Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Persian & Iranian Studies
Department of Asian Studies
University of British Columbia
FREE and open to the public!
Time & Place (unless otherwise indicated): 6:30 – 8:30 P.M. || Room 120, C.K. Choi Building || 1855 West Mall || UBC|| V6T 1Z2
About the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Persian and Iranian Studies: Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was a devoted former student, supporter of UBC’s Asian Studies department, and beloved member of Vancouver’s Iranian community. UBC’s Asian Studies department has renamed this lecture series in his honour for the 2019/20 academic year.
Friday 13 Sept, 2019 (in Persian) Loneliness and Struggle: Self-Narratives of Iranian Trans People’s Lives روایت زندگی ترنس های ایرانی
Mahsa Rad, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran; Visiting International Research Student at UBC
Friday 27 Sept, 2019. (6:30 – 9:00 p.m.; UBC Robson Square: 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7)
(in English) One Poet Among Many: Hafez and the Transregional Literary Networks of 14th-Century Iran
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford
Friday 4 Oct, 2019 (6:00 – 8:00 p.m.; Asian Centre Auditorium: 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)
(in English) Zarathustra the Philosopher
Mr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi
Friday 11 Oct, 2019 (5:00 – 6:30 P.M.; Room 120, C.K. Choi Building: 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)
(in English) Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and their Interpreters
Shahzad Bashir, Ph.D., Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
Friday 25 Oct, 2019 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Room 120, C.K. Choi Building: 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)
(in Persian) Iranian Art After Islam: With a Look at Some Renowned Calligraphers
Farzan Kermani, Ph.D. in Design, IIT Bombay
هنر ایران پس از اسلام: با نگاهی به سرگذشت چند خوشنویس بلندآوازه
Friday 8 Nov, 2019 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Room 120, C.K. Choi Building: 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)
(in English) Political Economy of Oil Despotism: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Iran
Morteza Asadi, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar at the School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC; former Assistant Professor of Economy at Kharazmi University, Tehran
Friday 29 Nov, 2019 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Room 120, C.K. Choi Building: 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)
(in English) Civilizational Contacts between Ancient Iran and Europa during the Classical Era
Kaveh Farrokh, Ph.D., Professor of History & Academic Advisor for Analytica Iranica, Methodolgica Governance University, Paris, France
Friday 17 Jan, 2020 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Location TBA)
(in English) Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Cosmopolitanism in Early 20th-Century Iran
Dr. Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Asistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University
Friday 31 Jan, 2020 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Location TBA)
(in English) The Persian Influences on the Architecture of the Mugal Empire
Dr. Razieh Rahimi, Ph.D. in Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Friday 12 Feb, 2020 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Location TBA)
(in English) Persian Munshi, Persian Jones: English Translations of Sa’di’s Gulistan from Late 18th to Mid-19th Centuries
Dr. Pegah Shahbaz, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
Friday 28 Feb, 2020 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Location TBA)
(in English) The Wisdom of Love: Hafex, Goethe, and World Literature
Dr. Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani, Associate Professor of World Literature, Simon Fraser University
Friday 13 March, 2020 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Location TBA)
(in English) Ardeshir Khaze’ (1901 – 1987)” Articulation of an Iranian Ethnic Identity
Dr. Rastin Mehri, Lecturer, Language Training Institute, University of Simon Fraser
Friday 3 April, 2020 (6:30 – 8:30 P.M.; Location TBA)
(in English) Satiric Modernity: Iranians’ Self-Colonizing Affects and the Birth of Modern Persian Comedy, ca. 1871 – 1908
Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard, Assistant Professor Without Review of Persian Literary Culture and Civilization, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
