Shii News – Academic Items
1.‘A Mamluk-Venetian Memorandum on Asian Trade, AD 1503’
F. Apellaniz
2. Virtual Panel on “Arab Media Between Conflict and Peace” Recap
On Tuesday 7th of December, AMS hosted a virtual panel discussion on “Arab Media Between Conflict & Peace.”
The panel, hosted in advance of our upcoming issue on Media & Peace, discussed how media hampers or promotes peace in the region.
Our distinguished panelists included Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, Philip Seib; Professor Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park; Nour Halabi, Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds who stepped in for Professor Christa Salamandra, Deputy Chair of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, the City University New York; and Jalel Harchaoui, researcher and analyst of North African affairs. The event was moderated by AMS Managing Editor, Sarah El-Shaarawi.
The panelists discussed everything from information warfare in the region, to the role of women in cyberactivism.
To watch the entire panel and hear more about the role of the media in conflict and peace visit our youtube channel here.
3. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series:
Iranian Cinema and Women Poets
Winter-Spring 2022
Series Zoom Registration:
https://uoft.me/IranianCinema-WomenPoets
Friday, Jan 21, 4:00 p.m. EST
Tainted Veil: Desire, Poetry and Subjectivity in the Persianate Literary Culture of South Asia
Razak Khan, University of Göttingen
Friday, Jan 28, 4:00 p.m. EST
On Feminine Voice in Classical Persian Poetry: Invisible, Impossible, or Immaterial?
Ahoo Najafian, Macalester College
Friday, February 4, 4:00 p.m. EST
“Salaam Mumbai”: Pasts and Presents of Exchange and Collaboration Between Indian and Iranian Cinemas
Claire Cooley, Tufts University
Friday, February 11, 4:00 p.m. EST
Tracing the ‘Sensible Transcendental’: Forough Farrokhzad and the Question of Female Subjectivity
Mahrokhsadat Hosseini, University of Sussex
Friday, February 18, 4:00 EST
From Mehrin Negār to Tārā: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “The Snake King” (1966) and “The Ballad of Tārā” (1978-9)
Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews
Friday, February 25 Reading Week. No lecture.
Friday, March 4, 4:00 p.m. EST
Zīb al-Nisā (d. 1702): A “Hidden” Poetess at The Mughal Court
Pegah Shahbaz, University of Toronto
Friday, March 11, 4:00 p.m. EST
How Frightening Your Makings: Epidemics, Mass Metamorphoses,
and Bodies of the Iranian New Wave Cinema
Farbod Honaarpisheh, Yale University
Friday, March 18, 4:00 p.m. EST
Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically
Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar
Friday, March 25 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.
Friday, April 1 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.
Friday, April 8, 4:00 p.m. EST
Desire, Power and Agency: Iranian Female Poets Reading their Poems
before the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
Mahdi Touraj, King’s University College
Friday, April 15 Good Friday. No Lecture
Friday, April 22, 4:00 p.m. EST
New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema
Farshid Kazemi, Simon Fraser University
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- December 28, 2021
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