Past Events

Join us for an Information Session on the U.S. Department of Education's Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Program. FLAS Fellowships are awarded by Penn's FLAS & National Resource Centers (Aftica,…

Please join us for a reading and discussion with Rabeah Ghaffari author of To Keep the Sun Alive who will be in conversation with Bill Figueroa 

This lecture features Herbert S. Wolfson, Esq. who is going to discuss the blending of legal traditions in the United Arab Emirates.

In this lecture Dr. Roham Alvandi will explore the impact of the Cold War and decolonization on Pahlavi Iran in the 1960s and 70s, and the response of the Pahlavi state and its opponents to those two major global…

Join us for a book talk with Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights & Co-Director of Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Çubukçu will be discussing  the World…

Information for the Dari workshop and how to RSVP can be found in the flyer attached below.

Azadeh Akhlaghi's photography has been exhibited  in prestigious exhibitions and galleries around the world. Her innovative work includes staging political deaths in the history of contemporary Iran. At this…

In the early 20th century, the Iranian Jewish communities were largely disenfranchised, marginalized and, impoverished. By the 1979 revolution, that situation was radically changed. In this talk, Dr. Sternfeld explores…