The Daryabari Lectures in Iranian Studies is a series supported by the resources of the Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies which brings to campus scholars doing novel and critical work in Iranian Studies, broadly construed, in order to foster discussion and engagement between campus communities and scholars around the world.
Next Lecture
2024: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, "How to Forget: A History of Enslavement, Erasure, and Blackness in Iran"
Previous Lectures
2024: Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders"
2022: Kevin van Bladel, "Persian: The First Imperial Language"
2021: Ali Karjoo-Ravary, "Mirroring the True Kings: Sufism and Kingship in the 14th Century"
2021: Neda Maghbouleh, "Racial Hinges, Racial Loopholes: Iranians in the U.S."