Dr Maryam Palizban is a theatre scholar, writer, actress and director. Interdisciplinarity in relation to ‚religion and culture‘ is a central element of Palizban’s research. The tensions between ‚religion and art‘, ‚cultural theory of modern Islam‘ and ‚performativity and textuality‘ are among the major themes of her multilingual publications, lectures and teaching activities. In her native Iran, she is known as an actress in films such as Deep Breath, Fat Shaker and LANTOURI, and as a poet. Maryam Palizban has lived in Berlin since 2005 and works as a researcher and artist in Berlin and (until recently) in Tehran. She has organised interdisciplinary colloquium series on ‚Body and Corporeality‘ and ‚Woman, Body and Revolution‘, presenting the Centre for Islamic Theology in Münster as an innovative space for discussion. Her most recent publication, ‚Understanding and Forgetting the Body – Interdisciplinary Approaches‘, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of human corporeality. In 2023, she participated in the protests of the Jina Revolution by publishing an image without a headscarf and has since been involved in various oppositional feminist networks.