Events

Khojeste Mistree Talk

Date: May 24, 2008
Location: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Time: 7:00 pm
Further details from H Bhumgara via email hbhumgara@hotmail.com or 905-855-2135
Audience 15 and older
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Gustadji No Ghotalo

Date: May 31, 2008
Location: Michael Power/St. Joseph School, 105 Eringate Drive, Etobicoke
Time: 7:00 pm
This same group has brought you other hilarious parsee nataks
Including Temulji noo Timetable!
Tickets: $50 (VIP), $40, $30
Natak Flyer
Natak Program Letter

Lecture on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute and Zarathushtra

Date: July 20, 2008
Location: MGDM 3590 Bayview Ave., Toronto
Time: 4:30 pm
Biography on Professor Gernot Windfuhr, professor of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan:
Prof. Gernot Windfuhr studied at the Universities of Hamburg, Cologne, and Tehran, and received his Ph.D. in Iranian Studies from Hamburg in 1965. He has been Professor of Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, since 1966 (Chair 1977-1987). His main fields of research are in two areas: Persian language/linguistics, Iranian dialectology; and Zoroastrian Studies (metaphysics, including the Amesha Spentas; ritual and calendar). His regular undergraduate courses include "The Religion of Zoroaster", "Persian Culture", and "Rumi and the Great Persian Mystical Poets". He has published, a comparison between the Yasna and the Taoist ritual; a study of the celestial Haoma; and a study on Mithraic coding in a royal Sarmatian burial complex in the southern Ural steppes of the 5th cent. B.C. His forthcoming publications relating to Zoroastrianism include: “The Zoroastrian Yasna ritual and the geometry of the Rock Birth of Mithras in the Roman Mysteries,” Festschrift for Dastur Dr. Firoze Kotwal, edited by Jamsheed Choksy, Indiana University. “Riddles and chronograms,” chapter 10 in History of Persian Literature, 1. A General Introduction to Persian Literature, edited by J.T.P. Bruijn. “The Word in Zoroastrianism,” in The Word. Studies in the Language of Religion and the Religious Meaning of Language, edited by C.J. Swaeringen. Austin, Texas: U Texas Press.