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The Persian Circle is a weekly lecture in Persian at the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This lecture series includes social, cultural and academic discussions about the Persian-speaking world and is led by faculty, students and visiting scholars. The opinions of the speakers are their own. Background pattern created by ransie3.
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- Cameron Cross discusses “Vis o Rāmin”
- Dr. Naser Keyvan’s talk
- Iranian films at the Siskel Center
- Hayedeh Torabi: A Review of “A Separation”
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- Fatih Kurşun: My trip to Iran
- Teaching Persian in Tajikistan
- Matt Stolper: The Persepolis Fortification Archive
- Bruce Lincoln: An Introduction to Pre-Islamic Iranian Religions
- Saeed Ghahremani: Torbati Dialect, a Khorāsāni Dialect, and the Struggle to Keep It Alive through Poetry
- Dr. Reza Varjavand: Government Spending in Iran
- Theo Beers: Living and Working in Afghanistan
- Barbara Scharres
- Zohreh Ghahremani
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Saeed Ghahremani: Torbati Dialect, a Khorāsāni Dialect, and the Struggle to Keep It Alive through Poetry
گویش تربتی، یکی از گویشهای خراسان، و تلاش برای زنده نگه داشتن آن از طریق شعر
You can listen to the talk here. The ghazal that we listened to can be downloaded here. The pictures from the slide show are displayed … Continue reading
Theo Beers: Living and Working in Afghanistan
Theo is currently a graduate student in the NELC department at the University of Chicago, and he spent last year, as well as the three previous summers, working in Afghanistan at various NGOs. He spoke about his experiences living and … Continue reading
Chad Mowbray and Austin O’Malley: Living and Learning Persian in Tajikistan
You can listen to this talk here.
Mohammad Majdzadeh: Radio in Iran
رادیو در ایران امروز همراه با فیلم /
گزارشی مستند از فستیوال مونولوگ خوانی توسط صداپیشگان رادیوی ایران/
کار محمد مجدزاده
“Radio in Iran” along with a film by Mohammad Majdzadeh
Mohammad Majdzadeh was born in Tehran-Iran in 1973. After high school he studied … Continue reading
Heshmat Moayyad: Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Listen to Dr. Moayyad’s talk here.
Austin O’Malley: Bayazid ibn Sultan Sulayman in Safavid Historiography
Austin O’Malley is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. You can listen to his talk here.
Dr. Kioumars Ghereghlou: Anti-Sufism in the Later Safavid Era and Sufi Polemics
By Dr. Kioumars Ghereghlou. You can listen to his talk here.
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa: The Tradition of Realism in Iranian Cinema
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker, a teacher at the Department of Film and Video, Columbia College, Chicago, and Artistic Consultant of the Iranian Film Festival, Film Center, Chicago since 1989. You can listen to her talk here.
