Research

Research Papers 

• “Popular cinema and the convergence of cultural memories around old houses...," at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 21-25 Aug 2023. 

• "Cultural Memory and Domestic Architecture," at Memory Studies Association 7th Annual Conference: Communities and Change, Newcastle University, the UK,  3 to 7 July 2023.
  * Winner of the bursary

• “Cinema, Architecture, and Audiovisual Archives," at the IAMHIST Annual Conference The Future [of] Archives, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada, 20-23 Jun 2023.

• "Parallel Drops, a Documentary Performance: The Sense of Otherness and the Image of the Built Environment Around Us," at TAKING PART symposium, Research Centre for Arts in Society, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 15 Jun 2023.

• "The Memory of Tehran: Architecture and Nostalgia," guest lecture at the Department of Art History, Architecture, and Landscape, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1 December 2022.

• "Iranian Interiors in the Narrative Cinema of the 1980s," at The 1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures and Beginnings, University of North Texas, the USA, 3–5 November 2022.

• "Iranian Cinema and the Memory of Pre-revolutionary Architecture in Tehran," at The Street and the City IV: Moments, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,  Portugal, 7-9 Sep 2022.

• Narrative Cinema as a Memory Archive for pre-1979 Iranian Interiors," at From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory conf, Lancaster University, the UK, 6-8 April 2022. 

     *Winner of the bursary

• "Architecture, Nostalgia, and (prosthetic) Memory," at Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-11 Jun 2021.