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SUMMARY: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliat
 ory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi
DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and
  Persianate Studies: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The
  Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi on December 4\, 2021.
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 ncenter" width="620"]<img class="size-large wp-image-52972" src="https://as
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 Poster design by Farzan Kermani[/caption]</p><div style="background-color: 
 aliceblue\; padding: 25px 25px 15px\; direction: rtl\;"><center><a href="ht
 tps://asia.ubc.ca/lecture-series/alireza-ahmadian-lectures-fa/">سلسله سخنرا
 نی‌های ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی علیرضا احمدیان</a></center></p><div style=
 "background-color: #002145\; padding: 0px\;"><center></p><h4 style="color: 
 white\;">بصیرت‌هایی نو از شرق در باب شعر و سیاست: اندیشهٔ آشتی‌جویانهٔ سعدی
  شیرازی</h4><p></center></div><p><strong>سخنران:</strong> دکتر ایمان احمدیا
 ن، پژوهشگر، دانشگاه نیوکاسل</p><p><strong>طرف‌بحث:</strong> دکتر حسام دهقان
 ی، استادیار زبان و فرهنگ فارسی، دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا</p><p>با حجم عظیم اند
 یشه‌های اجتماعی و سیاسی که از غرب سرچشمه می‌گیرد، شنیدن و بررسی حرف‌هایی که
  شرق برای گفتن در این زمینه دارد خالی از لطف نیست. برای مثال سهم شرق در ادر
 اکات زیبایی‌شناختی، که امروزه بیش‌ازپیش به‌عنوان نیرویی در سیاست مورد توجه 
 قرار می‌گیرد، قابل‌تأمل است. در این سخنرانی، شعر کلاسیک ایران از منظر نگرش 
 به سیاست معاصر ایران تحلیل می‌شود. گلستان سعدی که اثری شاعرانه و بسیار جذاب
  است، رویکردی جایگزین برای رویکردهای عمدتاً تحمیلی غرب برای ایجاد صلح ارائه
  می‌کند؛ رویکردی که از باورهای بومی بهره می‌برد. سخنرانی حاضر به این موضوع 
 می‌پردازد که چگونه می‌توان مفاهیم این اثر را از دوران معروف به دوران طلایی 
 اسلامی به سیاست امروزی منتقل کرد.</p></div><p> <br />The event recording is
  now available:</p><p>[embed]https://youtu.be/XjnSTVnMNvo[/embed]<br /> <br
  /><span style="font-weight: 400\;">With a massive amount of social and pol
 itical thought emanating from the West\, it is refreshing to study what the
  East has to offer. One such offering lies in the East’s contribution to ae
 sthetic understandings\, which are being considered more and more as a forc
 e in politics. In this talk\, the poetry of ancient Persia will be analysed
  for its insights into contemporary Iranian politics. The Rose Garden of Sa
 ’di\, which is a fascinating poetic work rooted in the struggle for human r
 econciliation\, offers an alternative approach to peace-building to the mai
 nly western-imposed approaches\, and one that utilizes indigenous beliefs. 
 This talk discusses how this poetry can be transposed from the so-called Is
 lamic Golden Age of the Middle Ages into modern day politics\, building on 
 the current aesthetic turn in international relations\, and the current ind
 igenous turn in peace-building.</span></p><h3>Guest Speaker:</h3><p><strong
 >Iman Ahmadian</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400\;">started his underg
 raduate studies in Management at Queen Mary\, University of London and foll
 owed his studies in International Relations at the University of Glasgow\, 
 Scotland and later on Newcastle University\, England\, where he is currentl
 y working as a research associate. He wrote his first book on the diplomati
 c insights of Sa'di's Rose Garden\, published in New York by Edwin Mellen P
 ress and is amidst his second book\, offering an English translation for <e
 m>the</em> <em>Diwan of Shah Ne'matollah Wali Mahani Kermani</em>\, another
  Persian poet\, which he has has entered negotiations with Cambridge Schola
 rs Publishers. Iman is very interested in the Persianate world and what it 
 has to offer the modern age.</span></p><h3>Discussant:</h3><p><a href="http
 s://asia.ubc.ca/profile/hessam-dehghani/"><strong>Hessam Dehghani</strong><
 /a> <span style="font-weight: 400\;">earned his first PhD in Linguistics fr
 om Allameh Tabātabāi University working on the "Structural analysis and Phe
 nomenological study of Persian Literature" in 2012. He then earned another 
 PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Since then\, he has been a p
 ost-doctoral researcher and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School
  and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he has researched about th
 e formation of the Persianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has
  published a number of essays in Persian including "Phenomenology of Poetry
 : Re-reading Ahmad Shamlou's poem "the walls". He has also presented on dif
 ferent aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard and Boston
  College.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Besides his research
  interest\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran\, an
 d Persian and Arabic in North America for the past twenty years. Since 2012
 \, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-han
 dedly at Boston College for which he received both teaching and leadership 
 award from that institution. He has recently started his tenure as an assis
 tant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at UBC. In pedagogy
 \, his interests lie in material development and assessment for which he ha
 s passed multiple ACFTL workshops and received several certifications from 
 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in class
 room and developing a course book for Persian Students of 21st century.</sp
 an></p><p> </p><div><strong>About the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian 
 and Persianate Studies: </strong>Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an enth
 usiastic researcher\, a consummate socio-political analyst\, and an opinion
  leader on foreign policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogue a
 nd liberal democracy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, support
 er of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadian-Ir
 anian Community. The department renamed this lecture series in his honour i
 n 2019. Alireza’s friends in the community have provided funding to support
  this series\, and this generous gift will see these important academic and
  community engagement events supported through to the end of the 2025/2026 
 academic year. <a href="https://asia.ubc.ca/lecture-series/alireza-ahmadian
 -lectures/">Read More ...</a><br /> <br />Should you have any questions\, p
 lease contact the Department of Asian Studies at <a href="mailto:Asian.Stud
 ies@ubc.ca">Asian.Studies@ubc.ca</a>.</div>
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