Events
Upcoming Events
Nowruz Eid Didani 1404
Join us to welcome Spring!
March 27, 2025
Drop in anytime between 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Currents of Resistance to the Policies of Water Governance in Iran
Dr. Elham Hoominfar
April 8, 2025
4:30pm Reception
5:00pm Lecture
Spring 2025 IPGS Events
Mark your calendars and join us for an exciting series of events this Spring!
Recent Events
Reckoning with Ghosts: The Iran-Iraq War in Persian and Arabic Fiction Today
A Book talk with Dr. Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University)
March 13, 2025
4:30pm reception
5:00pm lecture
Although sometimes called “a forgotten war” by pundits, The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
was the longest two-state war of the 20th century. Since 1980, it has inspired thousands
of literary, cinematic, and artistic works. This talk explains why, three and half
decades after its conclusion, this war remains a major topic for writers of Persian
and Arabic fiction, and how Iranian and Iraqi writers have transformed the literatures
of this war from authoritarian propaganda into literatures of mourning and resistance,
with connections to some of the biggest social and political challenges the two countries
face today.
Amir Moosavi is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-Newark.
He researches and teaches about modern Persian and Arabic literatures and the cultural
histories of the modern Middle East, with an emphasis on Iran, Iraq and the Levant.
His recently finished book Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War, will be published by Stanford University Press in June 2025. The book considers
how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and
its legacy, from wartime to the present.
IPGS Symposium on Natural Resources & Development in Iran
What is the history of development in Iran? How have Iran's natural resources been impacted by development projects?
The Iranian & Persian Gulf Studies Program at Oklahoma State University is pleased to host a Symposium on Natural Resources and Development in Iran on February 25, 2025. Bringing together five historians and social scientists working at the cross-sections of development, environment, political economy, culture, and society in Iran, the symposium will examine how Iran's resources -- especially water, oil, and natural gas -- have been targets of national and international development projects from the mid-20th century to today, with far-reaching impacts. These research presentations are complemented by a short film screening and discussion with the director. Altogether, these sessions seek to advance our understanding of the intertwined histories of natural resources development and modernity in Iran. This symposium is free and open to the OSU community. Please see the schedule at the link below and join us for on February 25th!
Chai Chat - welcome!
Join us for an informal gathering to get to know each other over tea and Iranian sweets!
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Drop in anytime between 4:00 - 6:00pm
Wes Watkins Center, room 201
IPGS Lecture Series: Dr. Persis Karim
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Wes Watkins Center, room 110
5:00pm reception | 5:30pm screening & talk-back
This documentary film poetically narrates the story of a community of Iranian Americans who have made the San Francisco Bay Area their home over the past five decades. The film seeks to expand our understanding of Iranian immigration — what it means to leave home and country and live through the episodes of turbulent histories of dissent, revolution, war, and separation — and reinvent oneself in a new place, country, and culture.
IPGS Lecture Series: Tonia Sharlach
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Wes Watkins Center, room 108
5:00pm reception | 5:30pm lecture
Chai Chat - welcome back!
Join us for the first chai chat of the semester!
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Drop in anytime between 4:30 - 6:30pm
Wes Watkins Center, room 201
Fall 2024 IPGS Lecture Series
Mark your calendars and join us for an exciting series of events this Fall!
Symposium on the State of the Environment in Iran
What is the state of environmental change in Iran?
Seeking a holistic, data-driven view of this pressing question, the Iranian & Persian Gulf Studies Program at Oklahoma State University will host the Symposium on the State of the Environment in Iran from April 18-19, 2024. Bringing together a dozen scholars alongside IPGS faculty to present their research in diverse fields, the symposium will build a holistic view of the state of water, energy, climate, and agriculture, and the roles of economy, the media, and culture on environmental change in Iran. The first day of this two-day symposium includes a full day of in-person research presentations open to the public. Please see the schedule at the link below and join us for open sessions on April 18th.
IPGS Lecture Series: Spring 2024
Nowruz 1403 Eid Didani
IPGS Chai Chat
A Film Screening & Discussion with Dr. Kaveh Bassiri (Univ. of Tulsa)
IPGS Lecture Series: Dr. Talinn Grigor, UC-Davis
Chai Chat
Yalda Night 2023
IPGS Lecture Series: Dr. Adel Pezeshki
Thursday, November 9
Drop in anytime between 4:00-6:00pm in Wes Watkins Center room 201.
Drop in anytime between 4:30-6:00pm in Wes Watkins Center room 201.
Drop in anytime between 4:00-5:30pm in WWC 201.
Room 108, Wes Watkins Center
Mediating the Politics of Gender & Environmental Change through Participatory Filmmaking in Iran
Refreshments provided!
