This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Cult ure Program at UBC is hosting a series of panel discussions about “Othernes s” in modern Persian Literature. The question is what it means to be an “Ot her” 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 o f the calendar year\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Liter ature.
The sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hoss eing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Lit erature\, Language\, and Culture Program at UBC. For each session\, they in vite a writer in that specific genre\, introduce and analyze genres as vari ed as science-fiction\, crime novels\, detective stories\, literature of re ligious\, racial and ethnic minorities\, and the like.
This is the 5t h and final session in our current series "Otherness" in Literature and the "other" of literature: The Rise of the Crime Fiction". In this panel discu ssion session with literary critics\, writers and academics from North Amer ica and Iran\, we will discuss the essence and power of crime fiction as th e "other" of the mainstream genres of Persian Literature\, its significance with respect to Iran's socio-political issues and the understanding of hum an issues in general.
جلسه پنجم و آخر از
مجموعه جلسات «ادبیات دیگری و دیگری ادبیات» به ژانر کمتر دیده و خوانده شده‌ی
دیگر یعنی «ادبیاتِ جُرم» اختصاص دارد. بحث میزگرد به پرسش‌های زیر می‌پردازد
:
۱. رمان جرم چیست و در برابر ژانرهای غالب ادب فارسی معاصر چه اهمیت و
کاربردهایی دارد؟
۲. نسبت این ژانر با ژانرهای مشابه مثل ژانر پلیسی چیست
؟
۳. موضوع رمان جرم کدام زیست جهان و تجربه‌ی کدام گروه و افراد است؟
۴. وضعیت این نوعِ ادبی در ایران امروز چکونه است و چالش‌های روبروی آن کدا
مند؟
میزبان جلسه: گروه ایران‌شناسی و زبان و فرهنگ فارسی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا با مشارکت کتابخانه‌ی نورث ونکوور
Date & Time:
Saturday\, June 3\, 2023
10:30am (
PDT) / 9:00pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Third-floor pro
gram room\, North Vancouver City Library\, 120 14th St W\, North Vancouver\
, BC V7M 1N9
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom
Meeting.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public
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Amirhossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. H e studied philosophy and physics\, but later changed his area to computer e ngineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Mar cia\, the Dear Scoundrel” won Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short fict ion prize in 2007. Amir’s first collection of stories\, The Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshmeh\, 2009) won two national book prizes inc luding “Golshiri”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq\, 2013)\, is a po litical novel that occurs in Iran\, Afghanistan\, and Azerbaijan. He is als o a member of the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group and published essays an d 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 ر ها کرد. تحصیلات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱ ۳۸۴ 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 بس یاری 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 دریاف ت جایزه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدان‌بد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذ ل عزیز» برندهٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر اف ق منتشر کرد که با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامه‌ها و منتقدان مواجه ش ده 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 کان ادا از وی منتشر شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on t he “Structural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” i n 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 201 9. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow an d associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he focused his research on the formation of the Pers ianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and B oston College. His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahm adian 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 t o read about and discuss some of the most pressing human issues raised in t he works of Modern Persian Literature.
Besides his research interest\ , he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, a nd Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, h e has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedl y at Boston College for which he received both teaching and leadership awar d from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track po sition as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture a t the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Co ntent-based Instruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received seve ral certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implemen ting technology in teaching Persian and creating open access interactive on line textbooks. Implementing the latest findings in Critical Heritage Educa tion and Second Language Acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, d evised a new method of teaching literacy to the heritage learners of Persia n\, they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
Dr. Farzan Soj
oodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at t
he Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M
.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His
primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semi
otics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in Persian\,
the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and
Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 articl
es on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, li
terature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of
the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian
Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate p
rograms at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Inst
itute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.<
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فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانه‌شناسی و زب
ان‌شناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوق‌لیسانس و دکت
ری زبان‌شناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزه‌های اصلی مط
العاتی او عبارتند از نشانه‌شناسی نظری، نشانه‌شناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و
مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و ده‌ها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطال
عات نظری و روش‌شناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر ش
ده است. نشانه‌شناسی کاربردی، نشانه‌شناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانه‌شناسی ادبیات
از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمه‌های او می‌توان به تفسیر و بیش‌تفسیر (امبرتو ا
کو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرای
ی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگن
شتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) رمان فریاد خاموش (کنزابور اوئه
) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
سجودی از بنیان‌گزاران حلقه نش
انه شناسی تهران است.
Maham Meyghani is an Iranian no velist who also works as radio and stage playwright and university lecturer at the Tehran Fine Arts University and Damghan University. Her works inclu de Heat stroked (2012)\, Transplanting the Index (2013)\, A composition in Scarlet (2014)\, No one gets killed in "Seye d khandan" (2018)\, Sun rises from "Amir A'alam" (2019) and < em>The serial killings of "Abbas Abad" (2021).
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