Presentations

Presentations & Tar performances

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, VHS Forum, Cologne
  • Panel Talk with Maryam Akhondy (Women’s Music in Iran)
  • April 2024
Imago DEI Festival, Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche, Austria
  • Presentation: Women's music in Iran, Afghanistan and Kurdistan
  • March 2024
Moods, Nowruz Festival/Jazzhane, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Presentation: Music of Resilience, women's singing in Iran, Afghanistan and Kurdistan
  • March 2024
Jazzwerkstatt, Bern, Switzerland
  • Panel Discussion on Democracy in Art & Music
  • Mrach 2024
Spore Initiative, Berlin
  • Performing Tar at Voices of Women from Kurdistan, Armenia, Iran & Afghanistan
  • March 2024
Fasching, Women's International Jazz Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Keynote: Women Singers in Post-revolutionary Iran
  • March 2024
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, VHS Forum, Cologne
  • Panel Talk with Simia Bina (Qashqai Female Voices and Lullabies)
  • March 2024
Post in Progress, 7th International Post-graduate Forum in Studies in Music and Dance, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Keynot Speaker: Women Singers in Post-revolutionary Iran
  • December 2023
World Music Expo, WOMEX 2023, A Coruña, Spain
  • Voices Unveiled: Female Singers in Post-revolutionary Iran
  • October, 2023
Reeperbahn Music Festival, Hamburg, Germany
  • Panel Discussion: Fear of the Female Voice
  • September 2023
laut & Leise, German and Iranian Poets, Pen Berlin, Germany
  • Tar performance with Kimia Bani and Daniela Sepehri
  • September 2023
Politics in Music and Song Conference, Queen's Univeristy, Belfast, UK
  • Presentation: The situation of Female singers in Iran
  • September 2023
47th World conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Accra, Ghana
  • Presentation: Female Voice of Afghanistan
  • July 2023
Mendelssohn Remise, Berlin, Germany
  • Tar performance with Soprano singer, Roxana Sadiqi
  • July 2023
Jewish Cultural festival, Krakow, Poland
  • Tar performance with Liraz band
  • July 2023
Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Tar performance with Liraz band
  • June 2023
Music4change, Sustainability in Music research and education, Bergen, Norway
  • Panel talk: Exploring gender, critical race, and intersectional perspectives
  • June 2023
Transcultural compositions competition and performances, Duisburg Germany
  • Jury team at Duisburg Philharmonie
  • June 2023
Rights Con, The World's leading submit on Human rights in Digital age, Costa Rica
  • Panel talk: Artists have digital rights, too
  • June 2023
Ringvorlesung Macht und Gewalt, Siegen University, Germany
  • Presentation: Politics of musical participation in Iran
  • June 2023
Theater, Osnabrück, Kultur Klub International, Osnabrück, Germany
  • Panel talk: Female Voice of Iran
  • May 2023
Music, Research, and Activism Conference, Helsinki, Finland
  • Presentation: Politics of Musical performance
  • May 2023
Ritmo Festival, Budaperst, Hungary
  • Panel discussion: "Music Through Conflicts and Social Changes".
  • April 2023
Im Rahmen vom Festival Houbara - Resonanzen Iran, Stadtgarten, Cologne
  • Presentation: Female Singers in Post-revolutionary Iran
  • March 2023
Music Department of Accra University, Ghana
  • Presentation: The Politics of Musical Participation in Iran
  • February 2023
FilmForum, Duisburg
  • Panel discussion: The Female Voice of Iran documentary film
  • February 2023
Go for Gender Justice meets Via Reformata, Melanchthon Academy, Cologne
  • Presentation: Female Voice of Iran
  • January 2023
Insert Female Artist, Center for literature - Burg Hülshoff
  • Presentation: "I Want My Voice to be Heard", Female Singers of Iran
  • December, 2022
Voices of Women Conference, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Presentation/ Screening:"Politics of Musical Performance in Iran
  • December 2022
University of Theater and Music, Hamburg
  • Panel discussion: The situation of women singers in Iran
  • November 2022.
Afghan Music in Exile, STADTRAUM, Frankfurt
  • Presentation/ Screening "Female Voice of Afghanistan"
  • November 2022
LANXESS Arena, Cologne
  • Tar Performance with Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander & Sogand
  • November 2022
De Koer, Gent, Belgium
  • Presentation/ Screening: "Female Voice of Iran"
  • November 2022
15 Minutes of Femme Event, Berlin
  • Panel Discussion:" Female Musicians in Iran and Afghanistan
  • October 2022
46th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Lisbon, Portugal
  • presentation: Women's Music in Marginalized Communities: An Ethnographic Study on the Role of Music in the Daily life of Qashqai Female Singers
  • July 2022
Strong Voices, Zakk, Düsseldorf
  • Presentation: Female Musicians in Iran and Afghanistan
  • July 2022
Iran Through Different Lenses, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
  • Panel: Women Musicians in Iran and Afghanistan
  • November 2021
Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, City University of London
  • Presentation: "Women's Music in Marginalized Communities: An Ethnographic Study on the Role of Music in the Daily Life of Qashqai Female Singers Based in Rural and Urban Areas"
  • November 2021
Womex, The Worldwide Music Expo, Porto, Portugal
  • Panel: "Artists As Terrorists?
". Together with Paige Collings (UK/Denmark), Jasmina Lazovic (Serbia)
  • October 2021
XXXVI ESEM, Valladolid, Spain
  • Presentation: "The Politics of Musical Participation: An Ethnographic Study of Women Singers in Post-Revolutionary Iran"
  • September 2021
Jazzwerkstatt Music Festival, Bern, Switzerland
  • Levture/Screening “Women's Music in Iran”.
  • March 2020
Joint Symposium of the ICTM National Committees of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany
  • Presentation/Screening “Phenotypes and Variations of Female Voices in Iran: An Ethnographic Research on the Relationships Between Music, Language and Cultural Tradition in Qashqai tribe”.
  • February 2020
Ornament Project, Berlin, Germany
  • Presentation/Screening “Ornament in Iranian Traditional Music: An Ethnographic Research on Women Songs”.
  • November 2019
Asia Pacific Congress of Music Therapy 2019, Beijing Normal University, China
  • Presentation/Screening “Music Therapy and Traditional Healing Rituals in Iran: Ethnographic Research
  • by Focusing on the Zaar, Govati and Porkhani Ceremonies”.
  • September 2019
Rudolstadt music Festival, Rudolstadt, Germany
  • Presentation/Screening “Women’s Music and Women Musicians in Post-Revolutionary Iran”.
  • July 2019
Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich, Germany
  • Presentation und Workshop “Women’s Music and Women Musicians in Post-Revolutionary Iran”.
  • November 2018
Cologne University, Musicology Department, Germany
  • Presentation/Screening “Iranian Women Musicians in Transcultural Dialogue“.
  • February 2017