successfully defended his dissertation in August 2017. Proceeds from the fundraiser were used to organize theÂ. Since 2011, Dr. Gharipour teaches in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore. is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. Encyclopaedia Iranica is an academic reference work which aims to cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, thus facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archaeology to political sciences. A grant from the institute in 2016 helped create the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies, which is housed in the Graduate College.  is housed in the Department of Asian Studies of the College of Arts & Sciences.Â, It is guided by the Persian Studies Faculty Committee, which is chaired byÂ, . Extra-Koranic data with regards to Islam, such as intellectual and spiritual disciplines (theology, philosophy, exegesis, law, mysticism), history and text filiations, manuscripts, arts and literature, translations, different Koranic schools and their relations to other religions, are also covered. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has awarded fellowships to faculty members, researchers, graduate students and other individuals whose projects aimed to further scholarship in Persian studies and contribute to a greater appreciation of Persian culture. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship of Persian Language was established in 2018 in the School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, a unit in the College of Social Behavioral Sciences, under the leadership of Dean John Paul Jones, III. She is the first full professor in Persian Studies in the country whose main research and scholarship focus on Persian language pedagogy. Ali Shari’ati and the Articulation of an Indeterminate Collective Subject in Revolutionary Iran” by, Lecture “Retelling the Story on the 1953 CIA Coup in Iran in Graphic Form” by Graphic Illustrator and Co-Author of, Film screening: “Into the Sea” written and directed by, Exhibit “Through Different Eyes” as part of the, Lecture “Re-Visioning Sohrab Sepehri and other Adventures in Poetic Translation” by, Annual Norouz Concert with Iranian-American vocalist, Performance “Off the Curtain: The Tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab” by, Lecture “East-West Cultural Transmissions in Post Mongol Iran” by, Lecture “Persian Miniature Painting and the Shahnameh” by, Lecture “Iran: A Smartphone Photographer’s Perspective” by, “The Elements,” an exhibit of paintings by, Lecture “US-Iran Relations at the Six-Month Mark: Prospects for Long-Term Diplomacy and a Negotiated Agreement” by, “Filmmaking in the Diaspora,” a screening and discussion with, Premiere of the play “Inja O Oonja. Its emphasis was on the artistic and humanistic aspects of the poet’s work, i.e. Her research focuses on the epistolary tradition in pre-Islamic Iran (composed in Aramaic, Parthian and Middle Persian languages) and how it is transformed in early medieval Iran, under the influence of Arabic.Â. B. Tauris, 2013). The event was chaired byÂ. The journal is designed and run by a group of talented undergraduate students, under the guidance of former Roshan Institute Fellow, Dr. Ida Meftahi, Visiting Assistant Professor at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies. The major event brought together 250 scholars on the subjects of Persian language, literature and culture, and Iranian Diaspora. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute supported the 2016-2017 Persian Arts Series presented by the Carolina Performing Arts (CPA), in collaboration with UNC’s Persian Studies Program. Her dissertation, “Cultivating Modernities: The Society for National Heritage, Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture in Twentieth-Century Iran,” offers a detailed history and a critical analysis of the political underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic ends of Pahlavi architectural culture between 1921 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979.Â, , Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore.Â,  (I. A Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute grant was awarded to Northeastern University to support Asal Baragchizadeh toward her Master of Public Administration degree in Political Science in 2010-2011. Ms. Baragchizadeh was a 2009 Roshan Institute Fellow at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii.  in support of the Iranian Music Program during academic years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. Executive Program Officer , with the Philip Glass Ensemble. in Biomedical Engineering from Islamic Azad University in Tehran and is currently a graduate student in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas. Each Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellow will be offered a paid teaching assignment in the Department of Linguistics, for the period of the fellowship at UCLA.Â. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is a private foundation dedicated to promoting the preservation, transmission and instruction of Persian language and culture around the world. Screening of “The Razor’s Edge, The Legacy of Iranian Actresses” followed by Q&A with film director, Exhibit, “Through the Lens of Ethnicity: Images of Iranian Women,” showcasing images by. Papers from the conference will be published in a book by I.B.  awarded a grant to UC Irvine in support of three annual programs: theÂ, . She is a scholar and musician who specializes in the devotional practices of the Ahl-i Haqq including the musical repertoire, the texts, and the rituals, as well as Iranian classical music. He is currently Lecturer (half-time) in the Committee on the Study of Religion, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, at Harvard University.  at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. The Project Directors were:Â,  awarded a grant to The University of Chicago to support theÂ, , John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus of Oriental Studies and Professor of Assyriology.  offers, in three volumes of about 1,000 pages each, a complete and critical synthesis of past works and present research on the origins of the Koran, its formation and appearance, its composition and its canonization. This major event brought together hundreds of scholars and students of Iranian Studies for presentations, panel discussions, receptions and other activities. , Chair, NELC, and Associate Professor of Ottoman language and literature and Modern Turkish. The Film Series included the screening of Shirin Neshat‘s “Women Without Men,” the documentary “Pearls on the Ocean Floor,” “20 Fingers,” and “The Unwanted Woman.” These initiatives were led by Dr. Anousha Sedighi, Associate Professor of Persian in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, whose areas of research are Persian linguistics, Persian language pedagogy, and Persian as a heritage language. Washington -- Whether through support of Persian scholars at U.S. universities, cultural events at leading museums or an annual art exhibition at a suburban Washington school, the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is dedicated to preserving Persian culture and promoting understanding among people of different backgrounds. As part of her coursework, Ms. Amir-Haeri researched negotiations between the American and Iranian governments, including the 1979 hostage crisis in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Ms. Amir-Haeri received her LL.M. Following an international search,Â,  to conduct the research from Fall 2019 thru Spring 2022.Â.  awarded a fellowship grant to Pennsylvania State University forÂ, , Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, to conduct a two-year project, entitled “Persian Language and Culture for Intermediate and Advance Level Study.”Â. In 2006, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute awarded a fellowship grant to Pennsylvania State University for Dr. Susan Strauss, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, to conduct a two-year project, entitled “Persian Language and Culture for Intermediate and Advance Level Study.” Dr. Strauss’ areas of research focus on the discourse, interaction, conceptualization, and grammar in several languages including Korean, Japanese, American English, Chinese and Persian. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute provided a fellowship to the University of Toronto to support Ph.D. candidate, Chad Lingwood, in 2006-2007. Toward this end, the Institute seeks to provide outstanding course offerings and programs in Persian language, literature, history, and culture; to foster communication and community ties among people of Persian heritage and those interested in Persian studies; and to serve as a model for encouraging intercultural communication among peoples of varying backgrounds. The grant also supported work by two returning students, Ms. Chandler and Ms. Daly, during summer 2014. Taurus, 2016) by Dr. Katouzian. A Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute grant was awarded to the Persian and Iranian Studies Program at the University of Washington from 2007-2009, in support of the following activities: Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Lecture Series, Iranian Film Series, conference “Modern Iran: the Future of the Past” and additional lectureship for Persian Studies. In 2018, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute awarded the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies to Elham Monfaredi, a last year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at UHM, for the completion of her doctoral dissertation, “Storytelling in Persian Language Classrooms: A Conversation Analytic Perspective,” in academic year 2018-2019. Dr. Monfaredi successfully completed her Ph.D. in Second Language Studies in August 2019. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Nonprofit Organization Management Honolulu, Hawaii 43 followers Since 2011,Â.  was established at the University of Washington in 2003 to provide support to future generations of graduate students in theÂ,  (NELC) of the College of Arts and Sciences. ’ areas of research focus on the discourse, interaction, conceptualization, and grammar in several languages including Korean, Japanese, American English, Chinese and Persian. program in Nonprofit Leadership and Management in 2013-2014. Both students completed their doctoral studies in Summer 2018.  is proud to partner with the following universities in the United States and abroad to advance Persian Studies. GLASSAT80.ORG 23 On Sunday afternoons between 1972 and 1974, savvy New Yorkers could climb six fl ights of stairs to a top-fl oor warehouse loft at 10 Bleecker Street in SoHo. On June 17-19, 2005, the “First International Conference on Aspects of Iranian Linguistics” was held at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany. She is a scholar and musician who specializes in the devotional practices of the Ahl-i Haqq including the musical repertoire, the texts, and the rituals, as well as Iranian classical music. narrative stratagems, forms and functions of rhetoric figures, ethical and philosophical concerns, nature description and its function, his lyrical work, psychology and development of the heroes, comparative analyses, sources and influences. The conference explored the theme of Iran’s “identity,” central both to academic debates and the crisis Iran currently faces due to the clash of contending visions of the country’s national, religious and political character. His most recent book,Â,  (University of California Press, 2018) is a study of the natural and built environments of power in Persia and the ancient Iranian world, from the height of the Achaemenids to the coming of Islam.Â. The grant supported the publication of Sa’di in Love, Lyrical Verses of Persia’s Master Poet (I.B. Her dissertation, “Cultivating Modernities: The Society for National Heritage, Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture in Twentieth-Century Iran,” offers a detailed history and a critical analysis of the political underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic ends of Pahlavi architectural culture between 1921 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Dr. Grigor received her doctoral degree in 2005 and is currently Professor of Art History at UC Davis. The event was chaired by Dr. Homa Katouzian and took place at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College. This program contributed to a better understanding of Persian language, linguistics and culture, not only by teaching the students about Persian language and culture, but also through research generating new knowledge about the Persian language. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute provided a grant to Stony Brook University to award a Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies to Vahideh Rasekhi, Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics, for the completion of her dissertation, entitled “Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian,” during academic year 2016-2017.  (CPA), in collaboration with UNC’s Persian Studies Program. The program offers an integrated course of study that melds state-of-the-art leadership theory with proven management models, strategies and tools designed to teach professionals how to create and manage high-performance organizations.Â. Roshan Institute Scholarship for Excellence in Persian Studies was created in June 2007 in the College of Arts & Humanities under the leadership of Dean Vida Samiian to encourage the inception and continuation of course offerings in Persian Language and Culture Studies. All rights reserved. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was previously Assistant Professor of International Literature at Georgia College and State University.Â. A social reception, including a performance of Persian classical music, was held in April 2009 to honor the achievements of the first 17 scholarship recipients. This event featured approximately 50 participants including invited speakersÂ,  (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris). The project, which has since launched a Web site and the construction of an online dictionary, has received attention from online Iranian culture and linguistics resources, and has been acknowledged by authors of published works. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is dedicated to the promotion and celebration of Persian culture. ‘s experience as an Iranian judge, lawyer and activist. Feature stories on former Olympic athlete Bruce Kidd, now UTSC's 10th principal, students and mental health, and revitalizing the historic St. George campus She holds a B.A. In February 2016, he was selected by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine as one of twelve minority scholars who are making their mark in academia.Â. Keynote speakers include Professors Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto), Agnes Korn (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) and Richard Larson (Stony Brook University). Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Endowed Professorship was established in 2010 to support a faculty member who will contribute to the development of the Persian Language and Culture Program. All rights reserved. An historian of art, archaeology and religions, his research focuses on the intersection of art, ritual and power in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia and the wider Iranian world. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has created a second endowment at UNC-Chapel Hill, bringing its total gifts to $1 million in support of the university’s growing Persian studies program. . , an international collaborative project based at Columbia University, founded byÂ. has a long-standing research interest in the languages of the Iranian family and on their implications for linguistic theory. , in the series “Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization.” Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History at Trinity University,Â. The Chair is expected to be a scholar in any or all of the three dynasties of the ancient Persian world: Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sasanian (550 BCE – 650 CE).  provided a grant to Stony Brook University to award aÂ, , Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics, for the completion of her dissertation, entitled “Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian,” during academic year 2016-2017. in Biomedical Engineering from Islamic Azad University in Tehran and is currently a graduate student in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas. of the University of Maryland College Park from 2014 to 2019. , Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and 2010 President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (now known as theÂ. In 2014, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute provided a grant to the Toronto Initiative in Iranian Studies, directed by Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, to award a fellowship for Dr. Homa Katouzian, member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship in Iranian Linguistics recipients at UCLA to date include:Â. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies recipients at UCLA to date include: The Politics of Labor and Workers’ Protest in Iran. Thanks to the leadership and vision of Mir-Djalali, the Institute has awarded several millions in grants to establish or strengthen academic Persian programs at some of the most prestigious universities in the US and … Toward this end, Roshan Institute seeks to provide outstanding course offerings and programs in Persian language, literature, history, and culture; to foster communication and community ties among people of Persian heritage and those interested in Persian studies; and to serve as a model for encouraging intercultural communication among peoples of varying backgrounds. He does so by examining the representations of gardens and pavilions in religious texts, the poetry of major Persian poets, miniature painting, sculpture and carpets, as well as accounts of travelers to Persia. Dr. Stephanie Cronin received a three-year Roshan Institute Visiting Research Fellowship (2015-2018) in support of teaching in modern Iranian history, organizing an international conference, and conducting a research for her forthcoming book, Iran: a People’s History. This event was followed by lectures on various subjects related to the Persian book delivered by twelve other renowned scholars between April and September. The expression Roshan in Persian literally.  was held at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany. Founded in 2000, the institute has awarded several million dollars in grants to establish or strengthen academic Persian programs at some of the most prestigious universities in the world. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute supports cultural and educational activities that help the transmission and instruction of Persian language and culture.