Blake Atwood American University of Beirut Kaveh Askari Michigan State University Golbarg Rekabtalaei Seton Hall University Abstract: For over a decade, videocassettes were officially banned in Iran. But even analog media technologies like the videocassette are surprisingly difficult to control. Rather than curtain the circulation of videocassettes, the ban inspired a vibrant video-based movie […]
Bio: Dr. Claire Cooley is a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University. Her research and teaching focus on film and media industries in the Global South, South-South media flows, Sound Studies, and Critical Infrastructure Studies. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including Film History, Jump Cut, and Spectator. Her current book project tells […]
Farkhondeh Hajizadeh, Writer, Poet & Publisher Leila Sadeghi, Author, Researcher & Literary Critic Khatereh Sheibani, professor, York University Haroon Siddiqui, Author & Journalist Niyosha Keyzad, Phd Candidate, University of Toronto Granaz Moussavi, Poet Nahid Tavassoli, Writer & Literary Critic Saeed Yousef, Author
Professor Erik Anonby and Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami Bio: Erik Anonby is Professor in Linguistics and French at Carleton University. His research focuses on documentation and mapping of Iran's languages, with publications including Phonology of Southern Luri (2003), Adaptive Multilinguals: Language on Larak Island (2011), Bakhtiari Studies: Phonology, Text, Lexicon (2014), and Bakhtiari Studies II: Orthography […]
Convenors: Mohamad Tavakoli, Javad Abbasi, Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani Speakers: Mohamad Tavakoli|محمد توکلی Shirin Bayani|شیرین بیانی Arash Fekrat|آرش فکرت Mohammad Estelami|محمد استعلامی Wali Parkhash Ahmadi|ولی پرخاش احمدی Asadollah Sho‘ur|اسدالله شعور Mostafa Malekian|مصطفی ملکیان Khalilullah Afzali|خلیلالله افضلی Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani|محمود فتوحی رودمعجنی Javad Abbasi|جواد عباسی https://youtu.be/vnS-an2Y_r8
University of Toronto Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Distinguished Lecture Series presents The Second AnnualElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Distinguished Lecturefeaturing Farzaneh MilaniRaymond J. Nelson Professor of Iranian literature and Gender Studies,University of Virginia Speaking on A Literary Journey:On Walls, Veils, Borders, and Thresholds Friday, 9 September 2022, 1:00 P.M. Eastern […]
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 Hauntologies of the Present: Notes on Politics of Friendship in Férydoun Rahnéma’s Modernism Maziyar Faridi Clemson University Friday, 16 September 2022, 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time (Canada and the US) Registration: […]
University of TorontoElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies in collaboration withYork University’s Department of History and the Iranian Women’s Organization of Ontario present an online open public discussion on Women, Life, Liberty:Mahsa Amini, the Women’s Movement, and the Future in Iran Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 01:00 PM Eastern Time (Canada and the US)Zoom Registration:https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcu2grjwvHt0_XHLNsFp9B3JbWfq0WDz2 Panel […]
University of Toronto Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration withThe Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation present Iranian Studies Book Launch Alternative Iran:Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice Pamela KarimiAssociate Professor of Art HistoryUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Friday, October 7, 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time (Canada and the US) Zoom Registration https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErc--rqzgrE9wO1lWKFfJDuLuBYIHEjo8i Pamela Karimi earned her PhD […]
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration withThe Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation present Iranian Studies Book Launch (in Persian) رویارویی زن و مرد در عصر قاجار Gender Encounters in Qajar استاد حسن جوادیاستاد بازنشسته، دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، برکلی Friday, 7 October 2022, 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time (Canada and the US) Zoom Registration https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcscuuuqTsiGtIsMcZaxdT3DHrd-HvOANHM https://youtu.be/NcF0Al4WKAQ
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Seriesin collaboration withThe Encyclopaedia Iranica FoundationpresentControl, Digital Censorship and Totalitarianism: The State Monopolization of Video-on-Demand Platforms in IranMasoumeh HashemiMel Hoppenheim School of CinemaConcordia University Friday, 14 October 2022, 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time (Canada and the US) Zoom Registration https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdOigqTMuEtDsfouN7QLw9RY1dijGojlM After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the […]
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 […]