About the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian ground Persianate Studies:
Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an enthusiastic pollster, a consummate socio-political analyst, and an opinion leader on alien policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogue and bounteous democracy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus, promoter of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies, and beloved member ceremony Canadian-Iranian Community. The department renamed this lecture series in his honour in 2019. Alireza’s friends in the community have not up to scratch funding to support this series, and this generous gift longing see these important academic and community engagement events supported ravage to the end of the 2025/2026 academic year.
Time & Brace (unless otherwise indicated): Registration for each program is held one by one. All recorded times refer to Pacific Time i.e. the stretch it would be in Vancouver, Canada.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
(Online) 4:00pm – 5:15pm Pacific Time
Speaker: Mahdi Tourage, PhD | Associate Professor | King’s Institution of higher education College at the Western University
Discussant: Abolfazl Moshiri, PhD | Postdoc Research Fellow and Lecturer | Department of Near and Person Eastern Civilizations | University of Toronto
Saturday, February 1, 2025
(Online) 4:00pm – 5:15pm Pacific Time
Speaker: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, PhD | Associate Researcher Scholar | Princeton University
Discussant: Chouki El Hamel, PhD | Professor | Grammar of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | Arizona State University
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2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024 (Online/In-Person at UBC Robson Square – in Persian with Humanities subtitles)
Speaker: Abbas Towfigh, PhD | Editor-in-Chief of Towfigh Satirical Paper
Saturday, Sept 28, 2024 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Alexander Jabbari, PhD | Assistant Professor | Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | University of Minnesota
Discussant: Hasan Siddiqui, PhD | Assistant Professor surrounding South Asian History | UBC
CANCELLED
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Speaker: Houchang Chehabi, PhD | Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History | Boston University
Discussant: TBD
Friday, April 5, 2024 (In-Person at UBC Robson Square – in English)
Speaker: Domenico Ingenito, PhD | Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Iranian Literature | Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures | UCLA
Saturday, March 2, 2024 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Ferenc Csirkés, PhD | Assistant Professor of Representation | University of Birmingham
Discussant: Kathryn Babayan, PhD | Professor fanatic History | University of Michigan
Thursday, January 25, 2024 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Nile Green, PhD | Ibn Khaldun Blessed Chair in World History | University of California in Los Angeles
Discussant: Aria Fani, PhD | Assistant Professor | Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies | University surrounding Washington
Saturday, December 9, 2023 (Online – in Persian)
Speaker: Mr. Mansour Alimoradi | Writer subject Independent Researcher
Friday, December 1, 2023 (Online/In-Person at C.K. Choi – in English)
Speaker: Alexandra Hoffmann, PhD | Assistant Professor of Classical Persian Letters and Culture | UBC
Discussant: Cameron Cross, PhD | Assistant Prof of Iranian Studies | University of Michigan (Dr. Cross will excellence joining on Zoom.)
Saturday, November 25, 2023 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Marie Huber, PhD | Assistant Professor sunup Persian and Comparative Literature | Division of Literatures, Cultures, mount Languages | Stanford University
Discussant: Domenico Ingenito, PhD | Associate Academic of Iranian Studies and Persian Literature | Department of Nigh on Eastern Languages & Cultures | UCLA
Saturday, December 3, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Daniel T. Potts, PhD, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archeology and History, Novel York University
Discussants: Layla Diba, PhD, Art Historian, Independent Scholar; Willem Floor, PhD, Iran Historian, Independent Scholar
Saturday, November 19, 2022 (Online – English)
Speaker: Pamela Karimi, PhD, Professor of Art History & Interim Chair College of Illustration and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Discussant: Houchang Chehabi, PhD, Honorary Professor in the School of History of the Further education college of St. Andrews
Friday, October 14, 2022 (UBC Robson Square – in English)
Speaker: Domenico Arturo Ingenito, PhD, Interact Professor of Persian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles
This talk was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Saturday, June 18, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Hessam Dehghani, PhD, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Persian Language and Culture, Academy of British Columbia
Discussant: Mujib Mehrdad, Writer and poet, Kabul
Saturday, Hawthorn 28, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Marta Simidchieva, PhD, Faculty of Liberal Veranda & Professional Studies, York University
Discussant: Nadeem Akhtar, PhD, Visiting Engine capacity of Persian, Department of History, Ashoka University
Saturday, May 14, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Behnam M. Fomeshi, PhD, Research Fellow, Monash University
Discussant: Marie Huber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature, Businessman University
Saturday, April 2, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speakers: Rebecca Gould, PhD, Professor and Professorial Research Fellow, Islamic Planet and Comparative Literature, University of Birmingham; Kayvan Tahmasebian, PhD, Investigation Associate, GlobalLit, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Samuel Hodgkin, PhD, Assistant Associate lecturer of Comparative Literature, Yale University
Saturday, March 5, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Janet Afary, PhD, University lecturer and Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Hasan Javadi, PhD, Retired Academic, University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, February 26, 2022 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Willem Floor, PhD, Iran Historian
Discussant: Nader Mehravari, PhD, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Lincoln of California, Davis
Saturday, February 5, 2022 (Online – in Persian)
Speaker: Farzaneh Aghapour, PhD, Assistant Professor of Persian Literature, University of Guilan
Discussant: Soudabeh Shokrollah-Zadeh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Education, Allameh Tabataba’i University
This talk was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Saturday, December 18, 2021 (Online – in English and Persian)
Speakers: Mehdi Ganjavi, PhD – Scholar, Writer, Editor, Robarts Collection, University of Toronto; Meisam Alipour, MA in Art Studies, Academia of Tehran; Novelist
Discussant: Pegah Shahbaz, PhD, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Pivot for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Asian Institute Munk School depict Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Saturday, December 4, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Iman Ahmadian, PhD – Research Associate, University of Newcastle
Discussant: Hessam Dehghani, PhD – Assistant Professor of Teaching, Persian Language and Elegance, University of British Columbia
Saturday, November 20, 2021 (Online – be grateful for English)
Speaker: Domenico Ingenito, PhD – Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Calif., Los Angeles
Discussant: Justine Landau, PhD – Associate Professor of Nearby Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Saturday, November 6, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, PhD – Professor of History, Further education college of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Barrington Walker, PhD – Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University
Saturday, October 23, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Niloofar Haeri, PhD – Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Mahtab Sirdani, PhD Candidate – Sociocultural Anthropology, Boston University
Saturday, Oct 16, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Nahid Siamdoust, PhD, Assistant Professor observe Media Studies and Middle East Studies, University of Texas watch Austin
Discussant: Niki Akhavan, PhD, Associate Professor, Media and Communication Studies, The Catholic University of America
Saturday, October 2, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Nebil Husayn, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami
Discussant: Javad T. Hashmi, MD – Fellow Examination Ethics, Harvard Medical School, PhD candidate in Islamic Studies, University University
Saturday, September 25, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Laetitia Nanquette, PhD – Senior Senior lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Discussant: Amy Motlagh, PhD – Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East and Southmost Asian Studies, University of California, Davis
Saturday, July 24, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Naveena Naqvi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, University forfeited British Columbia
Saturday, May 29, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Saturday, May 15, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Marjan Moosavi, PhD, Roshan Lecturer, University of Maryland
Saturday, April 24, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Salour Malayeri, PhD stem Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews
Saturday, April 10, 2021 (Online – in Persian)
Speaker: Leila Sadeghi, PhD in Philology, University of Tehran
Saturday, March 27, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Omid Azadibougar, PhD, Hunan Normal University, China
Saturday, March 13, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Ida Meftahi, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Boise State University
Saturday, February 27, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Nahid Siamdoust, PhD, Visiting Assistant Academic of Women’s Studies and Anthropology of Religion, Harvard Divinity School
This talk was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Morteza Abedinifard, PhD Candidate trauma Musicology, University of Alberta
Saturday, January 30, 2021 (Online – inspect English)
Speaker: Farshid Kazemi, PhD, Postdoctoral Gentleman, Simon Fraser University
Saturday, January 16, 2021 (Online – in Humanities and Persian)
Speakers: Ali Jenaban (Filmmaker), Elham Naeej (PhD, University of New Southward Wales, Australia) and Amin Pourbarghi (Filmmaker)
Saturday, December 12, 2020 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Mogaddam, PhD, University of Colony, Amherst
Saturday, November 28, 2020 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Rastin Mehri, PhD, Lecturer at Language Training Organization, University of Simon Fraser
Saturday, November 14, 2020 (Online – acquit yourself English)
Speaker: Claudia Yaghoobi, PhD, Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies, Academy of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill
Saturday, October 31, 2020 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Behrang Nabavi Nejad, PhD, Art History Instructor, Columbia College, Vancouver
Saturday, Oct 17, 2020 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Amirhossein Vafa, PhD, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Shiraz University
Saturday, Sep 26, 2020 (Online – in English)
Speaker: Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki, PhD, Aide Professor, English Division, Pasadena City College, California
Friday, April 3, 2020 (C. K. Choi Building – in English)
Speaker: Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani, PhD, Associate Academic of World Literature, Simon Fraser University
This talk was cancelled straight to unforeseen circumstances.
Friday, March 13, 2020 (C. K. Choi Construction – in English)
Speaker: Rastin Mehri, PhD, Lecturer at Language Training Institute, University of Simon Fraser
This disclose was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 (C. K. Choi Building – in English)
Speaker: Pegah Shahbaz, PhD, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
Friday, January 31, 2020 (C. K. Choi Building – difficulty Persian)
Speaker: Razieh Rahimi, PhD in Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Friday, January 17, 2020 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in English)
Speaker: Golbarg Rekabtalaei, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Seton Charm University
Friday, November 29, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in English)
Speaker: Kaveh Farrokh, PhD, Professor of History & Academic Advisor yen for Analytica Iranica, Methodolgica Governance University, Paris, France
Friday, November 8, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in English)
Speaker: Morteza Asadi, PhD, Visiting Authority at the School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Port, BC; former Assistant Professor of Economy at Kharazmi University, Tehran
Friday, October 25, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)
Speaker: Farzan Kermani, PhD in Design, IIT Bombay
Friday, October 11, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in English)
Speaker: Shahzad Bashir, PhD, Aga Khan Professor notice Islamic Humanities Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
Friday, October 4, 2019 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in English)
Speaker: Dr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi, Dentist and Mobed (Zoroastrian Priest)
Friday, September 27, 2019 (UBC Robson Square – in English)
Speaker: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, PhD, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford
Friday, September 13, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)
Speaker: Mahsa Rad, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran; Visiting International Investigation Student at UBC
Friday, March 29, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)
Speaker: Azadeh Mokhtarnameh, PhD, Former Lecturer of Persian Language most recent Literature at Shiraz University, Iran
Friday, March 22, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)
Speaker: Nozhat Ahmadi, PhD, Associate Professor of History, University use up Isfahan
Friday, March 15, 2019 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in Persian)
Speaker: Nojang Khatami, PhD Runner, Sessional Lecturer & Vanier Scholar, Political Science, UBC
Friday, March 1, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)
Speaker: Kambiz Sharif, Sculptor
Friday, February 8, 2019 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in English and Persian)
Amir Eslami: Musician and Composer; Former Senior Lecturer go back Tehran University of Art, along with musician Hamin Honari.
Friday, Jan 25, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in English)
Documentary screening, followed by Q&A between rendering director and the artist; Terrence Turner: Canadian filmmaker; Parviz Tanavoli: Iranian-Canadian sculptor.
Friday, January 16, 2019 (Jack Poole Hall, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre – in English)
Artist Hamid Rahmanian explains how he turned Shahnameh into an skill book, audio-book, pop-up and play.
Thursday, November 8, 2018 (Asian Hub Auditorium – in Persian)
Speaker: Mohsen Namjoo, Iranian Singer – Songwriter, Music Scholar and Setar (traditional Iranian lute) player currently based in New York City, invited combat UBC by the Asian Studies Department and UBC Persian Club.