Day 1
2.00 – 2.05 Welcome (Dr Zahra Taheri)
2.05 – 2.10 Opening address by A/Prof. Karima Laachir, Director of ANU – CAIS
2.10 – 2.15 Opening of the conference: AIA President, Masoud Rowshan
2.15 – 2.25 Honouring the late Mohammad Rezá Shajarián, renowned Iranian vocalist
2.25 – 3.15 Panel 1: Shifting cultural practices in music and poetry
2.25 – 2.30 Introduction (Dr Gay Breley)
2.30 – 2.45 Ehsan Reisi, Saeed Safari & Hamed Dehqan ‘Modifying Persian Poems by Persian Singers in The Last Hundred Years’
2.45 – 3.00 Pouya Nekouei: ‘Musical Mahfils during the Period of Mohammad Reza Shah: A Cultural History of Music Listening in the Private Sphere’
3.00 – 3.15 Mahsa Momennasab and Negin Kaykha: ‘A Descriptive-Analytical Study of How to Approach Nature in Iranian Adolescent Poetry (1978-2014/ 1357-1393)’
3.15 – 3.30 Q & A (Moderator: Dr Gay Breley)
3.30 – 3.40 Break
3.40 – 4.45 Panel 2: Connections and poetics
3.45 – 3.50 Introduction (Dr Milad Milani)
3.50 – 4.05 Katayoun Namiranian: ‘In the Name of God, the Life-giver and the Wise the Gathās, First Collection of Iranian Poetry’
4.05 – 4.25 Omid Zakerikish: ‘Poetics of lyrical poetry in Persian literature’
4.25 – 4.40 Malek Mohammadi Siamak: ‘Concepts of Music revealed in the Image-Schema of Rumi Poems, from the Fourth Book of Masnavi (731-780) and Ghazal 304 of Divan-e Kabir’
4.40 – 4.55 Fakhroddin Ghaffari: ‘A survey into percussion instruments and rhythms present in Persian ceremonial music and poetry’
4.55 – 5.10 Q & A (Moderator: Dr Milad Milani)
5.10 – 5.20 Break
5.20 – 5.30 Musical interlude (Shajarian: Tasnif...)
5.30 – 5.35 Introduction (Aftáb Darvishi)
5.35 – 6.05 Keynote address.1: Mohammad Reza Darvishi (in Persian)
Poetry and its application in Persian Music ( شعر و چگونگی کاربرد آن در موسیقی ایرانی)
6.05 – 6.15 Darvishi’s compositions: Láleche and Selected works for Cinema & Theatre
6.15– 6.30 Q & A (Moderator: Vedad Famourzadeh)
6.30 – 6.35 Conclusion Day 1
Day 2
9.00 – 9.05 Opening Welcome and Introduction (Dr Karima Laachir)
9.05 –9.35 Keynote Address2: Professor Laudan Nooshin ‘From Lor Girl to May Lady: Music, Poetry and Constructions of Womanhood in Iranian Cinema’
9.35 – 9.50 Q & A (Moderator: Dr Karima Laachir)
9.50 – 9.55 Introduction (A/Professor Kim Cunio)
9.55 –10.25 Keynote address.3: Professor Reza Vali:
‘Toward that Endless Plain, Concerto for Persian Ney and Orchestra’- Lecture
10.25 – 10.40 Q & A (Moderator: A/Professor Kim Cunio)
10.40 - 10.50 Break
10.50 – 12.00 Panel 3: Musical Adaptation & Women in Iran and the Diaspora
10.50 – 10.55 Introduction (Dr Laetitia Nanquette)
10.55 – 11.10 Dr Zahra Taheri: ‘Breaking the boundaries’
11.10 – 11.25 Gelareh Pour: My life as an Iranian woman musician in Australia
11.25 – 11.40 A/Professor Kim Cunio: ‘Ishq: The growth of Persian music at the ANU School of Music’
11.40 – 12.00 Aftáb Darvishi: - Tableau Musicale ‘Daughters of Sol’
- ‘Kronos, Fifty for the future composer - interview’.
12.00 – 12.15 Q & A (Moderator: Dr Laetitia Nanquette)
12.15 – 12.45 Lunch Break
12.45 – 1.05 Persian Musical performance: Siamak Mohammadi-Nejad & Anna Macdonald
1.05 – 1.55 Panel 4: Regional Music
1.05 – 1.10 Introduction (Dr Gay Breyley)
1.10 – 1.25 Mitra Jahandideh: ‘The sound of Tálesh culture through Folk songs’
1.25 – 1.40 Vedad Famourzadeh:
‘Heterogeneous musical traditions: Marginalised regional music of Iran’
1.40 – 1.55 Tara Allahverdi Ashtiani: ‘The characteristics of Regional Tanbour Repertoires accompanied by Dances’
1.55 – 2.10 Q & A (Moderator: Dr Gay Breyley)
2.10 – 2.20 Break
2.20 – 2.35 Sháhnámeh kháni (Recitation) Performed by Mirás Music Ensemble accompanied by simultaneous calligraphy workshop of Reza Taghipour
2.35 – 3.25 Panel 5: Sháhnámeh (Ferdowsi: The book of Kings)
2.35 – 2.40 Introduction (Dr. Zahra Taheri)
2.40 – 2.55 Rahmat Amini & Bahar Banijamali: The function of using special musical terms and instruments to convey concepts in ‘Shahnameh’
2.55 – 3.10 Samaneh Haghshenas: The Iconology of Iranian Music in Shahnameh Miniatures: Al-e-Injou (1303-1356) vs. Timurids (1369-1510)
3.10 – 3.25 Houman Zandi-Zadeh: Pari Saberi: Adaptation Vs Collage Vs Plagiarism
3.25– 3.40 Q & A (Moderator: (Dr. Zahra Taheri)
3.40– 3.50 Break
3.50 – 5.00 Panel 6: Musical Transformations
3.50 – 5.55 Introduction (A.Professor Kim Cunio)
3.55 – 4.10 Roya Safaei: Revitalising and Transforming Sassanian Period Music in a Modern Context
4.10 – 4.25 Arash Moshtaqi: The Place and Role of Tār in Shaping the Structure of Persian Dastgāhi Music
4.25 – 4.40 Ehsan Tavakkol: The specifics of orchestration in the composition ‘Toward That Endless Plain’, Concerto for Persian Ney and Orchestra by Reza Vali
4.40 – 4.55 Mazyar Kanáni: The Role of Tombak as accompanying music in Iranian Classical Music (1946 - 2006)
4.55 – 5.15 Q & A (Moderator: A.Professor Kim Cunio)
5.15 – 5.40 Music Finale – Homayoun Shajarian’s Concert: Simorq
5.40– 5.45 Conclusion & Closing remarks – Dr Taheri & Masoud Rowshan
