As one of the the major tributaries of the Institute of Iranian Studies, the forum for the cultural studies of Iran, which is based at the School of Modern Languages, aspires to encourage the application of the evolving approaches to the study of culture to the history of artistic production in Iran. The unifying element of the forum, therefore, is artistic cultural production and the spaces in which it has occurred as an aesthetic, economic, sociopolitical phenomenon in Iran. We are interested in the role cultural products have played in the expansion of the concept of art and ‘the redistribution of the sensible’— what can be seen and heard in society due to the machination of political, cultural and religious aesthetics that confine these sounds and images in a hierarchical system of values. The forum, thus, aims to encourage analytical and theoretical discussions on the multiplicity of locations that art (literature, cinema, theatre, music, dance, visual arts, architecture, etc.) occupies in Iranian discourse on modernity, heroism, emancipation and post-industrial contemporaneity.
Links to the Research Centers:
Persian Language, Literature, Drama and Cinema at St Andrews
Academic Programmes:
UG:
UG Programmes: More than 130 Joint and Triple Honours Combinations
History: Including Middle Eastern History
PGT:
MLitt in Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
PGR (Research Fields):
Persian Literary and Cultural Studies: Dr Saeed Talajooy
Iranian Music and Ethnomusicology: Dr Parmis Mozafari
Political and Social History: Professor Ali Ansari
Political and Social History: Dr Sivaush Randjbar-Daemi
Medieval History of the Persianate World: Professor Andrew Peacock
Armenia and Iran 400-1100AD: Professor Timothy Greenwood
Art History: Dr Yusen Yu
Social Media:
Facebook Page of the Institute of Iranian Studies