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Salaam! Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, Nov. 22 with Prof. Alireza Doostdar:
هالیوود، شیطان‌پرستی و جهان‌وطنی
Hollywood, Satanism and Cosmopolitanism

In this talk, Prof. Doostdar examines the contrasting ways in which Hollywood supernatural thrillers and horror cinema are received in Iran, and offers some remarks on what these responses reveal about attitudes to […]

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Salaam!
Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, November 15 with Ahmad Arbaboun (CMES Alumnus):
مکتب اصول فلسفی شیخ مرتضی انصاری (وفات 1864 میلادی – 1281 هجری قمری)

“Murtaḍá al-Anṣārī’s (d. 1864) School of Philosophical Jurisprudence”

In this talk Ahmad Arbaboun will be looking at a crucial point in the history of Shi’i jurisprudence where after […]

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Salaam!
Join the Persian Circle for a screening of
مارمولک
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 4:30-6:30pm
Pick 218

There will be a short introduction before the screening. Come for a relaxing Persian Circle event and have some popcorn!
Be omid-e didaar,
Alexandra

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Salaam!
Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 4:30pm in Pick 218! Our speaker will be Dr. Reza Varjavand (St. Xavier University), whose book From Misery Alley to Missouri Valley has just been re-published as an expanded edition. Come to hear him talk, drink tea & enjoy some sweets! See […]

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Salaam! Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 4:30 in Pick 218! Our speaker will be poet and linguist Adel Javan. This talk will be in Persian, and there will be tea & sweets!
Adel Biabangard Javan:

چند نکته پیرامون شعر امروز ایران
به همراه شعرخوانی
“A few points on contemporary poetry […]

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Salaam!
Please join us for the first Persian Circle of the Autumn Quarter on Oct. 4 with Maryam Sabbaghi (University of Chicago, Divinity school):
       گذری بر مکانهای تاریخی یهودی و زرتشتی در ایران
“Exploring Jewish and Zoroastrian Sites in Iran”

Maryam will talk about her caffeinated wanderings through various Jewish and Zoroastrian neighborhoods and sites in Tehran, Yazd, […]

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Dear friends and colleagues,
welcome back to the new academic year! I’m the student coordinator for the Persian Circle, a weekly event for Persianists, Persian speakers, Persian learners and –lovers!
This year, we will meet on Tuesdays, 4:30-6pm in Pick Hall 218 (5828 S University Ave). We will host faculty, students, and professionals who will present on […]

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Nilofar Saraj
نیلوفر سراج
“A Look at Shahrzad Series” – Followed by a Screening of the Last Episode
نگاهی‌ به سریال شهرزاد” همراه با نمایش آخرین قسمت سریال”
Tuesday, May 24, 4:30 pm
Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick Hall #218)
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

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Salaam Persian Circlers! Here is our schedule for Spring quarter. It will be updated with more details as they become available. All dates, unless otherwise noted, are Tuesdays at 4:30 pm.
April 5: Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan
April 12: Kimia Maleki

April 19: Hossein Khandan
April 26: Afsaneh Kalantary
May 10: Bruce Lincoln, “Persian Archers and Paradise Gardens” (in English)
Wednesday, May 18, 5pm, Nasrin […]

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Jan 12: Afsaneh Kalantary: “Understanding the Confluence of Iranian Immigrant Women’s Heterogeneous Identities”
Jan 19: Saeed Ghahremani: “Laughter in the Time of Coup d’État: The Less-Known Iraj Pezeshkzād”
Jan 26: Mateo Farzaneh: “Shiite Clerics and Political Modernization in Iran”
Feb 2: Gil Stein: “Persian in Cyrillic: Cultural heritage in Tajikistan” (in English)
Feb 9: TBA
Feb 16: Siavash Sabetrohani
Feb 23: TBA
Mar 1: […]

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