Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi is returning to the University of Toronto to deliver a lecture on the women’s uprising in Iran. Ebadi, who received an honorary degree from U of T in 2004, is known worldwide for staunchly supporting the rights of women, children and refugees in Iran.
Support further distinguishes UCI as destination for scholars of ancient and modern Iran March 17, 2021
“The endowment from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will enable Iranian studies graduate students to gain intensive training in their chosen disciplines while simultaneously acquiring deep, field-specific expertise in art, archaeology, history, languages, literatures and religions from the interdisciplinary program. It is my honor and responsibility to ensure that the endowment and the graduate program fulfill this extraordinary promise,” says Matthew Canepa, UCI’s Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History & Archaeology of Ancient Iran and director of the graduate specialization in ancient Iran and the premodern Persian world.