Degenerate, Popular, and Forgotten? Politicization and Monetization of Urban Entertainment in Pahlavi Iran

13 March 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Presenter: Dr. Ida Meftahi (Assistant Professor of History, Boise State University)

Genre Fiction and Narrative Epistemologies: The Case of Detective Fiction in Persian

27 March 2021 4:00 pm

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

Presenter: Dr. Omid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China)

Intertextuality or Plagiarism? Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl from a Cognitive Poetics Lens

10 April 2021 11:30 am

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

Presenter: Dr. Leila Sadeghi (Instructor of Linguistics & Literature, Soore University, Tehran).

Literature Against Propaganda: Counter Discourse and Symbolic Resistance in Iran-Iraq War Fiction

24 April 2021 4:00 pm

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

Presenter: Dr. Salour Malayeri (Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews)

Iranian Women as Theatre-Makers: Witnesses and Whispers

15 May 2021 4:00 pm

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

Presenter: Dr. Marjan Mousavi (Roshan Lecturer, University of Maryland).

Earthly or Ethereal? The Beloved in Classical Persian Poetry

29 May 2021 11:00 am

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

Presenter: Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh (PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto).

Afghans in the Persianate Age

24 July 2021 4:00 pm

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

Presenter: Dr. Naveena Navqi (Assistant Professor, Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, UBC Asian Studies).

Production and Circulation of Post-revolutionary Iranian Literature

25 September 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Production and Circulation of Post-revolutionary Iranian Literature on September 25, 2021.

Reflections on the Story of Ali in Sunni Islam

02 October 2021 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Reflections on the Story of Ali in Sunni Islam on October 2, 2021.

Social Media, Music, and Poetic Worldmaking in Iranian Publics

16 October 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Social Media, Music, and Poetic Worldmaking in Iranian Publics on October 16, 2021.