Department of Asian Studies

Faculty of Arts

2021 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

12 March 2021 5:30 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This event will feature a guest speaker, a panel, and […]

Genre Fiction and Narrative Epistemologies: The Case of Detective Fiction in Persian

27 March 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Omid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China)

Intertextuality or Plagiarism? Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl from a Cognitive Poetics Lens

10 April 2021 11:30 am

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Leila Sadeghi (Instructor of Linguistics & Literature, Soore University, Tehran).

Literature Against Propaganda: Counter Discourse and Symbolic Resistance in Iran-Iraq War Fiction

24 April 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Salour Malayeri (Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews)

Exploring Asian Heritage in Vancouver

06 May 2021 5:00 pm

Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Chinese, Featured Events, Featured Hindi-Urdu, Featured Japanese, Featured Korean, Featured Persian, Featured Punjabi, Featured Sanskrit, Featured Tibetan

Moderated by Jimmy Yan, joined by Dr. Caroline Lo, Sophia Diamonds, Olivia Lim and Arian Zand

Iranian Women as Theatre-Makers: Witnesses and Whispers

15 May 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Marjan Mousavi (Roshan Lecturer, University of Maryland).

Celebrate Student Research: Games in Asia

18 May 2021 5:00 pm

Categories: Featured Events

Earthly or Ethereal? The Beloved in Classical Persian Poetry

29 May 2021 11:00 am

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh (PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto).

[Conversation] Light Hours: Eleven Artists Looking at Hong Kong

19 June 2021 7:00 pm

Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Events

Afghans in the Persianate Age

24 July 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Naveena Navqi (Assistant Professor, Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, UBC Asian Studies).

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