Let me know.Film Screening: The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood with an introduction by Mohsen MakhmalbafDate: Saturday, 04 March
Time: 16:30
Venue: Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick, Bloomsbury, WC1N 1AW
The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood centres on the struggles of a university lecturer and his daughter, before, during and after the 1979 cultural revolution. The film is openly critical of the new regime's anti-intellectualism, authoritarianism and suppression of women. It's a miracle it got made in the first place and that it still exists, albeit in a fragmentary form.
Further info & Tickets: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/bloomsbury/film-info/the-nights-of-zayandeh-roodOrganised by: Curzon Bloomsbury
Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in IranDate: Tuesday, 07 March
Time: 17:45 - 19:00
Room: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House)
Speaker: Orkideh Behrouzan (King’s College London)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859399640999353/Lecture by Orkideh Behrouzan on the subject of her book Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2016) an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran.
Organised by: London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Private View | Bita Ghezelayagh at Asia HouseDate: Tuesday, 07 March
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, W1G 7LP
Italian-born Iranian artist Ghezelayegh will be at the private view to discuss her work. Her area of research has mainly been the subcultural Iranian feltmakers – who traditionally make clothing, tents and carpet.
Further info & Booking (Free): http://asiahouse.org/events/private-view-bita-ghezelayagh-asia-house/Organised by: Asia House
University of London "Norooz Party"Date: Friday, 10 March
Time: 21:00 - 02:00
Location: Drapers Bar and Kitchen, 15 Godward Square, E1 4FZ
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/354419628284911/Student Norooz party.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.qmsu.org/events/6599/9508/Organised by: The Iranian societies of UCL, KCL and QMUL
Film screening: Offside (2006)Date: Friday, 10 March
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Venue: Venue: Ink@84, 84 Highbury Park, N5 2XE
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1271860306201623/When two girls are arrested for trying to attend a football match (which, since they are female, is illegal), they try to sneak in by any means possible. Shot during a real football match in Iran, the director planned two different endings depending on which side won!
Tickets: https://www.ink84bookshop.co.uk/product-page/mar-10-offsideOrganised by: Screen84
** Film screening and Q&A: Razor’s Edge - The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016) **Date: Saturday, 11 March
Time: 17:30 - 20:30
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1840297399562813/Razor’s Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses looks at the often controversial role of women in Iranian cinema during the secular period from the 1930s to the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
The screening will be followed by Q&A and discussion with director, Bahman Maghsoudlou.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis/events/11mar2017-razors-edge-the-legacy-of-iranian-actresses.htmlOrganised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Film screening and Q&A: Sonita (2016)Date: Saturday, 11 March
Time: 19:30 - 22:30
Venue: Deptford Cinema, 39 Deptford Broadway, Lewisham, SE8 4PQ
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/424814307864459/Synopsis: Sonita Alizadeh is a young Afghan refugee in Tehran who dreams of becoming a famous rapper like the Iranian rapper Yas and American rapper Eminem. When her family back in Afghanistan wants to arrange to sell her off into matrimony, she has to find a way to escape from this fate.
Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/boxoffice/select/bwATRSVyXQOGOrganised by: Afghanistan & Central Asian Association (ACAA) in partnership with Deptford Cinema
Kamran Djam Annual Lectures at SOAS (2017)Date: Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 March
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
Speaker: Abbas Amanat (Yale University)
FB (1): https://www.facebook.com/events/228870647581952/FB (2): https://www.facebook.com/events/1185459094900166/Lecture 1: Managing the Guarded Domains - What made the Safavid state declare Shi’ism as the state creed and patronize a Shi’i establishment? How in the four centuries since the rise of the Shi’i state did the Guarded Domains of Iran endure despite pressures on its vulnerable borders, volatile nomadic powers in its periphery, meager economic resources, popular dissent, and inconsistencies within the structure of the state?
Lecture 2: Paragons and Demons of Modernity - Since early nineteenth century various historical processes slowly unraveled the old imperial arrangement and exposed the Iranian state’s defects. Why did demands for popular sovereignty, which on occasions dislodge the old elites and transform the social order, also pave the way for the rise of arbitrary regimes?
Lecture programme (PDF): https://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis/events/file117956.pdfOrganised by: Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Iran and the Nuclear Programme: A political and technical assessmentDate: Monday, 13 March
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Room 2.04, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London School of Economics, WC2A 3LJ
Speaker: Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi (Royal United Services Institute)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/359017924481838/Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi examines the state of the comprehensive nuclear agreement reached by the P5+1 and Iran in July 2015 in light of domestic developments in the United States and Iran and will explore the consequent changes in the narrative and strategic interests in Tehran.
Registration (Free): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iran-and-the-nuclear-programme-a-political-and-technical-assessment-registration-30527496564Organised by: LSE Middle East Centre
Vision is Out ThereDate: Tuesday, 14 March
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Location: Southwark Room, Level 5 Switch House, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1961352477420267/Partou Zia (b. Tehran 1958, d. Cornwall 2008) was a painter who could convey weighty subjects – love, death, exile – with lightness and vision.
Further info & Tickets: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/talk/vision-out-thereOrganised by: Tate in partnership with Notting Hill Editions
A musical celebration of Nowruz 2017Date: Friday, 17 March
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre ( KLT)
A musical celebration of the Persian New Year.
Further info & Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/170733716746501/Organised by: SOAS Daf society
Central Asian Spring Festival 2017Date: Sunday, 19 March
Time: 12:00 - 16:00
Location: University College London (Main Quad), Gower Street, WC1E 6BT
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/175355356286218/Central Asian celebration of "Navruz" (Norouz - the Persian New Year).Further info: http://www.casf.org.uk/Organised by: Central Asian Spring Festival UK
Film screening: Close Up (1990)Date: Friday, 24 March
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Venue: Ink@84, 84 Highbury Park, N5 2XE
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/202082946940469/The true story of a man who impersonated filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. A masterpiece and regularly featured in the 'best 100 films of all times' lists.
Tickets: https://www.ink84bookshop.co.uk/product-page/mar-24-close-upOrganised by: Screen84
Film screening: Filmfarsi (work in progress) with filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht in conversationDate: Friday, 31 March
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
“Filmfarsi was the cinema of a nation with a split personality”, says filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht in this film-critical history of Iran under the Shah.
Further info & Tickets (Free): http://www.essayfilmfestival.com/session-15-screening-filmfarsi-filmmaker-ehsan-khoshbakht-conversation/Organised by: Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck
Iranian voices: Recent acquisitions of works on paper
Date: 26 November 2016 - 02 April 2017
Venue: Room 34, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG
The modern and contemporary art of Iran tells a multiplicity of stories. Made by Iranian artists of different generations, the works in this display include a variety of media from collage to artist books and photography. The narratives highlight an engagement with Iranian history from the legendary tales of the Shahnameh or Book of Kings (an epic in verse written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi in about AD 1010) to insights into the politics of recent decades. Between them, they present a series of vivid snapshots of the art and preoccupations of some of Iran’s most significant artists.
Further info: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/iranian_voices.aspxOrganised by: The British Museum
SOAS SU electionsPolls open at 10:00 on Monday, 06 March.Further info: https://soasunion.org/elections/See attached flyers for a selection of candidates (there are more). But please vote using your own best judgement of who you feel will best represent the overall SOAS student body. Give them all a chance by hearing them out, but choose carefully. It really does make a difference to how enjoyable your next year here will be.
We are against narrow identity voting. We believe that a person's merit is the most important thing for SOAS.Right, finally got that all out of the way! Enjoy the final 3 weeks of term all.