Greetings to dear friends and colleagues,
سلام به دوستان و همکاران گرامی
I hope you had a wonderful Norooz holiday! At Persian Circle we have a very exciting schedule for Spring Quarter, subject to change. Feel free contact us if you have any questions or suggestions!
4/1/2015 Ali Papoli-Yazdi (Universty of Tehran)
4/8/2015 Sam Molaie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
4/15/2015 Erfan Sharifpour (Sufi poet and musician)
4/22/2015 Shahrzad Mohammadian (SAIC)
5/6/2015 Samra Azarnouche (École pratique des hautes études-Paris)
5/13/2015 Ezzat Goushgir (DePaul University)
5/20/2015 Francesca Chubb-Confer (University of Chicago Divinity School)
5/26/2016 Ahmad Shekarchi (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran)
5/27/2015 TBA
Whether you are a professional who wishes to update us on cultural events in the greater Chicago area, an artist who wants to showcase a project, or a scholar needing a venue to workshop a paper pertaining to the Persianate world, we would love to have you at Persian Circle! Please scroll down to access recordings of previous presentations from years past, or visit Soundcloud to access recordings from this year:
Be omide didar 🙂
Greetings to dear friends and colleagues,
سلام به دوستان و همکاران گرامی
To kick off the new year, the Persian Circle has a very exciting Winter Quarter schedule. The Persian Circle website has finally been fixed so here’s the list below:
1/7/2015 Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago)
1/14/2015 Nasim Hantehzadeh (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
1/21/2015 Nazila Fathi (Former New York Times Tehran correspondent)
1/28/2015 Mitra Fallahi (St. Xavier University)
2/3/2015 Henning Börm (University of Kostanz, Germany)
2/4/2015 Sam Hodgkin (University of Chicago)
2/11/2015 Saeed Ghahremani (University of Chicago)
2/18/2015 Elise Auerbach (Amnesty International)
3/4/2015 Nazafarin Lotfi (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
3/12/2015 Shaul Shaked (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Please stay tuned for updates! Click on link below for recordings of previous presentations from this year.
Salaams everyone! Sorry for the delay in uploading the recordings, but here they are now
سلام به همه دوستان و همکاران گرامی
Greetings to all dear friends and colleagues,
Welcome back to another year of exciting talks, presentations, and discussions! The Persian Circle is a weekly event that takes place at the University of Chicago, where we host local and visiting scholars, students, artists, intellectuals, and researchers to come and share their interests with us in an informal and informative series of lectures in Persian. Our weekly meeting time this year will be Wednesdays, 5:00pm-6:30pm in 218 Pick Hall, 5828 South University Avenue. Below is a tentative schedule of our upcoming speakers:
- 10/1/2014: Shermin Kruse (Pasfarda Arts and Cultural Organization)
- 10/8/2014: Cameron Cross (University of Chicago)
- (Thursday) 10/16/2014: Hadi Jorati (Yale University/Ohio State University)
- 10/22/2014: Sanaz Sohrabi (School of the Art Institute Chicago)
- 10/29/2014: Arjang Khorzad (Middle East Music Ensemble)
- 11/5/2014: Sara Rastegar (Northwestern University)
- 11/12/2014: Ahmad Arbaboun (University of Chicago)
- 11/19/2014: Simin Hemmati-Rasmussen (Iran House of Greater Chicago)
- 12/3/2014: Azadeh Gholizadeh (School of the Art Institute Chicago)
Individual announcements for each speaker will be posted 1-2 days prior. I look forward to seeing you, and stay tuned for updates!
cheers,
Maryam (مریم)
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