Conferences

Conference papers in English
2017 Towards a Poetics of Diasporic Narratives”, Keynot Speech presented at The First National Conference of Narrative Across Literary Genres, University of Kurdestan, Sanandaj, Iran, Ordibehesht 20, 1396 (May, 2017).
2017 Textuality of History and Historicity of Texts in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Aboutorab Khosravi’s The Book of the Scribes”, Bologna University, Italy, March 2, 2017.
2017 “Semiotics as an Interdisciplinary Critical Method”, Keynote Speech presented at 3rd Conference in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Teaching, Literature and Translation Studies, Ferdowsi University, Mashad, Iran, 2-3 Aban, 1396 (24-25 Oct 2017).
2016 “Interdisciplinary Studies: Definition, Significance, and Obstacles”, Keynote Speech presented at The First International English-French Conference on Applied Linguistics and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, Ordibehesht 23-24, 1395 (May 12-13, 2016).
2016 “Representation of Women in Iranian Literature of Diaspora”, Delhi, India, December 2016.
2013 “Ethics of Criticism: A Genealogical Approach,” Keynote Speech presented at Criticism and Metacriticism Conference, Imam Sadiq University, Iran, 18-19 September 2013 (27-28 Shahrivar 1392).
2012 “Teaching Literature Deconstructively,” Keynote Speech presented at The 10th International TELLSI Conference: Bridging the Gap between Research, Policy and Practice. Shahid Behsehti University, Mehr 25-28 1391, October 16-19 2012.
2012 The Life-Stories of Iranian University Students Who Attempted Suicide: A structural Analysis,” Gholamrezaei, M., Panaghi, L., Nojoumian, A. A., Paper presented at the 18th Qualitative Health Research Conference (QHR), Montreal, QC (23-25 October, 2012).
2009 “The Double Bind of Narrative Engagement with Children,” presented at Creative Engagements, Thinking with Children: Fifth Global Conference (Inter-disciplinary.Net, Mansfield College, Oxford), 17-19 July 2009.
2009 Teaching Literature Deconstructively,” prsented at Regional Conference on English Literature, TEFL, and Translation Studies (Ghaemshahr, Islamic Azad University, Iran), 1 October 2009 (9 Mehr 1388).
2009 The Inter-cultural and Inter-semiotic Translation of Enemy of the People to Satyajit Ray’s Movie Ganashatru,” presented at Narrative-Performance-Representation: Inter-Relating Perspectiv from India and Iran (Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha, India), 5-6 December 2009 (15 Azar 1388).
2008 “Gender and Reading Experience,” presented at The Regional Conference on English Language Teaching and Literature, Islamic Azad University Roudehen (17 Feb 2008) (28 Bahman 1386).
2008 “Constructing National Identity in Firoozeh Duma’s Funny in Farsi,” presented at Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Diaspora (University of Leicester), 11-13 July 2008.
2008 Semiotics of Opening Credits,” presented at Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: A Multidisciplinary Conference (University of the West of England, Bristol), 4-6 July 2008.
2007 “Contemporary American and British Fiction,” presented at English Scientific Association of Ghaemshahr, Islamic Azad University (Azar 29 1386) (Dec 20 2007).
2005 “Deconstruction of Language: Three Paradoxes of Literary Language,” presented at First Global Conference: Future Literature, Future Criticism, Prague, Czech Republic (17-19 March 2005).
2002 “Postmodernist Literature,” presented at ELS Annual Lectures, English Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran (25 May 2002).
2001 “The ‘Genesis’ of Language,” presented at The First Seminar on Issues of ELT, Islamic Azad University: Tehran-North Branch, Tehran (10-11 October 2001).
2000 “Translation: Decadence or Survival of the Original?” presented at 53rd Quarterly Academic Seminar, Islamic Azad University: Tehran-North Branch, Tehran (13 June 2000).
2000 “The Representation of Space in Postmodern Narrative,” presented at Al-Zahra University English Society Quarterly Lectures, Tehran (17 May 2000).
1999 “Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamble: The Story of that Impossible Place Named Silence,” presented at The Research Week, Islamic Azad University: Postrgraduate Branch, Tehran (15 December 1999).
1998 “The Paradox of ‘the impossible’ in Derrida’s Thought,” presented at The Impossible Conference, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (April 1998).
1996 “States of Emergency: Love, Fiction and History in André Brink’s States of Emergency,” presented at The Seductions of Narrative: The Pleasures of Contemporary Fiction, LSU College of Higher Education, UK (20 April 1996).
1996 “Labyrinthine Spaces in Postmodern Narrative,” presented at The International Semiotic Conference: Culture – Sign – Space, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 1996).
1995 “Deconstruction and Theology on Language,” presented at Department of English Staff-Postgraduate Research Seminar, Loughborough University, UK (December 1995).