Opening Ceremony:
Welcoming Remarks: Nariman Farvardin, Provost, UMCP
James Harris, Dean, Arts and Humanities, UMCP
Opening Remarks: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Director, Roshan Center
Hayim Lapin, Director, Meyerhoff Center
Conference Principles and Procedures: Houman Sarshar, Convener

Session I: Jews and Persians in Ancient Iran
Chair: Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland

“Mard i ahlaw in Zoroastrianism and the Righteous in Judaism”
Shaul Shaked, Hebrew University

“Drinking in Babylonia: Socialization and Acculturation in Jewish Babylonia”
Yakov Elman, Yeshiva University

“IThe Sasanian Legal System and the Babylonian Talmudy”
Miriam Macuch, Free University of Berlin

Session II: Jewish-Persian Relations in the Nineteenth Century

Chair: Madeline Zilfi, University of Maryland

 “Some Notes on the Jews in the Pre-Constitutional Years (1896-1906)”
Daniel Tsadik, Hebrew University

“The Herat War and the Expulsion of the Jews”
Haideh Sahim, Hofstra University

“Voluntary Religious Conversion of Iranian Jews in the Nineteenth Century”
Nahid Pirnazar, University of California, Los Angeles

Session III: Iran and Israel in the World Today

Chair: Saul Sosnowski, University of Maryland

“Iran and Israel: A Couple at Odds”
David Menashri, Tel Aviv University

“Israel and Iran: Avoiding War, Finding Peace”
Trita Parsi,National Iranian American Council

“Iran and Israel in a Regional Context”
Daniel Levy,The Century Foundation

Session IV: Jews in Medieval Persian Cultures

 Chair: Christopher Murphy ,Head, Near East Section, Library of Congress

"Jewish Participation in Over-Land Trade in Late Antique Iran: A Preliminary Assessment"

Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University

“The Jews at the Edge of the World: The Islamic Ascension Narrative as Missionary Text in Medieval Iran”
Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto

“Neglected Sources: The Riches of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts”
Vera Moreen, Independent Scholar

Session V: Resources for the Study of Iranian Jewry

Chair:Houman Sarshar, Independent Scholar

"Irania Judaic and Hebraic Resources in the collections at the Library of Congress"
Dr. Peggy Pearlstein, Head,Hebraic Section,Library of Congress

“Jewish Resources in Persian and Iranian Collections at the Library of congress"
HiradDinavari,Refrence Librarian,Iranian World collection,library of congress.

“Of Making Many Encyclopedias There Is No End : Reflections on the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World “
Vera Moreen,Section editor for Persian/Iran, Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World

Session VI: Jewish Material Culture and Folk Art

Chair: Leah Baer, Indepndent Scholar

“Muslim Rulers and Jewish Holy Men:  Oral Tradition and the Imagination of Political Agency”
Judith Goldstein, Vassar College

“Persian-Jewish Amulets: Shapes and Images, Texts and Social Function”
Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University

"Bukharian Jewish Musical Life and Its Relationship to Judeo-Persian Culture"
Evan Rapport, New York University 

Session VII: Jewish Culture in Twentieth Century Iran
Chair:Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak,University of Maryalnd

“The Iranian Shylock: The Image of the Jews in Iranian Cinema”
Orly Rahimiyan, Ben Gurion University

"Tales Untold: Memoirs and Novels by Iranian Jewish Women."
Jaleh Pirnazar,University of California, Berkeley