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Academic  Background

PhD Candidate in Film Studies
The University of Groningen, The  Netherlands
Concentration:
Cultural Memory, Domestic Architecture, and Fictional Media
2019- Present 

MA in Film Studies
Soore University,  Tehran, Iran
Concentration:
Filmic Ways of Expression in Site-based Theatre
2015-2019

BSc in Civil Engineering
Azad University, Iran
Focused on domestic architecture
2009-2014

Research Papers 

• “Popular cinema and the convergence of cultural memories around old houses...," at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands, August 21-25, 2023. 

• "Cultural Memory and Domestic Architecture," at Memory Studies Association 7th Annual Conference: Communities and Change, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the UK, July 3-7, 2023.

• “Cinema, Architecture, and Audiovisual Archives," at the IAMHIST Annual Conference The Future [of] Archives, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 20-23, 2023.
  * Winner of the bursary

• "Parallel Drops, a Documentary Performance: The Sense of Otherness and the Image of the Built Environment Around Us," at TAKING PART symposium, Research Centre for Arts in Society, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, 15 June 2023.

• "Iranian Interiors in the Narrative Cinema of the 1980s," at The 1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures and Beginnings, University of North Texas, the USA, 3–November 5, 2022.

• "Iranian Cinema and the Memory of Pre-revolutionary Architecture in Tehran," at The Street and the City IV: Moments, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,  Portugal, September 7-9, 2022.

• Narrative Cinema as a Memory Archive for pre-1979 Iranian Interiors," at From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory conf, Lancaster University, England, April 6-8,  2022. 

     *Winner of the bursary

• "Architecture, Nostalgia, and (prosthetic) Memory," at Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Queen Margaret Univ, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 8-11, 2021.

Writing, Designing, and Dramaturgy