1st Edition
Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran
1. Introduction: National Identity, Martyrdom and Visual Memory in Shiite Iran Pedram Khosronejad, University of St. Andrews, UK
2. Redemptive Memories: Portraiture in the Cult of Commemoration Ingvild Flaskerud, University of Bergen, Norway
3. Borderlines of Private and Public Martyrs’ Representations in South Teheran Marine Fromanger, Independent Researcher, France
4. The Martyrs’ Museum in Tehran: Visualizing Memory in Post-Revolutionary Iran Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan, USA
5. The Martyrs Museum: Memorializing Martyred Women Faegheh Shirazi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
6. From the Light of the Eye to the Eye of the Power: The Ever-present Martyrs of the Islamic Republic (Upon Empty Coffins) Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University, USA
7. War Painting and Pilgrimage in Iran Alice Bombardier, PhD Candidate, EHESS- Paris and Geneva University
8. "Bombing" Tehran: The Alterist Visual Discourse of Iranian Street Artist A1one Elizabeth Rauh, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Biography
Pedram Khosronejad is a member of staff in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world.
