(2021, Iranian Studies Collective)

(Leiden University, 2019)

Interviews and events:

- 2023. June 1-2, Workshop “Gig workers and platform labour in the Middle East” organiser and convenor. University of Liverpool

- 2023, April 5th, Researcher in Focus: Podcast interview with Dr. Stella Morgana - University of Liverpool’s Tales from the Square. Conversation with Nick Jones. In this podcast, Stella discusses her research on the politics and practicalities of labour in Iran and the wider Middle East with a special focus on the digital gig economy, as well as how climate change is seen and approached in the region, as well as her upcoming projects and conferences. Listen HERE

- 2023, April 19th. “Women in Iran. Discourses, challenges and struggles.” University of Liverpool Feminist Society.

- 2023, April 18th, Research Staff Association Lunch & Learn. “Discover How Career Development Can Help You Prosper.” Chair and introduction to the event with Prosper (dr. Fiona McBride).

- 2022, February 18th, L-PEG- Leiden University Political Economy Group Roundtable. The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East. Organizer and convenor, co-host with dr. N. Degli Esposti. Participants: prof. Melani Cammett (Harvard University); prof. Adam Hanieh, (University of Exeter); dr. Christian Henderson (Leiden University); dr. Nadine Sika, (the American University of Cairo). Discussant: dr. Crystal Ennis (Leiden University).

-       2021, March 18th, Iranian Studies Collective. The Political role of Iranian workers – researcher profile, conversation with Rowena Abdul Razak (University of Oxford). Youtube

- 2020, December 14th. Tehran’s dilemma [Il dilemma di Tehran]. Left

-       2020, November 25th, Conversation on Iran - Dah-e shab. Interview with Antonello Sacchetti. Youtube

-       2020, October 5th, Conversation on Iran – Class and Labor. Interview with Antonello Sacchetti. Youtube

- 2018, August 5th. Valiasr Street (Tehran). Radio 3, Pantagruel







Academic conferences:

- 2023. August 25, ECIS, European Conference of Iranian Studies 10. Leiden University. “Teaching the nation: the struggle of women teachers in Iran” - panel organiser and presenter.

- 2023. July 2023, BRISMES, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. University of Exeter. “Gig workers in Iran. The case of snapp” - presenter.

- 2023. Political Studies Association Pre-Conference ECR Day, University of Liverpool. “Academic Grant Writing: navigating the process,” speaker.

- 2022, August 30th, AIS Association for Iranian Studies. University of Salamanca. "Resistance in their own words: the Iranian revolution in workers' slogans and memories" - panel co-organiser and presenter

- 2021, July 5th, BRISMES British Association for Middle Eastern Studies conference. University of Kent. “Knowledge production about Iran and Iranians: beyond inclusion as exclusion” - presenter

- 2021, June 12th, SIS - Società Italiana Storiche (Italian Society of Women Historians). “Women at work for the Islamic Republic of Iran/ Donne al lavoro per la Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran” - presenter.

-       2019, November 17th, MESA Middle Eastern Studies Association conference (New Orleans). “Appropriating Workers’ Grievances through Populist Narratives in Iran: Shifting Discursive Strategies from Khomeini to Ahmadinejad (1979-2009)” – presenter

-       2019, June 26th, BRISMES British Association for Middle Eastern Studies conference. University of Leeds (United Kingdom). “The Politics of Fieldwork in Iran: risks and challenges” – presenter

-       2019, January 31st, SESAMO Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies conference. University of Turin (Italy). “The Language of Resistance. The Iranian Revolution in Workers’ Words.” – presenter and panel organizer

-       2018. December 15th, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). The Iranian Revolution as a World Event conference. “Consolidating the Revolution in The Factories. The Islamic Republic’s Narratives on Labor in Posters.”

-       2018. November 22nd, University of Granada (Spain). CAPOLCOT II conference. “Trajectories of Resistance: Workers’ Actions and Shifting Strategies in Iran.”







Invited lectures & seminars:

- 2023. June 29-30. TOMidEast Summer School. “Decolonising knowledge production on workers in Iran.” University of Turin.

-     2023, April 19th. “Women in Iran. Discourses, challenges and struggles.” University of Liverpool Feminist Society.

- 2022, December 14th. “Academic grants and post-doc period.” Talk to PGRs and PhDs at the University of Liverpool.

- 2020, November 20th. “Lagging behind: Labour Precarization, Short-Term Contracts and a weak Khāneh-ye Kārgar for Iranian workers.” Leiden University – L-PEG Research Seminars.

-       2020, October 19th.   “Revolution, Class and Labor in Iran: Discourses on May Day in the Islamic Republic.” CSACTI Lecture series - University of Naples “L’Orientale.”

-       2019, December 5th. “The Iranian Revolution as a Polyphonic Event: a Focus on Workers.” University of Pisa.

-       2019, November 26th. “The Politics of Labor and Social Justice in Post-Revolutionary Iran: discourses and practices.” Leiden University.

-       2018, May 8th, 9th, 10th. “Class, Labor and State in post-revolutionary Iran: Shifting Dynamics of Power”. Seminars and lectures, University of Palermo.

-       2017, November 30th. “The construction of the homo islamicus identity in the factory”, University of Pisa, International workshop for PhD students.






Book presentations

- 2021, May 13th. Gholamhossein Saedi, “Paura e tremore” (Tars o Larz, Fear and Trembling) - Ponte 33. With Mario Vitalone. ISMEO/Biblioteche di Roma. Youtube

- 2021, February 8th. Mehdi Asadzadeh, “L’ariete” (Quch, Ram) - Ponte 33. With Giacomo Longhi and Antonello Sacchetti. Diruz. Youtube