Rivanne Sandler is Professor Emerita at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto. She is a specialist of early-20th century Iranian women’s poetry. In their vision […]
Bio: Dr Mahmoud Pargoo is a research fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, and the lead author of Presidential Elections in Iran: Islamic idealism since the revolution (Cambridge University […]
Asal Bagheri has a PhD in Semiology and Linguistics, with a specialization in Iranian cinema. She has written several articles on Iranian cinema in French, English, and Persian. Bagheri has […]
Bio: Iraj Pezeshkzad is an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel, Dear Uncle Napoleon, which was published to great acclaim in the early 1970s. Abstract: Iraj […]
Bio: Homa Hoodfar is a Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Concordia University, Montreal. Hoodfar’s field-based research are in political economy and legal anthropology; focusing on reproductive rights; Afghan women and […]
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College. Dominic currently serves on the Editorial Board […]
Bio: Gita Hashemi has been working for over three decades in visual and performance art, digital and net art, and language-based art including live embodied writing, as well as in […]
Hamed Goharipour is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning at Kansas State University, where […]
Michelle Langford is Associate Professor in film studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Langford’s most recent research project looks at the German films of the Iranian filmmaker […]
Dr. Farangis Ghaderi is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Kurdish Studies at the University of Exeter and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Jagiellonian […]
Hamid Naficy is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media, and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas and media. In this lecture, Naficy […]
A Public Discussion on the Installation of a Cyrus the Great Statue in Toronto. Abstract: "A significant feature of the Institute’s community activities involved the hosting “Cyrus in the […]