Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, “Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective,” is a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of an All […]
Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego and Associate Editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies.She is the author of Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury […]
Speaker: Yidan Wang, Peking University
Kaveh Askari is an associate professor in the film studies program at Michigan State University and author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood (BFI, 2014). He has co-edited four volumes of essays on film history including, most recently with Samhita Sunya, a special issue of Film History […]
Guest Speakers: Rabbi David Shofet, Professor Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, Dr. Shirzad Abrams, Dr. Ardeshir Babaknia Hosted by: Dr. Sa'id & Mrs. Jila Rahban
Zuzanna Olszewska is an associate professor in the social anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Oxford. She specializes in the ethnography of Iran and Afghanistan, with a focus on Afghan refugees in Iran, the Persian-speaking Afghan diaspora, and the anthropology of literature and cultural production. She received her doctorate in social anthropology […]
Zahra Khosroshahi is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto working on Iranian cinema. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance (Edinburgh University Press). Zahra’s research explores how the visual medium challenges systems of power, and how filmmaking specifically functions as a form of resistance […]
Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. He is Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and also director of Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU. Mirsepassi was a 2009-2007 Carnegie Scholar and is the co-editor, with Arshin Adib- Moghadam, of The Global Middle East, […]
Niloofar Haeri is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the Program Chair in Islamic Studies. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has written on Egypt and Iran. Her most recent book (2021), Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Praver & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press), is the 2021 recipient of the […]
"Tainted Veil" revisits the question of desire and the making of poetic subjectivity in the Persianate literary archives of South Asia. It examines the nom de plume, life and poetry of Dagh Dehlvi, Munni Bai Hiiab and Mir Yar Ali Khan "an Sahib" in the Persianate milieu of nineteenth-century Delhi, Rampur, Calcutta and Hyderabad. The […]
Simin Karimi with a 1989 Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Simin Karimi is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She served as the department head in 2011-2016 and the interim department head in 2007. In addition, she has been the Chair of […]
Ahoo Najafian is Assistant Professor of Religion at Macalester College where she teaches on Islam, gender, arts, and literature. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion. literature, and politics in Iran and intellectual history of the related concepts. She is working on a manuscript, titled Poetic Nation: Iranian Soul and Historical Continuity, on the […]