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Program Innovation

Corinna Nichols

Corinna Nichols selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts

June 27, 2025
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Envisioning the Landscape of the Svoboda Diaries

October 18, 2024
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Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major

April 10, 2024
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Tech-Enhanced Language Learning: Navigating Innovative Platforms for MELC language Courses

February 21, 2024
The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca

MELC SUMMER STUDY ABROAD: ARABIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MOROCCO!

January 6, 2024
Mo Habib: Artwork by Amelia Ossorio, MELC student majoring in Persian

A Novel Prize for Persian Translation

August 21, 2023
Persian 401

Dr. Naghmeh Samini brings Theater Workshop to the Classroom

June 12, 2023
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Gender Inclusion and Language Instruction

December 8, 2021
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New Minors for Students in NELC

August 18, 2021
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Digitizing Life on the Tigris River via the Svoboda Diaries Project

March 13, 2021
Professor Aria Fani
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies
October 12, 2020
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End of the Year Reception

June 12, 2019
siff, persian and iranian studies program, PISP, 2018

NELC-PISP Presents Third Iran Film Initiative in collaboration with SIFF 2018

May 17, 2018

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