The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Pers ian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persia n Literature. The third workshop features Iranian anthropologist\, Shahram Khosravi. In the journey into the life and experience of migrants\, the se ssion initiates a conversation between Shahram Khosravi\, PhD and the write r Alie Ataee about her latest monograph “Kūr Sorkhī”.
The event i s sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
The reco rding of the event is now made available:
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Date & Time:
October 3
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1:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT) | 12:30am - 2:30am (Kabul Time) | 11:30pm - 1:
30am (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Pre
sented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
Being referred to as the writer of the borders and one o f the most influential contemporary women writes\, Aliyeh Ataee is a n Afghan-Iranian novelist and screenwriter. She was born in 1981 in the bo rder region of Iran and Afghanistan. She has a Master’s degree in theater f rom Tehran University. All of Ataee’s works come with a theme of immigratio n and wars in the Middle East\, looking at war from a woman’s perspective a nd its particular consequences on harming women.
In 2010\, Aliyeh Ata ee won an award for The Best Screenplay in the Moon Festival. She received the Mehregan Adab award (one of the most prestigious and noble private lite rature awards in Iran) for her novel Kafourpoosh in 2015. The novel also won the Distinguished Novel of the Year award in the VAV Literature Aw ards. She is also a two-time winner of the Tehran City Award with more than two thousand competitors. Both wins for novels about immigrants. Galile o is a novel of hers which has won awards in Iran and has been publishe d in the Words Without Borders journal in the Un ited States. Alcove is another novel by Aliyeh which has been publis hed in Michigan Quarterly Review. It is a s tory about two women in the terrorist attack on a subway station in Tehran\ , where one of their husbands becomes suspicious about them. Aliyeh’s Ni ght of the Wolf (original title: Nuit De Loup) has been published by th e Parisian publication Edition Le Supirail as a story in a book titl ed Sous le ciel de Kaboul.
Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthr opology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropolog y of Iran\, forced displacement\, border studies\, and time. Khosravi is t he author of several books such as : Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008)\ ; The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders\, (2010)\; Precariou s Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran\, (2017)\; After Deportation: Ethnographi c Perspectives\, Palgrave (2017\, edited volume) and Waiting. A project in Conversation (2021\, edited volume). He has been an active writer in t he international press. He is a co-founder of Critical Border Studies\, a n etwork for scholars\, artists and activists to interact.
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