Gender in the Iranian Archives will be a workshop series which brings together established and emerging Iranian Studies scholars and archivists for a series of guided sessions on archival research focused on how to trace histories of gender and sexuality in the archives of modern Iran. Building on the experience of scholars who have incorporated […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies & York University Department of History present Iranian Studies Book Launch In-person & Online Featuring Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi's Familial Undercurrents:Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran Speakers Afsaneh Najmabadi Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Emerita Leila Pourtavaf Assistant […]
University of Toronto Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series in collaboration with The Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation present From Defense to Intervention: Iran-Iraq War Cinema in a New Millennium Niki Akhavan Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication Studies The Catholic University of America Friday, […]
University of Toronto Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series in collaboration with The Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation present Occupation and Sovereignty: Britain and Iran’s Road to the United Nations, 1941–1946 Dr. Rowena Abdul Razak London School of Economics and Political Science Friday, 4 November 2022, 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents Iranian Studies Virtual Book Launch featuring The Other Side of Silence:A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement byMahnaz Afkhami Friday, 11 November 2022, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (Canada and the US) Zoom Registration https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-ipqzsvGtKia66eL6zFW1zeZK7r7uy0 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Mahnaz Afkhami is the founder and president of the Women’s Learning Partnership and the […]
University of Toronto Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series in collaboration with The Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation present Homework: Film Production and Cultural Exchange at Kanoon, (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults), 1965-1989 Simran Bhalla Postdoctoral Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies University of Southern […]
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture SeriespresentHow Women Claim their Rights on or off Screena virtual lecture by Dr. Pardis MinuchehrCalifornia State University, Long BeachFriday, 2 December 2022, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (Canada and the US) Zoom Registrationhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvc-GhrjojEtPL2odpI4uEzAx1wPcOU3HM After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about […]
University of Toronto The Elahé Omidyar Institute of Iranian Studies presents Women, Life, Liberty: Iran’s Democratic Future Saturday, 14 January 2023 10:00 A.M.-7:00 P.M. Eastern Time (Canada and the US) In-Person: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 Zoom Registration & Participation https://uoft.me/IransDemocraticFuture 10:15-10:30 Welcome & Introduction: Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto Payam Akhavan, University […]
University of Toronto Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations in North America, and the Zoroastrian Society of Ontario Zoroastrian Studies Seminar Series present Conception and Representation of the Zoroastrian Rituals Professor Alberto Cantera Institute for Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin Friday, January 20, 1:00 PM Eastern TimeZoom Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdOqrrDstE9AhTsED3g0OOxf9E4maGo0T https://youtu.be/5F2fSy1a46s
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian StudiesThe Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture SeriespresentsFiction and the Formation of Romantic Love: The Afterlife of Nizāmī Ganjavi’s Khusrau u Shīrīn in Hindustān Aqsa Ijaz University of TorontoFriday, 27 January 2023, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (Canada and the US) In-Person SessionRoom 200B, Bancroft Building, 4 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1 https://goo.gl/qhdeVh Zoom Session […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents Iranian Studies Virtual Book Launch featuring Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran by Dr. Sivan Balslev https://youtu.be/FPVthJT8xik
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago and the Department of Near Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto present Virtual Lecture Series on Persian Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations Grammaticalization of “Dāshtan” Dr. Mahbod GhafariUniversity of […]