The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: The Chandayan: Identity in a Sufi Vernacular Masnavi in Medieval Sultanate India by Prof. Richard Cohen (University of Virginia) Monday, November 11, 2024 1 pm Eastern Time (Canada & US) Location for In-Person Attendance: Rm 304, 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1 Zoom Registration Link […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiespresents The 2024-25 Aziz Ahmad Lecture Creating and Recreating in Language: (Re-)Examining the Poetic Interrelations between Bedil and Ghalib Mehr Afshan Farooqi, Professor, University of Virginia Monday, 11 November 2024, 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada & US) Location for In-Person Attendance: University College, Rm 140 15 King's […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford jointly present Archival History of Iran-Canada Relations تاریخ روابط ایران و کانادا: جستوجو در آرشیوهای ایران Javad Abbasi, Professor, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad Thursday, 14 November 2024, 12:00 p.m. […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and the Canadian Society for Iranian and Persian Studies jointly present: Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians & Literary Nationalism by Prof. Aria Fani (University of Washington) Friday, November 22, 2024 1 pm Eastern Time (Canada & US) Location for In-Person Attendance: Rm 304, 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and the Canadian Society for Iranian and Persian Studies jointly present: دُرّ یتیم: خشکیدن آب دهان عنکبوت by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Novelist) Saturday, November 23, 2024 12:00 pm Eastern Time (Canada & US) Zoom Registration Link for Virtual Attendance: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckduuvpjoqEtOqsytn-Jy8Nj3SpgfXuj6n After registering, you will receive a confirmation email […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: Picturing Readers and Writers: An Iconography of Book Culture in Indian Lithographic Illustration, 1840s to 1900 Prof. Ulrike Stark University of Chicago Zoom Meeting Registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rfuyurTIjGNba2qa9shvbeGs5Tb06bprm After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: Despite recent scholarly interest […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and the Canadian Society for Iranian and Persian Studies jointly present: Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran by Dr. Farshid Emami (Rice University) Friday, December 6, 2024 3 pm Eastern Time (Canada & US) Location for In-Person Attendance: Rm 200B, 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, […]
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: Melody and Metaphor: Integrating Music and Literature in Persian Language Pedagogy Aqsa Ijaz, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga Saturday, 7 December 2024, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford jointly present Uncovered Untold Histories: Iranian Political Activist and Migrant Workers Under Stalin's Great Terror Touraj Atabaki, Senior Research Fellow, Leiden University Thursday, 12 December 2024, 12:00 p.m. […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, presents The Sartorial Islamic Baroque and Folded Feminisms in Contemporary Iranian Women's Cinema Tanya Shilina-Conte, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo Friday, 13 December 2024, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zoom Meeting Registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcumgrDMpEtV3yH86PRcRx2FVrVwYjYNj After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining […]
