Conference Presentations

On 1 December 2022, I presented “Politics of the Everyday: Iranian Women Gamers and Cyberspace Censorship” for the panel Rethinking Women’s Empowerment at the Middle East Studies Association Conference. Abstract My research uncovers the everyday experiences of Iranian women gamers in online gaming by tracing the history of internet, social media, and the game industry […]

On 7 June 2022, I presented “Digital Iran Reloaded: Preserving Video Games and Ethnographic Data” at the Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities Conference. Abstract The intellectual legacy of preservation has mostly been the onus of institutions like libraries or museums. In these repositories, the user may have access to a plethora of

On 19 May 2022, I chaired “Bodily Knowledge Part 1” as part of the Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and limitations in Art Making Symposium. During the panel, professionals and artists discussed affect, solitary confinement in prisons and the transformative nature of space, the female body, and other challenging issues like eating disorders. Through parsing out

On 8 April 2022, I co-presented with other professionals at the GeoDat’s EverybodyHacks Interdisciplinary Panel. Together, we discussed some of the major hurdles that first generation, low income, culturally, and ethnically diverse students face while entering graduate school. For those on the panel, we have all faced some level of gatekeeping in the academy, which

On October 8th, 2021, I presented “Affective Entanglements: Iranian and Iranian American Gamers on Social Media andWorld of Warcraft” for the “STS Alter-ed” panel during the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting’s Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds.

I presented “Digital Iran: Narratives of (De)colonization in Video Games” at the DHSI Conference & Colloquium on June 7th, 2021. Throughout my presentation, I discussed the nuts and bolts of the Digital Iran project, including the theoretical frameworks of affect and soft power, discussions on video game examples, project management, and the project’s future trajectories.

On June 17th, 2021, I presented “Critical Digital Pedagogy and Mentorship: A Syllabus for the Digital Middle East” at the Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship Conference. During the presentation, I shared a syllabus entitled “Digital Middle East: Social Media and Gaming in Iran, Turkey, and Arab Countries” for a proposed course at the University

I presented “Digital Iran Project Management” as lightning TALK at the Project Management in the Humanities Virtual Conference at University of Victoria on June 9th, 2021. For this presentation, I particularly focused on my role as principal investigator and project manager for the collaborative team. As collaborators, we aimed to dive deeply into multimodality-text, image,

I am excited to announce that I am among 6 PhD Candidates, junior scholars, and practitioners accepted to the Digital Forays lightning talk held by the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. The presenters will speak for 6-8 minutes each about their digital scholarship. The themes that we will touch on

On 13th October 2020, I presented the Digital Iran project at “Hacking the Academy: Simpson Center Digital Humanities Summer Fellows Showcase.” I discussed the project’s multifaceted approach including mentorship as praxis, the blog, curated video essays, and streaming online on twitch.tv/digital_iran. Follow the press releases from NELC and the Simpson Center.

On 2020 October 6th, I presented a paper entitled “The Affective Entanglement: Iranian Women Gamers Online” for the MESA conference as part of the panel “Ethnographies of the Everyday: Negotiating Iranian Subjectivities through Gender Performance, Music, and Video Games.”