Salaam!
Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, February 28 at 4:30 pm with Dr. Ali Mousavi (UCLA):
سهم ایالات متحده آمریکا در پژوهشهای باستانشناسی در ایران
American Contributions to the Archaeology of Iran
This talk will be in Persian
Ali Mousavi obtained his Ph.D. in archaeology of the ancient Near East from the University of California, Berkeley. He excavated in France, Turkey, and Iran, and contributed to the nomination of a number of archaeological sites and monuments for inscription on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. He is the author of a book on the site of Persepolis (Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder), co-editor of the book Ancient Iran from the Air. He currently teaches art and archaeology of ancient Iran at UCLA and is the director of the Pasargadae Archaeological Excavations.
There will be tea & sweets!
Tuesday, February 28
4:30 – 6 pm in Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
See you there,
Alexandra
Salaam!
Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, February 21 with our own
Dr. Austin O’Malley:
معرفی رباعیات عطار
An Introduction to Attar’s quatrains
This talk will focus on ʿAṭṭâr’s Mokhtâr-nâma, the earliest authorially curated and thematically organized quatrain collection in Persian. After introducing and discussing ʿAṭṭar, the quatrain form, and the Mokhtâr-nâma, we will read, translate, and discuss some of its quatrains and ʿAṭṭâr’s prose introduction to the work.
This talk will be in Persian. There will be an introduction in English for interested students at 4pm in the NELC Lounge (3rd floor, Pick Hall).
There will be tea & sweets!
Tuesday, Feb. 21
4pm: Introduction in English (NELC Lounge, 3rd floor, Pick Hall)
4:30pm: Persian Circle talk (Pick Hall 218)
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
See you there!
Alexandra
Salaam!
Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, February 14 at 4:30 pm with Prof. Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside):
“Iranian Diaspora and Cityscapes of Memory in LA”
The talk will be in English and Persian
Fariba Zarinebaf received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Islamic history and is currently teaching at UC Riverside. Her book, Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800 (published 2010), examines the history of violence, criminality, policing and punishment in Istanbul from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. For the Persian Circle, she will look at the cities of Los Angeles (and Chicago) and their connection to the Iranian Diaspora.
There will be tea & sweets!
Tuesday, February 14
4:30 – 6pm in Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
See you there,
Alexandra
Salaam! Please join us for a Persian Circle talk on Tuesday, February 7 at 4:30pm with playwright Ezzat Goushegir:
“I’m not an Exceptionalist!”
A play reading
The reading will be in English, comments by the author will be in Persian.
Ezzat Goushegir is a playwright, author and film critic. She has performed her plays internationally as well as published five books (in Farsi), including three collections of short stories. Feminist perspective has the center role and interest in her writing. She brings a global and international perspective to her work by questioning social, political and gender issues.
Her plays have been translated into French, Arabic and Mandarin and produced by a variety of theater companies including “Maryam’s pregnancy”, which won a Richard Maibaum award and “Behind the curtains”, recipient at a Norman Felton award. She is the member of “The Dramatists Guild of America” and “The Association of Writers and Writing Program”. Currently she teaches at (SNL) DePaul University in Chicago.
There will be tea & sweets!
Tuesday, February 7
4:30-6pm: Persian Circle talk (Pick Hall 218)
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
See you there,
Alexandra
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