The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club present a series of talks analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in winter 2022. The series is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies. Details of each talk (individual dates, times, titles, and guest speaker info, etc.) could be found in the lecture poster below as well as in its individual event page which can be found below.
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Where possible, each event will be recorded and posted afterward on YouTube.
Any questions can be directed to Asian.Studies@ubc.ca.
Winter 2022 series
Saturday, January 29, 2022 (10:00am – 12:00pm; Online)
Habitat of War, the Migrant: Story Reading with Rira Abbasi
Speaker: Rira Abbasi, Iranian writer
Panelists: Fariba Sedighim, Bahram Moradi, Yasin Negah, Alireza Abiz, Mehri Rahmani, Abbas Shokri, and Hessam Dehghani
Sunday, February 27, 2022 (11:00am – 1:00pm; Online)
Being-in-Passing; Story Reading with Asieh Nezam Shahidi
Speaker: Asieh Nezam Shahidi, author and literary critic
Panelists: Fariba Sedighim, Bahram Moradi, Hessam Dehghani, and Behnaz AliPour Gaskari
Sunday, March 27, 2022 (11:00am – 1:00pm; Online)
“The Nature of Story”: Story reading with Abu Torab Khosravi
Speaker: Abu-torab Khosravi, Iranian writer and novelist
Panelists: Hessam Dehghani, Keihan Khanjani, and Belgheis Soleimani
