The Fly-Bottle podcast is an interview-based podcast that features conversations with Farsi-speaking researchers from around the world. In each episode, you’ll hear them talking about their current research projects in the fields of humanities, arts, and social sciences. Read more...

To learn more about our podcast listen to our introductory episode:

Season 2, Ep.10- Safoura Moeeni: The conundrum of women’s participation in Iran’s job market

In this episode of the Fly-Bottle podcast, Alireza Mahmoudi talks to Safoura Moeeni about her paper “The Effects of Labor Market Opportunities on Education: The Case of a Female Hiring Ceiling in Iran,” co-authored with Atsuko Tanaka.   Read more...

Season 2, Ep.9- Mehdy Sedaghat Payam: Experimental literature and digital literature

In this episode of the fly-bottle podcast, Amirali Shams talks to Mehdy Sedaghat Payam. He started his education in English literature in Iran and received his Master's from the University of Tehran. After learning about experimental and digital literature..   Read more...

Season 2, Ep.8 - Mohsen Javdani: Ideological Bias in Economic Perspectives

In this episode of the Fly Battle podcast, Alireza Mahmoudi talks with Professor Mohsen Javdani about his paper “Who said or what said? Estimating ideological bias in views among economists   Read more...

Season 2, Ep.7- Amir Khadem: Trauma Narration

In this episode of the Fly-Bottle podcast, Amirali Shams talks to Amir Khadem about his journey beginning from his academic education back in Iran and after migrating to Canada where he started his PhD in the University of Alberta in the department of comparative literature  Read more...

Season 2, Ep.6- Sahar Heidari Fard: Strategic Injustice

n this episode of the Fly-Bottle podcast, Soroush Marouzi talks to Sahar Heidari Fard about strategic injustice and how complexity theory can give us an explanation of how certain types of racial and gender inequality persist despite everyone knowing the immorality of the situation.  Read more...

Season 2, Ep.5- Saeed Malek Sadati: Electoral Institutions and Common Pool Problem in Iran

In this episode of the Fly-Bottle podcast, Alireza Mahmoudi talks with Saeed Malek-Sadati, assistant professor of economics at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. In this conversation, after introducing the guest and reviewing Saeed's academic background, they discuss and define common or shared resources and Read more...

Season 2, Episode 4- Mazdak Daneshvar: State, Market, and Healthcare System: An Anthropological Perspective

In this episode of the Fly-Bottle podcast, Yeganeh Khazaei talks with Mazdak Daneshvar. They discuss the history of the state and.. Read more...

Season 2, Episode.3- Sina Badiei: Normative Economics and its foes: from Marx to Freedman 

In this episode of the Fly-Bottle podcast, Soroush Marouzi talks to Sina Badiei, assistant professor and research associate of the Walras-Pareto Center at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Read more...

Season 2, Episode 2 - Alireza Taheri: Lacanian Topology Against Narcissism

In this talk, Alireza Taheri will provide an introduction to Lacanian topology and its implications for philosophy and psychoanalysis. Read more...

Season 2, Episode 1 - Asef Bayat: Revolutions of the 21st Century And the Arab Spring

This Episode will examine the Arab revolutions of the 2010s and their shortcomings in achieving democratic reforms at the state level. Read more...

Episode 6: Mathematical Explanations and Mathematical Truth

Soroush Marouzi chats with Atoosa Kasirzadeh about the roles of mathematics in empirical sciences. Read more...

Episode 5: Immortals of Tehran

Amirali Shams talks with Alireza Araghi about his journey to become a writer and the challenges he faced along the way. Read more...

Episode 4: Physical Theories and the World

Soroush Marouzi chats with Shahin Kaveh about what a physical theory consists of and how it relates to the world. Read more...

Episode 3: The Genesis of Rights in Iran

Amirali Shams chats with Behzad Zerehdaran about the Concept of Rights in the Qajar Era in Iran. Read more...

Episode 2: Simplicity

Ata Heshmati chats with Mahdi Sadrforati about the idea of simplicity in the history of science based on a novel study of medieval astronomy. Read more...

Episode 1: Breaking the spell of certitude

In the first episode of the fly-bottle podcast, Elham Beygi chats with Fateme Ejaredar about the Modern Religious Schools in post-revolutionary Iran.  Read more...