The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between on April 18, 2026.
This presentation brings together Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry, film, letters, interviews, and prose to offer a portrait of a writer who reshaped modern Iranian literature by inhabiting its in-between spaces. Standing at the threshold of private and public, inside and outside, silence and speech, Farrokhzad expanded Iran’s literary language, reach, and imaginative boundaries. The talk listens closely to a voice that continues to travel across time and borders, drawing an ever-widening circle of listeners.
This talk will be presented in English. It is free and open to the public.
Date & Time:
Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 6:30pm – 9:30pm PT
Location:
Room C300, UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7
Speaker
Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. Nelson Professor Emerita of Iranian literature and Gender Studies at the University of Virginia. She has published several articles and books, most recently The Literary Biography of Forugh Farrokhzad with Unpublished Letters. The Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy invited Milani to join it as a member of its Board of External Experts for Literature in 2021. Milani served in that capacity for three years.
