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Stanford Iranian Studies Program — 242 episodes
The Psychology of Revolution with Fathali Moghaddam
Mandana Zandian: Always Passing Through
Farzaneh Milani, At the Threshold of Being and Not Being: The Living Absence of Shahrnush Parsipur
Shirin Neshat: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam
Maryam Zandi: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam
Mojdeh Shamsaie: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam
Abbas Milani: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam
The Iranian Oil Crisis and Mossadegh in the Cold War, 1951-1953 with Jamil Hasanli
Iran in Transition: Iran’s Security Forces and the Future of Political Order with Saeid Golkar
The Myth of Maximum Pressure on Iran with Matin Mirramezani and Sam Samani
Tahira Qurrat al-'Ayn's Sisters of the Pen: Some Early Babi Women Poets with Dominic Brookshaw
Whither Iran: Stanford Scholars and Students on Current Developments and Trajectories
City of Unrest: A Geolocated Archive of Protests in Tehran (2009-2023)
The Untold Stories of Ten Thousand Years of Iran’s History
The Friendship That Never Was: Iran-Saudi Relations from 1968 to 1979
Poisonings of Schoolgirls in Iran: An Open-Source Investigation
The Sunbird and the Story of Kanun with Lily Amir-Arjomand and Mandana Zandian
15th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Hossein Amanat
The Czechoslovakian Architects and Engineers of Reza Shah Pahlavi
Book Talk: On The Rocky Road Of Life
Subsoil Sovereignty: The American Turn in Iran’s Geopolitics and the Making of the 1954 Consortium
Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology
Shiraz Arts Festival, 1967-1977 with Mahasti Afshar
Book Talk: Simorgh, Portraits on My Mind with Abbas Milani and Mahasti Afshar
Music and Charismatic Authority in the First Decade of the Islamic Republic
Self-Sufficiency in Iran: The Water-Agriculture-Environment Conundrum
My Duty Was To Speak with Abdolali Azimi
In the Shadow of the Cypress: Film Screening & Discussion
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway with Mikiya Koyagi
From Houri Moghadam to Homa Sarshar: Iranian Women Archives at Stanford Part 2
From Houri Moghadam to Homa Sarshar: Iranian Women Archives at Stanford Part 1
A History of Alcohol in the Muslim Middle East
Intercultural Music in Iran and its Diaspora with Hesam Abedini
The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry
Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples: A New History of Jews in the Sasanian Empire with Simcha Gross
On the Foreign Sources of Political Legitimacy in Late-Pahlavi Iran (1968-1978) with Hussein Banai
Magnetic Mysteries of the Galaxies with Mehrnoosh Tahani
Magnetic Mysteries of the Galaxies
Book Talk: The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry with Farshad Sonboldel
Book Talk: An Encounter with Dylan Thomas by Ebrahim Golestan
The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s Oeuvre with Saeed Talajooy
The Intersection of AI and Neurotechnology with Dr. Maryam Shanechi
14th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Shahram Nazeri
Finding Home and Community Through Food with Nasim Alikhani
"Book Talk: Lament for Siavash by Shahrokh Meskoob" with Mahasti Afshar
"Twilight of the Islamic Republic?" with Ali Ansari
In The Name of The Rainbow: The Bridge-Building Goddess of Hope with Farzaneh Milani
A History of Iranian Masculinities During the Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Period with Sivan Balslev
Forugh Farrokhzad: A New Edition of Her Collected Works with Domenico Ingenito
Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran in a Troubled Middle East with Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton, and Telling Stories About Iran
Arian Moayed and the Artist as Citizen
No Cadillac Country: Oil, Sovereignty, and Development in Pahlavi Iran with Bita Mousavi
The Earliest Social History in Persian? A Preliminary Study of the ʿAẕb al-Bayān (1865)
Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Speaks with Stanford Iranian Studies Students Live from Space
Narratives From the Victims of Flight PS752 with Hamed Esmaeilion and Moniro Ravanipour
Book Talk: Persian Cypress and the Blooms of Modernity with Mandana Zandian
Book Talk: Ahmad Shamlou, Behind the Mirror
Woman, Life, Freedom: A Retrospective with Marjane Satrapi and Abbas Milani
Mohammad Reza Shajarian Records Singing with Hagia Sophia Acoustics
The Challenges and Successes of Creating an NGO in Iran with Sharmin Meymandinejad and Zahra Rahimi
From a Personal Archive to a Book: Genealogy of Bagher Mortazavi’s Collected Papers & Books
13th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Homa Sarshar
Abdu'l Baha at Stanford: A Centennial Conference
Parliamentary Politics and Iran-US Relations During the Cold War
Parliamentary Politics and Iran-US Relations During the Cold War with Tomoyo Chisaka
Women, Art, Freedom: Women Artists & Street Politics in Iran by Pamela Karimi
Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century
Challenges and Prospects for Dynamic Entrepreneurship in Iran’s Transition to Democracy
Conference Plenary: Key Challenges & Pathways for Transition (Hambastegi group discussion)
From Esther to Persepolis: Harbingers of Woman, Life, Freedom
Pacted Transitions and Applications to Iran
The Challenges of Iran's Transition in Comparative Perspective
Human Rights Data Collection for Judicial Processes in Iran's Transition to Secular Democracy
Panel Discussion of Norooz (Persian New Year)
Amplifying Iranian Women with Voice AI with Iran Davar Ardalan
What the Failure of Local Democracy in Iran tells about Islamist Authoritarianism by Kian Tajbakhsh
A Discussion with Mohsen Yalfani
A Discussion with Mohsen Yalfani
Reza Shah's Exile in Mauritius with Houchang Chehabi
"How Iranians and Iran Changed the life of an American Woman" by Mona Khademi
The Violence of Benevolence and the Struggles for Women's Rights in Iran with Arzoo Osanloo
A Narrative of Endurance with Homa Sarshar
Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free (film screening discussion)
Film screening: There Is No Evil
Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion: It Snows In This House (Book Talk)
Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion and Babak Payami: An Open Wound in the Sky
Book Talk: The Battles of a Judge with Dr. Hamid Najafi
Discussion: Rediscovering 12 Persian Folk Songs by Blair Fairchild with Faraz Minooei
Nobody's Periphery: Pahlavi Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Arash Azizi
Nobody's Periphery: Pahlavi Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Reconfiguration of Iran's Political Elite: Rising Indoctrinated Technocrats with Saeid Golkar
Ehsan Yarshater's Yaddashtha: Reflections on Iranian History, Literature, Culture, and the Arts
The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus Liberal Nationalism with Mansoor Moaddel
The Legacy of Mohammad Mosaddegh with Nicolas Gorjestani
One Hundred Years of Extraterritoriality and Capitulations in Iran: 1828-1928
Film screening: "Immigrant Stories: Iranian-Americans of Silicon Valley"
Global 1968, the Death of Takhti, and the Birth of the Iranian Revolution
On Ebrahim Golestan: An Inquiry into "Tide and Mist"
Image and Words in the Films and Stories of Ebrahim Golestan
White Torture: The Infamy of Solitary Confinement in Iran with Narges Mohammadi
SGS Summer Film Festival: Cafe Transit
President Carter's Handling of the Iranian Revolution and Hostage Crisis: Discussion with Kai Bird
The Nonviolent Revolution of Iranian Women Writers: A Conversation with Farzaneh Milani
Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory readings of Persian literature (A Hafezian Banquet)
The Economic Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War for Iran with Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Kian Katouzian
Translating Ulysses into Persian: A Century of Censorship with Akram Pedramnia
Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Government with Mangol Bayat
Britain and the Abdication of Reza Shah with Shaul Bakhash
Exposing Economic Corruption in Iran: A Journalist's Odyssey into Exile with Mohammad Mosaed
Song Sparrow: Film Screening & Discussion with Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Beholding Beauty: Sa'di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present with John Ghazvinian
In Solitary: Then the Fish Swallowed Him with Amir Arian
Book Talk: Man of My Time with Dalia Sofer
Ala Mohseni Discusses His New Documentary "Ayyar e Tanha" About Bahram Beyzaie
Iranian Women: The Achilles Heel of the Islamic Republic of Iran with Homa Sarshar
Book Talk: Out of Mesopotamia with Salar Abdoh
Blue Logos and Women's Wisdom with Shahrnush Parsipur
Book Talk: Disoriental with Negar Djavadi
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: NASRIN
Muslim Women and Political Leadership - Shahla Haeri
SGS Summer Film Festival: Chicken with Plums - Marjane Satrapi
The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Mansoureh Shojaee
The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Mahnaz Afkhami
The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Mehrangiz Kar
Saadi and Humanism
Iran in the International System
The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
An Overview of the COVID-19 Situation: Lessons Learned from Iran
From COVID19 to Cholera: Repeating Patterns in Iranian Pandemic History
Rereading the Ten Nights
"Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" by Narges Bajoghli
"In the Presence of the Secret of Motherland" by Reza Farokhfal
Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets
"Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey" by Mikhal Dekel
"Hafiz and His Contemporaries" by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
"All the Saffron We Carried with Us" by Naz Deravian
"The Art of Iranian Classical Music" by Parissa
"Iran: the Islamic Regime's Resilience under Pressure" by Amin Saikal
"A Modern Contagion: Cholera's Impact on Iranian History" by Amir Afkhami
Pooya Azadi: Moving Toward a New Equilibrium in Iran
Mutual Radicalization: How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes
Iran, Israel, And The U.S. In A Changing Middle East
"The Next Revolution Will Be Led By Women" by Masih Alinejad
Book Talk: "With Open Eyes" by Zakaria Hashemi
Halting Exchange: The Travel Ban's Cultural Effects
The Archaeology Of A Sound: Searching For The Music Of Abdolqader Maraqi - Part 2
Semiotics Of Iranian Myths With Bahram Beyzaie Part V
7th Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr Iraj Pezeshkzad
The Garden In The Carpet - The Carpet In The Garden
Fifth Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr Houshang Seyhoun
In Memory Of Amin Banani- A Life In Letters And Iranian Studies
Eighth Annual Bita Prize For Persian Arts To Dr. Ehsan Yarshater
Why Was Towfigh Permanently Banned?
Stanford Conference On Iran- Political Elite Formation And Circulation
Stanford Conference On Iran- Recent Trends In The Iranian Economy
Stanford Conference On Iran- Concluding Discussion
Stanford Conference On Iran: US-Iran Relations In The Age Of Trump
"Literary Modernity In Iran" by Iraj Parsinejad
I Am Taraneh: Discussion With Rasoul Sadrameli
Third Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr. Mohammad - Reza Shajarian
"Women Write Iran: Nostalgia And Human Rights From The Diaspora" by Nima Naghibi
"From Isfahan To Irvine" by Hossein Omoumi
"The Eternal Magnetism Of The Dictator: A Psychological Analysis" by Fathali M. Moghaddam
"In Search Of Modern Iran" by Abbas Amanat
"Maqams: The Roots Of Iranian Classical Music" by Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Akbar Moradi
Bahram Beyzaie Discusses "Crossroads"
"An Alternative Approach to United States/Iran Relations" by Richard Falk
Iran and the United States: Missed Opportunities for Reconciliation and Future Prospects
"Chaucer's Pious Queen and a Persian in a Pear Tree" by Franklin Lewis
"US-Iran Relations: A Hostage's view" by Kathryn Koob
"Novels and History: Diaspora Writing and Iranian History" by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
"Ayatollah Khomeini's Theory of Government: Genesis and Evolution" by Dr. Arash Naraghi
"The Early German Poetry of Fereydoun Farrokhzad" by Nima Mina
An Evening with Dariush Mehrjui
"The Islamic Revolution of 1979: A Diplomat's View" by Jack Miklos
"Asia Between Two Worlds" by Shahrnush Parsipur
"Breath Poetry" by Ziba Karbassi
"Messianic Pragmatists, The Riddle of Iran" by Roger Cohen
"The Ismailis of the Iranian World: History and Intellectual Contributions" by Farhad Daftary
"The Odyssey of a Writer From Shiraz to Stanford" by Shahriyar Mandanipour
"Covering Tehran: A Journalist's Perspective" by Nazila Fathi
"The Social Contract in Iran" by Paul Rivlin
"Persian in Pakistan: Many Dimensions of a Cultural Relationship" by Shahzad Bashir
Theocracy's Limits: Iran at the Precipice of its Contradictions
"Iran and Iraq: Cultural Ties or Political Rifts?" by Houchang Chehabi
"Literary Trends in Contemporary Iran" by Ali Dehbashi
"The Poetics of Passage: Bridging the Gap or Filling in the Precipice" by Reza Baraheni
"Revisiting Ghosts of Revolution" by Shahla Talebi
"The Veil: Its History and Iconography in Ancient Iran and Islam" by Bijan Gheiby
"Persian Poetry in Los Angeles: Nostalgia Versus Cultural Adoption" by Majid Naficy
"Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women and the Freedom Movement" by Farzaneh Milani
"Ahmad Fardid: A "Westtoxicated" Persian?" by Ali Mirsepassi
"Love, Rights, and Honor: Gender and Democracy in Iran" by Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini
"Everyday Crime in the Sacred Shrine City of Mashhad, 1913-14" by Farzin Vejdani
"Iranian Theater in Diaspora: A Playwright's Retrospective" by Mohsen Yalfani
"Iran's Wilsonian Moment? Iranian Responses to WWI" by Oliver Bast
"Graphic Novels and Iranian Art: The Case of Zahra's Paradise" by Amir Soltani
"Muhammad Mossadegh: Patriot of Persia" by Christopher de Bellaigue
"Shah Isma'il in late Safavid Historiography: a Unique Treatise on Safavid Kingship" by Sholeh Quinn
"Iranian Theater in Exile, A Personal Odyssey" by Niloofar Beyzaie
To Write a Country: Home, Family, and the Art of Remembrance in the Iranian Diaspora
"The Glories of Ancient Iran: Its Use and Abuse in the 19th and 20th Century" by Touraj Daryaee
"My Promised Land" by Sahar Delijani
A Flawed Chapter in Modern Iranian Historiography: The First Century of Iran and Islam
"Days of Revolution: Political Culture and Process in an Iranian Village" by Mary Hegland
"The Psychology of Dictatorship" by Fathali Moghaddam
Bita Prize for Young Persian Artists: Dena Taherianfar - Part 2
Bita Prize for Young Persian Artists: Dena Taherianfar - Part 1
"Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran" by Houchang Chehabi
Shahnama Illustrated Manuscripts in the Digital Age & The Idea of the Shahnama in Contemporary Arts
"This Was a Town of Kindness Once: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz" by Dick Davis
"Theatre in Prison" by Nasser Rahmaninejad
"Diaspora Media: Failures, Accomplishments and Future Role" by Masoud Behnoud
Discovering Cyrus and the Idea of Iran: From the Cartoons of The 300 to the Craft of History
In Search of the Lost Laleh-Zar, a lecture by Nasser Rahmaninejad; a film screening of "Siah Bazi"
"Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood to Religion's Adversary" by Abolala Soudavar
"Evolution of Iranian Rhythms" by Mohsen Namjoo
"Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade and Eurasian Empires" by Arash Khazeni
"Recent Trends in Iranian Fiction Writing" by Aida Moradi Ahani
"Tehran At Twilight/Tehran Noir" by Salar Abdoh
Isolation and Proliferation: Israel, America, and the South African Nuclear Weapons Program
"A Conversation With Bahiyyih Nakhjavani: Author of 'The Woman Who Read Too Much'" by B. Nakhjavani
Modernity, the Baha'i Faith and the Question of Modern Education in Late Qajar and Early Iran
"Iran, 36 Years After the Revolution" by Nazila Fathi
"Story Reading: 'Ghosts of Objects' and 'Seasons of Purgatory'" by Shahriar Mandanipour
"Women In Contemporary Literature of Iran: Seeking Meaning and Awareness" by Ms. S. Mohammadian
"Animation Trends in Iran after the Revolution" by Pouya Afshar
"Locating Iranian Historical Memory: the Transformation from Zoroastrianism to Islam" by M. Kamali
"Women in Iranian Fiction" by Parinoush Saniee
"Evolution of Goodness: Empathy in Animals and Humans" by Dr. Frans de Waal
"The Emergence of 'New Eloquence': Reflections of Houshang Golshiri's Prose" by Amir Arian
"Tinker, Tailor, Father, Spy" by Cyrus Copeland
"Iranian Intellectuals of the 1960's" by Massoud Behnoud
"Literature of Migration" by Majid Roshangar
"The Republic of Imagination: Iranian Women's Bestselling Novels" by Dr. Kamran Talattof
"Iran and South Africa" by Dr. Houchang Chehabi
"Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from Diaspora" by Nima Naghibi
"A Bridge Taken for a Wall, a Wall Taken for a Bridge" by Jahan Ramazani
"A Reflection on My Last Novel: Ask the Mirror" by Chahla Chafiq