Influential Iraniansat Stanford
Community ایرانیانِ استنفورد

Iranians at Stanford, in one place.

Stanford has a student association, an academic program, language courses and hundreds of Iranians across every school. Until now there was no single door. This page is it.

On campus

Groups and programs

Each of these is run by its own people. We link to them, we show up to their events, and we hope they show up to ours.

  • Student organization

    Persian Student Association

    Stanford’s non-political Persian cultural club, founded in 1993. Nowruz, Yalda, film nights, tabling at White Plaza, and the home of this series.

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  • Academic program

    Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies

    Stanford’s home for the study of Iran: courses, visiting scholars, and a public lecture calendar worth following.

    WebsiteEventsNewsletter
  • Language

    Persian at the Stanford Language Center

    First-, second- and third-year Modern Persian (the PERSLANG sequence), which also satisfies the University foreign-language requirement.

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  • Your group

    Missing a group?

    Graduate circles, departmental groups, alumni chapters, a weekly backgammon table. If Iranians gather there, it belongs here.

    Add your group
Ways in

Four ways to find your people this quarter.

  • Join the mailing list

    One email per conversation, one reminder. It is also how we announce tea afternoons and co-hosted events.

    Sign up

  • Come to a PSA event

    Nowruz in March and Shab-e Yalda in December are the big ones. Film nights and tabling happen in between. Everyone is welcome, Persian speaker or not.

    Follow @stanfordpsa

  • Graduate students and postdocs

    A graduate circle is forming around the series: a co-moderator seat at every conversation and a tea afternoon each quarter. Tell us you are interested.

    Raise your hand

  • Volunteer for an evening

    Registration desk, room setup, photographs, the tea table. Two hours, a front-row seat, and the leftover shirini.

    Volunteer

This quarter

What is coming up

We list our own conversations here, and point to the calendars that the other groups keep.

  1. Influential Iranians: Ali GhodsiInaugural conversation. Date and venue to be announced. Get notified.
  2. PSA eventsAnnounced on Instagram and in the PSA newsletter.
  3. Iranian Studies lecturesPublic talks and seminars on the program’s calendar.

Hosting something for the Iranian community at Stanford? Send it in and we will list it.

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We add anything that brings Iranians at Stanford together and is open to students. We do not list political events.

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