Events
Documents from Turbulent Times
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. […]
Service Learning Approaches to Machine Translation Post-Editing for Minor Language Pairs
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. […]
Practicing Lived Zoroastrianism in a Diaspora
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 presents Zoroastrian […]
Conference on Global Iranian Diaspora Studies
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 […]
Iran, the Holocaust, and World War II
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 […]