Seminar Series

Date

Event

Fri. April 5, 2013

Women in Soghdian Paradocuments

Parisa Derakhshan, Azad Islamic University, Tehran

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Place: Bancroft Hall 200B

4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For further details please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. March 29, 2013

The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Illusive Gender Democracy in the Middle East

Haideh Moghissi, York University

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Place: Bancroft Hall 200B

4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For further details please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. March 15, 2013

Dehyphenate and Detheorize My Voice: “I act, therefore, I am.”

Minoo Derayeh, York University

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Place: Bancroft Hall 200B

4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For further details please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. March 8, 2013

“The Rise and Demise of Women’s Studies in Iran”

Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Place: Bancroft Hall 200B

4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For further details please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. March 1, 2013

Mapping Gender in the Iranian Digital Diaspora”

Victoria Tahmasebi (University of Toronto)

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Place: Bancroft Hall 200B

4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1
 

For further details please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. February 15, 2013

“The Trouble with Third Powers: German-Iranian Relations to 1941”

Jennifer L. Jenkins (University of Toronto)

Time: 4 pm

Place: Bancroft Hall 200B

4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For further details please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. February 8, 2013

“Reconsidering Mossadeq”


Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern
History and Politics, City University of New York

Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Bancroft Hall 214 4 Bancroft Avenue

Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For more information please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. February 1, 2013

"Beyond Jihad: Celal Nuri, Musa Kazem, and Alexander Helphand-Parvus on the Ottoman-German Alliance"

York Norman, Buffalo State College

Time: 4-6 pm

NMC department Conference Room (BF200B), 4 Bancroft Avenue

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Fri. February 1, 2013

“Presence in Absence: Relics and Their Role in Haidarabadi Shīʿism”

Professor Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto

Time: 4pm

Bancroft Hall 214 4 Bancroft Avenue

Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

For more information please contact 416-978-2413 or visit <http://www.facebook.com/iranianinitiative>.

Fri. January 11, 2013

"A History Without Peasant Revolts: Critical Insights on Iranian Historiographies"

Professor Amir Hassanpour

Time: 4:00 pm

Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue

Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1

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Mon. November 12 2012

“Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Film and Fiction" Lecture

Professor Judith Fletcher

Time: 10:30 am

RM 2080 Davis Building, UTM

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Fri. November 9 2012

“Chishtī Sufi Khanqah and the Culture of Books in the Later Mughal India: The Punjab-Deccan Connection” Lecture
Sajida Sultana Alvi, Professor Emerita, McGill University

Time: 4:00 p.m.
Bancroft Hall 200B
4 Bancroft Avenue
Toronto, ON M5S 1C1

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Thurs. November 8 2012

Islam & Bioethics Workshop

Dr. Soroush Dabbagh

Time: 4-6 pm

RM 153E North Building, UTM

Fri. November 2 2012

Joycean Modernity in a 19th Century Qur’ān Commentary: The Bab's Tafsīr Surat Yusuf

Todd Lawson, University of Toronto

Time: 4:00 pm

Bancroft Hall 200B
4 Bancroft Avenue
Toronto, ON M5S 1C1

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Thurs. November 1 2012

Jacque Ranciere & Latin America: A Master Class on Ranciere’s Disagreement Seminar

Professor Sebastián Carassai

Time: 2-4 PM

RM 3041 Sidney Smith Hall

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