Event Category Archives: Featured Persian

History and its Representation in Literature: The Bewilderment of Discourses

The event recording is now available:   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”, […]

History and its Representation in Literature: Suppression of Discourses

The event recording is now available: 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 […]

Lament of the Ages: Memory, Voice, and Experience with the Dotāris of Torbat-e Jām

The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Lament of the Ages: Memory, Voice, and Experience with the Dotāris of Torbat-e Jām on November 25, 2023. Poems are performed to music and understood as part of the spiritual practice of the Mojaddedi Naqshbandi Sufi order in Torbat-e […]

RESCHEDULED: Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush, the Elephant-Eared

Poster design by Razman Goudarzi The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush, the Elephant-Eared on December 1, 2023. Irānshāh b. Abi Khayr’s Kushnāmeh (written ca. 1108-1111 CE) features an unusual protagonist for a Persian epic poem. With his […]

History in Literature and Literature in History: War, the Silence of Narratives and the Poetic Language

The event recording is now available: 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 […]

Exploring “Liku”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty

The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Exploring “Liku”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty on December 9, 2023. This lecture will be presented in Persian.  Liku is an ancient, monorhyme poetic form consisting of a single verse, prevalent in Southeast Iran (Baluchistan and the southern areas […]

The Persianate Understanding of Japan: The Reach and Limits of Inter-Asian Exchange

The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: The Persianate Understanding of Japan: The Reach and Limits of Inter-Asian Exchange on January 25, 2024. *Please note that this lecture will not be recorded. Following the Japanese defeat of Russia in 1905, intellectuals from Iran, India, and Afghanistan looked to Japan as a model […]

History and its Representation in Literature: The Birth and Development of the Beast

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 […]

History and its Representation in Literature: The Life of the Hopeless

The event recording is now available: 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 […]

Twelver Shiite Martyrologies in Turkic: The Politics of Translation and Ritual in Early Modern Iran

The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Twelver Shiite Martyrologies in Turkic: The Politics of Translation and Ritual in Early Modern Iran on March 2, 2024. The talk will discuss the political, social, and ritual function of Turkic in early modern Iran through the genre of martyrology. […]