Day 3: Saturday, October 5   2024
9 am-noon  Envisioning Decolonialism
Moderator: Maria Faidi
‘Give Us Fire, We’ll Tattoo the Dawn on You’: Exile and Freedom in Ishumar Music
Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz    University of Texas at Austin
Exploring the Feminization of Tachelhit Language Transmission through Contemporary Amazigh Pop Songs
Ella Williams     University of Oxford
Stambali-vism: From Slavery to the Creolization of Subversion
Mouna El Kahla   Independent Scholar
'Now We Get It': Ukrainian Perception of Belly Dance as Colonial Practice
Maria Kardash   Independent Scholar

1:30-4:30pm Turkey and the Persianate World
Moderator: Shaharzad Khorsandi
The Landscape of Dance at the turn of the 20th Century: Sites, Genres and Performers
Arzu Öztürkmen   Bogazi University
Uzbek Dance Art in Colonial Conditions (on the example of the 20th - 30th of the XX Century)
Saodat Taufikovna Nazarova   Researcher  Institute of Cultural Studies Tashkent 
Female Acrobats and Equestrians: Recovering Female Javānmardī in the Premodern Persianate World
Amanda Caterina Leong   PhD Candidate   University of California Merced
Khorezm National Dances in Uzbek Art: History and Today
Abduvali Abdumutalibovich Yuldashev    Researcher History Institute of the Academy of Sciences Tashkent
Dezfuli Dances: Regional Cultural Contexts of Ceremonies in Khuzestan, Iran
Mahsa Hojjati   Independent Scholar 

5-6:30pm     Keynote Speaker: Amir Hossein Pourjavadi
               "Professional Entertainers in the Iranian World"
                                Moderator: Anthony Shay

8-9:00pm  MENACA Dance Concert  

Day 4: Sunday, October 6 2024
Dance Workshops:
9-10:00 am             Contemporary Iranian Dance Workshop with Shaharzad Khorsandi
10.15-11.15am    Dance Workshop with Suhaila Salimpour

                 
12:30-14:00pm    Closing Session 
Screening of "The Fez": The Golden Years of Middle Eastern Community in Los Angeles 
Directed by Roxxane Shelaby 
Moderator: Anthony Shay
Followed by virtual Q& A with Roxxane Shelaby