The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India on September 28, 2024.
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Years?: The Social, Cultural, and Political Role of Towfigh Satirical Paper on October 19, 2024.
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge on January 18, 2025.
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black on February 1, 2025.
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal on February 22, 2025.
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd” on March 8, 2025.
Awakening Literature: The Voice of the Other, the Rights of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion, 1797-1800 on April 12, 2025.