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5/12/2022: Nicholas Boylston

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Nicholas Boylston! Dr. Nicholas Boylston is a scholar of Islamic Studies at Seattle University focusing on Shii Studies, Quranic Studies, Sufism and Persian literature. He received his BA from Harvard College, his MA from the University of Tehran, and his PhD from Georgetown University, and from 2017 to […]

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Please join usthis Thursday, May 5, at 5:00 pm for a talk with our very own Prof. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi! Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. Before joining us at the University of Chicago, she was Senior Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics at McGill University in Canada for 15 […]

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Please join us this Thursday, April 28, at 5:00 pm CST for a talk by Shahla Farghadani! Shahla Farghadani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Department of Middle East Studies. She works on the history and literary historiography of the Persianate world. Her research interests focus on Indo-Persian literary culture and the social […]

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Please join us this Thursday, April 21, at 5:00 pm CST for a talk by Prof. Kamran Talattof! Kamran Talattof received his Ph. D. from The University of Michigan in 1996, and he has been teaching at the University of Arizona since 1999 after teaching at Princeton University for three years. He has taught courses on […]

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Join us this Thursday, April 14, at 5:00 pm CST for a talk by Mehdi Faraji! Mehdi Faraji is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. He has also earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Sociology from the University of Tehran. Dr. Faraji is a member of the Association […]

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Spring 2022 Scheduling

Salam All,

With the start of spring term, Persian Circle is excited to present a series of exciting speakers! This quarter, we have decided to continue with ONLINE meetings. We will be meeting over zoom every week, Thursdays, from 5:00-6:30 CST. Attached is a copy of our springschedule. There, you should find a link to our […]

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Please join us this Thursday, April 7, at 5:00 pm for a talk by Sahba Aminikia! Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American contemporary music composer, artistic director, performer and educator. Born and raised in Tehran and based in San Francisco, California, he has received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music with honors at San […]

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Join us this Thursday, February 24, at 5:00 pm for our a talk by Prof. Babak Tabarraee! Babak Tabarraee is an assistant professor of instruction and the coordinator of the Persian program at The University of Texas at Austin. He has published three books of fiction in Iran as well as more than 20 literary […]

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