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)

Nowrooz 1400: The Celebration of the Persianate Culture

28 March 2021 2:00 pm

Categories: Featured Persian

The Department of Asian Studies of the University of British Columbia and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are delighted to invite all lovers of Persianate Culture to an event celebrating Nowrouz 1400. You and your whole family of all ages are invited to our Film Screening and Shahnameh Performance (Naqqālī)! This event will be in […]

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)

Women and Power in Persian Literature: Story reading with Shahrnush Parsipur

30 April 2021 4:00 pm

Categories: Featured Persian

The Department of Asian Studies of the University of British Columbia and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are delighted to invite all lovers of Persianate Culture to join us in “Women and Power in Persian Literature: Story reading with Shahrnush Parsipur” event on April 30, 2021. Shahrnush Parsipur is the author of the novels, “Touba and the Meaning of Night (Touba […]

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).

Woman and Facing the Real: Story-Reading with Fariba Vafi

22 May 2021 1:00 pm

Categories: Featured Persian

Join us in “Woman and Facing the Real: Story-Reading with Fariba Vafi” workshop on May 22, 2021

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).

The Panorama of Contemporary Persian Poetry in Afghanistan

13 June 2021 11:00 am

Categories: Featured Persian

UBC Persianate and Iranian Studies Program and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club is hosting one of the leading literary and cultural figures in Afghanistan, Mujib Mehrdad.