دکتر مجید حیدری

Name:                                                              Majid Heidari

Gender and Nationality:                                     Male, Iranian

Birth Date & Place:                                           1980, Mashhad, Iran

Academic Training and Degrees

-  PhD   Philosophy of Art          Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 2013

-  MA   Teaching English          Arak University, Arak, Iran, 2007

-  BA    Teaching English          Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran, 2003

Current Position

-      Member of Faculty, Head of Visual Communication Department, 

Ferdows Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran, since 2014

Language Skills

-      Persian: native speaker

-      English: IELTS Academic Band Score 8, CEFR level C1 (Proficient User)

-      French: TEF, CEFR level B1 (Independent User)

-      Arabic: Reading Skill (self-assessment: B2)

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

-      (2016). The Plight of Aesthetics in Iran. Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol. 14. 

-      (2017). Joint article with Rikhtegaran, M. R., The Meaning of ‘Artistic Creation’ for Kant and Heidegger and its Comparison with Ricoeur’s Understanding of ‘Narration’. Kimiaie Honar, No. 24. 

-      (2018). Sequentially in Narrative; Extending Ricoeur’s Model. Research in Human Sciences and Social Studies, No. 4, 1-10.

-      (2020). The Role of BADI in Islamic-Iranian Aesthetics. Knowledge, No. 82/1.

-      (2020). Decoration and Language in Iranian Popular Culture. Research in Human Sciences and Social Studies, No. 8, 23-31.

-      (2020). The Methodology of Islamic-Iranian Aesthetics; Considering the Relation Between Mysticism and Theology. Research in Human Sciences and Social Studies, No. 5, 11-18.

-      (2021). Joint article with Taghavi, M., Analysis of Metaphoric Expression of ‘Deconstruction’ in Type-Based Posters (Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, 1390s). Ferdows-e-honar Journal of Arts, Vol 1, Issue 4, 26-45.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapter

-      (2021). Neutral Artworks to Democratic Values, The Case of Naghashi-Khat in Iran, in Stefano, E. D. (ed.). Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape: Appearances of the Political, UNIPA Springer Series.

Translation

-      Kalvemark, T. (2011). University Politics and Practice-Based Research. In Biggs, M. Karlsson, H. (Eds). The Routledge Companion to Research in The Arts. (Heidari, M., Taghavi, M, Trans.). (2021) Fine Arts Studies, 2(4). 

Conference Presentation

-      (2002). Introduction to the Use of Stories in Class; Some Basic Strategies. The First Regional Conference in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching in Khuzestan-Masjed Soleyman.

-      (2010). Persian Painting as a Narrative Construction of Reality. 18^th International Conference of Aesthetics, Beijing, China.

-      (2017). Illustrated Books, and the Relation Between Text and Pictures. First National Conference on Illustrated Books, Tehran, Iran.

Artist Reviews, Online Media and Short Story

-        (2015). The Infrastructure of the City, Collection of Short Stories. Dastan, Tehran.

-      (2016). Review on the Collection of Short Stories “The Infrastructure of the City”. Anthropology and Culture Online Journal.

-      (2016). Analytic Review of the Meaning of Narrative. Anthropology and Culture Online Journal.

-      (2016). Waiting for Meaning. Anthropology and Culture Online Journal.

-      (2017). The Possibility of Understanding ‘self’ Regardless of Consumerism. Anthropology and Culture Online Journal.

-      (2019). Artist Review. Contemporary Identities International Art Journal, issue 3.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters & Translations Approved to be published 

-      Metaphoric Expression of ‘Head’ by Three Young Iranian Female Artists, in Vinogradovs, V. (ed.). Aesthetic Literacy: a book for everyone.

-      The Emperor’s New Clothes, in Vinogradovs, V. (ed.). Aesthetic Literacy: a book for everyone.

-      Kjørup, S. (2011). Pleading for Plurality: Artistic and Other kind of Research. In Biggs, M. Karlsson, H. (Eds). The Routledge Companion to Research in The Arts. (Heidari, M., Taghavi, M, Trans.). (?) Fine Arts Studies, 2(5).

Academic Services

-      Head of Visual Communication Department, since 2016       

-      Member of Editorial, Ferdows-e-honar Art Journal, since 2019

-      Member of Scientific Committee of the National Conference on the Role of Khorasan in Art and Culture, Dec. 2015

Podcast

-      Praxis, 2020, 8 Episodes (in Persian), Introduction, David Hume on Self, Immanuel Kant on Self, John Locke on Self, Paul Ricoeur on Self, Jerome Bruner on Self, Richard Rorty on Self, Aristotle on Self

-      Experience, 2021(in English), Art and Political Ideology, Valery Vinogradovs, Sorreti Kadir and Majid Heidari