the Nation into being: the chants of the post-Election uprising historically · April 1, 2010 Lecture UT Austin
The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media · April 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
Social Media in Education · April 1, 2010 Lecture FutureWeb 2010/WWW2010
The Iranian Political Crisis: Social Media Brought you the news · April 1, 2010 Lecture Ohio State Univ
“Social Media in the classroom” - Future Web (futureweb2010blog) · April 2010 Broadcast Appearance
“Social Media in Education” - FutureWeb 2010/WWW2010 · April 2010 Lecture
“Coup d’ta-tas: Cleric’s Comments ignite skin-bearing backlash” - Herald de Paris · April 2010 Broadcast Appearance
“Iran, Social Media, Women and more…” · April 2010 Broadcast Appearance

Mideastyouth.com
“An internet coup d’ta-tas” - All Tech Considered, NPR · April 2010 Broadcast Appearance
The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media · March 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media · February 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
National Cinemas and Cine-Semiotics · February 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
The uses of social media in the classroom · February 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
“The uses of social media in the classroom” · February 2010 Lecture Duke University,
“Social Media and other research on Iran” - Online Office Hours (dukeofficehours.com) · February 2010 Broadcast Appearance
“Displaced Allegories: on Iranian cinema" · November 27, 2009 Lecture Second Cinema iTunes interview
“Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979, 2009” · November 27, 2009 Lecture PBS Frontline Tehran Bureau
Iranian cinema · November 27, 2009 Lecture PBS World Focus
“Changes in eyewitness accounts from 1979 and 2009” · November 27, 2009 Lecture Duke University Libraries
“The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the many uses of Twitter” · November 27, 2009 Lecture Duke University
Accented Cinemas of the Middle East · November 27, 2009 Lecture Duke University
Twitter Film Festival 1 · November 27, 2009 Lecture
Twitter Film Festival 2 · November 27, 2009 Lecture Duke University
“Iranian Cinema: A history of the Sense” · November 27, 2009 Lecture Columbia University
“Twitter Film Festival Goes Live at Duke” · November 27, 2009 Lecture Wired Campus Chronicle of Higher Education
Changes in eyewitness accounts from 1979 and 20092009 · November 27, 2009 Lecture NPR State of Things
“Some Professors Jitters over Twitter are easing” · November 27, 2009 Lecture Washington Post
“Changes in eyewitness accounts from 1979 and 2009” - The State of Things, NPR · November 2009 Broadcast Appearance
“Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema?" · October 2009 Invited Talk Duke Visual Studies, Duke University,
“Displaced Allegories: on Iranian cinema” - Second Cinema, iTunes · October 2009 Broadcast Appearance
“Iranian cinema” - PBS World Focus · October 2009 Broadcast Appearance
Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema? · October 2009 Lecture Duke Visual Studies, Duke University.,

Invited Lectures
Islamic Cyborgs? A Study of Iran's Mystical Cinema · October 2009 Invited Talk Leiden University, Holland,
“The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and Social Media” · September 2009 Invited Talk Duke University

Invited Lectures
Myth and History in Iranian Studies · August 1, 2009 Lecture DePoort, Holland
“The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media” · August 2009 Lecture Durham, NC
The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media · August 2009 Lecture Durham

Invited Lectures
“Some Professors Jitters over Twitter are easing” - Washington Post · June 2009 Other
“Where the future nests: 19th century Babi and Baha'i photography · April 2009 Lecture Haifa University
“The commodified film body and the Imaginal world: A study of post- Revolutionary Iranian Cinema" · April 2009 Lecture Haifa University
“Twitter Film Festival Goes Live at Duke” - Chronicle of Higher Education · April 2009 Other
“Iranian Film Industry Thriving, Hollywood learns” - CNN.com · March 2009 Other
“Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979, 2009" - PBS Frontline, Tehran Bureau · January 2009 Broadcast Appearance

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/07/picturing-ourselves-1953-1979-
and-2009.html
"Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema?" · November 2008 Lecture University of California, Santa Cruz
“Islamic Cyborgs? A Study of Iran's Mystical Cinema” · October 2008 Lecture Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville,

Invited Lectures
“The commodified film body and the Imaginal world: A study of post- Revolutionary Iranian Cinema" - Medias Religions Conference · February 2008 Lecture Duke-UNC,
“Axis of Evil: Aftershocks” · January 2008 Lecture Denison University Museum, Ohio,
“Prohibition and Production: Panahi’s Offiside” · November 2007 Invited Talk North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
“Prohibition and Production: Panahi’s Offiside” - GVSU Middle East Film Festival · October 2007 Invited Talk Michigan
“On Iranian Cinema” - 40th Anniversary of The Society for Iranian Studies · October 2007 Invited Talk Toronto, Canada
“On Panahi’s Offside with Sheryl Irwin” - WGVU · October 2007 Broadcast Appearance Grand Rapids, MI
“Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East” paper on Elle Flanders “Zero Degrees of Separation” · September 2007 Lecture Sexuality Studies, Duke University,
“The Iranian Film Industry: a History” · March 2007 Invited Talk Literature Program, Duke University,
“Collection/Recollection: Studying the History of National Cinemas” · March 2007 Invited Talk Society of Cinema Studies, Chicago
“Realism and Global Sense Perception” · November 2006 Lecture Under Fire and the University of California, San Diego,

With Terry Eagleton, Jean Baudrillard and Klaus Thewileit.
“Image as Event” - Panel on Cultural Fictions and Symbolic Realities, Under Fire and The Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville · November 2006 Lecture Seville, Spain

With Melanie McAlister and Ananya Vajpeyi.

“Contemporary Iranian Cinema: A Woman's cinema" - AMEWS panel · November 2006 Lecture Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Bost
“The Fruits of Total War” - Panel on Cultural Fictions and Symbolic Realities · November 2006 Lecture Under Fire and The University of Seville, Seville, Spain

With Ryan Bishop and Radhika Subramaniam
“Iranian Cinema as a Woman's Cinema” · October 2006 Lecture Psychoanalytic Society, Berkeley, CA

With Joan Copjec and Mali Mann
“Bayza’i’s Bashu and the problem of a national language in cinema” · September 2005 Invited Talk Department of Asian and African Languages and Literatures, Duke University,
“The film function in the Third World” · September 2005 Invited Talk Literature Program, Duke University,
“The modest gaze in the New Iranian Cinema” - FOCUS Middle East Program · September 2005 Invited Talk IDC, Duke University,
“Reading the news image” - FOCUS Middle East Program · September 2005 Invited Talk IDC, Duke University,
“Fredric Jameson “Sokurov and the Late Modern” - Respondent, Post-Soviet Culture Theory · February 2005 Lecture
“The Gaze: Tactile, Modest, Averted” - Iranian Cinema · January 2005 Invited Talk Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University,
“Hollywood Remakes, Bollywood Samples and the global film market” - Globalization and Indigenous Cultures conference · June 2004 Invited Talk Zhengzhou University, China,
“Reel Evil: Film Festivals, Dictatorship and the Passion for cinema” · June 2004 Invited Talk Charles Darwin University, Australia,
“Cinematic Utopias?” - Society for Iranian Studies Biennial · May 2004 Lecture Washington, DC
“Responding to Indigenous Films: Thinking Reception" - Rethinking the Humanities, Globalization and the limits of Translation seminar · 2004 Invited Talk Duke University,
“Transnational feminism and cinema” - Transnational Feminism and the International Faculty Seminar · 2004 Invited Talk Duke University,
“Bollywood V. World: nationalists, mullahs, Bajrang Dal and political potboilers” - Freeman Conference From the Book to the Internet: Communication Technologies, Human Motions and Cultural Formations in Eastern Asia · October 2003 Invited Talk University of Oregon,
“New Iranian Cinema” - The Day I Became a Woman Film Festival and Conference on Iranian Cinema · October 2003 Invited Talk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
“Where are Kiarostami’s Women” · May 2003 Invited Talk Kevorkian Center, New York University,
“Shock and Awe: The Organization and International Response to Reel Evil: Films from the Axis of Evil” · May 2003 Lecture Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“Teaching World Cinema” - Literature Graduate Colloquium · April 2003 Invited Talk Duke University,
“Reel Evil” - Fox News TV · March 10, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
"Film: Changing Perceptions of Real Evil: View life through the cinematic lenses of 'our worst enemies'" - Duke Chronicle · March 6, 2003 Other Duke University,

With Jon Schnaars,

“Le cinéma de l'axe du Mal" - Le Monde · March 5, 2003 Broadcast Appearance

With Stephané Dreyfus
“Reel Evil” - All Things Considered National Public Radio · March 2, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“Narrative, Universality and Displacements in Cinema” - Narrative · March 2003 Lecture Berkley
The Shifting Turf of Third Cinema” - Society for Cinema Studies · March 2003 Lecture Minneapolis, MN
“Reel Evil” - MTV Campus Network · March 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“Reel Evil" - WRAL TV (CBS) · February 28, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“Reel Evil” - Berlin Sfb · February 27, 2003 Broadcast Appearance

With Dirk Rupnow

“Reel Evil” - BBC Five Live · February 27, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“Reel Evil” - MSNBC TV Live · February 26, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“Reel Evil” - BBC World Service · February 26, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“'Reel Evil' Duke series to screen films from 'rogue' states” - The Herald Sun · February 26, 2003 Other

With Kimberly Sweet
“Reel Evil” - CNNfn TV Live · February 24, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
"Reel Evil” - BBC London · February 24, 2003 Broadcast Appearance
“Reel Evil” - Stirling Faux · February 22, 2003 Broadcast Appearance CKNW ACURA BC, Vancouver Radio Live,
“Film Series to Showcase Works from Axis of Evil Nations” · February 19, 2003 Broadcast Appearance

With Cabell Smith
“Primitives Circulating the Globe” - Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Convention · November 2002 Lecture Washington DC
“An Introduction to Anime” · October 2002 Invited Talk Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
“What is it saying?" - Conference on Iranian Cinema · September 2002 Invited Talk Columbia University and The Lincoln Center, New York
"Myth and History in Iranian Studies" · August 2002 Invited Talk DePoort, Holland
“Iranian Cinema” - BBC Art · August 2002 Broadcast Appearance

With Becky Brazil
“Ramin Serry's Maryam” - All Things Considered, NPR · July 30, 2002 Broadcast Appearance

With Neda Ulaby
“Ta'ziyeh in New York” - BBC Persian · July 19, 2002 Broadcast Appearance

With Amin Zarghami
“Karbala Drag Kings and Queens" - Ta’ziyeh · July 2002 Invited Talk The Asia Society, New York
"Hamid Rahmanian: Shahrbanu" - The Cinema Culture and Society program · May 2002 Invited Talk Liberal Studies, Parson School, New School University, New York
“Karbala Drag Kings and Queens” - Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference · May 2002 Lecture Maryland
“Gabbeh's montage: the emancipation of the global screen" - Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference · May 2002 Lecture Maryland
“Ramin Serry's Maryam: an introduction” · April 2002 Lecture Emory University, Georgia
“Feminist Approaches: Rights and Responsibilities" - Conversation on the Current Crisis at the Intersection of Race and Gender with Charlotte Bunch · October 2001 Invited Talk Rutgers, State University of New Jersey,
“Ethnography and new Orientalism in contemporary Middle Eastern Cinemas” - Society for Cinema Studies Conference · May 2001 Lecture Society for Cinema Studies , Washington DC
“Framed Unframed” · May 2001 Invited Talk School of Oriental and African Studies/Barbican Centre, London
"Halfaouine: Coming of age with a Freudian fetish” · December 2000 Lecture Modern Languages Association, Washington DC
“Shirin Neshat: Fervor, Rapture and Turbulence” - Gallery Talk · October 2000 Invited Talk Wexner, Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“Iranian Cliches: Locating National Modernity in Photography” - Society for Iranian Studies Biannual Conference · May 2000 Lecture Society for Iranian Studies , Maryland
“Iranian Cinema: Representations of a Hybrid Nation” - Society for Iranian Studies Panel, Middle Eastern Studies · November 1999 Lecture Society for Iranian Studies , Washington, DC
“Dialect and Diversity in Iranian Cinema: Bahram Bayza'i's Bashu” · March 1999 Lecture Modern Languages Association, Chicago
“The Enamored: Enunciating the Hybrid Iranian nation" · March 1999 Invited Talk English Department, Amherst College,
“The Enamored: Enunciating the Hybrid Iranian nation" · March 1999 Invited Talk English Department, Amherst College,
“Fashioning Qajar Iran: the Camera in the Hand of Nasir al-Din Shah” - Nineteenth Century Studies · March 1999 Lecture Philadelphia
“Framing Qajar Iran: the Camera in the Hand of Nasir al-Din Shah” · February 1999 Invited Talk Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University,
“Framing Qajar Iran: the Camera in the Hand of Nasir al-Din Shah” - Graduate Colloquium · February 1999 Invited Talk Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota,
“Constructive Controversy in HECUA's City Arts Program” · October 1998 Lecture National Society for Experiential Education, Norfolk, Virginia
“Women in Iranian Cinema" - Radio Iran · March 8, 1998 Broadcast Appearance

With Faramarz Foruzandeh
“The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-’Ayn’s Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Babis circa 1852” - Cramp'd into a Planisphere: Mapping Cultural Spaces · December 1997 Lecture University of Haifa, Israel
“Resurrection, Return, Reform: Ta’ziyeh as Model for Early Babi Historiography” · November 1997 Lecture Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Francisco, CA
“Maybe Some Other Time: Bahram Bayza'is film language” - Cross-Cultural Poetics · October 1997 Lecture University of Minnesota,
“Maybe Some Other Time: Bahram Bayza'is film language” - Cross-Cultural Poetics · October 1997 Lecture University of Minnesota,
“The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-’Ayn’s Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Babis circa 1852” - Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Twelfth Annual Conference · April 1997 Lecture University of California at Berkeley,
“Striking on the Plains of Karbala: Walter Benjamin’s Dramatic Vision of History and the Ta’ziyeh Performance in Qajar Persia” - Festival of Original Theatre and Film · March 1997 Lecture University of Toronto,
“Trouble in Paradise: The Disarticulation of Islamic Space in Babi Discourse (1844-53)” - Graduate Student’s Conference on History · October 1995 Lecture Princeton University,
“Reading the Arabian Nights in the Gardens of Versailles” · November 1994 Lecture Chicago
“Readings in Postcolonial Theory: The Unhomely Nights in Versailles” · November 1994 Lecture Midwestern Modern Languages Association, Chicago
“Reading the Arabian Nights in the Gardens of Versailles” - Midwestern Eighteenth Century Studies · October 1994 Lecture University of Minnesota,
“The Emergence of ‘the limit attitude’ in Foucault’s Genealogical Study of the Subject” - University of Minnesota Scholars Conference · February 1994 Lecture University of Minnesota,
“French Feminist Theory: Toward a Definition of a Language of Exile" · November 1992 Lecture Center for European Studies. University of Minnesota,
“Nietzsche’s Language of Exile and Écriture Féminine” · October 1992 Lecture German Studies, University of Minnesota,

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Short Fiction judge - Women’s Voices Now- Middle East · 2011 Event Participation , New York & Los Angeles flag United States of America http://womensvoicesnow.org/

Service to the Profession

Participant - Faculty Success Program · 2018 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD),
Editor - Academia.edu · 2015 - 2016 Editorial Activities
Member - Newcombe Fellowship Committee · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,
Advisory Board Member · 2014 - 2016 Committee Service Tarikh,
Islamic Media: Technologies and the Sacred - Collective Research Project (AMES 495/695) · 2014 Other Duke University
Co-Convenor - Islamic Media: Technology and the Sacred Conference · 2014 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Advisory Board Member · 2014 - 2016 Committee Service Tarjuman,
Member - Selfies Research Network · 2014 - 2016 Consulting

Collaborative, interdisciplinary research partnership
http://www.selfieresearchers.com/
curatorial advisor : Asia Society’s Iranian New Wave film series · November 2013 Editorial Activities Asia Society, NYC
Co-Convener - Islamic Media: Sense and Sensation Conference · November 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University

Conferences Organized
Member of Board and Associate Editor : Internationals Journal of International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies (AIAC) · January 15, 2013 Editorial Activities Australia
Co-Convenor - Islamic Media: Sense and Sensation · 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Member of Editorial Board - The journal Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) · 2012 Editorial Activities
short fiction judge : Women’s Voices Now- Middle East · December 14, 2011 Editorial Activities New York and LA
organizer, presenter, panelist : Asia Society’s Tribute to Jafar Panahi · December 14, 2011 Editorial Activities Asia Society New York
co-curator : Middle Eastern Film Festival · December 14, 2011 Editorial Activities Duke University
International Society of Iranian Studies blog · 2010 - 2011 Editorial Activities
Brainquake-- A Social Media Feminist initiative · 2010 - 2011 Editorial Activities
Curator : Twitter Film Festival 1 & 2 · 2009 - 2010 Editorial Activities global
Curator : Accented Cinemas of the Middle East · 2009 - 2010 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Chair : Chair Society Shaykhi, Babi And Baha'i Studies, MESA · 2008 - 2009 Event/Organization Administration Middle Eastern Studies Association
Organizing Committee Member - Iranian Studies Conference · 2007 Committee Service Toronto 2008
Chair - Middle East Caucus · 2004 Committee Service Society for Cinema Studies,
Conference Committee Member · 2003 - 2004 Committee Service Society for Iranian Studies,
Chair and organizer - Author meets Critic panel on Hamid Dabashi's Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and Future · April 2002 Committee Service Emory University, Georgia
Associate Editor - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 2002 - 2016 Editorial Activities
Chair and organizer for panels - "Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinemas” and "Art in Modernity” , Center for Iranian Research and Analysis Convention · April 2001 Event/Organization Administration Center for Iranian Research and Analysis , Toronto, Canada
Book Review Editor - International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies · 2001 - 2006 Editorial Activities
Board Member - Division of West Asian Languages · 2000 - 2005 Committee Service Modern Language Association (MLA),
Board Member - Center for Iranian Research and Analysis · 2000 - 2003 Committee Service
Series Editor - Research Notes H-Net List · 1998 - 1999 Editorial Activities Shaykhi, Babi And Baha'i Studies,
Convener - Series on Demographic Changes · 1998 Event/Organization Administration Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs,
Member · 1997 Other Society for Cinema Studies,
Member · 1997 Other Middle Eastern Studies Association,
Member · 1997 Other Modern Languages Association,
Moderator - H-Net List · 1997 Editorial Activities Shaykhi, Babi And Baha'i Studies,

1997 - present

Member · 1997 Other American Studies Association,
Member · 1997 Other Society for Iranian Studies,

Service to Duke

Co-Convener . Outrage fatigue, democracy, and activism in the age of information overload: A Conversation with Rahaf Harfoush · 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Co-Convener . How to See the World: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff · 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Committee for the selection of the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship (School) · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service Duke University,
Committee for the Selection of the Scott Fellowship (Department) · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service Duke University,
Committee for the Selection of the Boone Fellowship (Department) · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service Duke University,
Committee for the selection of the Price Fellowship (Department) · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service Duke University,
Committee for selection of the Frankel Fellowship (Department) · 2015 - 2016 Committee Service Duke University,
Co-Convener . Beirut and Paris attacks on Social Media: A Conversation · 2015 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Co-Convener . Conference on Vico · 2015 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Convener . FHI Residency & Speaker Series at Duke: Marxist Conservation Brennan & Ganguly · 2015 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Committee Member . Humanities Writ Large Steering Committee · 2015 - 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Collaborator . The After Oil School: Explorations and Experiments in the Future of Energy, Culture and Society · 2015 Event/Organization Administration After Oil School, University of Alberta,

Collaborative, interdisciplinary research partnership.
https://vimeo.com/137107137
AMES Tenure Committee (Department) · 2014 Committee Service Duke University,
Co-Convener . #Kobane: Feminism and Autonomy in the Rojava Revolution · 2014 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Co-Convener . What happens to #Ferguson affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic filtering and Ferguson · 2014 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Co-Convener . Islamic Media: Technologies and the Sacred: Collective Research Project · 2014 Event/Organization Administration AMES, Duke University,
Executive Committee of the Graduate School (School) · 2014 - 2016 Committee Service Duke University,
Co-Convener . Islamic Media: Technology and the Sacred · 2014 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Program in Literature (3rd year review) (Department) · 2013 - 2014 Committee Service
Islamic Studies Hiring Committee (Department) · 2013 - 2014 Committee Service AMES, Duke University,
Co-Convener . Islamic Media: Sense and Sensation · 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,
Women's Studies Visual Cultures Search Committee (Department) · 2009 Committee Service Women's Studies, Duke University,
Women’s Studies Tenure Committee (Department) · 2009 Committee Service Women's Studies, Duke University,
Graduate fellowship Committee, Program in Literature (Department) · 2009 Committee Service Literature Department, Duke University,
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Program in Literature (Department) · 2009 Committee Service Literature Department, Duke University,
Duke Digital Futures Provost Taskforce (University) · 2009 - 2011 Committee Service Duke University,
Graduate Job Placement Advisor . Program in Literature · 2007 - 2010 Professional Development Literature Department, Duke University,
Executive Committee Program in Literature (Department) · 2007 - 2009 Committee Service Literature Department, Duke University,
Trans-cultural Humanities University Wide (University) · 2006 - 2009 Committee Service Duke University,
Faculty Advisor . Graduate Job Placement · 2005 Professional Development Literature Department, Duke University,
Graduate Admissions Commitee (Department) · 2005 - 2009 Committee Service Literature Department, Duke University,
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Department) · 2004 Committee Service Literature Department, Duke University,
Graduate Admissions Committee (Department) · 2004 - 2015 Committee Service Literature Department, Duke University,
Faculty Advisor . Graduate Job Placement · 2004 Professional Development Literature Department, Duke University,
Film and Video Integration Committee (Department) · 2004 Committee Service Duke University,

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