In Conversation with Bahram Beyzaie
Bahram Beyzaie, the renowned Iranian playwright and filmmaker, will be receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of St Andrews on 22 June 2017. The awarding ceremony will be followed by a two-day workshop on 23 and 24 June to celebrate his unique, scholarly and creative contributions to Iranian culture, cinema and theatre. The event includes presentation of several academic paper on Bahram Beyzaie, the screening of his first full-length feature film Ragbar (Downpour 1972) and the solo performance of the first part of his play, Shab-e Hezar-o-Yekom (The One Thousand and First Night, 2003) by Mojdeh Shamsaie.
The event is free and open to public in whole or parts through pre-booking. For more information, please contact Dr Saeed Talajooy ([email protected])
Venues:
Friday (2-9pm): Lecture Theatre 3, St Mary’s Quad, South Street, St Andrews (KY16 9JP)
Saturday (1-5.30pm): New Arts Building, The Scores, St Andrews, (KY16 9AX)
Saturday (5.30-6.45) The Barron Theatre, 95 North Street, KY16 9AD
Tentative Programme
Each paper will be about 20 minutes with a 10-minute Q & A
Friday 23 June
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, St Mary’s Quad, South Street, St Andrews (KY16 9JP)
Panel 1 (English)
| Saeed Talajooy | The Meta-filmic Dialogue of Beyzaie’s Ragabar with Iranian Cinema: Intellectuality, Masculinity and Marginality | 14.00- 14.30 |
| Maryam Ghorbankarimi |
Woken up with a Patriarchal Hangover: the Female Identity in Beyzaie’s Ragbar
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14.30- 15.00 |
| Farshad Zahedi | TBA |
15.00–15.30
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15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
Panel 2: (English)
| Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad | Language of Others vs Othering of Languages: Bashu and Multilinguality in Iranian cinema | 16.00- 16.30 |
| Nina Khamsy |
Little Strangers: Representations of Displaced Youth in Iranian Cinema
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16.30-17.00 |
| Farshid Kazemi | The Speaking Tree: The Mytho-poetics of the Female Voice in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema | 17.00-17.30 |
17.30 – 18.00 Buffett Dinner
Panel 3: Film and Discussion (Persian and English)
| Bahram Beyzaie |
Film Screening: Ragbar (Downpour) Persian with English Subtitles |
18.00-20.00
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| Bahram Beyzaie | Making Ragbar | 20.00-20.30 |
| Bahram Beyzaie | Q & A on Ragbar | 20.30-21.00 |
Saturday 24 June
Venue: Lecture Theatre, New Arts Building, The Scores, St Andrews, (KY16 9AX)
Panel 4: Persian
| Parviz Jahed |
عناصر سینمای جنایی در کلاغ، شاید وقتی دیگر و سگ کشی |
13.00-13.30 |
| Fatemeh Khansalar |
خوانش بومگرایانه از غریبه و مه، چریکۀ تارا و باشو غریبۀ کوچک |
13.30-14.00
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| Niloofar Beyzaie |
بهرام بیضایی، نابغه ی خود ساخته و تلاشگر خستگی ناپذیر تئاتر و سینمای ایران |
14.00-14.30 |
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
Panel 5: Persian and English
| Reza Zarghami | Dariush and Zahhak | 15.00-15.30 |
| Hamid Ehya | The Variety and the Flexibility of Linguistic Expression in Beyzaie’s Tarabnameh | 15.30-16.00 |
| Hamid Ehya & Sepideh Khosrowjah | Working with Beyzaie on Tarabnameh | 16.00-16.30 |
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
Performance Vanue: The Barron Theatre, 95 North Street, KY16 9AD
Panel 6: Persian and English
| Bahram Beyzaie | Zahhak and Jamshid | 17.00-17.30 |
| Mojdeh Shamsaie | Shab-e Hezar-o-Yekom: Part 1 Performance in Persian with English surtitles | 17.30-18.15 |
| Bahram Beyzaie |
Q & A on Shab-e Hezar-o-Yekom (Persian and English) |
18.15-18.45 |
19.30-22.00 Conference Dinner (The Byre Theatre)
The workshop has been funded by the Honeyman Foundation, School of Modern Languages (University of St Andrews), and Institute of Iranian Studies (University of St Andrews).
The Honeyman foundation was established by the generosity of A.M. (Sandy) Honeyman, a former Professor in the University of St Andrews in 1985 with the aim of encouraging education and research in general and study of Middle Eastern languages and cultures, in particular.