Presented Lectures & Conference Papers

  • Soleiman Haïm and His Contribution to the Modern Persian Lexicography, IAJF, Los Angeles, February 2020

 

  • Cyrus the great, The worshiper of Marduk, California Zoroastrian Cultural Center, October 2019
 
  • Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Plurilingualism among the Migrant Families in Greater Los Angeles, UCLA, July 2015

  •   Towards Ambiguous Roots of Haftsīn-Celebration as a Ritual of Persian New Year, Iranian-American Jewish Fed- eration, Los Angeles, March 2015.

  • Definition and Description of Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Iran in Modern Times; Approaches towards Socio- Linguistics, Language Strategy and Sate Power, UCLA, February 2015

  •   Iranian Jews and other Religious Minorities during the World War II, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, September 2014.

  •  Towards Semantics of the term “Religious Minorities” in Persian context, Kanoon Sokhan, Los Angeles, April 2014.

  • The Green Grass of the Moslem Neighbourhood, towards Popularity of Islamic Mysticism and Sufism in Europe, Kulturraum Bern, Switzerland, September 2013.

  • Leave Our Faith in Peace! Voices of the Muslim Migrants in Switzerland, Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Bern, Switzerland, October 2011.

  • Orient Carpets on the Swiss Walls: Conversion to Islam among the Swiss Population of Young Generation, Bern Centre for Migration and Foreign Cultures, Bern, Switzerland, February 2011.

  • Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in Iran, Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Switzerland, June 2010.

  • An Introduction to the Iranian Mysticism and its Judaeo-Christian Impacts, Centre for Iranian Studies, University of Tel-Aviv, Twelfth Annual Conference on Iranian Studies November 2009, Tel-Aviv, November 2009.

  • Conception of Religiosity among the Persian Jewish Community in Iran, Institute of Catholic Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland, May 2009.

  •  Formation of Parallel Societies in Central Europe, Turkish migrants and other Muslim minorities in Germany, In- stitute for Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland July 2008.

  • Iranian und Semitic Loanwords in Caucasian Languages: An Approach towards Interdisciplinary Linguistics, Sep- tember 2007, ECIS 6, 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Science, 2007 Vienna.

  • Jewish education and their educational centres prior to and after the Islamic Revolution. Irano-judaica: International Conference on Jewish-Iranian Cultural Relationship, Asian-African Institute, University of Hamburg, July 2007

  • The Moorish Spain and Andalusian Jews in the Middle Ages, Synagogue of Jewish Community in Bern, Switzerland June 2006.

  • The Educational Situation of Religious Minorities in Iran on the Example of Persian Jews and Baha’is, International Symposium on Human Rights, University of Jena, Germany. September 2006.

  • Jewish Mystics in the Middle Ages and the Jewish-Islamic Cultural Relations in Moorish Spain, VHS: Volks- hochschule Jena, Germany, April 2005.

  • Georgica et Irano-Semitica, Studies on the Iranian and Semitic loanwords in Georgian, Bern Circle Lecture in Lin- guistics, Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland June 2005.

  • An Introduction to the Iranian-Islamic mysticism, Kulturzentrum Jena, Germany, June 2004.

  • Anti-Semitism or anti-Judaism? A study of Islamic and Christian Hostility towards Jews in the Ancient world, Institute for Intercultural Communication, Jena, Germany, September 2003.

  •  Towards Aspects of Religious Practice among Muslim Youths in Germany, Institute of Theology, University of Jena, Germany, October 2002.

  •  Bilingualism and Semilingualism among the Children of Binational Background in Germany, VHS: Volkshochschule Jena, Germany, December 2001.

  •  Georgian and Persian Proverbs in Genetic and Areal Context, a Paremiological Approach. On Occasion of the 13th International Symposium of Iranian and Caucasian Studies, African Asian Institute Tbilisi, Georgia, September 2000.

  •  Function of Wisdom in Oriental Heroic Epics, a Philological Study, Institute for Iranian Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia, November 1999.

  • Persian-Georgian Literature and Language Contacts from the Historical Viewpoint, Philological Faculty of the Tbi- lisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, December 1998.

  • The Golden Age of Georgian Literature and the Contribution of the Persian World, Lectures on occasion of the 80th year’s jubilee of Tbilisi State University, Tehran, Iran, October 1998.

  • The Semantics and Connotations of the Term “Islam” from the Etymological Viewpoint, an Approach towards Histor- ical-Comparative Linguistics, Institute of Philology of Allāmeh Ṭabāṭabāʾī University, Tehran, Iran, February 1997.

  • The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint Exupéry and the Seven Spiritual Journeys, Faculty of Philology of Shiraz Uni- versity, Iran, November 1996.

  • Repentance (Tawba) as a Common Concept in Monolithic Religions, Institute of Philosophy of Allāmeh Ṭabāṭabāʾī University, Tehran, December 1996.

  •  Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Sufi Image, Shiraz University, Institute of Human Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, May 1995.

  • Backgrounds and Reasons of Battles in Shāhnameh, Shiraz University, Institute of Human Sciences, Iran, September 1995.

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