Iranian events throughout November & December
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SOAS Iranian Society
Nov 11, 2018, 4:10:02 PM11/11/18
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Dear all,
Hope you all did something useful (*cough*) over your half-term! Here is a listing of various Iranian (and some related) events at SOAS and elsewhere throughout November and December, alongside a few other items of interest.
This is a long list so you'll be able to find this bulletin here too: https://groups.google.com/group/soas-iranian-society/ - A couple of these were included in the previous email.
As for SOAS Iranian Society events and socials, we're aiming to get that ball rolling again very soon!
BBC World Service: US to Reinstate All Iran Sanctions
Hassan Hakimian, Director of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, spoke to the BBC last week on how Iran's economy is likely to be affected by the re-imposition of US sanctions.
Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w47ql1z5vc9
BBC Four: The Silk Road - Episode 3
In the final episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. The first BBC documentary team to be granted entry for nearly a decade, Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire.
Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03qb3q4/the-silk-road-episode-3
Job Vacancy: LSE Middle East Centre - Communications Manager
Deadline: Thursday, 29 November
We are looking to hire an experienced Communications Manager to lead the Centre’s communications work and research impact. The postholder is responsible for managing the Centre’s publications, events, web presence and outreach work. The postholder line manages the Communications team and supervises the communications work of other staff in the Centre. This is a one-year maternity cover post, commencing in February 2019.
Further info: https://bit.ly/2zzwZ61
A lecture by Professor Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Georg-August University Göttingen. Followed by a reception and book launch for Zoroastrian Voices, Oral Texts and Testimony, by Sarah Stewart, in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat, from 7pm in the Foyle Gallery.
Further info: https://bit.ly/2PUzgTI
Organised by: SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies (SSPIZS)
BBC World Service: US to Reinstate All Iran Sanctions
Hassan Hakimian, Director of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, spoke to the BBC last week on how Iran's economy is likely to be affected by the re-imposition of US sanctions.
Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w47ql1z5vc9
BBC Four: The Silk Road - Episode 3
In the final episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. The first BBC documentary team to be granted entry for nearly a decade, Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire.
Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03qb3q4/the-silk-road-episode-3
Job Vacancy: LSE Middle East Centre - Communications Manager
Deadline: Thursday, 29 November
We are looking to hire an experienced Communications Manager to lead the Centre’s communications work and research impact. The postholder is responsible for managing the Centre’s publications, events, web presence and outreach work. The postholder line manages the Communications team and supervises the communications work of other staff in the Centre. This is a one-year maternity cover post, commencing in February 2019.
Further info: https://bit.ly/2zzwZ61
Call for Papers: Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies
Deadline: Sunday, 30 December
Symposia Iranica is a young, dynamic, and strategically driven philanthropic project. It was established to pilot a concept for a different type of academic conference – one that marries the economy, collegiality, and focus on junior scholars of a graduate conference with the breadth, academic intensity, polish and execution of an international convention.
Further info: http://symposia-iranica.com/cfp/
Organised by: Symposia Iranica
Exhibition: Behjat Sadr - Dusted Waters
Date: 28 September - 08 December
Location: The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Each of the three gallery spaces at The Mosaic Rooms is dedicated to a city that was instrumental in shaping Sadr’s practice. Sadr’s own career path is evidence of a cosmopolitan modernity that was emerging in and between Tehran, Rome and Paris where the artist eventually settled after the 1979 Revolution.
Further info: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/behjat_sadr/
Organised by: The Mosaic Rooms
Zoroastrian Studies and the question of Orality
Date: Wednesday, 14 November
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Deadline: Sunday, 30 December
Symposia Iranica is a young, dynamic, and strategically driven philanthropic project. It was established to pilot a concept for a different type of academic conference – one that marries the economy, collegiality, and focus on junior scholars of a graduate conference with the breadth, academic intensity, polish and execution of an international convention.
Further info: http://symposia-iranica.com/cfp/
Organised by: Symposia Iranica
Exhibition: Behjat Sadr - Dusted Waters
Date: 28 September - 08 December
Location: The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Each of the three gallery spaces at The Mosaic Rooms is dedicated to a city that was instrumental in shaping Sadr’s practice. Sadr’s own career path is evidence of a cosmopolitan modernity that was emerging in and between Tehran, Rome and Paris where the artist eventually settled after the 1979 Revolution.
Further info: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/behjat_sadr/
Organised by: The Mosaic Rooms
Zoroastrian Studies and the question of Orality
Date: Wednesday, 14 November
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Clip of the The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA) Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWqGKVyvSzs
A lecture by Professor Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Georg-August University Göttingen. Followed by a reception and book launch for Zoroastrian Voices, Oral Texts and Testimony, by Sarah Stewart, in collaboration with Mandana Moavenat, from 7pm in the Foyle Gallery.
Further info: https://bit.ly/2PUzgTI
Organised by: SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies (SSPIZS)
Modern Art in Iran and its Search for Cultural Authenticity
Date: Wednesday, 14 November
Time: 18:45 - 20:30
Location: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/105643733704501/
As the art world reflects a global trend towards exhibiting and collecting contemporary art from Iran, Asia House is delighted to welcome one of the leading authorities on Persian art, Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan (SOAS) to speak on the rich and diverse—yet often overlooked—thriving modern art scene in Iran from the 1960s to the 1970s.
Further info & Tickets (Free for students): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-art-in-iran-and-its-search-for-cultural-authenticity-tickets-49039712099
Organised by: Asia House
The Imaginary Visions of Iran in the 1930s and 1970s
Date: Thursday, 15 November
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Room: Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/300393704129921/
Speaker: Ali Mirsepassi (New York University)
This talk will focus upon specific “imaginative” shifts about Iran as a modern nation. I will discuss two important historical periods in fashioning the social imaginary of the modern Iran by discussing two intellectual’s debates in each period.
Further info: https://bit.ly/2qHChbA
Organised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
An Iranian Art Plot: ‘Westoxication’
Date: Thursday, 15 November
Time: 19:00
Location: The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Iranian modernity emerged at a time of civil unrest (which led to the 1979 revolution) and was financially supported through the oil boom and the exploitation of natural resources by colonial powers. In the post war world, artists moved between Iran and countries in Europe with a circulation of ideas between Western art capitals and Iran. The panel debate the characteristics and climate in which Iranian modernism emerged.
Further info & Registration (Free): https://mosaicrooms.org/event/westoxication/
Organised by: The Mosaic Rooms
Mitra Tabrizian in conversation with Parveen Adams
Date: Friday, 16 November
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Location: AA Lecture Hall, Architectural Association, 34-36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/179572312909698/
Mitra Tabrizian’s photographic and film work is concerned with what we might call ‘the crisis of contemporary culture’ in both East and West. Born in Iran and educated in England, her journeys back and forth have allowed her to observe both cultures from an insider’s as well as outsider’s point of view. This has given her both a sense of engagement in and a sense of detachment from both cultures. Such a position allows her a detailed appreciation of the role of narrative and fantasy in cultural processes.
Further info: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3945
Organised by: The Architectural Association
Friday Late: Cyrus (Collapsing Market)
Date: Friday, 16 November
Time: 19:30
Location: The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Join us for a special Friday Late with Cyrus Goberville. Cyrus will play a hybrid DJ set, mixing experimental field recordings and traditional music from Iran with modern electronic textures.
Further info & Registration (Free): https://mosaicrooms.org/event/cyrus-goberville/
Organised by: The Mosaic Rooms
The Persian Duet
Date: Saturday, 17 November
Time: 20:00
Location: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Iran’s most innovative tombak (goblet drum) maestro Navid Afghahjoins forces with the seh-tar (four string lute) master Behdad Babaeito create a truly mesmerizing array of melodies and rhythmic patterns.
Further info & Tickets: https://richmix.org.uk/events/the-persian-duet-behdad-babaei-navid-afghah/
Organised by: Nava Arts
Raskshan Bani-Etemad and the Karestan Documentary Film Project
Date: Saturday, 24 November
Time: 15:00 - 19:00
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/273272606658407/
For this special screening of two of the Karestan Documentary films, The Poets of Life and Puzzleys, we will have the honour of welcoming the world renowned and prominent documentary filmmaker and producer, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and documentary filmmaker, Shirin Barghnavard to SOAS University of London.
Further info & Tickets: https://bit.ly/2yZruy4
Organised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, Centre for Global Media and Communications, SOAS and the Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS
Sponsored by: Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF)
Date: Wednesday, 14 November
Time: 18:45 - 20:30
Location: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/105643733704501/
As the art world reflects a global trend towards exhibiting and collecting contemporary art from Iran, Asia House is delighted to welcome one of the leading authorities on Persian art, Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan (SOAS) to speak on the rich and diverse—yet often overlooked—thriving modern art scene in Iran from the 1960s to the 1970s.
Further info & Tickets (Free for students): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-art-in-iran-and-its-search-for-cultural-authenticity-tickets-49039712099
Organised by: Asia House
The Imaginary Visions of Iran in the 1930s and 1970s
Date: Thursday, 15 November
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Room: Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/300393704129921/
Speaker: Ali Mirsepassi (New York University)
This talk will focus upon specific “imaginative” shifts about Iran as a modern nation. I will discuss two important historical periods in fashioning the social imaginary of the modern Iran by discussing two intellectual’s debates in each period.
Further info: https://bit.ly/2qHChbA
Organised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
An Iranian Art Plot: ‘Westoxication’
Date: Thursday, 15 November
Time: 19:00
Location: The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Iranian modernity emerged at a time of civil unrest (which led to the 1979 revolution) and was financially supported through the oil boom and the exploitation of natural resources by colonial powers. In the post war world, artists moved between Iran and countries in Europe with a circulation of ideas between Western art capitals and Iran. The panel debate the characteristics and climate in which Iranian modernism emerged.
Further info & Registration (Free): https://mosaicrooms.org/event/westoxication/
Organised by: The Mosaic Rooms
Mitra Tabrizian in conversation with Parveen Adams
Date: Friday, 16 November
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Location: AA Lecture Hall, Architectural Association, 34-36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/179572312909698/
Mitra Tabrizian’s photographic and film work is concerned with what we might call ‘the crisis of contemporary culture’ in both East and West. Born in Iran and educated in England, her journeys back and forth have allowed her to observe both cultures from an insider’s as well as outsider’s point of view. This has given her both a sense of engagement in and a sense of detachment from both cultures. Such a position allows her a detailed appreciation of the role of narrative and fantasy in cultural processes.
Further info: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3945
Organised by: The Architectural Association
Friday Late: Cyrus (Collapsing Market)
Date: Friday, 16 November
Time: 19:30
Location: The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW
Join us for a special Friday Late with Cyrus Goberville. Cyrus will play a hybrid DJ set, mixing experimental field recordings and traditional music from Iran with modern electronic textures.
Further info & Registration (Free): https://mosaicrooms.org/event/cyrus-goberville/
Organised by: The Mosaic Rooms
The Persian Duet
Date: Saturday, 17 November
Time: 20:00
Location: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Iran’s most innovative tombak (goblet drum) maestro Navid Afghahjoins forces with the seh-tar (four string lute) master Behdad Babaeito create a truly mesmerizing array of melodies and rhythmic patterns.
Further info & Tickets: https://richmix.org.uk/events/the-persian-duet-behdad-babaei-navid-afghah/
Organised by: Nava Arts
Raskshan Bani-Etemad and the Karestan Documentary Film Project
Date: Saturday, 24 November
Time: 15:00 - 19:00
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/273272606658407/
For this special screening of two of the Karestan Documentary films, The Poets of Life and Puzzleys, we will have the honour of welcoming the world renowned and prominent documentary filmmaker and producer, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and documentary filmmaker, Shirin Barghnavard to SOAS University of London.
Further info & Tickets: https://bit.ly/2yZruy4
Organised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, Centre for Global Media and Communications, SOAS and the Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS
Sponsored by: Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF)
What’s it worth? European Art at the Persian Court
Date: Monday, 26 November
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Location: Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Early-modern European accounts of the Safavid Court agree on one thing: Persians loved splendour, as much, if not more than their European counterparts. A splendid art collection was the ultimate mark of distinction in the West, so some European visitors to Persia were alarmed to find that upwardly-mobile Persians seemed to care more for flashy things, like solid gold horse bridles, than they did for European works of art. No one was more shocked than Louis XIV’s ambassador, Pierre Victor Michel.
Further info: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/whats-it-worth-european-art-at-the-persian-court
Organised by: Dr Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
What became of the Samanids?
Date: Wednesday, 28 November
Time: 18:00
Location: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Professor Florian Schwarz, Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will speak on the Samanid dynasty. The Samanids are the quintessential Persian dynasty of the Islamic period. They carried the legacy of Iranian kingship and statehood over into the Islamic period, and they eased the birth of Islamic Persian literary culture.
Further info & Registration (Free): https://www.bips.ac.uk/agm-and-lecture/
Date: Monday, 26 November
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Location: Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Early-modern European accounts of the Safavid Court agree on one thing: Persians loved splendour, as much, if not more than their European counterparts. A splendid art collection was the ultimate mark of distinction in the West, so some European visitors to Persia were alarmed to find that upwardly-mobile Persians seemed to care more for flashy things, like solid gold horse bridles, than they did for European works of art. No one was more shocked than Louis XIV’s ambassador, Pierre Victor Michel.
Further info: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/whats-it-worth-european-art-at-the-persian-court
Organised by: Dr Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
What became of the Samanids?
Date: Wednesday, 28 November
Time: 18:00
Location: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Professor Florian Schwarz, Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will speak on the Samanid dynasty. The Samanids are the quintessential Persian dynasty of the Islamic period. They carried the legacy of Iranian kingship and statehood over into the Islamic period, and they eased the birth of Islamic Persian literary culture.
Further info & Registration (Free): https://www.bips.ac.uk/agm-and-lecture/
Organised by: The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History
Date: Saturday, 01 December
Time: 9:00 - 18:00
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
At the crossroads between tradition and modernity in the modern history of Iran stand generations of intellectuals, diverse in their backgrounds and views, who struggled to mediate the transition from traditionalism to modern mode of thinking. Yet for many decades the development of democratic ideas was held back by intellectual elites who surrendered their critical independence to the dogmas of ideologies such as Stalinism and Islamism.
Further info & Tickets: https://bit.ly/2Pkq6Ap
Organised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Yalda night concert 2018
Date: Saturday, 15 December
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT)
We are going to celebrate the longest night of the year with Persian classical and folk music. This programme is organised by the SOAS Iranian music society. There will be a poetry recitation by Ms. Roshan Ravan, the popular presenter of radio Ahvaz in 1970s-80s.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/278386509446900/
Organised by: SOAS Iranian Music Society
Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History
Date: Saturday, 01 December
Time: 9:00 - 18:00
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
At the crossroads between tradition and modernity in the modern history of Iran stand generations of intellectuals, diverse in their backgrounds and views, who struggled to mediate the transition from traditionalism to modern mode of thinking. Yet for many decades the development of democratic ideas was held back by intellectual elites who surrendered their critical independence to the dogmas of ideologies such as Stalinism and Islamism.
Further info & Tickets: https://bit.ly/2Pkq6Ap
Organised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Yalda night concert 2018
Date: Saturday, 15 December
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT)
We are going to celebrate the longest night of the year with Persian classical and folk music. This programme is organised by the SOAS Iranian music society. There will be a poetry recitation by Ms. Roshan Ravan, the popular presenter of radio Ahvaz in 1970s-80s.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/278386509446900/
Organised by: SOAS Iranian Music Society
Living Zoroastrianism
Date: 12 October - 15 December 2018
Time: 10:30 - 17:00
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Date: 12 October - 15 December 2018
Time: 10:30 - 17:00
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/576547379449542/
This unique interactive exhibition engages the public in the Virtual Reality (VR) experience of a three-thousand years old Zoroastrian ritual in which the viewer will be immersed by means of VR glasses. Originating in ancient pre-Islamic Iran, the ritual was filmed by Chouette Films in Mumbai 2017 with cutting edge spherical video technology.
Further info: https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/living-zoroastrianism/
Organised by: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
This unique interactive exhibition engages the public in the Virtual Reality (VR) experience of a three-thousand years old Zoroastrian ritual in which the viewer will be immersed by means of VR glasses. Originating in ancient pre-Islamic Iran, the ritual was filmed by Chouette Films in Mumbai 2017 with cutting edge spherical video technology.
Further info: https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/living-zoroastrianism/
Organised by: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Yeah, i know... That was long! Hopefully i havent omitted anything... It is Sunday night, you know... ;}
Enjoy your week everyone!
Best,
Aki Elborzi
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