Taleghani Lecture Brochure 2022

11th Annual

TALEGHANI LECTURE

Guest Speaker: PROFESSOR TOURAJ DARYAEE from The University of California, Irvine April 28, 2022 | 7:30 PM | Zoom Event https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83032590440 Brought to you by The University of Arizona Department of Linguistics

TALEGHANI LECTURE SERIES 2022 The History of Senses in Persian: Smelling the Past PROFESSOR TOURAJ DARYAEE from The University of California, Irvine

April 28th | 7:30 PM | Zoom Event https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83032590440

DR. MALAKEH TALEGHANI GRADUATE/UNDERGRADUATE ENDOWMENT & THE TALEGHANI LECTURE SERIES

Founded in May 2010, the Dr. Malakeh Taleghani Graduate and Undergraduate Endowment in Iranian Studies funds outstanding graduate and undergraduate research in all areas of Iranian studies, including Persian literature, anthropology, history, geography, political science, and music; Iranian art and architecture, and Iranian languages and linguistics. Due to the generosity of family and friends, the endowment has grown tremendously since its creation. In connection with the endowment, the Taleghani Lecture Series is sponsored by Prof. Simin Karimi and presented by the UA Department of Linguistics. Each year a prominent scholar in Iranian studies is invited to present a public lecture. The goal of the lecture series is to create awareness about various aspects of Iran and the Iranian culture among Americans and young Iranians, an issue that was very close to Dr. Taleghani’s heart.

Dr. Taleghani received a Ph.D. in Persian Literature from the University of Tehran. She was only the third Iranian woman to receive this degree. She is the author of The Ups and Downs of the Life of an Iranian Woman and a co-author of Zan dar Iran-e Bastaan (Women in Ancient Iran). She has also written nine plays based on Persian literary masterpieces.

TALEGHANI SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

SPRING 2021 | Roya Kabiri (Linguistics) SPRING 2020 | Mohammad Khan (MENAS) SPRING 2019 | Faezeh Faezipour (School of Art) SPRING 2018 | Alyeh Mehin Jafarabadi (MENAS) SPRING 2017 | Parvaneh Hosseini (Middle Eastern & North African Studies) | Roya Kabiri (Linguistics) Fatemeh Sharafzadeh (School of Architecture) SPRING 2016 | Ryan Smith & Rana Nabors (Linguistics) Mohsen Mahdavi (Linguistics) SPRING 2015 | Shaghayegh Ansari (Architecture) Seyede Pouye Khoshkhoosani (Middle Eastern & North African Studies) SPRING 2014 | Ana Ghoreishian (History) SPRING 2013 | Felisa Dyrud (Middle Eastern & North African Studies) | Rana Nabors (Linguistics)

SPRING 2012 | Kian Alavy (Middle Eastern & North African Studies) | Jovan Erfan (Fine Arts) | Isra Yaghoubi (Middle Eastern & North African Studies) SPRING 2011 | Julie Ellison (Near Eastern Studies) Farrah Jafari (Near Eastern Studies) Deniz Tat (Linguistics)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Touraj Daryaee is the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and the Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught and served as the Bahari Senior Fellow at University of Oxford as well as a Visiting Fellow at École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is a scholar of ancient Iranian history and civilization and has written some fifteen books on Achaemenid, Sasanian and ancient world history, as well as on the history of Zoroastrianism, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) texts and other edited volumes on Iranian history. Some of these books include King of the Seven Climes: A History of the Ancient Iranian World (3000 BCE — 651 CE), UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2017; From Oxus to Euphrates: A History of Late Antique Iran, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2016: Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persia in Longue Durée, Mazda Publishers, 2014; Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King, Afshar Publishers, 2013; The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, Oxford University Press, 2012, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, IB Tauris, London, 2010; Iranian Kingship, and The Arab Conquest and Zoroastrian Apocalypse: The History of Fars and Beyond in Late Antiquity (600–900 CE), Mumbai, 2010.

ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

The History of Senses in Persian: Smelling the Past

Why do ancient sources tell us so much about the infatuation with smell in the ancient Iranian World, and why things and places are remembered through smell in Persian literature and poetry? This presentation discusses the importance and relevance of the history of smell for understanding history, as reflected in the Persian and Iranian sources, from the Avesta to Persian poetics.

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HONOR ROLL 2022

Taleghani Endowed Graduate Fellowship Donors

The University of Arizona’s Department of Linguistics Thanks to all who have given so generously in support of The Dr. Malakeh Taleghani Endowed Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowship. Gifts from friends play a significant role in helping graduate and undergraduate students pursue aspects of Iranian studies.

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PAST TALEGHANI LECTURES

The Department of Linguistics is proud to name the following featured prominent scholars as part of the Taleghani Lecture series: 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Trita Parsi Neda Maghbouleh Najmieh Batmanglij Massumeh Farhad Mary Hegland Ervand Abrahamian Hossein Omoumi and Ensemble Farzaneh Milani Hossein Amanat Karim Sadjadpour

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