Lecture Series

Upcoming Events

The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry

Date
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Nikta Fakhri

Past Events

Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples: A New History of Jews in the Sasanian Empire

Date
Friday, December 6, 2024. 10:00am - 11:00am
Speaker
Simcha Gross

On the Foreign Sources of Political Legitimacy in Late-Pahlavi Iran (1968-1978)

Date
Thursday, December 5, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Speaker
Hussein Banai

Book Talk: The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry

Date
Thursday, November 7, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Farshad Sonboldel

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings - Writing a Popular History of the Achaemenid Empire

Date
Friday, November 1, 2024. 10:00am - 11:00am
Speaker
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s Oeuvre

Date
Thursday, June 6, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Saeed Talajooy

The Queen's Gambit for Equality: Mitra Hejazipour’s Chess Career and Women's Rights Advocacy

Date
Thursday, May 23, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Mitra Hejazipour

The Psychology of Revolution

Date
Thursday, May 2, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Fathali M. Moghaddam

Finding Home and Community Through Food

Date
Tuesday, April 30, 2024. 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Speaker
Nasim Alikhani

Book Talk: Lament for Siavash by Shahrokh Meskoob

Date
Thursday, April 25, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Mahasti Afshar

Twilight of the Islamic Republic?

Date
Thursday, April 18, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Ali Ansari