Conferences (2025)
Culture – Image – Power: The Power and Image: Its Uses and Abuses
SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland
Dates: September 1–5, 2025
Host/venue: SWPS University, Warsaw
Role: Conference participant / presenter
Presentation: “Seeing Against Silence: Embodied Protest in the Cartoons of Firoozeh Mozaffari”
Presented research on embodied protest and visual resistance through the editorial cartoons of Firoozeh Mozaffari, connecting image-making to public expression under constraint and the politics of visibility.
Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism
University of Lodz, Poland
Dates: October 23–25, 2025
Role: Conference participant / presenter
Presentation: “Harnessing the Stage: Theocratic Censorship and Theatrical Subversion in Post-Revolutionary Iran”
Examined how theatre artists navigate and contest theocratic censorship in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on strategies of subversion and the stage as a site of cultural and political negotiation.
The Future of Professional Identity in Social Work and Artificial Intelligence (Opportunities – Challenges)
3rd International Scientific Conference (Delta Higher Institute for Social Work), Mansoura, Egypt
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Host: Delta Higher Institute of Social Work (Mansoura)
Role: Conference participant (paper contribution)
Paper presented: “AI, Creativity, and Originality: Rethinking the Standard Definition in the Age of Generative Systems”
Affiliation (as listed): Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Culture – Image – Power: The Power and Image: Its Uses and Abuses
SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland
Dates: September 1–5, 2025
Host/venue: SWPS University, Warsaw
Role: Conference participant / presenter
Presentation: “Seeing Against Silence: Embodied Protest in the Cartoons of Firoozeh Mozaffari”
Presented research on embodied protest and visual resistance through the editorial cartoons of Firoozeh Mozaffari, connecting image-making to public expression under constraint and the politics of visibility.
Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism
University of Lodz, Poland
Dates: October 23–25, 2025
Role: Conference participant / presenter
Presentation: “Harnessing the Stage: Theocratic Censorship and Theatrical Subversion in Post-Revolutionary Iran”
Examined how theatre artists navigate and contest theocratic censorship in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on strategies of subversion and the stage as a site of cultural and political negotiation.
The Future of Professional Identity in Social Work and Artificial Intelligence (Opportunities – Challenges)
3rd International Scientific Conference (Delta Higher Institute for Social Work), Mansoura, Egypt
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Host: Delta Higher Institute of Social Work (Mansoura)
Role: Conference participant (paper contribution)
Paper presented: “AI, Creativity, and Originality: Rethinking the Standard Definition in the Age of Generative Systems”
Affiliation (as listed): Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
