Hi Everyone!

I am new to IAAB this year and have been having a great time working with the amazing staff. I’m excited to tell you all about IAAB’s next project coming up! We are co-sponsoring the International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, to be held in April at UC Berkeley with the Iranian Student Alliance in America (ISAA). The conference will address a wide range of topics, and also provide a medium for scholars, students, media, and other members of the community to network. We decided to bring a great number of speakers from the Call for Papers so that the community could show us what is important. This worked out great, and we were thrilled to have an unprecedented number of outstanding submissions on a wide range of topics. We spent hours at our winter staff meeting deciding speakers and performers, which will be announced shortly, so I can’t give details yet! In addition to the conference, we will be hosting a performer in the SF area on Saturday night. All of this is so exciting and registration is open now so sign up! I hope to see you all in April!