Scholarly Activity

Lectures, Conference Papers, Seminars Since 1988

On Torture and Democracy (2007)

Guest Lecture,  “Torture and Democracy,” University of California, Santa Barbara (May 2007)

Guest Lecture,  “Torture and Democracy,” Swarthmore College, April 2007)

President’s Panel on “Torture,” American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada (August 11-14, 2006)

Conference Paper, “Torture for Truth and Memory,” Conference on “Codes of Violence in Medial Transformation,” Humboldt University, Berlin (forthcoming April 29, 2006)

Working Paper Presentation, “Mapping Torture from NGO Data: Problems, Problems and More Problems,” Reed College, Portland (April 6, 2006)

Guest Lecture,  “Torture and Democracy,” Oregon State University, Corvallis (March 2, 2006)

Guest Lecture, “Torture and Democracy,” Webster College, St. Louis (February 17, 2006)

Keynote Lecture, Seminar on “Security and Development: Recent Trends in Social Science,” Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark (October 28, 2005).

Panel Participant,  “A Question of Torture,” New York Public Library and Carnegie Council of Ethics (June 1, 2005)

Keynote Lecture: “Torture and Democracy,” Presented at the Workshop on “Studies of Order, Violence and Exclusion,” Danish Institute for International Studies, Research Network on Crime and Violence (Tisvilde, Denmark; September 23, 2004)

Conference Paper:  “Torture, Democracy and War,” Presented at the Workshop on “Techniques of Violence in Civil War,” Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO, Oslo, Norway, August 21, 2004)

Guest Lecture: “Torture and Democracy” University of San Diego, April 22, 2004.

Guest Lecture: “Torture, Democracy and the New Discourse on Terror,” Presidential Session: Crime and Deviance Section; International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Aus., July 8, 2002

Seminar: “Three Models of Modern Torture,” Institute for Central American Development Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica, January 2000

Guest Lecture: “Electric Torture: The Global History of a Torture Technology” presented at “Investigating and Combating Torture: Exploration of a New Human Rights Paradigm,” Human Rights Program, University of Chicago, March 1999

Featured Conference Paper: “Electric Torture Technology, Diffusion between 1890-1945” Delivered at the International Sociological Association, 1998 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  See coverage in Andre Pratt, “Les bourreau, des gens tout `a fait nourmaux.” La Presse (Wednesday, 29 July 1998), A9 and Marie-Claude Ducas, “Profession: Tortionaire” Le Devoir  (Wednesday, 29 July 1998)

On Approaches to Violence (Forthcoming 2008)

Forthcoming: Keynote Address, “Approaching Violence,” Conference on Education for Teachers and Non-Profits (“Hope in a Time of Violence”), Lewis and Clark School of Education, November 2007

Expert in Residence, “Approaches to Violence” and “Speaking Frankly About Torture,” ACS Cobham International School, London, England (forthcoming March 13-14, 2006)

Keynote Address, June 26 UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Program for Torture Victims,  UCLA, Los Angeles (June 26, 2005)

Guest Lecture:  “After Abu Ghraib:  Torture and Truth,” Presented at the Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 27, 2004

Guest Lecture: “Speak Frankly About Torture” Presented at the Seminar, “Michel Foucault (1926-1984): Other Questions, New Paths,” London School of Economics, September 16, 2004

Guest Lecture: “Resistance to Torture,” Writers in Danger Program, Lewis and Clark College, 2000, World Affairs Council, Portland, OR, 2001

Guest Lecture: “Ordinary Betrayals:  Conceptualizing Refugees Who Have Been Tortured” presented at “Practices of Violence  and Postcolonial Modernities: The Case of  Islamist and Hindutva Movements,” Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 1999

Public Lecture: “Investigating a Violent Past: A Comparative Analysis of Purges, War Crimes Trials, Truth Commissions and Purges,” Reed College, 1998

Seminar Paper: “The Global Human Rights Regime and the Rights of Sexual Minorities,” Sociology Department, Union College, June 1996

Conference Paper: “Rape as a Political Weapon:  The Case of Bosnia.”  Delivered at the International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, 1994; Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, 1995

On Torture and Modernity (1994)

Guest Lecture:  “Torture and Modernity:  Critical Responses and Future Agendas,” Middle East Center, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University June 1999

Colloquium:  “Torture and Modernity” Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1997

Featured Panel: “Author Meets the Critics:  Torture and Modernity by Darius Rejali.”  Critics Panel. 14th Conference of the Center For Iranian Research and Analysis, Birmingham, England, 1996

Guest Lecture: “Torture and Modernity,” Department of Political Science, University of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1994

Guest Lecture: “Torture and Modernity,” Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, April 1994

On Iranian Politics

Guest Lecture:  “The Reformists and the Repressive Cycle in Iran, 1997-2002,” Woodrow Wilson Center, May 14, 2002

Guest Lecture: “End of the Rule of Law Movement in Iran?” Middle East Center, University of Washington, May 4, 2002

 “Iran beyond Tehran:  Afghan Refugees and the New Civic Politics" Woodrow Wilson Center (October 18, 2001)

Public Lecture, “Structural Limits to Improved US-Iranian Relations,” Iranian Professional Society of Oregon, October 2000

Public Lecture: “The Crisis in Iran,” World Affairs Council of Portland, Governor’s Hotel, August 1999

Keynote Lecturer: “Iran and the Caspian Basin,” Great Decision Series Lectures, World Affairs Council of Oregon, Business School, Portland State University, March 1999

Public Lecture, “Torture and Human Rights in Iran,” Portland State University, 1996. See “Northwest Groups Discuss Afghan, Iranian and Turkish Rights Violations” by Elaine Kelly.  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (March 1997):63-64

Guest Lecture: “Torture and Religion in Iran,” delivered at the Conference on “Religion and Violence:  Ideologies and Institutions,” Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1996

Conference Paper: “HIV-Testing in Comparative Perspective.”  Delivered at the Oregon Academy of Sciences, Lewis and Clark, Portland, 1995

Other Presentations (Political Philosophy, Comparative Policy)

Guest Lecture: “Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On?” presented at “Orwell and Our Future,” University of Chicago Law School, November 1999

Conference Paper: The Fox and the Lion:  Machiavelli’s Metaphor of Freedom” Canadian Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, 1997 at St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada)

Public Lecture: “Scholastic Vices,” Paideia Program, Reed College, 1997

Conference Paper: “Fortune is a Man:  Authority and the Subversion of Authority in the Thought of Christine de Pisan,” delivered at the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, 1989 and the Renaissance Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1991

Conference Paper: “How Not To Talk About Torture:  Violence, Theory, and Problems of Explanation.” Delivered: International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain, 1990

Seminar Paper: “Torture, Critical Social Inquiry, and International Relations,” delivered at the Yankee Conference of Political Theory, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1988

Guest Lecture: “Nietzsche’s Critique of Punishment:  From Applied Philosophy to Political Analysis” delivered at the University of Calgary, 1988

Expert Testimony and Public Appearances since 1997

Manuscript Reviewer for Oxford University Press (2004), Princeton University Press (2003), Harvard University Press (2002), Harcourt College Publishers (2000), Institute for Policy Studies (1997), University of Texas Press (1996), State University of New York Press (1995), and University of Pennsylvania Press (1995)

Keynote Lecturer and Consultant, Workshop for Refugee Victims of Social Violence and Torture, Lutheran Family Counseling Services, Portland, OR January-February 1999

Invited Discussant,” Lesbian and Gay Rights in a Global Context” at the American Philosophical Association Meetings, Washington DC, Winter 1998

Chair, Symposium, “The Future of Jerusalem,” featuring Keynote Lectures by Yossi Beilin, Labor Party of Israel and Faysal Hussaini, Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem, World Affairs Council and the Oregon Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, Reed College, September 1998

Consultant, Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada April-June 1998

Expert Witness and Consultant, “Ms. F.M. Ismail,” Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada, March 31, 1998

Manuscript Reviewer, Entry for “Torture,” Encyclopedia of Violence Peace, and Conflict (Academic Press: 1998), April 1997

Chair and Discussant, “Foucault and Liberalism,” Canadian Political Science Association, at St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada, 1997
Fellow, Aspen Institute, Wye, Maryland July-August 1997

Public Lecture, “Alternatives to Standard Research Paper Assignments,” Paideia, Reed College, 1997

Expert Witness and Consultant, “Mr. A.K. Eghbali” Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada, October, 1997

Expert Witness and Consultant, “Mr. Darvishi-Kohan” Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada, December 1996

Panel Discussant, “Love and the Computer: Thoughts on Good Teaching,”Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1996

Seminar, “HIV Politics” Ministerio Publico (Attorney General’s Office) of the State of Sao Paolo, Brazil, October 1995

Public Lecture, “The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Rights of Sexual Minorities,” Grupo Gay du Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, November 1995

Panel Discussant, Crime and Deviance Section, International Sociological Association (1994)

Grant Evaluator, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, 1994

Fellow, Center for Developing Area Studies, McGill University 1982-1985

Member of the Following Professional Associations

American Political Science Association, 1986-present
International Sociological Association, 1993-2002
Western Political Science Association, 1995-2001
Center for Iranian Research Analysis, 1995-2001
Oregon Academy of Sciences, 1995-1997
Canadian Political Science Association, 1987-1991; 1996-1998

Chaired or Served on the Following Academic Search Committees

2005 Chair and Member, Tenure Track Searches in Political Science (Political Theory and International Relations)

2001 Member, Tenure-Track Search in Religion (Islamic Studies/Humanities)

2001 Member, Tenure-Track Search and Visiting Search in Political Science (International and Comparative Politics), 2001

1999 Chair, Tenure-Track Search and Visiting Position Search in Political Science (American Politics)

1999 Member, Tenure-Track Search in Sociology (Economic Sociology)

1998, Chair, Tenure Track and Visiting Search in Political Science (International and Comparative Politics)

1997 Chair, Visiting Searches in Political Science (Political Theory; American Politics)

1995 Chair, Tenure-Track Search in Political Science (International and Comparative Politics)

1993, Member, Visiting Position Search in Political Science (Political Theory)

College Offices  (Member of the Following Committees)
Administration Committee (1997-98)
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (1992-94)
Committee on College Writing (1993-94)
Community Affairs, Subcommittee on Drug Policy (1997-1998)
Computer Policy Committee (1998-2000)
Corbett/Goldhammer Summer Grants in Comparative Policy Studies (1997, 1999, 2002, 2006)
Domestic Partnerships Committee (1990)
Faculty Adviser for Multicultural Resource Center, (1995)
Hewlett Faculty/Student Grants in International and Comparative Policy Studies (1993-95)
International and Comparative Policy Studies (1994-2001, 2006-)
Library Board (2005-2007)
Orientation Committee (1996-97)
Paid Leave Committee (2006-07)