Welcome back to the Persian Roundtable (Mizegerd-e Fârsi). We are delighted to begin our Winter term schedule with a distinguished guest:
Pedram Khosronejad / پدرام خسرونژاد
Friday, January 13, 2017
12:30–2:00pm
STB 2022, 202 South Thayer St
Note the unusual time and location!
Dr. Khosronejad is the Farzaneh Family Scholar and Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf studies in the School of International Studies at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches classes on anthropology, ethnography, material cultures of death and mourning, and contemporary Iran and the Persian Gulf. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including Iranian Shi’ism, the cinema of Sacred Defense, Afro-Iranians in the Qajar era, women’s rituals of mourning, and studies on saints, pilgrims, and martyrs. See his website, pedramkhosronejad.com, for more information.
This 12:30 session is an opportunity to meet with Dr. Khosronejad in an informal setting, where we will get to learn about his work and upcoming projects. Please note the discussion will be in Persian. At 4pm, he will be giving a formal lecture in English at the School of Social Work (1080 University Ave) entitled “Reconstructing History of African Slavery in Qajar Iran: Interplay between Photography and Anthropology”; for details about this lecture, visit the II event page.