Conference Updates

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• List of conference presentations (to be completed by more abstracts from Iranian presenters)

List of conference presentations (to be completed by more abstracts from Iranian presenters):

The Theory and Practice of the Koranic Monotheism as a Universal Integrating Principle Making True Multiculturalism and Global Peace Possible
Rasool Akbari
Imam Reza University of Mashhad, Iran

Social harmony as a result of resolving interethnic contradictions under conditions of globalization
Olena Aleksandrova
Associate Professor of the Philosophy, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine

Promoting the Common Good through Intercultural Understanding and Interfaith Dialogue: A Study of Using On-line International Exchanges with University Students in the U.S., Egypt, and the United Arab Emarates
Martha Ann Kirk
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Comparative World Literature in The Age of Globalization and Multiculturalism
Alireza Anushiravani
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Shiraz University, Shiraz, IRAN & Visiting Scholar, Department of Literature & Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA

Islamic Revivalism in Indonesia: Contestation between Substantive and Formalistic Muslims
Lili Yulyadi Arnakim
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Tradition, Power, and Dialogue: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Youth Media Imaginaries in Palestine/Israel
Sanjay Asthana
Associate Professor, College of Mass Communication, School of Journalism, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Diversity IS Integrity: The Paradox of Multiculturalism
Katherine Babiuk
Advisor with the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Canada
Effat Ghassemi
Master’s Degree in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Executive Director of the Newcomer Centre of Peel

The Paradoxes of Diversity
Peter Baehr
Professor of Social Theory, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

A Dynamic Conception of Human Identity, Intercultural Relation, and Cooperative Learning
Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast
Professor of Philosophy of EducationUniversity of Tehran,Iran/ Currently Visiting Academic in: Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK

The Global Crisis and Rising Poverty and the Role of Women in Islamic Institutions for Poverty Alleviation through Charities and Micro Credit
Roksana Bahramitash
Directrice à la recherche, Chaire de recherche du Canada en Islam, Pluralisme, et Globalisation, Université de Montréal, Canada

Intercultural Dialogue. Young Immigrants and English society
Janusz Balicki
Prof. of the Card. S. Wyszynski University, Institute of Political Science, The Social Demography and Population Policy Unit, Poland

The Transnational “Second Generations”: Iranians at Home and Abroad
Janet L Bauer
Associate Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, Former director of the women’s studies program (2000-2005). Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA

Iranian Culture in the Persian Gulf
William O Beeman
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, USA

Two models of belonging as a Muslim outsider
Edip Asaf Bekaroglu
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Instructor, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey

Muslims an Alien in the Land of Hindus? - Reconceptualising the Muslim Minorities in Pluralistic India
Sneh Bharadwaj
Consultant and Research fellow, India

Globalization of Media: (Impacts on cultural inheritance and identity conflicts)
K.M.Taj Biul Hasan
Producer (TV & Radio), Media Division, Bangladesh Open University, Bangladesh

The Gift of Technology: Writing the American Student back into the History of Persian The Gift of Technology: Writing the American Student back into the History of Persian
Constance Bobroff
Independent Scholar (MA) and Webmaster of “Redirected from Persian in Texas”, website, USA

Reading the Qur’an as a Reverent Unbeliever
Whitney S Bodman
Assoc. Professor of Comparative Religion, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA

Diplomacy – a special case of intercultural communication in a globalized world
Nicoleta Adina Borcan
PhD Candidate in Intercultural Communication in Diplomatic Relations Alpen Adria University, Klagenfurt Austria

Multiculturalism in Australia: Emerging Refugee communities
Linda Briskman
Haruhisa Handa Chair in Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Perth Australia
Michelle Dimasi
PhD student, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
Mustafa Najib
MA student, Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia

AVATAR: (a film by James Cameron, 2009)21st Century Filmmaking and the Internationalization of Enlightened Ideology
Douglas Brode
Media and Multicultural Studies; The Newhouse School of Public Communications, Department of Radio, TV & Film; Syracuse University, USA

Multiculturalism and Global Peace: Where the twain SHALL meet
Rachel Chenchiah
Fourth year students of the five year undergraduate law program, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India
Surabhi Shukla
Fourth year students of the five year undergraduate law program, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India

“Unity in diversity”, Multiculturalism and Global peace
Iheanacho George Chidiebere
M.A. Student in Peace studies and Conflict Resolution, Institute of Arts, Indonesia

Condition of Iranian Youth Identities (religious, national and revolutionary)
Tahereh Choopani Farahnad
M.A student of French Studies, Faculty of World Studies, Tehran University, Iran

Islam: Traditionalism or modernism
Ida Crone
Senior Researcher, Ph.D., Danish Institute of International Studies, Denmark

Iranian-Saudi Relations: Common Interests in a Changing Regional Environment
James Devine
Lecturer in the department of Political Science at McGill, Member of directorial board of the Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle East Studies (ICAMES), Montréal, Canada

CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Shveta Dhaliwal
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patala, India & South Asia Service Region, the Consortium for Teaching, Research, Learning and Development, Louisiana, USA

Women Body and Soul - the right to self authenticity under the European Convention of Human Rights in UK and Europe
Susan Edwards
Dean of Law; Professor of Law; Co-Director of the Centre for Multi-Cultural Studies in Law and the Family, University of Buckingham, UK

Intercultural Dialogue through Education: The Case for Iranian Studies in the US
Erica Ehrenberg
Executive Director, American Institute of Iranian Studies, New York, USA

Multiculturalism, the Common Good, and Improving the Odds of Peace
Phil Enns
Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga (State Islamic University), Indonesia

The problem with multiculturalism and cultural psychology
Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
Post doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Psychology

Is Secularism Good for Women? Evidence from the Turkish Headscarf Debate
Sarah Fischer
Ph.D. Candidate, American University, Washington, DC; Visiting Researcher—Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey; Visiting Researcher—Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Civilizing Modernity: Situating Islam in International Dialogue
Kathleen Foody
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

CULTURAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL RACISM – RETHINKING GENDER SUBORDINATION AND GENDER NORMS
Ana Frank
Post Graduate Student, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

A Study of “The Transcendent Unity of Religions” in Frithjof Schuon’s View
Akbar Ghorbani
Islamic Azad University, Ardestan Branch, Iran

Islamophobia affirmed and denied: some impacts of the representation of Islam in the Australian media
Douglas Golding
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland, Australia

The Negotiation of Memory and Cultural Identity in Bakikhanov’s Garden of Paradise (Gulistan-i Iram)
Rebecca Gould
PhD Candidate, Columbia University, Middle East, South Asian, & African Studies, USA

Socialization, Identification, and Unification in the Alien Nation: “American” Muslim People’s Respond to the Resurgence of Islamophobia in the Post-9/11 United States
Nicole Grinstead
Master of Arts, Religious Studies, with emphasis in Islam, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Freedom of the world outlook of the Muslim in everyday life being
Karim El Guessab
Professor, Department of Philosophy of the Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine

Fox News – Truth, Justice & the American Way
Jacqueline Guzda
Broadcasting and Film, Manhattan College, USA

FROM MUSLIM TO ISLAMIC SCHOOLS: PEDAGOGY, CONTENT, METHODSCHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
Elma Harder
Teacher and the author of Concentric Circles, Nurturing Awe and Wonder in Early Learning, Canada

The idea of evolution, and their impact on the issue of prophecy and revelation Miskaweih critical study in the book (alfawz elasgher)
Tariq Hashim Khamis
Head of Educational and Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Tikrit, Iraq

AMERICAN DIASPORA: A POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM OF THE TIMBUKTU BY PAUL AUSTER THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF STRUCTURALIST BINARY OPPOSITIONS
Daryoosh Hayati
LECTURER, Department of English, Islamic Azad University (Lamerd Branch), Iran
Saleh Haghshenas
B.A. English Student, Islamic Azad University (Lamerd Branch)

Media, Communication and Common Good
Chris Haydon
Media practitioner and broadcast TV producer , Director, Community TV Trust & Southwark.TV, UK

Linguistic globalization and localization
Reza Heidarizadi
University of Applied science and Technology, sarable, Iran

Islam and Muslims in the Twenty-First Century:What is to be Done?
MUZAFFAR IQBAL
President of Center for Islam and Science, Canada

Representing Iran nuclear program in Australia: a case study
Shah M. Nister J Kabir
PhD candidate, Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, New Zealand

Iran, Central Asia and Kashmir: A Case Study of Unity in Diversity
Mushtaq Kaw
Dean College Development Council & Director Area Study Centre, Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, India

Security Crisis in the Middle East and Beyond: Islamic Context, Islamist Resistance and the Call for an International Multiculturalism
Mohammad Reza Kiani
PhD student of International Relations and Member of young research club of Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran
Maysam Behravesh
MA student of British Studies, Faculty of World Studies (FWS), University of Tehran

An Exploration of Korean’s Pre-Visit Expectations of The Arabs and Culture
Suwan Kim
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea

The Virtual Anayurt: Turkish Nationalism and the Politics of Online Speech
Sarah Kimberlin Harris
Ph.D. student, Film and Media Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Hidden Feminine Powers in Past and Present Religions
David M Knipe
Historian of religions and Professor Emeritus, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A.

The Role of Cosmopolitan Literary Culture in the Formation of Multicultural Communities
Tom Lutz
Professor and Chair, Department of Creative Writing, Associated Faculty, Media & Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA

Can culture survive nationalism: A case study of Indian and Pakistani Punjab?
Tridivesh Singh MAINI
Research Associate :: Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)National University of Singapore, Singapore

Islam and the media- The South African context
Ayesha Mall
Department of Media, Language and Communication, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

Recent Trends in the Study of the “Middle Periods” in Iranian History(Seljukid through Timurid Periods)
Beatrice F Manz
Associate Professor of History, Tufts University, USA

Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference in Central New York since \9/11
Sarah Marusek
Doctoral Student, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA

The Rule of Law as a Multicultural Ideal: Islam and Legal Legitimacy in Arab Societies
David Mednicoff
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Public Policy, U. of Massachusetts – Amherst, USA

Media, Multiculturalism, and Glocalisation: Case Studies from the Indian Subcontinent
Akanksha Mehta
Research Analyst and graduate student, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Theme -Cultures and Religions in Iran: Heterogeneous or Homogeneous Society, Cultural and Religious Plurality in Iran; the influence of Safavid culture on the Armenian community during the reign of Shah Abbas I
Seda Melkumyan
Translation Studies, MA, University of Isfahan, Iran

Critical Islam Debating/Negotiating Modernity: the (Im)Possible Community or the Other within Him/Myself?
Dilyana Mincheva
PhD Candidate, Trent University – Cultural studies, Canada

Towards metropolisation: migration and multiculturalism in UAEThe role of Iranian migration
Amin Moghadam
Doctoral student in geography and urban planning, Gremmo Laboratory, Lyon 2 University, France/associated to CEDEJ (Centre for social, judicial and economic documentation and study), CAIRO

Building Taxonomy for Intercultural Da‘wah in Pluralist Society
Mohd Farid bin Mohd Sharif
School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia

DIVERSITY IN THE NEWS: the reflections on gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation in the TV news in Macedonia as an index of democratic capacity of the media
Katerina Mojanchevska
MA candidate at the Institute for sociological and political-juridical researches, Skopje, Macedonia

The Technocratic Movement in the Iranian Educational Culture
Zinat Motahari
MA in North American Studies, Tehran University, Iran

Islam & Indigeneity: Going Beyond Traditionalism and Modernism
Mohammed Moussa
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Politics, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Exeter, UK

The Shiite Rimland’s Theory and the Role of Iran as a Regional Power in the Middle East
Ahmad Naderi
PhD Candidate of Political Science, Freie University, Berlin, Germany

Religions and coexistence models (With emphasis on Islam)
Younes Nourbakhsh
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tehran, Iran

Connections in the Unconnected: A Comparison of Hawaiian and Japanese Spiritual Beliefs
Yoshiko Okuyama
Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, USA

Islam and Christianity: not only a clash of civilisations lasting fifteen centuries.
Maria Otocka
First-year student, Instituteof Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Pseudohistory and Pseudoreligion: Role of False Knowledge in Civilizational Crisis of the XX-XXI centuries (ABSTRACT - RESEARCH IN PROGRESS)
Mindaugas Peleckis
PhD student, Lithuania

Islam, to diversify or to unite?Understanding culture and religion in Indonesia
Risa Permanadeli
Foundation for Center of Social Representations Studies, Jakarta-Indonesia

English Language Teaching for Cultural Self-Expression and Multicultural Understanding
Kitty B. Purgason
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Biola University, USA

Growing by cultural differences while maintaining self identity in a challenging world
Soroor Qarooni
Director Anti Child Abuse and Neglect Program Be-Free and Director Human Empowerment Technologies, Bahrain

Media, Communication and Culture of Consumption: A Constructive Approach towards the Future World
Yousef Rahath House
Research Scholar, Institute of Education, International Islamic University, Malaysia

Renewal or belief breakdown and humanity's demise
Nader Rajab
Al Tajdeed Social & Cultural Society, VP-Constructions, Bahrain

Pluralism or Reasonable Disagreement: Dialogue in a Multicultural World
Rouhallah Ramezanivarzaneh
PhD candidate in philosophy, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

The rights and commitments of women in Islam
Abdolbaghy Rezaei
Associative member of Golestan University, Iran

‘Portuguese’ Communities in Creole Asian Worlds in Former Colonial Port Cities
Fernando Rosa
Anthropologist and Historian, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade de São José, República Popular da China

Either, Or or And – Problem of Muhajir Identity.
Zahra Sabri
M.A. Student, Columbia University, USA

Facing the Global, Tied to the Traditional: Worldviews of Urban Youth in Karachi
Anwar Shaheen
Assistant Professor, Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi, Pakistan

Globalisation and the Making of Iranian Cultural Identity
Mitra M.Shahrani
MA student of British Studies, Faculty of World Studies (FWS), University of Tehran, Iran
Samaneh Afshar
MA student of British Studies, Faculty of World Studies (FWS), University of Tehran, Iran

Female Identities in Flux: The Case of New Delhi and Tehran
Alireza Sheikh
PhD students, University of Leicester , School of Management, UK
Anoop Bhogal
PhD students, University of Leicester , School of Management, UK

Oldham is for everyone (creative education and social cohesion in the UK)
Richard Shotton
Centre for Urban Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Technology collaboration in China and India as a form of Cross Cultural Communication
Harold P Sjursen
Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Global Ethics, New York University Polytechnic Institute, USA

Cultural Differences and the Impact on Human Rights as a Conduit to Peace
Aqseer Sodhi
III year B.A., LL.B. students, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India
Ayush Mohan
III year B.A., LL.B. students, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India

The quest for the recognition: Muslims in Australia
M. Hadi Sohrabi Haghighat
PhD student in sociology, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
Karen Farquharson
Assoc Professor in sociology, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

The underlying structure of culture: Applying the Trixiale and Quadraxial Model of Values in explaining culture integration and diversification
Zahra Solouki
Master of Research (MRes) in Management Sciences, Ramon Llull University, Spain

Criticism of New Natural Law Theory
Mohammad Hossein Talebi
PhD in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of rights, Law School at the University of Manchester, Lecturer and staff member of Seminary and University Research Centre - Qom-Iran

The Vitality and Influence of Religions in the Age of Globalization
Hesam Vaez-Zade
PhD in International Relations, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Iran

The Challenge of Religious Differences: Ethics, Politics and Culture
Markha Valenta
Department of History, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

European Islam and Transnational Shiism: Al-Mahdi Institute (Birmingham, UK) and the Islamic College (London, UK)
Matthijs van den Bos
Lecturer in International Studies, Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Cosmetic Modernization: The Soviet’s Failed Transformation of Tajik Women
Jacoba Wells
M.A. Student, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, USA

Media’s language and its influence on intercultural communication and consolidation of the negative or positive idea of the ‘Others’
Aleksandra Wilczura
PhD Candidate, the Jagiellonian University, Poland

The Nature of War in Islam and Global Peace
Abbas Yazdani
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The Department of Philosophy, Zanjan University, Iran

Challenge of traditional and modern religiosity in Iran
Ali Yousofi
Assistant professor of sociology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Mozhgan Azimi Hashemi
PhD student, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

The ‘ASEAN Way’ as a Paradigm for Intercultural Dialogue
Emmanuel Yujuico
Research Fellow in Southeast Asia International Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

MULTICULTURAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Stephen G Yusem
Cornell Law SchoolIthaca, New York, USA

Persistent Orientalism, Fragmented Souls-A Critical Rethinking of the Return of Hijab through the Tunisian Case
Eva Zeyu Chi
M.phil Student in Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China