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SOAS Iranian Society
Feb 25, 2018, 8:30:16 PM2/25/18
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Dear all,
I know, long time no hear! My apologies for that. These listings are very time consuming to put together and im sure like for many of you, time for me over these past 2 months has surprisingly just burnt up and popped before you knew it like a boot-leg firework. Im still feeling like Christmas was last week...
If you are a 1st or 2nd year undergrad and would like to be apart of a new team to take over the Iranian society for next school year (2018-19) please email me back and we can try to get you set-up asap and prepared for the Freshers Fair later this year in September. I can still put together email listings like this as a side thing, but events wise and generally on campus the SOAS Iranian Society really needs a team of younger students to take control of that and run things how you want to.
There's a lot listed below. It's kind of quiet on the Norooz events front at this time, but i will try to add to the listing below with Norooz events. And as i should mention each year, i was banned some years ago by the university from arranging any more Chaharshanbe Suri fires at SOAS in the run up to Norooz. So that im afraid, is not a possibility. Times have changed at SOAS.. - no doubt you've heard that one before. ;}
Episode 3: Iran
Nigel Slater's Middle Eastern food adventure concludes by visiting a country shrouded in mystery and often in the headlines - Iran. Here Nigel sets out to discover the secrets of Persian food, one of the oldest and most influential cuisines in the world.
Available to watch on the BBC iPlayer for a limited time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09s3ys6/nigel-slaters-middle-east-series-1-3-iran
Film Screening: Barcode
Date: Wednesday, 28 February
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: Lecture Theatre A, Ground Floor, St George’s University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE
Synopsis: Hamed decides to impress his potential new boss with the story of his life. A tale begins to unfold starring his boy racer friend, clever girlfriend and a strange, beautiful drug-addict. Hamed is dragged into a world of gangs, drugs and guns in this fast-paced and hilarious tale of revenge.
Free chai and snacks all included! (Flyer attached)
Price: £2 (pay at the door)
Organised by: SGUL Persian Society (https://www.facebook.com/sgulpersian)
On a Journey with Women of Iran: New Horizons
Date: Saturday, 03 March
Time: 16:00 - 19:00
Location: Fitzroy House, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 6DX
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/588122271532566/
This year’s International Women's Day events on March 8th take place at a momentous period in the history of the Iranian women’s campaign for gender parity. Throughout Iran, women are raising a new call for their most basic rights while facing a renewed revolving door policy on arrest and interrogation, confiscation, and inexplicable deaths of activists while in custody.
Further info & Tickets (Free): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-a-journey-with-women-of-iran-new-horizons-tickets-43239039130
Organised by: ICAVI, Kayhan Life and Persia Educational Foundation
Persian Classical Music
Date: Sunday, 04 March
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Location: The Tabernacle - Nottinghill, 35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/197665810786938/
The Rohab Ensemble unites three well-known musicians of the world renowned Dastan Ensemble-Hossein Behroozinia on Barbat (Lute), Said Farajpoori on Kamancheh ( Spike fiddle) and Behnam Samani on Tombak ( Gublet drum) with Hamid Behroozinia on Tar (Lute). Rohab is joined with Sepideh Raissadat, one of Iran’s most celebrated young female vocalists since the early 1990s in an evening of classical Persian music.
Organised by: Nava Arts
BIPS evening lecture: Survey of Iranian Studies in Britain
Date: Wednesday, 07 March
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace , London SW1Y 5AH
BIPS’ new President, Professor Charles Melville, will talk on the history of Persian studies in Britain.
One of the consequences of Britain’s long engagement with Iran, at least since the sixteenth century, has been the interest shown in the country, and affection for it, that transcend the purely political, strategic or economic considerations associated with former imperial ambitions. This reaction to the country and her peoples is nowhere more strongly expressed than in the wealth of writing, both amateur and scholarly, devoted to the study of Persian history, literature and art. The lecture will survey the contributions of British scholars (variously defined) to the study of Iran and examine future prospects.
BOOKING BY 1 March 2018 IS ESSENTIAL: bi...@britac.ac.uk
Further info: https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/lecture-iranianstudies/
Organised by: British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
A musical celebration of Nowruz 2018
Date: Saturday, 10 March
Time: 19:30 - 22:00
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/479676412429221/
A musical celebration of Nowruz.
Organised by: SOAS Iranian Music Society
Conference: Constructions of Gender in the Persianate World
Date: Saturday, 10 March
Time: 09:15 - 16:00
Location: University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland
A one-day conference on Constructions of Gender in the Persianate World.
All are welcome but registration is essential. Please contact Dr Ridgeon: lloyd....@glasgow.ac.uk
Programme: https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/conference-constructions-gender/
Organised by: British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
National Medical Student Conference - Innovate & Inspire
Date: Saturday, 10 March
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Location: Hodgkin Building, King's College London, London Bridge, SE1 1UL
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/381104528995959/
The day will be a mixture of keynote presentations by experts across a variety of specialties from Medicine to Surgery, A&E to Neurosurgery, together with hands-on workshops and tutorials delivered throughout the day by Consultants and trainees. Students will also have the opportunity to present their research posters with prizes for the top abstracts.
The event is open to both Iranian and non-Iranian medical students and students of all health-related subjects and healthcare professional.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-medical-student-conference-innovate-inspire-tickets-42745727622
Organised by: Iranian Medical Society (IMS) UK & King's College Iranian Society
Towfigh Magazine: a satirical newspaper
Date: Tuesday, 13 March
Time: 18:30
Location: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
Dr Abbas Towfigh is known as one of Iran's foremost satirists and was the editorial cartoonist for the renowned Towfigh Magazine. For many years, along with his brothers, he not only managed the Towfigh weekly publication but also the Towfigh Publishing House. The magazine was the most popular satirical newspaper in Iran but it was eventually banned by the Shah's regime in the early seventies. It remains to this day a remarkable example of modern Iranian satire.
Further info & Tickets: http://www.iranheritage.org/towfigh.html
Organised by: Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF)
UK Premiere: Ava (15*) + ScreenTalk with Sadaf Foroughi
Date: 14 - 15 March
Venue: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/2051986355032843/
This timely, coming of age story follows Ava, a teenage girl whose life is dictated by the constraints of her conservative, patriarchal community in Tehran. This visually stunning film offers a searing social critique of the wider discrimination against women, while featuring a strong and complex female character pushed to the limits as she fights to find her voice.
Q&A with filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi after each screening!
Further info & Tickets: https://ff.hrw.org/film/ava?city=London
Organised by: Human Rights Watch Film Festival
EFF Prelude 4: Kamran Shirdel: Censorship as a Device of the Essayistic
Date: Friday, 16 March
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Four short films by Kamran Shirdel
Kamran Shirdel, born in Tehran in 1939, graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and returned to Iran for a family visit, discovering the difficult social, economic and political situation that the country was experiencing under the monarchy of the Pahlavi dynasty. This strong impression of social conflict convinced him to use his skills to show and reveal the truth of Iranian society. It was in these circumstances that he began his collaboration with the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Art. But Shirdel’s bold documentaries and use of cinematic language were highly contentious, speaking up for the underprivileged and displaying strong essayistic qualities. As a consequence, three out of the four short films being shown were banned and confiscated at the time.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eff-prelude-4-kamran-shirdel-censorship-as-a-device-of-the-essayistic-tickets-41388270431
Organised by: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image
Gholam (15) + ScreenTalk with Mitra Tabrizian
Date: Monday, 26 March
Time: 18:15
Venue: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/206124903300517/
Haunted by his past and with an uncertain future, Gholam gets involved in the conflict of a total stranger and sees it through to the very end.
Set in London, Gholam is the story of an enigmatic Iranian cab driver, who works at night and doesn’t like to talk about his past.
Director Mitra Tabrizian joins the Barbican Centre for a post-film ScreenTalk.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/gholam-15-screentalk-with-mitra-tabrizian
Organised by: Barbican Centre
Underline Issue #2: Journeys
Underline Magazine has recently released the second issue of Underline Journal! Underline’s second issue is about journeys, real and imagined. As with Issue #1, several of the stories reveal more of the rich cultural interactions between the UK and Iran historically. Such interactions are often achieved by that old method of learning: hitting the road. Topics covered in the new issue include discussions on Kaveh Golestan’s photo series ‘Prostitute’, recently acquired by Tate Modern in London, theatre performances directed by Ashkan Kheylnezhad, and Mohammad Mosavat, and an interview with Isfahani artist Ali Mahboubi Soufiani.
You can download the full second issue for free, here: https://iran.britishcouncil.org/en/underline/editorial
Underline will also be individually releasing each of the articles in both English and Persian over the next 3 months.
Alsharq Reise / Alsharq Travel
Alsharq Reise / Alsharq Travel is a German travel agency that organises political study tours to countries in North Africa and the Middle East, including Iran.
For more information about future tours of Iran (offered to speakers of German and English) please contact SOAS alumna, Laura (MA Development Studies 2016-17) at: la...@alsharq-reise.de
Further info: https://www.alsharq-reise.de/en/about-alsharq
I believe that's everything i looked up covered - now it's past 1am so i think you know why these listings have become few and far between on a Sunday night these days.. ;}
Enjoy the 'big freeze' forecast for the coming week (yeah right!)
Take care all!
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