Kurdish Culture & Scholarship Week

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theDepartment of Middle Eastern Studies and theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly present: Adapting the Use of Generative AI for Different Proficiency Levels in Turkish as a Foreign language: Practical Applications and Challenges Gözde Mercan, University of Toronto Saturday, April 4, 2026, 1:00 […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, the Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation, the Zoroastrian Society of Ontario, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation jointly present Monājāt and Muškil Āsān: A Comparative Study of Zoroastrian Oral Literature in India and Iran Saloumeh Gholami, University of Cambridge […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford jointly present The Old Uyghur Documents and a Global Microhistory of the Silk Roads Márton Vér, Universität Hamburg Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 12:00 p.m. Toronto/5:00 p.m. UK  Zoom Meeting Registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/azuvuYKIRh-yNsSYNoA_5A After […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theDepartment of Middle Eastern Studies and theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly present: Managing Diverse Proficiency Levels with AI Generative Tools: The Case of Persian Classrooms in Higher Education Taraneh Sanei, McGill University Saturday, April 18, 2026, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theCenter for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University and theIranian & Persian Gulf Studies Program, Oklahoma State University jointly present Art in Exile: Aesthetics of Resistance in Diasporic Iranian Women Mehraneh Ebrahimi, York University Monday, April 20, 2026, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and US) Zoom […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theDepartment of Middle Eastern Studies and theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly present: A Survey of AI Language Learning APPs for Persian, Turkish, and Arabic Narges Nematollahi, Indiana University, Bloomington Saturday, May 2, 2026, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and US)  Zoom Meeting Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/i5HR3liYShGHU9rXmcg6cw […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford jointly present Documents from Turbulent Times: Studying Middle Persian Collections from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods—Opportunities and Challenges Nima Asefi, Universiteit Leiden Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 12:00 p.m. Toronto/5:00 p.m. […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theDepartment of Middle Eastern Studies and theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly present: Bridging the Gap: Service Learning Approaches to Machine Translation Post-Editing for Minor Language Pairs Kaori Nishizawa, University of Oxford Naoko Tamura-Foerster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Saturday, May 16, 2026, 1:00 p.m. […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, the Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation, the Zoroastrian Society of Ontario, the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University and theIranian & Persian Gulf Studies Program, Oklahoma State University jointly present Zoroastrian […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theCenter for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University and theIranian & Persian Gulf Studies Program, Oklahoma State University jointly present the   Conference on Global Iranian Diaspora Studies May 29-31, 2026 Emmanuel College 75 Queen's Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5   Provisional Conference […]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford jointly present SAVAK Calling: Telephonic Directives to the Editor of Diplomat Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 12:00 p.m. Toronto/5:00 p.m. UK  Zoom Meeting Registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/azuvuYKIRh-yNsSYNoA_5A After registering, you […]

Call for Applications The Holocaust, World War II, and Iranian Studies Research Workshop Applications due January 12, 2026 The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian […]