UPCOMING events

Screening of Triumph (2022) 

12th Annual Conference in Political Economy

Organised by the International Initiative for the Promoting Political Economy

in Bologna, Italy, 2022

Screening of Triumph (2022) 

and presentation at the thirteenth biennial Iranian Studies Conference (2022) 

at the University of Salamanca, Spain

Presenting at the XXVIII Visible Evidence conference (2022) at the University of Gdańsk

Invisible Evidences: Gaps, Omissions and Absences as Documentary Material

Screening of Eternal Sentinel (2022)

Directed by Maryam Ashrafi

Edited by Kaveh Abbasian

At WARM Festival 2022

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Screening of Eternal Sentinel (2022)

Directed by Maryam Ashrafi

Edited by Kaveh Abbasian

At FIGRA International Film Festival 2022

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Screening of Eternal Sentinel (2022)

Directed by Maryam Ashrafi

Edited by Kaveh Abbasian

Location: Frontline Club 

Date and Time: April 6th 2022

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Appointment as Lecturer in Film and Media Practice at University of Kent

School of Arts

Department of Film and Media

Morteza Avini and his Chronicle of Triumph

An event organised by Kaveh Abbasian at the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. 

Kaveh has been appointed as the jury president for the documentary category for th Global Kurdish Film Festival 2021.

Watch the interview here.

Illuminationist Cinema: 

The Rise of an Islamic Film Theory

Film-Philosophy Conference 

University of Brighton

An overview of Iranian War Films

SOAS Centenary Event – Youth, Cinema and War in Iran, SOAS University of London

Techne Congress 

University of Brighton

Workshop Title: The Practice of Placement

Techne Congress

University of the Arts London

The Iran-Iraq war as seen in Iranian films

Multimedia Lecture at the Iran Society

Contemporary Video Artists: Wars and the Creation of National Identities

Ritual Music and Female Hysteria

Royal Holloway University of London

Kinesis and Stasis 'un'Conference

Barbican Centre

Library of Congress Fellow

AHRC International Placement Scheme

Shi’i Islam and Iranian National Identity in Morteza Avini’s War Documentaries

Culture and Cultural Production in Iran: 

Past and Present-Conference

University of St Andrews

Filmmaking as Research, 

Research as Filmmaking

Creative Practice Research Conference in the Age of Neo-Liberal Hopelessness

University of Bedfordshire

Nations and nomads: 

Critical Perspectives on State Power

Critical Theories and World Politics seminars University of Oxford