Celebrating Nowruz 2024

Apocalyptic Playland

The Royal Ontario Museum, the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, jointly present Apocalyptic Playland:The Works of Shiva Ahmadi  Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 1-2 p.m. Zoom Meeting Registration: https://tickets.rom.on.ca/en/login This Zoom program will feature a 20-minute discussion followed by a live audience Q&A. Questions may be sent in advance to programs@rom.on.ca. Please […]

A Psycholinguistic Approach to Teaching Persian as a Second Language

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly presentABC or BCA: What to Teach First: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Teaching Persian as a Second Language Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Instructional Professor, University of Chicago Saturday, 2 December 2023, 12:00 p.m. […]

Pragmatic Zoroastrian Theology

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian StudiesUniversity of Toronto Zoroastrian Studies SeminarpresentsPragmatic Zoroastrian Theology: Mulla Firuz against the Anti-Vaxxers, Bombay, 1806 Daniel Sheffield, Associate Professor, Princeton University   Friday, 8 December 2023, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and US)  Zoom Meeting Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYod-CsqzkuG9K6V4Y8PHjQkGgkvhNsGb3c After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. […]

Bilingual Texts from India: Combining Arabic and Persian with Indic Languages

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 Bilingual Texts from India: Combining Arabic and Persian with Indic Languages Eva Orthmann, Professor, University of Göttingen Thursday, 14 December 2023, 12:00 p.m. Toronto/5:00 p.m. UK  […]

Sex and the Subject of Law

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 Sex and the Subject of Law in the National Archives of Iran Jairan Gahan, Executive Director, Canadian Society for Iranian and Persian Studies Thursday, 11 January […]

“A Nice Morality”

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian StudiesUniversity of Toronto Zoroastrian Studies Seminarpresents"A Nice Morality:" Some Early Meetings between Zoroastrians and North Americans Jenny Rose, Research Fellow, Princeton Claremont Graduate University   Friday, 12 January 2024, 1:00 p.m. EST/ 6:00 p.m. GMT Zoom Meeting Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYod-CsqzkuG9K6V4Y8PHjQkGgkvhNsGb3c After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining […]

Iranian Studies Book Launch: Io parlo dai confini della notte [I Speak from the Edges of the Night / من از نهایت شب حرف میزنم]

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: Io parlo dai confini della notte notte Thursday, January 18, 2024 1 pm Room 200B, 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1C1   Zoom Registration Link for Virtual Attendance: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqfu6gqTkvG9JVn8iEw1iamKE7cEFXyq5T   Forugh Farrokhzad, Io parlo dai confini della notte , critical edition of all Persian texts […]

Iranian Studies Book Launch: Humour in Iran

           The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies & Toronto Book Club jointly present: Humour in Iran: Eleven-Hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature طنز در ایران: هزاروصد سال طنز در ادبیات فارسی Dr. Homa Katouzian (University of Oxford) Sunday, January 21, 2024 2 pm Eastern Time (Canada & US); 7 pm […]

Iranian Studies Book Launch: Songs from Beyond the Grave

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents: Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave   Friday, January 26, 2024 2 pm Room 304, 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1C1   Zoom Registration Link for Virtual Attendance: https://zoom.us/meeting/81473052527   Songs from Beyond the Grave Celebrating 900 Years of Retelling Nizami’s Love Poems […]

How to Teach a Persian Poem?

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with theDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago jointly presentHow to Teach a Persian Poem? Multiple Approaches to Persian Poetry Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Professor, Utrecht University Saturday, 27 Janury 2024, 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and US)  Zoom Meeting Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAldOiprDouGNLNd16ANiXTiJZab62Er4xq After […]

Bactrian Documents and Archives

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 Bactrian Documents and Archives from Northern and Southern Afghanistan Nicholas Sims- Williams, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Thursday, 8 February […]

Eschatology and Apocalyptic Literature

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian StudiesUniversity of Toronto Zoroastrian Studies SeminarpresentsEschatology and Apocalyptic Literature in the Zoroastrian Context Carlo G. Cereti, Professor, University of California, Irvine  Friday, 9 February 2024, 1:00 p.m. EST/ 6:00 p.m. GMT Zoom Meeting Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYod-CsqzkuG9K6V4Y8PHjQkGgkvhNsGb3c After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.   […]