Zoroastrian Philosophy: An Introduction by Dr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi (presented in English)

04 October 2019 6:00 pm

Venue: Asian Studies Auditorium
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Co-sponsored by UBC Zoroastrian Student Association and Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian Studies سلسله سخنرانی‌های ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی علیرضا احمدیان زرتشتِ فیلسوف سخنران: دکتر تورج خدابخشی، دندانپزشک و موبد زرتشتی این سخنرانی به بررسی اصول فلسفی دین زرتشت، دین باستانی ایران و یکی از قدیمی‌ترین دین‌های توحیدی جهان می‌پردازد. This lecture will focus on […]

Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters

11 October 2019 5:00 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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Presented in English by Shahzad Bashir, Ph.D., Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University.

Iranian Art After Islam: With a Look at Some Renowned Calligraphers (in Persian)

25 October 2019 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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Presented in Persian by Farzan Kermani, Ph.D. in Design, IIT Bombay.

Political Economy of Oil Despotism: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Iran (in English)

08 November 2019 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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Presented in English by Morteza Asadi, Ph.D. and former Assistant Professor of Economy at Kharazmi University, Tehran.

Civilizational Contacts Between Ancient Iran and Europe During the Classical Era (in English)

29 November 2019 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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Presented in English by Kaveh Farrokh, Ph.D., Professor of History & Academic Advisor for Analytica Iranica, Methodolgica Governance University, Paris, France.

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Iran in the Early 20th Century (in English)

17 January 2020 6:00 pm

Venue: Asian Studies Auditorium
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Exploring the early twentieth century, this talk examines the role of cinema in Iranian modernity and in the urbanization of Tehran from the 1900s to 1930s.

The Persian Influences on the Architecture of the Mugal Empire (in Persian)

31 January 2020 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Categories: Featured Persian
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Presented in English by Dr. Razieh Rahimi, Ph.D. in Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India

Persian Munshi, Persian Jones: English Translations of Sa’di’s Gulistan from Late 18th to Mid-19th Centuries (in English)

12 February 2020 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Categories: Featured Persian
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Presented in English by Dr. Pegah Shahbaz, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian Studies, UBC.

CANCELLED – Persian, Pahlavi, and Teaching Farsi (in English)

13 March 2020 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presented in English by Dr Rastin Mehri, Lecturer, Language Training Institute, University of Simon Fraser.

This lecture is part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Persian and Iranian Studies. Location TBA.

[CANCELLED] The Wisdom of Love: Hafez, Goethe, and World Literature (in English)

03 April 2020 6:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presented in English by Dr. Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani, Associate Professor of World Literature, Simon Fraser University