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Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran

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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 […]

From Defense to Intervention: Iran-Iraq War Cinema in a New Millennium

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, […]

Occupation and Sovereignty: Britain and Iran’s Road to the United Nations, 1941–1946

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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 Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement

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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 […]

Homework: Film Production and Cultural Exchange at Kanoon, (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults), 1965-1989

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 […]

How Women Claim their Rights on or off Screen

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 […]

Women, Life, Liberty: Iran’s Democratic Future

   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 […]

Conception and Representation of the Zoroastrian Rituals

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

Fiction and the Formation of Romantic Love: The Afterlife of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khusru u Shirin in Hindustan

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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 […]

Grammaticalization of “Dāshtan”

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 […]

On the Transmission of the Zoroastrian Texts

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 On the Transmission of the Zoroastrian Texts   Professor Almut HintzeFellow of the British Academy and Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism, University of London   Friday, February 17, 1:00 PM Eastern Time   Zoom […]