{"id":127192,"date":"2021-05-25T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=127192"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:07:41","slug":"iranian-minister-and-ambassador-gave-lecture-about-irans-economics-and-the-impact-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/05\/25\/iranian-minister-and-ambassador-gave-lecture-about-irans-economics-and-the-impact-of-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian minister and ambassador gave a lecture about Iran’s economics and the impact of sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran, Farhad Dejpasand, and Iranian ambassador Alireza Kazemi Abadi gave a guest lecture to the International Economics students on Wednesday morning. The minister called via Zoom from his office in Tehran, while the ambassador answered questions in Erasmus Paviljoen.<\/p>\n

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Behind the scenes: the technical team was working hard to livestream the guest lecture.<\/span><\/p>

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With the live streaming director\u2019s hand gestures counting back to one, the zoom lecture started at 11:30 am sharp. The minister presented with slides and an interpreter\u2019s voice. Erasmus School of Economics dean Patrick Groenen and professor Julian Emami Namini sat together with Iranian ambassador Alireza Kazemi Abadi in front of the screen, watching the lecture together with more than 100 students and faculty members in the Zoom session.<\/p>\n

Tinbergen\u2019s gravity model<\/h2>

The minister discussed Iran\u2019s challenges under the current US sanctions and the country\u2019s potential: \u201cThere\u2019s a big market in Iran. The world can benefit from our developing capacities. Despite the hurdles, Iran has a strong scientific record.\u201d Students were positively surprised that the minister, also an economics professor, even explained the impact of sanctions with Tinbergen\u2019s gravity model.<\/p>\n

In the studio, a five-people crew was in charge of the technical part of the live-streaming. The photographer satbehind the tripod, holding it still for two hours until the session ended without moving a step. The two live-streaming directors with huge headsets drowned in three huge monitors and were switching shots from different angles. There were around ten staff members in the room. Except for the Minister\u2019s voice playing via a speaker, the classroom-size filming studio was utterly silent.<\/p>\n

Interpreter<\/h2>

Despite the professional crew, not everything ran smoothly. \u201cI was confused that some of his sentences were kind of fragmented until I realised it was actually from an interpreter\u201d, says one of the students who followed the guest lecture.<\/p>\n

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In the Q&A session, two of the three students who registered for question slots remained silent when their names were called for their questions. The host of the open question session, also the president from the co-hosting student association EFR, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Schellekens and the staff in the room chuckled when realising that they were kicked out due to unstable internet connections.<\/p>\n\n\t

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