The recording of the event is now made available:
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The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, th e UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hostin g a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Mod ern Persian Literature in Summer 2022. The first session of the Summer 2022 series features guest speaker Dr. Nasir Arian from the Penn State Universi ty. This panel\, moderated by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (UBC Department of Asian Studies)\, will discuss the legacy and the work of the renowned Afghan writ er\, journalist and activist Rahnavard Zaryab who passed away in 2020 due t o Covid-19.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Stu dies.
Date & Time:
Friday\, June 24\, 2022
6:30pm (PDT) / 6:00am (Tehran Time)
Location: o
nline via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
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Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allam eh Tabātabāi University working on the “Structural analysis and Phenomenolo gical study of Persian Literature” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in P hilosophy from Boston College in 2019. Since then\, he has been a post-doct oral researcher and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he has researched about the format ion of the Persianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has publish ed a number of essays in Persian including “Phenomenology of Poetry: Re-rea ding Ahmad Shamlou’s poem “the walls”. He has also presented on different a spects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard and Boston College .
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a f oreign language in Iran\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the p ast twenty years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directe d Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received b oth teaching and leadership award from that institution. He has recently st arted his tenure as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at UBC. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in material development an d assessment for which he has passed multiple ACFTL workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about impl ementing technology in classroom and developing a course book for Persian S tudents of 21st century.
Should you have any questions\, plea se contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca.
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