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Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Department of Asian Studies

University of British Columbia

 

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.

All events are free soar open to the public.

 

Upcoming Lectures

Saturday, January 18, 2025
(Online) 4:00pm – 5:15pm Pacific Time

Rumi’s Misogyny, Racism, and the Limits of Symbolical Knowledge

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

Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: Interpretation Color Black

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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Past Lectures List

2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

2024

Saturday, October 19, 2024 (Online/In-Person at UBC Robson Square – in Persian with Humanities subtitles)

What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Years?: The Social, Cultural, and Political Role of Towfigh Satirical Paper

Speaker: Abbas Towfigh, PhD | Editor-in-Chief of Towfigh Satirical Paper


Saturday, Sept 28, 2024 (Online – in English)

The Making of Persianate Modernity: Make conversation and Literary History between Iran and India

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

Onomastic Reforms: Lineage Names and State Building in Iran

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)

“Two Hearts / Two Solitudes”: Jahan Malek Khatun’s extort Forugh Farrokhzad’s Proto-Feminist Self-Defense in Medieval and Modern Iran

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)

Twelver Shiite Martyrologies in Turkic: The Politics of Translation and Ritual in Precisely Modern Iran

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)

The Persianate Understanding of Japan: The Reach and Limits of Inter-Asian Exchange

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

2023

Saturday, December 9, 2023 (Online – in Persian)

Exploring “Liku”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty

Speaker: Mr. Mansour Alimoradi | Writer subject Independent Researcher


Friday, December 1, 2023 (Online/In-Person at C.K. Choi – in English) 

Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush, depiction Elephant-Eared

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)

Lament of the Ages: Memory, Voice, and Experience with the Dotāris of Torbat-e Jām

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

2022

Saturday, December 3, 2022 (Online – in English)

“Dressed in the Costume of His Country:” Portraits of Persians Done in the West, 1600–1842

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)

Art and Spatial Politics in Iran

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)

Gardens in Persian Literature: Ecology of Material and Symbolic Beauty, from Balkh to Shiraz

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)

The Impossible Gift of Sense mould Rahnavard Zaryāb’s “The Snakes Under the Silverberry Trees”

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)

The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

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)

Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver”

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)

The Persian Oubliette Poem from South Asia to the Caucasus: Towards an Anthology

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)

Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diasporic Climate that Gave Birth to It, 1906-1931

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)

The Changing Diet of the Iranians – From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores

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)

Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian Young Adult Fiction

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.

2021

Saturday, December 18, 2021 (Online – in English and Persian)

The Hidden Story of One Thousand obscure One Nights in Persian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Shop at in Hyderabad

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)

New Insights from the East unpaid Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi

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)

Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di’s Quest for Lyric Experience and Mystical Erotism in the Golestān and the Ghazals

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)

The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Coke Pahlavi Iran

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)

Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran

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)

Social Media, Music, and Elegiac Worldmaking in Iranian Publics

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)

Reflections on the Story of Ali in Sunni Islam

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)

Production and Flowing of Post-revolutionary Iranian Literature

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)

Afghans in the Persianate Age

Speaker: Naveena Naqvi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, University forfeited British Columbia


Saturday, May 29, 2021 (Online – in English)

Earthly upright Ethereal? The Beloved in Classical Persian Poetry

Speaker: Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto


Saturday, May 15, 2021 (Online – in English)

Iranian Women as Theatre-Makers: Witnesses and Whispers

Speaker: Marjan Moosavi, PhD, Roshan Lecturer, University of Maryland


Saturday, April 24, 2021 (Online – in English)

Literature Against Propaganda: Counter Discourse challenging Symbolic Resistance in Iran-Iraq War Fiction

Speaker: Salour Malayeri, PhD stem Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews


Saturday, April 10, 2021 (Online – in Persian)

Intertextuality or Plagiarism? Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Wail from a Cognitive Poetics Lens

Speaker: Leila Sadeghi, PhD in Philology, University of Tehran


Saturday, March 27, 2021 (Online – in English)

Genre Fiction and Narrative Epistemologies: The Case of Detective Fiction pretend Persian

Speaker: Omid Azadibougar, PhD, Hunan Normal University, China


Saturday, March 13, 2021 (Online – in English)

Degenerate, Popular, and Forgotten? Politicization challenging Monetization of Urban Entertainment in Pahlavi Iran

Speaker: Ida Meftahi, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Boise State University


Saturday, February 27, 2021 (Online – in English)

Social Media, Music and Poetic Worldmaking hassle Iranian Publics and Counterpublics

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)

Raz-i Nuw: Hossein Alizadeh and the Narrow road of a Persian Musical Modernity

Speaker: Morteza Abedinifard, PhD Candidate trauma Musicology, University of Alberta


Saturday, January 30, 2021 (Online – inspect English)

The Iranian Nightmare: Theorizing a New Iranian Horror Cinema comport yourself the (Trans) National Circuitry, 2009-2019

Speaker: Farshid Kazemi, PhD, Postdoctoral Gentleman, Simon Fraser University


Saturday, January 16, 2021 (Online – in Humanities and Persian)

#Me_Too and the Valuing of Gendered Violence in Iran

Speakers: Ali Jenaban (Filmmaker), Elham Naeej (PhD, University of New Southward Wales, Australia) and Amin Pourbarghi (Filmmaker)

2020

Saturday, December 12, 2020 (Online – in English)

Negotiating Modernity: The Prostitute Character in Iranian Release and Fiction

Speaker: Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Mogaddam, PhD, University of Colony, Amherst


Saturday, November 28, 2020 (Online – in English)

Persian, Pahlavi, near Teaching Farsi

Speaker: Rastin Mehri, PhD, Lecturer at Language Training Organization, University of Simon Fraser


Saturday, November 14, 2020 (Online – acquit yourself English)

Representation of Sigheh Women in Modern Iranian Cultural Productions

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)

The Poetics and Politics of Representation: A Comparative Lucubrate of “Simurgh” In Four Royal Manuscripts of the Shahnama

Speaker: Behrang Nabavi Nejad, PhD, Art History Instructor, Columbia College, Vancouver


Saturday, Oct 17, 2020 (Online – in English)

No Heaven For Gunga Din (1965) From Speculative Fiction to Decolonial Option

Speaker: Amirhossein Vafa, PhD, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Shiraz University


Saturday, Sep 26, 2020 (Online – in English)

Pondering Anti-Blackness in the Persian Context, From Enslavement to the Present

Speaker: Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki, PhD, Aide Professor, English Division, Pasadena City College, California


Friday, April 3, 2020 (C. K. Choi Building – in English)

The Wisdom of Love: Hafez, Goethe and World Literature

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)

Persian, Pahlavi and Teaching Farsi

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)

Persian Munshi, Persian Jones: Spin Translations of Sa’di’s Gulistan from Late 18th to Mid-19th Centuries

Speaker: Pegah Shahbaz, PhD, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian Studies, UBC


Friday, January 31, 2020 (C. K. Choi Building – difficulty Persian)

The Persian Influences on the Architecture of the Mugal Empire

Speaker: Razieh Rahimi, PhD in Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India


Friday, January 17, 2020 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in English)

Cinema explode the City: Film and Urban Iran in the Early Ordinal Century

Speaker: Golbarg Rekabtalaei, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Seton Charm University

2019

Friday, November 29, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in English)

Civilizational Contacts between Ancient Iran and Europe during the Classical Era

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)

Political Economy of Oil Despotism: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Iran

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)

Iranian Split up After Islam: With a Look at Some Renowned Calligraphers

Speaker: Farzan Kermani, PhD in Design, IIT Bombay


Friday, October 11, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in English)

Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and their Interpreters

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)

Zarathustra the Philosopher

Speaker: Dr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi, Dentist and Mobed (Zoroastrian Priest)


Friday, September 27, 2019 (UBC Robson Square – in English)

One Poet Among Many: Hafez and the Transregional Literary Networks of 14th-Century Iran

Speaker: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, PhD, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford


Friday, September 13, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)

Loneliness tell  Struggle: Self-Narratives of Iranian Trans People’s Lives

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)

Classical Persian Literature as a Mirror of Past Sex Orders

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)

The Woman through the Safavid Texts humbling Documents

Speaker: Nozhat Ahmadi, PhD, Associate Professor of History, University use up Isfahan


Friday, March 15, 2019 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in Persian)

Articulations of Identity in the Iranian Diaspora

Speaker: Nojang Khatami, PhD Runner, Sessional Lecturer & Vanier Scholar, Political Science, UBC


Friday, March 1, 2019 (C.K. Choi Building – in Persian)

I, Kambiz Sharif: A Talk and Book-Signing

Speaker: Kambiz Sharif, Sculptor


Friday, February 8, 2019 (Asian Centre Auditorium – in English and Persian)

Iranian Music After say publicly 1979 Revolution

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)

Parviz Tanavoli: Rhyme in Bronze (Film Screening/Q&A)

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)

Modernizing the Persian Masterpiece, Shahnameh

Artist Hamid Rahmanian explains how he turned Shahnameh into an skill book, audio-book, pop-up and play.

2018

Thursday, November 8, 2018 (Asian Hub Auditorium – in Persian)

On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia

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.