Research
Drawing inspiration from his series of site-based performances in Tehran during the 2010s, Hossein’s doctoral research, as a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, investigates how media and fiction shape the collective emotional memory of domestic spaces. He also holds a master’s degree in Film Studies from Sooreh University in Iran, where his thesis examined Iranian site-specific theatre and the use of filmic techniques to express architecture. Currently, he is conducting an artistic research project, derived from his PhD, that explores the sense of otherness and the memory of place.
Since 2023, Hossein has been actively engaged in lecturing, coordinating courses, and supervising theses across the fields of Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Film and Audiovisual Media Studies at the University of Groningen.
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, 21-25 Aug 2023.
"Cultural Memory and Domestic Architecture," at Memory Studies Association 7th Annual Conference: Communities and Change, Newcastle University, the UK, 3 to 7 July 2023.
* Winner of the bursary“Cinema, Architecture, and Audiovisual Archives," at the IAMHIST Annual Conference The Future [of] Archives, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada, 20-23 Jun 2023.
"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, the Netherlands, 15 Jun 2023.
"The Memory of Tehran: Architecture and Nostalgia," guest lecture at the Department of Art History, Architecture, and Landscape, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1 December 2022.
"Iranian Interiors in the Narrative Cinema of the 1980s," at The 1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures and Beginnings, University of North Texas, the USA, 3–5 November 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, 7-9 Sep 2022.
Narrative Cinema as a Memory Archive for pre-1979 Iranian Interiors," at From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory conf, Lancaster University, the UK, 6-8 April 2022.
*Winner of the bursary
"Architecture, Nostalgia, and (prosthetic) Memory," at Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-11 Jun 2021.
Teaching (University of Groningen)
Arts in Practice: Theatre (Coordinator & Lecturer)
Introduction to Audiovisual Arts A & B (Lecturer)
Theatre II: History & Theory (Instructor)
Adaptation Theory and Practice
BA Thesis Supervision
Education
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
2015-201
BSc in Civil Engineering
Azad University, Iran
Focused on domestic architecture
2009-2014
