February 7: Ameena Yovan, The Maqātil of Ḥusayn and the Story of Siyāvash
نبینم همی یار با من بسی”: تقدیر و نظام دنیوی در مقاتل حسین وحکایت سیاوش”“I see no more companions about me”: Understanding fate and world order in the maqātil of Ḥusayn and the story of Siyāvash
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Ameena Yovan is a student in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She graduated with a Master’s in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, with a thesis on maqātil literature. Her research focuses on early Islamic history, particularly the development of early sectarian narratives.
January 24: Saeed Yousef on “The Uneven Development of Modernity in Persian Poetry”
January 17: Monire Taliebakhsh on “Open Subject in Persian Mystical Literature”
Baa salaam,
Thursday 17th January, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Monire Taliebakhsh is a PhD candidate in Persian Mystical Literature at Tarbiat Modares University in Iran. She did both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Guilan University in Iran. The title of her master‘s thesis was “Cognition & Metacognition in Rumi‘s couplet-poem (Masnavi)” and the title of her PhD thesis is: “Negativity and Its Role in the Genesis of Mystical I in Persian Literary Texts until the End of the Seventh Century”. It is an interdisciplinary study between Mysticism and Philosophy, especially Phenomenology, which focuses on the problem of identity and self in mystics. All her works and the horizon of her studies combine Persian literature, mysticism and philosophy. She is currently a visiting scholar at Phenomenology Research Center at SIU in order to consult and work with Prof. Anthony J. Steinbock.
Additionally, please note our provisional schedule for the rest of the quarter:
24 January: Saeed Yousef (University of Chicago), “The Uneven Development of Modernity in Persian Poetry”
31 January: TBA
7 February: Ameena Yovan (University of Chicago), “”I see no more companions about me”: Understanding fate and world order in the maqātil of Ḥusayn and the story of Siyāvash”
14 February: Hashem Morvarid (University of Illinois at Chicago), Title TBA
21 February: Shaahin Pishbin (University of Chicago), “From Nishapur to Buenos Aires: Jorge Luis Borges and Persian Literature”
28 February: Hamideh S. Bagherzadeh (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Title TBA
7 March: TBA
سوژه گشوده در ادبیات عرفانی فارسی
December 6: Alex Shams on Arbaeen Pilgrimage and Transnational Shia Culture
Baa salaam,
“The Road to Karbala; The Role of Arbaeen Pilgrimage in Producing Transnational Shia Culture”
Thursday 6th December, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University
Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Alex Shams is a PhD Student of Anthropology whose research focuses on sacred space, religious pilgrimage, and identity in the Middle East. He is currently conducting his fieldwork in Iran and Iraq.
November 29: Xelef Botan, Travels in Iran
Baa salaam,
Dear friends and colleagues, please join us this Thursday, 11/29, for a Persian Circle featuring Xelef Botan (CMES), who will be giving a talk in Persian and English on his travels in Iran this summer.
Xelef Botan is a second year CMES student at UChicago. He received his BA from Brown University in International Relations. He has been deeply interested in the histories, languages and cultures of the Middle East for a very long time. He has visited and even lived in some of the Middle Eastern countries. Most recently, he visited Iran for about two months and did a road-trip during that time, which is what he is going to talk about at the Persian Circle.
Thursday 29th November, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Be omid-e didaar,
Sam
با سلام
این هفته انجمن سخن فارسی در دانشگاه شیکاگو تقدیم می کند سخنرانی ای به زبان فارسی و اینگلیسی. سخنران ما در این جلسه خلف بتان (مرکز مطالعات خاور میانه) است که راجع به سفرش و تجربه اش در ایران این تابستان ارائه خواهد داد
پنجشنبه ۲۹ نوامبر ۲۰۱۸
ساعت: ۵:۰۰ تا ۶:۳۰
به امید دیدار
سام
November 8: Yasaman Moussavi, “Passage”
Baa salaam,
Dear friends and colleagues, our Persian Circle this week features Chicago-based artist Yasaman Moussavi, who will be giving a talk in Persian entitled:
راه
(Passage)
An abstract of the talk is provided in the Persian-language announcement, below.
(Image: Yasaman Moussavi, Shadow Facing the light, Installation, 2015)
Thursday 8st November, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Yasaman Moussavi was born in Tehran, Iran. She received her BFA degree in painting from the Al-Zahra University of Tehran. She holds an MFA degree with two emphases on painting and printmaking from Texas Tech University, where she explored and developed her skills in papermaking, printmaking, and installation art. Her works have been selected in many national and international group exhibitions such as Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Irving Art Center, TX and A.I.R Gallery Biennial, Brooklyn, NY. You can learn more about her work at: https://yasamanmoussavi.com/.
Be omid-e didaar,
Sam
با سلام
:این هفته انجمن سخن فارسی در دانشگاه شیکاگو تقدیم می کند سخنرانی ای به زبان فارسی
راه
سخنران ما در این جلسه یاسمن موسوی است
پنجشنبه ۸ نوامبر۲۰۱۸
ساعت: ۵:۰۰ تا ۶:۳۰
گذار از مرحلهای به مرحله دیگر ساختار بنیادین زندگی را شکل می دهد. هر مرحلهای، شروع یک دوره و پایان دوره پیشین است، و تداوم دورهها مسیری پیوسته و همواره در حال تحول را شکل می دهد. این فضای دورهای در هنر و ادبیات و معماری به شیوههای گوناگون مطرح شده است. یاسمن موسوی در آثارش تالش می کند تا به بیانی بصری از این فضای بینابینی برسد. منظور از فضای بینابینی فضایی معلق بین تولد و مرگ یک دوره تحولی است، که تنها در هنگام گذار از مرحلهای به مرحله دیگر مصداق مییابد. او در آثارش با ارجاع به سنت شعر فارسی می کوشد تا با جستاری در استعاره سفر در آثار و از نگاه شعرای فارسی زبان، پلی میان گذشته و حال بزند. برای یاسمن ، مسیر این سفر از میان روابط انسان با دنیای بیرون (فضای اجتماعی) و دنیای درون می گذرد. او در آثارش با بازآفرینی فضایی پیچ در پیچ و سیّال بیننده را به تجربه و حرکت در فضای درونی دعوت می کند، و با بکارگیری عناصری چون نور و سایه به دنبال عینیتبخشی به لحظات گذرای بیرونی است که تنها با حساسیت و کنجکاوی هنرمندانه ثبت می شوند. به عبارتی دیگر، یاسمن با تاثیر از طبیعت مولد، فضا را با نظر به ادامه بیپایان چرخه مرگ و زندگی توسط عناصر و فرمهای طبیعی بازسازی می کند
به امید دیدار
سام
Parvaneh Hosseini on “Collective Memory and Identity Construction in Persian Novels by Bahai’i Authors”
Baa salaam,
:هویت و حافظه جمعی در رمان های فارسی اثر نویسندگان بهایی
«خاطرات یوتاب» و «گهواره دیو»
Collective Memory and Identity Construction in Persian Novels Written by Bahai’i Authors: A Comparative Analysis of the Novels: “Memories of Utab” and “The Cradle of the Beast”
Thursday 1st November, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Parvaneh Hosseini is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern and North African Studies with a minor in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her interests include politics of body, identity, and literature. She published “The Extension of Collective Identity: A Comparative Analysis ofI’ll Turn Off the Lights and Savushun” in Rahak in 2016 and “Transformation of the Meaning of Hijab in Islamic Fashion” in Ghalamrow in 2018. She has co-translated the novel There is no Fish in Gamasiyab by Hamed Esmaelion from Persian to English. Parvaneh Hosseini is also a social justice advocator. When she was in Iran she taught at Tehran University, Al-Zahra University and Bahaii University. She has been teaching Persian and Middle Eastern Humanities at the University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin for almost 8 years. She teaches at Worcester State University at present.
«هویت و حافظه جمعی در رمان های فارسی اثر نویسندگان بهایی: «خاطرات یوتاب» و «گهواره دیو
October 18: Saeed Yousef
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
October 11th: Franklin Lewis
Baa salaam,
Friends and colleagues, for our first Persian Circle of the year this week, we are very excited to host our own Franklin Lewis (Associate Professor of Persian Language & Literature & Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), who will be giving a talk in Persian entitled:
استاد حشمت مؤیّد و تاریخچه تدریس ادبیات فارسی
در دانشگاه های آمریکا
(Professor Heshmat Moayyad and the Early Days of the Field of Persian Literature in U.S. Universities)
Thursday 11th October, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)
Franklin Lewis is Associate Professor of Persian Literature and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on Persian and Arabic literature and philology, Sufism and Islamic Thought, Baha’i Studies, as well as the role of translation in literary history. Lewis has written (1995) on the poet Sanâ’i and the formation of the ghazal genre; on Jâmi and the closing of the Persian canon (2018); on the popular 12th-century Sufi saint, Shaykh Ahmad-e Jâm, The Colossal Elephant and His Spiritual Feats: Shaykh Ahmad-e Jām (co-authored with Heshmat Moayyad; Mazda, 2004) and the genre of hagiography; on the interchange between Boccaccio and Chaucer and the tale collections of Persian and Arabic; and on epistemology in the writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (1844-1921). He has guest-edited an issue of Iran Nameh about Rumi (2009), and a special issue of Iranian Studies on Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (2015). In 2000, Lewis’ Rumi: Past and Present, East and West (Oxford: Oneworld) received the BRISMES British-Kuwaiti Friendship award; it has been translated to Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Danish. His translations of Rumi’s poetry appeared in 2008 as Rumi: Swallowing the Sun. He has also published translations of fiction by Iranian writers, including In a Voice of their Own: Stories written by Iranian women since the Revolution of 1979; Zoya Pirzad’s novel, Things We Left Unsaid (2012); and Jamalzadeh’s Masumeh of Shiraz.
Be omid-e didaar,
Sam
,با سلام
:این هفته انجمن سخن فارسی در دانشگاه شیکاگو تقدیم می کند سخنرانی ای به زبان فارسی
استاد حشمت مؤیّد و تاریخچه تدریس ادبیات فارسی در دانشگاه های آمریکا
(سخنران ما در این جلسه استاد فرانکلین لوئیس (زبان ها و تمدن های خاور نزدیک، دانشگاه شیکاگو
پنجشنبه ۱۱ اکتبر ۲۰۱۸
ساعت: ۵:۰۰ تا ۶:۳۰
به امید دیدار
سام