After the successful conclusion of the 6-month long lecture series on “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book,” Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland announced new events for the fall semester. Included are:
Poetry Night dedicated to Simin Behbahani (September 29) and Qeisar Aminpour (October 27)
Brown Bag Series with “Popular Cinema in Iran” by Dr. Pedram Partovi (American University) (October 1), “Authorship in Seventeenth-Century Persian Painting: Man, Mode and Myth” by Dr. Amy Landau (Walters Art Museum) (October 22), “Language and Thought in Sadi’s Poetry” by Dr. Navid Bazargan (Tehran Azad University) (November 12), and “Performing Qanun/Classical Persian Music” by Shahla Nikfal (December 3)
Movie Series with screening of “Border Café” directed by Kambuzia Partovi (October 7), “The Wind Carpet” by Kamal Tabrizi (November 4), and “Tehran Has No More Pomegranates” by Massoud Bakhshi (December 2).
