Upcoming Events
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf studies hosts numerous events throughout the academic year. Find upcoming dates and details below. 
You may also view our complete 2019-2020 events calendar in a convenient, printable format.
Narges Bajoghli: "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic"
Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 6:00 pm
Location:
Labyrinth Books Princeton
Audience:
Free, Open to the Public
Speaker(s):
Narges Bajoghli
Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Tags:
Talk
Layla Ramezan: "100 years of Iranian Piano Music"
Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 7:00 pm
Location:
Fine Hall, Taplin Auditorium
Audience:
Free, Open to the Public
Speaker(s):
Layla Ramezan
Pianist, Ensemble Matka in Geneva
COUP 53
Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 1:00 pm
Location:
Garden Theatre
Audience:
Free, Open to the Public
Alice Wilson: "Defeated Revolutions, Lasting Legacies: The Afterlife of Revolution in Dhufar, Oman"
Wed, Nov 6, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Louis A. Simpson International Building, A 71
Audience:
RSVP Required, Free, Open to the Public
Speaker(s):
Alice Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Defeated revolutionaries, lasting legacies: the afterlife of revolution in Dhufar, Oman
Yann Richard: "Plots, Secrets, Truths and Lies in Modern Iranian Historiography"
Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Peyman Jafari: "Cracking History with Oil: Oil Workers and the Making of Modern Iran"
Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Anniversary of Iranian Revolution Event: Conversation with Elaine Sciolino and David Burnett
Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 4:00 pm
Adam Hanieh: "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East"
Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
TBD
Arash Davari: "Human Rights Guerrillas: Iran in the Long 1970's"
Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
TBD
Iranian Movie Night with Negar Mottahedeh
Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 6:00 pm
Location:
TBD
Arash Davari: Deprovincializing Iran Workshop
Amy Malek: "Contests of Inclusion: Querying Cultural Citizenship in the Iranian Diaspora"
Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
TBD
Seema Gloestaneh: "Unremarkable Evidence: Secrecy and Iranian Sufis' Cultivation of Digital and Private Archives"
Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
TBD
Jo-Ann Gross: Badakhshan Conference Keynote Address
Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 6:00 pm
Location:
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Rooms 399 and 301 (tentative)
Tags:
Academic Workshop
Thirteenth Biennial Iran Studies Conference
Tue, Aug 25, 2020 (All day) to Fri, Aug 28, 2020 (All day)
Location:
University of Salamanca, Spain
Tags:
Conference