Past Lectures

The First Annual Student Symposium on Iran and the Persianate World
  1. April 24, 2026 - 8:30am to 2:30pm
Conference Archive
Pamela Karimi - Women, Art, Freedom; Artists and Street Politics in Iran
  1. November 15, 2025 - 11:00am
Farzin Vejdani - Policing, Punishment & Authority in Iran
  1. October 11, 2025 - 11:00am
Amir A. Afkhami - Pandemics In Late Modern Iran
  1. May 4, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Past Lectures
Golnar Nikpour - Prisons and Prisoners in Modern Iran
  1. February 1, 2025 - 11:00am
Past Lectures
Soraya Tremayne - Inconceivable Iran: To Reproduce Or Not To Reproduce?
  1. November 2, 2024 - 11:00am
Ali Mirsepassi - The Loneliest Revolution
  1. October 19, 2024 - 11:00am
Past Lectures
Mohammad Moqaddam - A Prose Poet
  1. April 20, 2024 - 6:30pm
Laetitia Nanquette - Publishing and the State in Iran
  1. February 24, 2024 - 6:30pm
Fatemeh Shams - THE WORLDLINESS OF SOHRAB SEPEHRI’S POETICS
  1. January 20, 2024 - 6:30pm
Domenico Ingenito - I SPEAK FROM THE EDGES OF THE NIGHT
  1. November 18, 2023 - 6:15pm
Ava Homa - DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE AND FIRE: ART, ACTIVISM, AND IDENTITY
  1. October 21, 2023 - 11:15am
Farzaneh Milani - From us or them to us and them: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani at the Threshold
  1. June 28, 2023 - 12:15pm
Fatemeh Keshavarz - For the Seas and the Lands are vast, and the People Numerous!
  1. May 6, 2023 - 12:00am
Claudia Yaghoobi - Iranian Armenian Ancestral Flexibility, Adaptability and Continuity
  1. April 8, 2023 - 12:45pm
Lecture: The Iranian Realism of Ahmad Mahmoud
  1. February 18, 2023 - 11:00am
"Art and Literary Exchange Between Iran, Transcaucasia, Central Asia, and Russia in the 20th Century"
  1. October 30, 2021 - 12:15pm
  2. May 28, 2022 - 12:15pm
Lecture: Siah Armajani: A Pragmatic Deconstructivist
  1. April 17, 2021 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Lecture: Possibilities for Iranian Art
  1. February 20, 2021 - 12:00am
Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400-1700
  1. November 12, 2020 - 9:30am