Pick Hall 218, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
1/14: Why a Modern Constitution Failed to Produce Democracy? The Case of Iran - Pegah Banihashemi
1/21: On translating Simin Daneshvar's Bewilderment Trilogy - Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
1/28: A Glimpse into the Work of Scholarly Editing Persian Texts - Sassan Zand Moqaddam
2/4: Mentalization through the Lens of Persian-Dari Literature - Farahnaz Orakzay
2/11: Painted Carpets: Material Entanglements of the Early Modern - Kiana Shahnia
2/18: Sayeh Roshan: A Consideration of Iranian Roots and Identity through Western Classical Music - Ali Kian Yazdanfar
2/25: Between Tradition and Tinder: A Cross-Cultural Glimpse into the Changing Face of Love and Dating in Iran and the U.S. - Shiva Rahmani