Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran

23 October 2021 2:00 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: Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran on October 23, 2021.

The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran

06 November 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: The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran on November 6, 2021.

Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di’s Quest for Lyric Experience and Mystical Eroticism in the “Golestān” and the “Ghazals”

20 November 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: Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry on November 20, 2021.

New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi

04 December 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: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi on December 4, 2021.

The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Persian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderabad

18 December 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: The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Persian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderabad on December 18, 2021.

CANCELLED: Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian Young Adult Fiction

05 February 2022 11:00 am

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: Representations of Ethnicity in Young Adult Persian Literature on February 5, 2022.

CANCELLED: Gardens in Persian Literature: Ecology of Material and Metaphysical Beauty, from Balkh to Shiraz

14 October 2022 6:30 pm

Venue: UBC Robson Square
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Friday, October 14, 2022 | 6:30pm-9:00pm (PDT)

Art and Spatial Politics in Iran

19 November 2022 11:00 am

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

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 11:00am-12:30pm (PT)

“Dressed in the Costume of His Country:” Portraits of Persians Done in the West, 1600–1842

03 December 2022 4:00 pm

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

Saturday, December 3, 2022 | 4:00pm-5:30pm (PDT)

RESCHEDULED: Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush, the Elephant-Eared

01 December 2023 6:30 pm

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

Poster design by Razman Goudarzi The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush, the Elephant-Eared on December 1, 2023. Irānshāh b. Abi Khayr’s Kushnāmeh (written ca. 1108-1111 CE) features an unusual protagonist for a Persian epic poem. With his […]