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P. (Peyman) Amiri

Faculty of Law
Faculty of Humanities
Photographer: Matteo Capasso

Visiting address
  • Plantage Muidergracht 24
Postal address
  • Postbus 15575
    1001 NB Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    I am a PhD researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (Philosophy Department - Capaciteitsgroep Philosophy and Public Affairs). My research, supervised by Prof. Robin Celikates, Prof. Guy Geltner, and Dr. Hanneke Stuit, which intersects history and political theory, examines formations of resistance manifested in practices of everyday life under conditions of extreme control. Concurrently, I also hold a teaching position at PPLE College (UvA).

  • Research
  • Teaching

    Starting from 2017, I have been engaged in teaching at PPLE College, which offers an interdisciplinary BSc programme in Politics, Psychology, Law, and Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Throughout this time, I have instructed diverse courses such as Politics, Power, and Governance, Rhetoric, Human Rights and Politics, and Societal Challenges. Additionally, I have provided supervision for theses focusing on the analysis of resistance and protest.

  • Conference Papers
    • Articulating a Praxis of Resistance. 2023. Rewriting the History of Political Thought from the Margins. Humboldt University Berlin.
    • Prison Memoirs: Resisting Narratives. 2022. Remembering Contentious Lives. Utrecht University.
    • Exhuming Frames: From Massacre of Bodies to Muting Memories. 2018. Political Violence - Causes, Character, and Consequences. St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
    • Everyday Resistance in a Total Institution? The Case of Political Prisoners. 2018. Democracy, Participation, Dissent. Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
    • Testimony and ‘Working through of the Past’. 2018. Testimony, Commemoration, Wellbeing. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade.
    • Resistance on Hills - Representations in Literature: Spatial Aspects of Peasant Resistance in Two Iranian and Turkish Novels. 2013. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference. University College Dublin.
  • Ancillary activities
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