Lecture Series

Past Events

Enmity and Revolution in Iran

Date
Thursday, May 7, 2026. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Hussein Banai

Book Talk: The Memoirs of Partow Nooriala, Volume One (Iran)

Date
Thursday, April 2, 2026. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Partow Nooriala

Whither Iran: Stanford Scholars and Students on Current Developments and Trajectories

Date
Wednesday, February 4, 2026. 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Speaker
Abbas Milani, Larry Diamond, Michael McFaul, Matin Mirramezani, Bailey Ulbricht, Mobina Riazi, Sam Samani

City of Unrest: A Geolocated Archive of Protests in Tehran (2009-2023)

Date
Monday, February 2, 2026. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Mohsen B. Mesgaren, Matin Mirramezani, Mohsen Amiri

The Untold Stories of Ten Thousand Years of Iran’s History

Date
Thursday, January 22, 2026. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Bahram Ghadiri

Postponed: Funny Times: Drawing Cartoons from Fatherhood to Fatherland

Date
Thursday, January 15, 2026. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Navied Mahdavian

15th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Hossein Amanat

Date
Saturday, October 4, 2025. 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Speaker
Hossein Amanat

Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology

Date
Thursday, May 29, 2025. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Speaker
Mahdi Ganjavi, Sepehr Vakil

Order Contestation in the Middle East: Lebanon Between Iran and Israel

Date
Tuesday, April 22, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Speaker
Hanin Ghaddar, Abbas Milani, Amichai Magen

Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway

Date
Thursday, April 17, 2025. 10:00am - 11:00am
Speaker
Mikiya Koyagi