Iran

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum

What brought us here? What do we wish will happen/not happen during the conference?

Sanaz AZIMIPOUR, Author, Activist and Co-Founder of Women* Life Freedom Collective, Berlin (confirmed)

Cornelius ADEBAHR, Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Europe, Brussels (confirmed)

Gregory BLEDJIAN, Head, Middle East Unit (Ref. 311), German Foreign Office, Berlin (confirmed)

Azadeh ZAMIRIRAD, Deputy Head, Africa and Middle East Research Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin (confirmed)

Raha BAHREINI, Iran Researcher and Human Rights Lawyers, Amnesty International, London (confirmed)

Azadeh KIAN, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies (CEDREF), Université Paris Cité (confirmed)

Sussan TAHMASEBI, Executive Director of FEMENA, Washington D.C. (confirmed)

Susanne KOELBL, Foreign Correspondent, DER SPIEGEL, Hamburg (confirmed)

Rouzbeh PARSI, Head, Middle East and North Africa Program, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), and Affiliated Researcher at Human Rights Studies, Lund University, Stockholm (confirmed)

Shirin ASSA, Researcher, “MENA Women* in Diaspora”, University Bayreuth (confirmed)

Fiona ADAMSON, Professor of International Relations, Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS University London (confirmed)

Tareq SYDIQ, Research Fellow, BMBF-Project "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict", University Marburg (confirmed)

On a Search for a Societal Iran Approach – How to Empower Society in Iran and Diaspora alike? (in parallel sessions

Maike DIDERO, Programme Director, Division: Phillipp Schwartz Initiative and Academic Freedom and Division: Africa and the Middle East, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn (confirmed)

Elaheh KOUHESTANI, Legal Scholar, Expert in Migration and Transitional Law, and Member of the Berlin’s Women*, Life, Freedom Collective, Berlin (confirmed)

Christian HÜLSHÖRSTER, Head of Division: Scholarships Southern Hemisphere, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Berlin (confirmed)

Barbara MITTELHAMMER, Independent Political Scientist and Consultant focusing on Feminist Foreign Policy and the Iranian Civil Society, Berlin/Brussels (confirmed)

Bauke BAUMANN, Policy Advisor, Near and Middle East, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin (confirmed)

Felix FEHLING, Iran Cooperation Officer, Middle East/Central Asia Unit (C.1), Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), European Commission, Brussels (confirmed)

Lena ROHRBACH, Amnesty International Deutschland, Berlin (confirmed)

Forum 1 (“Stabilizing and Organizing Exile Activities”)

Forum 2 („Building Bridges and Forums within the Diaspora”)

Forum 3 („Awareness Raising and Agenda Setting in Europe”)

Forum 4 („Supporting the Iranian Society within Iran and in the Region”)

Alice AMORIELLO, Deputy Head of the Unit for Iran and Gulf Countries at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome (confirmed)

Rocco ROMANO, Deputy Head, Iran Unit (Pol-2), European External Action Service, Brussels (confirmed)

Farzan SABET, Research Associate of the Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub, Geneva Institute, Geneva (confirmed)

Soli SHAHVAR, Founding Director of the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies and Professor at the University of Haifa (confirmed)

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum