PCIA organized a reunion/conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in May, 2015. Attended by over 200 people, the conference focused on the history of the Peace Corps in Iran, aspects of Iranian history and culture, and current events related to Iran.
IRAN TODAY: QUEST FOR NEW NARRATIVES
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Thursday Morning
BILL BEEMAN — American Views of Iran–Iranian Views of America: Symbolic Estrangement in Action
MELEIA EGGER — Fifty Years of Peace Corps: Performance Poem
MARY CATHERINE BATESON — Two-Way Gift: What Iran Peace Corps Volunteers Brought Back to America
MICHAEL CRAIG HILLMANN – New Iranian Narratives in Persian Texts
Thursday Afternoon
Peace Corps Iran: The Early Years
Persian Art as Culture: A New Iranian Narrative
Days of Revolution: “Aliabad” of Shiraz in Iran and in the World in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Peace Corps Women’s Experience in Iran
Persian Refresher 1: Using the Persian for America(ns)(c) textbook series
Peace Corps in Iran: A History and In-Depth look at the Later Years
A Common Bond, Three Americans in Iran: Terence O’Donnell, Howard Baskerville and Curtis Harnack
Step-by-Step Toward Meeting God
Friday Morning
Iran’s Mediatic Diplomacy with the West: War by Other Means
Iranian and American Narratives: Personal Witness, Engagement and Community
Iranian Contemporary Architecture: Looking Forward and Backward
Peace Corps Global Presenters Training
Friday Afternoon
MELEIA EGGER – Peace Corps Story Telling: A Spoken Word Workshop
Sunni and Shia Views of Figurative Imagery
Persian Refresher 2: Using Persian of Iran Today 1, 2
JOHN KRAUSKOPF – Author Readings
Saturday Morning
JOHN LIMBERT – The Road Back to Tehran: Undoing the Last Sixty Years
BIJAN AFKAMI – Translating Insight to Action: the Challenge to Citizens
MARY MARKS –Impressions of the Conference / Reunion in Austin, Texas