Welcoming Addresses

Mehrdad Ariannejad (CEO Tirgan Festival)
Professor Ali Ansari (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)

Panel I: Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911 and State Building in Iran

Moderator: Professor Victoria Tahmasebi (University of Toronto)

Participants :
1. Professor Nayereh Tohidi (California State University- Northridge)
“Sedigheh Dowlatabadi and the Constitutional Revolution in Iran”

2. Professor Ali Ansari (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
“Enlightenment and Reform: rethinking the Qajar State”

3. Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo (Jindal Global University- India)
"Mohammad Ali Foroughi and the Idea of State Building”

Coffee Break

Panel II: Elites and State in the Pahlavi Iran

Moderator: Professor Nima Naghibi (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Participants:

4. Professor Touraj Atabaki (Emeritus, Leiden University)
"Mostafa Fateh, a statesman with dual commitment"

5. Professor Houchang Chehabi (Emeritus, Boston University)
“Iranian State and Abolishing Capitulations in Qajar & Pahlavi Iran”

6. Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (University of Pennsylvania): by Zoom Link
“Farokhroo Parsa: Women and State Building”

Lunch

Panel III: Sovereignty and State in the Islamic Republic

Moderator: Professor Khatereh Sheibani (York University)

Participants:
1. Professor Farzin Vahdat (Sociologist-Author)
“Reflections on the Iranian Revolution of 1979”

2. Professor Edward Wastnidge (Open University- UK)
“Religious identity and State in the Islamic Republic”

3. Dr. Ladan Boroumand (Historian &Human Rights Advocate)
“Shapour Bakhtiar and Constitutionalism in Iran”

Coffee Break

Panel IV: State Building in Post-Islamic Iran: Perspectives and Possibilities (Roundtable - in Persian)

Moderator: Professor Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto)

Participants:
1. Dr. Azadeh Momeni (Carleton University)

2. Professor Nayereh Tohidi (California State University- Northridge)

3. Dr. Ladan Boroumand (Historian & Human Rights Advocate)

Closing Remarks