This year, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Iranian and Persianate Literature, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosting a series of panel discussions about “Otherness” in modern Persian Literature. The question is what it means to be an “Other” as a writer creating and promoting new genres other than the main body of Persian Literature or to be “Other” in depicting the experience of the minorities in the Persianate world. During the Fall, Winter, and Spring of the calendar year, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Literature.
The sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hosseing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Literature, Language, and Culture Program at UBC. For each session, they invite a writer in that specific genre, introduce and analyze genres as varied as science-fiction, crime novels, detective stories, literature of religious, racial and ethnic minorities, and the like.
The fourth session of this series discusses informal historiography in Iran with Mohammad Toloui on the occasion of the publication of his new collection of essays: My Ruins.
عنوان جلسه: «ادبیاتِ دیگری و دیگریِ ادبیات» : تاریخ‌نگاری غیررسمی در ناداستان
به بهانه‌ی انتشار کتاب جدید محمد طلوعی با عنوان «ویرانه‌های من»
در این نشست با حضور نویسنده محمد طلوعی و منتقد امیرحسین یزدان بد به بحث و گفتگو درباره‌ی چیستی و نسبت ژانر ناداستان با تاریخ و تاریخ‌نگاری خواهیم پرداخت.
تاریخ جلسه:
یک شنبه ۲۶ مارچ ۲۰۲۳
ساعت ۱۰:۳۰ صبح به وقت ونکوور ۱۰:۰۰ شب به وقت تهران
مکان جلسه :
جلسه به صورت حضوری در کتاب خانه مموریال وست ونکوور و هم آنلاین از طریق لینک گوگل میت برگزار خواهد شد.
Date & Time:
Sunday, March 26, 2023
10:30am (PDT) / 9:00pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Welsh Hall West, West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr Welsh Hall, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1J8
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public
Guest Speaker
Mohammad Tolouei was born 1979 as Seid-Mohammad Tolouei-Barazandeh. He is an Iranian writer, screenwriter, and playwright. He has won nationwide literary awards such as the Shahid Ghanipoor Award[1] and Wow Literary Prize for his debut novel, Fair Wind’s Prey. Compared to Martin Amis in his later prose, Tolouei has traversed a long way from his debut novel – an account of the inhabitants of Rasht in time of the Second World War, enforced emigration of Polish refugees through Iran, and the formation of the Communist Party in Iran – to his later stories with the cunning use of mockumentary as a dominant narrative technique. In 2011 Tolouei’s debut short story collection, “I’m Not Janette” was released by Ofoq Publications. The book was hailed by many critics for its clean language and mastery of the subcultures of Iranian culture that had long been taken for granted in contemporary literature. It won the 12th Golshiri Award for its debut short story collection in February 2013. As of November 2011, Tolouei has contributed to Hamshahri Fiction Monthly. He is also the present director of The Iranian “Association of Writers for Children.
محمد طلوعی
طلوعی متولد ۲۱ اردیبهشت ۱۳۵۸ در رشت است. او دانش آموختهٔ سینما از دانشگاه سوره و ادبیات نمایشی از پردیس هنرهای زیبای دانشگاه تهران است. اولین مجموعه شعر خود را با عنوان خاطرات بندباز در ۱۳۸۲ منتشر کرد. نخستین رمان او، قربانی باد موافق در سال ۱۳۸۶ منتشر و برندهٔ پنجمین جایزه ادبی «واو» یا رمان متفاوت سال و همچنین نامزد هشتمین جایزه کتاب سال شهید حبیب غنی‌پور گردید. در اسفند ۱۳۹۱ نیز مجموعه داستان «من ژانت نیستم» برندهٔ دوازدهمین جایزه ادبی گلشیری شد. طلوعی از اعضای نسل نو نویسندگان فارسی است. او در اردیبهشت ماه ۱۳۹۵ برگزیدهٔ نخستین دورهٔ جایزه ادبی «چهل» شد که از سوی مکتب تهران به نویسندگان جوان زیر چهل سال و خوش آتیه اهدا می‌شود.طلوعی به‌طور مستمر در مجلات همشهری داستان، ۲۴، سان و آنگاه با داستانها و مقالات اختصاصی حضور دارد. او سردبیر مجله‌ٔ ناداستان است.
Panelists
Amirhossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. He studied philosophy and physics, but later changed his area to computer engineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Marcia, the Dear Scoundrel” won 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 including “Golshiri”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq, 2013), is a political novel that occurs in Iran, Afghanistan, and Azerbaijan. He is also a member of the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group and published essays and short stories in Canada.
امیرحسین یزدان‌بد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهران است. او تحصیلاتش را در فیزیک کاربردی با گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام رها کرد. تحصیلات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱۳۸۴ نوشتن داستان را جدی گرفت اگرچه پیش از آن هم چند یادداشت و تک داستان از او در نشریات چاپ شده بود. مجموعه داستان «پرتره‌ی مرد ناتمام» او با اقبال بسیاری روبه‌رو شد و جوایز بنیاد هوشنگ گلشیری وگام اول را نصیب او کرد. همچنین او با همین اثر فینالیست جایزه منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریافت جایزه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدان‌بد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذل عزیز» برندهٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر افق منتشر کرد که با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامه‌ها و منتقدان مواجه شده است. وی هم‌اکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقه‌ی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری در نشریات معتبر از جمله فصلنامه‌ی تخصصی اتحادیه‌ی نویسندگان کانادا از وی منتشر شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on the “Structural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he focused his research on the formation of the Persianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series can be found here. He is also the director and founder of Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC, a public humanities initiative where the most prominent Persian writers, academics, students and the Persianate community at large come together to read about and discuss some of the most pressing human issues raised in the works of Modern Persian Literature.
Besides his research interest, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received both teaching and leadership award from that institution. In 2021, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy, his interests lie in Content-based Instruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian and creating open access interactive online textbooks. Implementing the latest findings in Critical Heritage Education and Second Language Acquisition, he and his wife, Mahtab Sirdani, devised a new method of teaching literacy to the heritage learners of Persian, they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
Should you have any questions, please contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca.