CANCELLED: Social Media, Music, and Poetic Worldmaking in Iranian Publics and Counterpublics

27 February 2021 4:00 pm

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

Presenter: Dr. Nahid Saimdoust (Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Anthropology of Religion, Harvard Divinity School)

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.