Yale University – Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 101

63 High Street, New Haven, CT 06520

Speaker Biographies

Conference Schedule

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Panel #1 Video

The Iranian Regime and Human Rights

Hooshang Amirahmadi
Professor of Urban Planning & Policy Development
Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
Rutgers University

“Iran’s Power Structure and Implications for Democratic Change”

Mehrangiz Kar
Iranian Journalist
Human Rights Activist

“Human Rights Situation in Iran”

Andrew Apostolou
Senior Program Manager
Iran at Freedom House

“The State of Civil Society in Iran”

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Panel #2 Video

The Regime – Ideology, Politics & International Terror

Patrick Clawson
Deputy Director for Research
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

“Why Does Iran Want A Nuclear Weapon?”

Michael Rubin
Resident Scholar
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

“Countering Iran’s Geopolitical Designs”

Meir Litvak
Senior Researcher at the Center for Iranian Studies
Senior Lecturer in the Middle Eastern History Department
Tel Aviv University

“Holocaust Denial in Iran and the Arab World”

Liora Hendelman-Baavur
Research Fellow
Center for Iranian Studies (CIS) at Tel Aviv University

“Iranian Use of Internet for Propaganda and Holocaust Denial”

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM Panel #3 Video

Iranian Society and “The Other”

Saeed Paivandi
Leading Iran Expert
Professor of Sociology
Paris-8 University

“Discrimination and Intolerance in Iranian Curriculum”

Tom Parker
Executive Director
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

“Promoting a Culture of Human Rights in Iran”

Roya Boroumand
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation

“The Excluded Muslims: Institutionalized Discrimination Against Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Iran”

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Panel #4 Video

International Law - Terror and Incitement

Gregory Gordon
Assistant Professor of Law
University of North Dakota

“From Incitement to Indictment? Prosecuting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Advocating Israel’s Destruction”

IDavid Menashri
Director of Center for Iranian Studies
Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History
Dean of the University's Special Programs Division
Tel Aviv University