The recording of the event 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 Spring 2022. The first session of the Spring 2022 series features guest speakers Amir Hossein Yazdanbod and Hadi Keykavosip. The sessions are designed and run by Bahram Moradi, Hessam Dehghani and Fariba Seddighim.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Time:
Sunday, March 13, 2022
11:00am (PST) / 10:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
جلسه نخست: «میان دو دنیا» ادبیات مهاجرت یا نویسندهی مهاجر؟
۱۳ مارچ ۲۰۲۲ ساعت ۱۱ به وقت ونکوور – ۷ شب به وقت گرینویچ و ۱۰/۵ شب به وقت تهران
این جلسه کلیات نظری دربارهی ماهیت ادبیات مهاجرت را به بحث میگذارد. اینکه نویسنده مهاجر کیست و مرز بین ادبیات مهاجرت و دیگر انواع ادبی کجاست؟ چه مقوله یا مقولاتی به این نوع ادبی را تعریف می کند؟
گردانندگان جلسه:
بهرام مرادی
فریبا صدیقیم
حسام دهقانی
میهمانان جلسه:
هادی کیکاووسی نویسنده
امیرحسین یزدانبد نویسنده
Guest speakers
Hadi keykavosi was born on December 15, 1978 in Tehran. He started to write fictions in Bandar Abbas in 2001. In 2003, he won the first award with appreciation in “The Tehran Nights Literary Festival”. After dropping out of university in 2004, he started journalism. In the same year, he won the Isfahan literary award for the “Giant Dog of Red Brick House”, a publication that was released in “Literature and Philosophy” magazine. Hadi is the Award winner of the country’s youths for “Attallo”.In 2010, he immigrated from Iran to Italy. In the following year, he published “Khate Fasele”, a fiction collection in Cheshmeh Tehran publication. In 2019, he published the second collection of stories entitled “ABC for Badgers”. The publisher is Mehri London.
Amir Hossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Marcia, the Dear Scoundrel” won the Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short fiction prize in 2007. Amir’s first collection of stories, The Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshmeh, 2009) won two national book prizes, “Golshiri” and “Gam-e Avval”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq, 2013), a political novel that occurs in Iran, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan, addresses the issues of neocolonialism and Western intervention in the region.”
Moderators
- Fariba Sedighim
- Bahram Moradi
- Hessam Dehghani