Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies

10/15/2026

"Script, Colophons, Seals and Decoration:
How Codicology and Catalogs Can Help Research on the Persianate World from Tabriz to the Deccan"

Francis Richard
Bibliothèque nationale de France/ Musée du Louvre

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 1:00 p.m. EDT

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10/15/2026

"A Jew in the Majles:
The History of Iran's Jewish Members of Parliament, 1906-1963"

Eirik Kvindesland
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 1:00 p.m. EDT

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10/13/2026

"The Mask as Argument:
Bahman Mohassess and the Parody of Authority in 1960s Tehran"

Reza Mirzaei
Alfred University

Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 1:00 p.m. EDT

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10/10/2026

10/08/2026

"Zoroastrian Feminism: Patronage and Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India"
Delnaaz Kharadi
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, October 9, 2026, 1:00 p.m. EDT
Location for In-Person Attendance:
Iranian Studies Seminar Room
Rm 304, 4 Bancroft Ave
Toronto, ON M5S 1C1
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10/05/2026

"Genres Without Borders:
The Global Circulation of Modern Iranian Forms"

Marie Ostby
Connecticut College

Monday, October 19, 2026, 1:00 p.m. EDT

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10/01/2026

"Zoroastrian Feminism:
Patronage and Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India"

Delnaaz Kharadi
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, October 9, 2026, 1:00 p.m. EDT

Location for In-Person Attendance:
Iranian Studies Seminar Room
Rm 304, 4 Bancroft Ave
Toronto, ON M5S 1C1

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06/21/2026

06/19/2026

The Holocaust, World War II, and Iranian Studies
22-26 June, 2026
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
University of Toronto
https://iranianstudies.utoronto.ca/event/iran-the-holocaust-and-world-war-ii-2/