CafeCinema 9: Asrar ganj dareheye jenni (Ebrahim Golestan)
Sun 29 Mar 2009, 18:00, by Bardia Sa'adi Nejad & Morad Sadeghi, at Visual Arts:1395 Rene Levesque West, Montreal (Map)
Asrar ganj dareheye jenni (1974, The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries) A masterpiece of Iran cinema by Ebrahim Golestan.... more >>
CafeLitt 113: Scientific Word-Making in persian language, a practical approach
Thu 26 Mar 2009, 19:00, by Yusef Amiri, at GSA House: 2030 Mackay,Montreal, QC (Map)
واژهسازی علمی در زبان پارسی بخش دوم: مثالهای عملی و کاربردی در این جلسه پس از مرور کوتاهی بر بخش اول (نیاز به زبان علمی پارسی) به صورت عملی واژههای علمی به زبان انگلیسی را بررسی میکنیم و معادلهای پارسی آنها را نیز میسنجیم. از جمله به محدودیتهای کاربردی برخی از معادلهای موجود خواهیم پرداخت و سعی میکنیم نشان دهیم چه طور با استفاده از توانایی و امکانات زبانهای ایرانی (اوستایی، پارسی کهن، پارسی میانه، کردی و لری و... more >>
CafeLitt 112: Social Darwinism
Thu 19 Mar 2009, 19:00, by Ali Yoonessi, at GSA House: 2030 Mackay,Montreal, QC (Map)
Charles Darwin is usually considered one of the most influential scientists of the recent times. His theory of natural selection has become widely accepted by the scientific community and general public. An extension to his theory, social Darwinism, suggested by his half-cousin , Francis Galton and provided the basis for Eugenic studies. Eugenic studies is concerned with controlled breeding of humans in order to achieve desirable traits in the future generations. Suggestively, the social Darwinism has provided the basis for... more >>
CafeLitt 111: The Mathematics of Omar Khayyam (In English)
Thu 12 Mar 2009, 19:00, by Paul Dumais, at GSA House: 2030 Mackay,Montreal, QC (Map)
Omar Khayyam, or Omar the Tentmaker 1048--1122, is well known in the Persian world for his famous quatrains, collected in in his Rubayat and popularized in the west by Edward Fitzgerald in the nineteenth century, but very few among the lovers of his poetry are acquainted with his mathematical or astronomical work. On the other hand, the western mathematicians who know about Khayyam are not aware of his standing as one the most revered Persian poets. This talk will attempt... more >>
BookClub 1: Disgrace
Sun 8 Mar 2009, 17:00, by Azam Heydari, at Cafe Linda:1909 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest,Montreal (Map)
We will discuss the book "Disgrace" written by Nobel Prize winner "J. M. Coetzee".... more >>
CafeLitt : Canceled for the concert of Darya Dadvar
Thu 5 Mar 2009, 19:00, by , at : (Map)
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CaféLitt is not a place; it is a gathering of minds. We are a group of mostly Persian young students, scholars and professionals who gather every Thursday evening around 19h00 in a café to discuss various subjects and share different ideas, ranging vastly from history to science, from literature to fine arts. We started these gatherings on Jan 17th, 2006. Each week, one of us takes the responsibility of presenting a topic (in Persian, English or French) for about an hour in a subject s/he is intimately familiar with or has an expertise in... more...
