Event Category Archives: Featured Persian

Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetry

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 […]

Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal

The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal on February 22, 2025. How did Muslims in early modern South Asia debate what constituted correct Muslim practice? This presentation explores the intersection of politics and piety by examining religious […]

Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd”

The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd” on March 8, 2025. The tale of Moses and the Shepherd is one of the best-known stories from Rumi’s Masnavi. In this lecture, Austin O’Malley examines how […]

Awakening Literature: The Voice of the Other, the Rights of Religious and Ethnic Minorities

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 […]

Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion, 1797-1800

The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion, 1797-1800 on April 12, 2025. Abstract At the turn of the 19th century Qajar Iran encountered the thrust of European imperial expansion stretching from Egypt to the Caucasus to India. How did Iran respond […]