Event Category Archives: Featured Persian

History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality

The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 will focus on: History and its Representation in Literature Introduction and Significance of the Topic: Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh, in the preface of his collection of stories “Once Upon a Time”, has regarded innovative approaches in literature, especially […]

The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India

The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India on September 28, 2024. For a millennium, Persian was a preeminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this talk on his recent book, Alexander Jabbari […]

The Origins of Awakening Literature in Modern Iran: A Study of the First Persian Short Stories

The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on: The Literature of Awakening Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hessam Dehghani Location: Seminar Room, Department of Asian Studies Throughout history, the political role of poetics (and artistic creation in general) has been a […]

What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Years?: The Social, Cultural, and Political Role of Towfigh Satirical Paper

The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Years?: The Social, Cultural, and Political Role of Towfigh Satirical Paper on October 19, 2024. Abstract In this talk, Dr. Abbas Towfigh will explore the social, cultural, and political […]

Political Resistance in Post-Revolutionary Poetry: Mohammad Mokhtari and Baktash Abtin

The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on: The Literature of Awakening Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hessam Dehghani Location: Seminar Room, Department of Asian Studies Throughout history, the political role of poetics (and artistic creation in general) has been a […]

Anti-War Literature: Realism vs. Idealism

The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on: The Literature of Awakening Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hessam Dehghani Location: Seminar Room, Department of Asian Studies Throughout history, the political role of poetics (and artistic creation in general) has been a […]

Awakening Literature: The Other Gender

The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on: The Literature of Awakening Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hessam Dehghani Location: Seminar Room, Department of Asian Studies Throughout history, the political role of poetics (and artistic creation in general) has been a […]

Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women

Screening of acclaimed films Hair (2022) & A Move (2024) followed by a Q&A with directors Samaneh Yadollahi & Elahe Esmaili, & producer Hossein Behboudi Rad, moderated by poet, critic & researcher Leila Sadeghi. This talk is free. Registration is required by January 25, 11:59pm. Questions? Email the student organisers at framingasia@gmail.com Date & Time: […]

Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black

The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black on February 1, 2025. In this talk, Beeta Baghoolizadeh will discuss her first book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran, where she examines constructions of race, particularly Blackness, through enslavement and abolition in the 19th and 20th centuries. […]