Category: Presentations

Chad Mowbray and Austin O’Malley: Living and Learning Persian in Tajikistan

By , November 5, 2009 11:39 pm

You can listen to this talk here.

Mohammad Majdzadeh: Radio in Iran

By , October 22, 2009 11:50 pm

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 Electrical Engineering. He began his artistic career in 1983 by entering Iran’s Art and Literature School. He played various roles on the stage and in TV serials. After finishing high school in 1991, he entered university and studied electronics for 3/5 years but finally switched and began studying stage acting, directing and oratory technique under the tutelage of master Samandarian (who is an outstanding expert in Beresht and Max Freish works). He then studied camera acting, film directing, playwriting and scriptwriting under the supervision of master Alasti (an expert in America cinema and avant-garde cinema in Iran). Majdzadeh has been working on the stage, television, radio, cinema and dubbing since 1994. He has worked as actor and director assistant in 19 professional plays, 10 movies (as actor and assistant director), 25 TV series and 400 radio plays and he has directed three short films. He has also co-operated with dubbing department of Iran TV in dubbing 14 foreign TV serials.

You can listen to this talk here.

Maqam: Jewish ensemble from the city of Bukhara

By , October 15, 2009 9:19 pm

The members of Maqam, a Jewish ensemble from Bukhara, talk about their music and give us a short performance. You can listen here.

Heshmat Moayyad: Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh

By , October 8, 2009 12:51 am

Listen to Dr. Moayyad’s talk here.

Austin O’Malley: Bayazid ibn Sultan Sulayman in Safavid Historiography

By , May 29, 2009 12:52 am

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 , May 22, 2009 12:55 am

By Dr. Kioumars Ghereghlou. You can listen to his talk here.

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa: The Tradition of Realism in Iranian Cinema

By , April 24, 2009 1:00 am

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.

Heshmat Moayyad: The Satire of Ṣāḍeq-e Hedāyat

By , January 30, 2009 3:28 pm

آقا دکتر حشمت موید ارائه می کند راجع به طنز سیاسی صادق هدایت

Listen to the talk and download the handout

Saeed Ghahremani: The Metamorphoses of Wolves in Persian Poetry

By , January 23, 2009 3:44 am

Dr. Saeed Ghahremani discusses how the image of the wolf in Persian poetry has changed over time. You can listen to his talk here. The accompanying handout is available here.

آقا دکتر سعید قهرمانی توضیح می دهد که نقش گرگها در شعر فارسی تغییر کرده‌است با مرور زمان

Padrom Partovi: Research and Institutional Cooperation in Iran-Some Notes from a Recent Visit

By , December 12, 2008 8:36 pm

You can listen to this talk here.

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