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SUMMARY: “Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature: Informal hist
 oriography in Iran
DESCRIPTION: March 26\, 2023
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p> </p><p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5
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 " height="325" /></p><p>This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at 
 UBC’s Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at U
 BC is hosting a series of panel discussions about “Otherness” in modern Per
 sian 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 Lite
 rature or to be “Other” in depicting the experience of the minorities in th
 e Persianate world. During the Fall\, Winter\, and Spring of the calendar y
 ear\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Literature.</p><p>The
  sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hosseing Yazdan Bod 
 and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Langua
 ge\, and Culture Program at UBC. For each session\, they invite a writer in
  that specific genre\, introduce and analyze genres as varied as science-fi
 ction\, crime novels\, detective stories\, literature of religious\, racial
  and ethnic minorities\, and the like.</p><p>The fourth session of this ser
 ies discusses informal historiography in Iran with Mohammad Toloui on the o
 ccasion of the publication of his new collection of essays: My Ruins.</p><p
  style="text-align: right\;">عنوان جلسه: «ادبیاتِ دیگری و دیگریِ ادبیات» : 
 تاریخ‌نگاری غیررسمی در ناداستان<br />به بهانه‌ی انتشار کتاب جدید محمد طلوعی
  با عنوان «ویرانه‌های من»<br />در این نشست با حضور نویسنده محمد طلوعی و منت
 قد امیرحسین یزدان بد به بحث و گفتگو درباره‌ی چیستی و نسبت ژانر ناداستان با 
 تاریخ و تاریخ‌نگاری خواهیم پرداخت.</p><p style="text-align: right\;">تاریخ 
 جلسه:<br />یک شنبه ۲۶ مارچ ۲۰۲۳<br />ساعت ۱۰:۳۰ صبح به وقت ونکوور ۱۰:۰۰ شب 
 به وقت تهران<br />مکان جلسه :<br />جلسه به صورت حضوری در کتاب خانه مموریال 
 وست ونکوور و هم آنلاین از طریق لینک گوگل میت برگزار خواهد شد.</p><p><strong
 >Date & Time:</strong><br />Sunday\, March 26\, 2023<br />10:30am (PDT) / 9
 :00pm (Tehran Time)<br /><strong>Location:</strong> Welsh Hall West\, West 
 Vancouver Memorial Library\, 1950 Marine Dr Welsh Hall\, West Vancouver\, B
 C V7V 1J8<br /><em>There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Mee
 ting.</em></p><p>Presented in Persian<br />Free & open to the public</p><p>
 [buttons][button link_text="Register for the event" link_url="https://asia.
 ubc.ca/events/event/otherness-in-literature-and-other-of-literature-informa
 l-historiography-in-iran/#event-form"][/buttons]</p><h3>Guest Speaker</h3><
 p><strong>Mohammad Tolouei</strong> 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 W
 ow Literary Prize for his debut novel\, Fair Wind's Prey. Compared to Marti
 n 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 format
 ion 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 de
 but short story collection\, "I'm Not Janette" was released by Ofoq Publica
 tions. The book was hailed by many critics for its clean language and maste
 ry of the subcultures of Iranian culture that had long been taken for grant
 ed 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.</p><p style="text-alig
 n: right\;">محمد طلوعی<br />طلوعی متولد ۲۱ اردیبهشت ۱۳۵۸ در رشت است. او دان
 ش آموختهٔ سینما از دانشگاه سوره و ادبیات نمایشی از پردیس هنرهای زیبای دانشگ
 اه 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 جای
 زه 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 به‌ط
 ور مستمر در مجلات همشهری داستان، ۲۴، سان و آنگاه با داستانها و مقالات اختصا
 صی حضور دارد. او سردبیر مجله‌ٔ ناداستان است.</p><h3>Panelists</h3><p><stron
 g>Amirhossein Yazdanbod</strong> was born in 1977 in Tehran. He studied phi
 losophy and physics\, but later changed his area to computer engineering. H
 e started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Marcia\, the Dea
 r Scoundrel” won <em>Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh</em> short fiction prize in 
 2007. Amir’s first collection of stories\, <em>The Portrait of the Incomple
 te Man</em> (Cheshmeh\, 2009) won two national book prizes including “Golsh
 iri”. His latest work <em>Stutter</em> (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 stori
 es in Canada.</p><p>امیرحسین یزدان‌بد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهران است. او تحصیلاتش 
 را در فیزیک کاربردی با گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام رها کرد. تحصیل
 ات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱۳۸۴ نوشتن داس
 تان 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 ا
 ثر فینالیست جایزه منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریافت جایزه روزی 
 روزگاری هم بود. یزدان‌بد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذل عزیز» برنده
 ٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر افق منتشر کرد ک
 ه با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامه‌ها و منتقدان مواجه شده است. وی هم
 ‌اکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقه‌ی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری د
 ر نشریات معتبر از جمله فصلنامه‌ی تخصصی اتحادیه‌ی نویسندگان کانادا از وی منت
 شر شده است.</p><p><strong>Dr. Hessam Dehghani</strong> earned his first PhD
  in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on the “Structura
 l analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” in 2012. He th
 en earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between Au
 gust 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate r
 esearcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Stud
 ies where he focused his research on the formation of the Persianate identi
 ty in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspects of P
 ersian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College
 . His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahmadian Lecture
  Series can be found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lly6Um_T-BU&l
 ist=PLV4tCChJ7aFg8Txk3lD5FFVKM16CML0et&index=18">here</a>. He is also the d
 irector and founder of Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC\, a public hu
 manities 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 M
 odern Persian Literature.</p><p>Besides his research interest\, he has been
  teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian an
 d 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 C
 ollege for which he received both teaching and leadership award from that i
 nstitution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an 
 assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the Univers
 ity of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Content-based I
 nstruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he has passed
  multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifica
 tions from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technolo
 gy in teaching Persian and creating open access interactive online textbook
 s. Implementing the latest findings in Critical Heritage Education and Seco
 nd 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).</p><hr /><div id="event-form"></div><p>[g
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