Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran

23 October 2021 2:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran on October 23, 2021.

Literature at the Time of Desolation: a point of view in Bahram Moradi’s Stories

27 October 2021 4:00 pm

Categories: Featured Persian

The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature. The second workshop features Iranian writer, Bahram Moradi, who will speak about his style and themes in […]

Kūr Sorkhī: Narratives of Life/Soul and War

30 October 2021 1:00 pm

Categories: Featured Persian

The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature. The third workshop features Iranian anthropologist, Shahram Khosravi. In the journey into the life and experience of […]

The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran

06 November 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran on November 6, 2021.

Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di’s Quest for Lyric Experience and Mystical Eroticism in the “Golestān” and the “Ghazals”

20 November 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry on November 20, 2021.

“Deadend of Story writing in exile: challenges of migrant women writers,” in conversation with Mahbuba Temori

24 November 2021 6:30 pm

Categories: Featured Persian

The session will delve into migrant women writer’s maladies and challenges by way of talking about Temori works including two collections: “In the depth of Solitude” and “Illusory Shadows.”

New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi

04 December 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi on December 4, 2021.

Asian Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration

06 December 2021 6:00 pm

Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Chinese, Featured Events, Featured Hindi-Urdu, Featured Homepage, Featured Japanese, Featured Korean, Featured Persian, Featured Punjabi, Featured Sanskrit, Featured Tibetan

You Are Invited: Asian Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration, December 6, 2021, 6pm (PST)!

The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Persian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderabad

18 December 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Persian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderabad on December 18, 2021.

Habitat of War, the Migrant: Story Reading with Rira Abbasi

29 January 2022 10:00 am

Categories: Featured Persian

The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Winter and Spring 2022.