Centre For Iranian Studies, Soas

Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, (Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at #SOAS) was quoted in Alice Cuddy's piece on Euronews English about Iran's 1979 revolution.

Iranian cinema’s prominence at international film festivals over the last three decades has raised interest and questions in equal measure. The success has been paradoxical on many levels, not least because the production of such a high volume of quality films has taken place under a strong ideological state that requires overcoming a myriad of religio-political restrictions.

Seventy Years in the Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry (1908-1978): Labour and Beyond - Two lectures by Professor Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam). 05 & 06 February 2019.

Jim Muir, former BBC Tehran correspondent and Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute, #SOAS investigates secret contacts between the Americans and Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris in this BBC Radio 4 podcast.

Room: Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT) Series: Kamran Djam Annual Lecture Series at SOAS
This lecture is free to attend and no registration is required. But please note that seating is on a first-come first-serve basis.
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Room: Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT) Series: Kamran Djam Annual Lecture Series at SOAS
This lecture is free to attend and no registration is required. But please note that seating is on a first-come first-serve basis.
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YARSHATER LECTURE SERIES 2019 POSTPONED UNTIL MAY
It is with much regret that we find that Massumeh Farhad’s upcoming Yarshater lecture series has fallen victim to President Trump’s lockdown of government services in Washington, D.C. – the Smithsonian Institution and all its museums (one of the being the Smithsonian's Freer Sackler Galleries, of which Massumeh Farhad is Chief Curator) being government institutions. So, to this end, Freer Sackler curators, like most other US g...overnment employees have had bans imposed on their activities, which extraordinarily includes travelling abroad on lecture tours. We have been hanging on for as long as possible to see if there is any way around this predicament, or a sudden change of presidential mind, to no avail. We have, therefore, made the decision to postpone the series and have rebooked the Khalili Lecture Theatre for 16th, 17th 20th and 21st May 2019.
With many, many apologies.
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Dr Sarah Stewart, Shapoorji Pallonji senior Lecturer in Zoroastrianism at #SOAS University of London, has published a new book exploring the remaining Zoroastrian communities in Iran.
Voices from Zoroastrian Iran (Volumes I and II) is the result of an oral studies research project that maps the remaining Zoroastrian communities in Iran and explores what has happened to their religious lives and social structures since the Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic.

Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
* Please note all proceedings will be in Persian. Refreshments will be served before the start and during the interval when you will also be able to purchase Persian books and view the young poets’ poems exhibition.
Programme:
... • Announcement of the winners of the “Jaleh Esfahani Poetry Prize”, for young Persian speaking poets • Talk by renowned Afghan poet, Reza Mohammadi, on ‘Contemporary Persian Poetry’ in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan • Solo acting satire by Hamid Abdolmaleki, theatre and TV actor, from the Netherlands, acting parts of the poetry play Moush-O-Gorbeh (Mouse and Cat), by the 14th century Persian poet and satirist Ubayd Zakani • Iranian music by “Ahoora Ensemble”, performing Iranian music, including Persian traditional, Kurdi, Azeri and Gilani songs
Further information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/…/12jan2019-bony ad-jaleh-esfahani-an…
Admission: £5
Organised by: Bonyad Jaleh Esfahani in association with the London Middle East Institute, SOAS
Contact email: fsp@parand.co.uk
LMEI contact email: Vincenzo Paci vp6@soas.ac.uk / Aki Elborzi ae6@soas.ac.uk
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The book launch: Zoroastrian Voices, Oral Texts and Testimony by Sarah Stewart, in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat, took place at the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies (SSPIZS) on 14 November 2018

Call for Papers: Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies - Institute of Iranian Studies FU Berlin
Deadline: 31 December 2018

Call for Papers: International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) Sixth International Conference
Deadline for Submission of Papers: January 15, 2019
The International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) is pleased to announce its sixth conference on Iran’s Economy to be held at the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples 'L'Orientale' on May 16-17, 2019.
... The event follows a series of successful international conferences organised by IIEA since its inception: SOAS (its inaugural conference, 2011), Bilgi University (2013), Boston College (2014), Philipps-University of Marburg (2016), and the International Institute of Social History (2018). As on previous occasions, the purpose of this conference is to showcase the best current research on Iran’s economy and to generate information and encouragement for future high-quality research in this area.
The criteria for the selection of papers are: (i) focus on Iran’s economy; (ii) quality of work and rigour of analysis, and (iii) history of the authors’ contributions to research on Iran's economy (this last criterion will not be applied to papers submitted by PhD students and recent graduates). The proposed topics may be in any field of economics, economic history and political economy. The Program Committee welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers that use quantitative or analytical narrative methods.
Read more: https://www.soas.ac.uk/…/15jan2019-call -for-papers-internat…
Organised by: The International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA)
Contact email: km418@cam.ac.uk
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This is the second part of the Safavid Era: Idea of Iran Annual Symposium that was held at #SOAS on 27 October 2018.

The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era was the 2018 Idea of Iran Annual Symposium organised by the Centre of Iranian Studies, SOAS on 27 October 2018.

The BBC has reported that SOAS is among the top five universities for the highest financial returns for women, following a study from the Department for Education and Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Venue: Room T101, SOAS Language Centre, 22 Russell Square, London WC1B 5EA
* Please note that seating is very limited and will be on a first-come first-serve basis.
Modernisation and Spatial Transformation of Muharram Processions in Iran
... Speaker: Reza Masoudi Nejad (SOAS)
The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated the project of modernization in the 1920s. Based on his recently published book: The Rite of Urban Passage, Reza will talk about the spatial reading of rituals, and in particular discuss the re-organisation of Muharram procession routes during the transformation of Iranian cities.
Read more: https://www.soas.ac.uk/…/28nov2018-mode rnisation-and-spatia…
Organised by: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS and the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
For further information please contact Nima Mina: nm46@soas.ac.uk
CIS contact email: Vincenzo Paci vp6@soas.ac.uk / Aki Elborzi ae6@soas.ac.uk
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