Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver”

14 May 2022 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver” on May 14, 2022.

Virtual Asian Studies Workshop Series: Careers and Engagement in Asia

16 May 2022 - 20 May 2022

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

May 16-20, 2022

The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

28 May 2022 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Indian Imaginary” in the Mirror of Hedayat’s The Blind Owl on March 12, 2022

The Impossible Gift of Sense in Rahnavard Zaryāb’s “The Snakes Under the Silverberry Trees”

18 June 2022 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Impossible Gift of Sense in Rahnavard Zaryāb’s “The Snakes Under the Silverberry Trees” on June 18, 2022.

“The Guard of the Tulip”: Reading Afghanistan Reading Rahnavard-e Zaryab

24 June 2022 6:30 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian

June 24, 2022

“Writing about Today” Story reading with Nahid Tabatabai

30 July 2022 11:00 am

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian

July 30, 2022

Away of the Devil’s hands to the Report of a Fall: the Journey of a Writer Story Reading with Aziz Allah Nehefta

28 August 2022 11:00 am

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian

The recording of the talk is now made available: 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 Summer 2022. The last session of […]