Event Category Archives: Featured Persian

One Poet Among Many: Hafez and the Transregional Literary Networks of 14th-Century Iran

سلسله سخنرانی‌های ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی علیرضا احمدیان شاعری در میان شعرا: حافظ و شبکه‌های ادبی فرامنطقه‌ای در ایرانِ قرن چهاردهم سخنران: دکتر دومینیک پرویز بروکشا، دانشیار ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه آکسفورد حافظ در ذهن و زبان بسیاری از ایرانیان و فارسی‌زبانان جایگاه ویژه‌ای دارد، چندان که گاه او را ترجمه‌ناپذیر و قیاس‌ناپذیر با دیگر شعرا، چه […]

Webinar: Is Asian Studies For Me? Thursday June 18, 4 – 5pm PST

Date: Thursday, June 18th Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Location: Online via Collaborate Ultra Please note the event has now taken place – thank you to all who participated! You can watch the recording here:   Details: Planning to take Asian Studies courses? Interested in Asian Studies but not sure if you should major in it? […]

Career Insights: Uncovering Journalism in Asia

Thank you to everyone who attended! You can now access the full recording of this webinar on YouTube here. Date: Thursday, August 27 Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm Location: Online via Zoom RSVP: Via the below form Details: A career in journalism is not for the faint-hearted…but then, it never has been! Amidst the COV-ID pandemic […]

Pondering Anti-Blackness in the Iranian Context: From Enslavement to the Present

Thinking about antiblackness in the Iranian context since enslavement to the present allows us to become aware of how whiteness finds support for its violence against Black communities throughout the world and leaves us to ask ourselves, how will we show up for Black lives?

No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965): From Speculative Fiction to Decolonial Option

Studies of Anglophone literature, or postcolonial writing in English, are often limited to literatures of the Commonwealth and the former colonies of the British Empire. Yet Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965), one of the few cases of Anglophone writing in Iran, a nation which – though never under formal colonial rule – has been deeply shaped by the discourse of colonial modernity.