Debates within Iranian Socialism: Historiography, Ideology and Praxis after the Second World War

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures of University of Manchester is holding a workshop on ‘Debates within Iranian Socialism: Historiography, Ideology and Praxis after the Second World War‘ from 19-20 July 2016. Please register at info@mihan.org.uk.

The Programme:

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

“Transcendental History” and the Iranian Left, Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria

On the Historiography of the Fadai Movement, Anush Salehi, Bristol

Q&A (15 minutes)

20 July

9am: 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

Q&A (15 minutes)

11.20am: Internationalism and the Iranian Left

Chair: Peyman Vahabzadeh

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

Denis Volkov, The Early Relations between the Bolsheviks and Iran, 1917-1921, Sorbonne Nouvelle

Q&A (15 minutes)

Lunch Break

2pm: 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 in East Germany: Perspectives from the Stasi Archives, Qasem Nurmohammadi, Berlin

5pm: Concluding Remarks, Oliver Bast, University of Manchester