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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Changing Diet of the Iranians – From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores on February 26, 2022.
You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diasporic Milieu that Gave Birth to It, 1906-1931 on March 5, 2022.
You are invited to the 2021/22 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies featuring Professor Clark Chilson on March 8 and 9, 2022.
The recording of the event is now made available: The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Spring 2022. The first session of […]