Lecture Series

Past Events

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

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

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

The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979

Date
Monday, April 7, 2025. 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Speaker
Talinn Grigor, Houri Berberian

The Formation of the Safavid Empire in Syria | Evrim Binbaş

Date
Tuesday, March 11, 2025. 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Archiving the History of Modern Iranian Women

Date
Thursday, March 6, 2025. 2:00pm - 6:30pm
Speaker
Kioumars Ghereghlou, Abbas Milani, Sepideh Mohammadian, Negar Mottahedeh, Farzaneh Milani, Nahid Pirnazar, Homa Sarshar, Mona Tajali, Mandana Zandian

A History of Alcohol in the Muslim Middle East

Date
Thursday, February 13, 2025. 10:00am - 11:00am
Speaker
Rudi Matthee

The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry

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

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