Calendar of Events




A Half-Century of Towfigh: The Oldest Persian Satirical Periodical (in Persian)

6/17/2023
6:00 PM—9:00 PM
OISE Auditorium, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6


Pourdavoud Center Fall Welcome Reception

10/9/2018
306 Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA


Pasargadae, the capital of Cyrus the Great

10/3/2018
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London


CfP: Gotha manuscript workshop: Alchemy in the Islamicate world

9/28/2018—9/29/2018
CfP: Gotha manuscript workshop: Alchemy in the Islamicate world Gotha, Germany


Looking East: James Justinian Morier & 19th-Century Persia

9/24/2018—12/14/2018
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 535 West 114th St. New York, NY


11th Annual Iranian Film Festival

9/22/2018—9/23/2018
San Francisco Art institute 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA


Ctesiphon: An Ancient Royal Capital in Context

9/15/2018
Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC


Mirrors of Iran - Unveiling Iranian Literary Heritage

9/8/2018
State Library of New South Wales Macquarie Street, Sydney, Australia


CFP - 54th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University

9/1/2018
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo


Position: Lecturer in Persian language and linguistics

9/1/2018
Université de Strasbourg


Persian Language Summer School

7/8/2018—8/18/2018
Yerevan, Armenia


Tappeh Sialk and Ancient Kashan Revisited Conference

7/2/2018—7/3/2018
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London


Persianate Literatures as World Literature

6/20/2018
Ontario, Canada


“Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium B.C.”

6/17/2018—6/22/2018
Monte Verità, Ascona


Persian Women In Tech

6/12/2018—6/27/2018
London, Boston, San Francisco


Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures: A Conference in honour of Professor Bo Utas on his 80th Birthday

6/7/2018—6/9/2018
Uppsala University, Ihresalen, Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3, Uppsala


Lectures with Miguel John Versluys and Albert de Jong

5/30/2018
UCLA, 306 Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Plaza


Diophante’s Kandys: Faceted Relations between Persia and Classical Athens

5/23/2018
UCLA, 306 Royce Hall, 10945 Dickson Plaza


Persian Language & Literature Position at UVA

5/14/2018
University of Virginia