The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2026. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 10!
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between on April 18, 2026. This presentation brings together Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry, film, letters, interviews, and prose to offer a portrait of a writer who reshaped modern Iranian literature by inhabiting its in-between […]
Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2026 
Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between 
On writing and translating Sakura: A conversation with Kanako Nishi and Allison Markin Powell