The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies is pleased to invite you to an Iranian seminar at Uppsala University. Darya Abdulkarim Ali Najim will lecture on the topic “Memory of homeland and womanhood in Kurdish literature: On translating homeland and feminism” Time: Tuesday 9 May, 10-12 Place: Room 9-3042, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Engelska parken, Uppsala… Read More Memory of homeland and womanhood in Kurdish literature
The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies is pleased to invite you to attend a lecture entitled “The Ossetic Language“. The lecture will be held at Uppsala University on Tuesday 13 September 2016 , starting at 10:15 am. It will be given by linguist Dr. Jan Henrik Holst, Hamburg University. Holst is the author of several books in… Read More Lecture: The Ossetic Language
The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies is happy to invite you to a lecture entitled “New Iranian Dialectology – Delving into Diversity” held by Dr. Thomas Jügel at The Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Dr. Thomas Jügel is a specialist on modern Iranian languages. At the present he is conducting a project on… Read More Lecture: New Iranian Dialectology – Delving into Diversity
The Shāhnāme (Book of Kings) completed in 1010 by the Persian poet Ferdowsi is the national epic of Greater Iran and the world’s longest epic poetry written by a single poet. In 2011 an international conference on the Shāhnāme was held at Uppsala University to celebrate the second millennium of Ferdowsi’s majestic work and his role in the… Read More New Book: International Shahname Conference. The Second Millennium
The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies is happy to invite you to a lecture entitled “Development of Ergativity in Iranian languages” held by Dr. Thomas Jügel at The Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Dr. Thomas Jügel is a specialist on modern Iranian languages. At the present he is conducting a project on the verbal morphology of Iranian languages… Read More Lecture: Development of Ergativity in Iranian languages
Title: Iranians in Sweden. A Study of Language Maintenance and Shift Author: Shidrokh Namei Studies Serie: Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk 86 Publisher: Department of Scandinavian Languages There are about 100,000 Iranians in Sweden today. The majority of these migrated to this country during the Iran–Iraq war in the mid-1980s. Iranians are heterogeneous in terms of language,… Read More New Book: Iranians in Sweden. A Study of Language Maintenance and Shift
Kollegor och vänner har mist en framstående forskare och stor humanist. Iranisten och författaren Dariush Kargar har avlidit efter en längre tids sjukdom i en ålder av 59 år. Dariush Kargar doktorerade i iranska språk vid Uppsala universitet 2010 och hade vid den tidpunkten ett långt och framgångsrikt skönlitterärt författarskap bakom sig. Han föddes i… Read More Dariush Kargar har avlidit
