Two weeks Off for Christmass and New year

Happy

Holidays
&
New Year

Our next session will be on Thursday 8th. Jan. 2009

CafeLitt 102: Spirales de la vie (Spirals of the life) Ceramics of Mahmoud Baghayian

Subject: Spirales de la vie (Spirals of the life) Ceramics of Mahmoud Baghayian
Date: Thursday 18th Dec. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Mahmoud Baghaeian
Place: MEKIC ,4438, rue de la Roche,Montreal (Quebec) H2J 3J1
Metro: Mont-Royal

CafeLitt 101:"The Rooster" a short movie by Hossein Arian

Subject: "The Rooster" a short movie by Hossein Arian
Date: Thursday 11th Dec. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by:Hosein Arian
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

THE ROOSTER is Hossein's last short film which he finished December 2007 and he is sending it to some film festivals now. The story is about a man who is lonely and he is just talking to a cockroach to free his loneliness. He is going out to talk with a girl who came to his apartment by a mistake but He couldn’t talk to her. He goes to the street and reviews his opinion about society, people, love and the future.

The first version is 20 minute long take shot which was very difficult to arrange it because the camera starts from the bathtub and fallowing him with all his actions in inside and outside.

One of his goals in this film is what his character says:

" I’m showing you this movie so that at least in my fantasy I would for once be number one. I thought to myself I would tell my story in two perspectives; the long take and the edited version to see if Andre Bazin was right or Pudovkin and Eisenstein. Do you think our life is based on a long take or is just a series of cuts? When we sleep at night couldn’t that just be a big cut? And people, do we see them as a long take or in cuts? I think that when people get tired of life they create the cut ".

CafeLitt 100: "History of flag in Iran

Subject: History of flag in Iran
Date: Thursday 4th Dec. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Behzad Mostowfi
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeCinema IV: "GAAV" by Mehrjui

Movie: "GAAV" (1969) by Dariush Mehrjui
Presented by: Bardia Sadinejad and Morad Sadeghi
Date: 18:00 Sunday 30th November 2008
Address: VA - Visual Arts Building 1395 René Lévesque W. Room 323 in the 3rd floor,
Metro: Guy Concordia

Enterence: 5$ (this will be for 2 sessions. If you have participated the previous session, you can just show your last ticket(we have the names). Tickets for 5 sessions and 10 sessions are available at lower price)

CafeLitt 99: A review on Poor Folk, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Subject: A review on Poor Folk, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Date: Thursday 27 Nov. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Ehsan Daneshyar
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

In this session there will be a review on one of the first books of Dostoyevsky (Poor Folk). This book is a poignant societal and physiological sketch written by young writer. It is written in the form of letters of correspondence between two characters both trapped within the poverty and circumstances of ST.Petersburgs slums. Makar and Varvara , two young lovers , too poor to marry , struggle with poverty all the times. This book demonstrates the beautiful and tragic face of 19 century Russian society.

CafeLitt 98: World Religions

Subject: World Religions 

Date: Thursday 20 Nov. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Joubeen Eslaah
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeLitt 97 : Nader Ebrahimi

Subject: Nader Ebrahimi 

Date: Thursday 13 Nov. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Naghmeh Sarraf
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeLitt 96: What is the Origin of Ethics?

Subject: What is the Origin of Ethics?
Date: Thursday 6^th Nov. 2008 , 17:00-19:00
Presented by: McGill University
Place: McGill University, Stephen Leacock Building, Room 132

Metro: McGill
Bus: 24 directly from Down town

This week CaféLitt decides to participate in a lecture organized at McGill University. It is about "What is the Origin of Ethics?"

"Philosophers have debated this question for centuries. And now economists and evolutionary biologists are set to debate this at the annual Trottier Symposium. In honor of Charles Darwin's 150th anniversary of the publication of his Theory of Natural Selection, this year's Symposium brings together an international panel of experts in economics and evolutionary biology to see what economic theory and natural selection have to say about ethics and human development. Perhaps no one has influenced knowledge of life on Earth nor the life sciences as much as Darwin (1809-1882). His theory of evolution by natural selection is now THE unifying theory of the life sciences. Join us as two elements from the life science community are brought together to debate the Origin of Ethics."

For more information see: What is the Origin of Ethics?

CafeLitt 95 : Iranian architecture

Subject: An introduction to Iranian architecture
Date: Thursday 30 Oct. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Bahram Nouri
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeLitt 94 : Khosro Berahmandi and Painting

Subject: Khosro Berahmandi and Painting
Date: Thursday 23 Oct. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Khosro Berahmandi
Place:Maison d'Edition Ketabe Iran Canada Inc., 4438, rue de la Roche, Montreal (Quebec) H2J 3J1
Metro: Mont-Royal

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Khosro Behramandi, a Montreal based Iranian artist, currently has an exhibition at MEKIC, the Maison d'Edition Ketabe Iran Canada. The show, titled Re-emerge (Baz peydayesh), is the culmination of a year's worth of work described by Olga Pudelco of MEKIC as "a veritable therapy of simplicity for all those who dream." The vernissage took place October 3, 2008 and will remain on display until November 16, 2008.

Khosro's formal language has grown over the last twenty years. It is a self generated style based on an extremely refined linear depiction with fantastic detail and complex dimensions that translates his imagination into a figurative narration.

Cafe Lit invites you to visit the exhibition and meet with Khosro who will present his paintings and answers your questions.

For more information please visit:

www.khosro.info

Cafe Litt 93: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Subject: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Date: Thursday 16 Oct. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Omid Saremi
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeLitt 92: Textile industry

Subject: Textile Industry
Date: Thursday 9 Oct. 2008 , 19:00
Presented by: Mehrdad Anvari
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeLitt 91: Decline of Sassanid Empire

Subject: Decline of Sassanid Empire

Date: Thursday 2 Oct. 2008, 20:00

Presented by: Reza Assasi

Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeCinema II: IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION

Movie: IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION (2006)
Directed by: Nader Takmil Homayoun
Presented by: Bardia Sadinejad
Date: 18:00 Sunday 28th 2008 at MEKIC:
Address:Maison d'Edition Ketabe Iran Canada Inc., 4438, rue de la Roche, Montreal (Quebec) H2J 3J1
Metro: Mont-Royal

MEKIC Enterence: 5$ (If you have participate the previous time, you can just show your last ticket)

This session will be in English

CafeLitt 90:CafeThéâtre I; "Death Of Yazdgerd"

Subject: CafeThéâtre I; Play Reading of "Death Of Yazdgerd" written by Bahram Beyzai
Date: Thursday 25th Sept. , 20:00
Presented by: Bardia Sadinejad, Solmaz Sharifian, Azam Heydari, Maziar Bab,Mehdi Keshtkar, Mohammad Larijani,Reza Assasi
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

CafeLitt 89: Ecotourism in Iran

Subject: Ecotourism in Iran
Date: Thursday 18th Sept. , 20:00
Presented by: Negar Ghadimi
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

According to The International Ecotourism Society, beginning in 1990s, ecotourism has been growing 20% - 34% per year in the world. In 2004, ecotourism and nature tourism were growing globally three times faster than the tourism industry as a whole. This new industry has also affected Iran and made government and private businesses to take advantage of this opportunity. Because of climate variety and considerable biodiversity, Iran has a good potential for ecotourism development; however, since the main challenge of ecotourism is its sustainability there is a fear among people who are trying to conserve Iran's nature about possible negative impacts of ecotourism on Iran's environment if it is executed without complete respect to accepted principles and policies. If conducted in a true way, ecotourism can be a powerful tool to save small communities cultures, shrinking ecosystems and their wildlife.

CafeLitt 88: September 11th. roots and consequence

Subject: September 11th. attacks roots and consequence
Date: Thursday 11th Sept. , 19:00
Presented by: Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, Mona Tajali, Roksana Bahramitash
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria


This session 9/11 we will talk about the 11th September attacks of 2001 , its roots and consequences.
We try to cover most of the aspects of this attacks by several talks (Eaxh around 10-20 min.) and a movie.

Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, will start the session.Her talk will include an overview of the chain-of-events of 9/11,
followed by a brief summary of "conspiracy" theories which offer different ides of how this event "actually" happened.

Mona Tajali, will talk about the terrorism in the Middle East and looked at the causes that the youth joins such fundamentalist groups, and their links to the Wahhabi School of thought, and the fact that most members are born and raised in the West.

Roksana Bahramitash,PhD ,will talk about the consequences of this attacks.She is going to be discussing her paper:
The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism: Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers,"Critique: Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.14, No 2, 223-237, Summer 2005. Her paper focuses on how, due (in part) to the environment created post-9/11, Muslim women have been portrayed in problematic ways. She looks at two American bestsellers: Reading Lolita in Tehran and Nine Parts of Desire.

At the end we will watch a short Movie about 9/11 and coninue the session with discussions.

CafeLitt 87: The Wild Book (KETAB_e VAHSHI)

Subject: The Wild Book (KETAB_e VAHSHI)
Date: Thursday 3rd Sept. , 19:00
Presented by: Hossein Sharang
Palce: Cine-Express ,1926 Rue Ste-Catherine O, Montreal
Metro Guy-Concordia or Atwater

For more information you can enlarge the following text that is an introduction by Mr. Sharang by clicking on it.

CafeLitt 86: Postmodern Literature

Subject: Postmodern Literature
Date: Thursday 28 August , 19:00
Presented by: Taraneh Javanbakht (Website: www.javanbakht.net )
Palce: Presse Cafe, 1446, Ste.Cathrine Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3G 1R3
Metro Guy-Concordia

“Postmodern literature” is an interesting field of the contemporary literature which contains an attractive frency for the auhors and readers of the texts eluding from the structuralist approach. The text elements: body, form and structure, are like the wooden pieces floating on the waves of water, without any conveying orientation of sense. Polyphony, deconstruction and Schizophrenic image are three important aspects of a postmodern text (poem, novel, play, scenario, ...), the criteria to distinguish a different text from a postmodern one.

CafeLitt 85:An introduction to Classical Music II

Subject: An introduction to Classical Music II
Date: Thursday 21 August , 19:00
Presented by: Farrokh Vahabzadeh
Palce: Presse Cafe, 1446, Ste.Cathrine Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3G 1R3
Metro Guy-Concordia

He Continued his presentation from Romanticism to Music of today.

CafeLitt 84:Artistic theories in Iran- Clash of rapture and ideology

Subject: Artistic theories in Iran- Clash of rapture and ideology

Presented by: Siamak Del zendeh
Date: Thursday 14 August , 19:00
Palce: Presse Cafe, 1446, Ste.Cathrine Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3G 1R3
Metro Guy-Concordia

Artistic theory in the “West” has had a controvertial role through the course of 20^th century, mostly based on philosophical and psychological theories rather than on esthetiques or art practice per se. the consequence: visual and esthetique principals have been replaced by ideological manifestos and artists’ statements. Whilst, during the same period art critics in Iran have been doing a lot of effort to establish and develop an artistic theory based on the dramatic dichotomy of the Modern and traditional. This talk aims to open a new discussion based on concentrating on a new reading of the history of arts in Iran. And will pay attention to the emergence of a new flourishing period of art practice in Iran today.

CafeLitt 83: DAR ASTANEH;Homage to Ahmad Shamlou

Subject: در آستانه : Homage to Ahmas Shamlou
Date: Thursday 7th Agu. , 19:00
Presented by: MISA and CafeLitt
Location:The ballroom, Thomson House of McGill University, 3650 McTavish, Montreal.
METRO McGill

بايد استاد و فرود آمد
بر آستان دري که کوبه ندارد ،

چرا که اگر به‌گاه آمده‌باشي دربان به انتظار توست و
اگر بي‌گاه
به درکوفتن‌ات پاسخي نمي‌آيد.

CafeLitt 83: An Introduction to Literary theory

Subject: An Introduction to Literary theory
Peresented by: Ali Paknezhad
Palce: Presse Cafe, 1446, Ste.Cathrine Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3G 1R3
Metro Guy-Concordia
19:00

20th century literary theory is closely linked to 20th century philosophy. It goes beyond “A theory of Literature” and elaborates upon a theory of understanding a text in its broadest sense including art work, religion, sacred text, political system, society, human beings or any other meaningful system.

In this presentation a comparative analyses will be done on different schools of though in 20th century which have been influential on how we understand a text.

These schools include Reception Theory (Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and Reader’s response theory), Structuralism, Post structuralism, Deconstruction and psychoanalysis.

He will try to give a synopsis of Terry Eagleton’s "Introduction to literary "

CafeCinema I (Cinematheque V) : Homage to Khosro Shakibai

Subject: Homage to Khosro Shakibai
Movie: Hamoun (1990)
Directed by: Dariush Mehrjouyi
Presented by: Bardia Sadinejad & Morad Sadeghi
Date: 15:00 Sunday 27th Jul 2008 at MEKIC:
Address:Maison d'Edition Ketabe Iran Canada Inc., 4438, rue de la Roche, Montreal (Quebec) H2J 3J1
Metro: Mont-Royal


MEKIC Enterence: 5$

MOLAVI KHAANI II

مولوی خوانی - دوره نخست - نشست دوم

Sat. 26 جولای 2008
کافه لیندا - از ساعت5 تا 7 خواهد بود
Presented: Mohammad Larijani
Address: Cafe Linda, 1909 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest,Montréal, Quebec H3H
Metro: Guy Concordia

CafeLitt 81:An introduction to Heiddeger II

Subject: An introduction to Heiddeger II
Date: Thursday 24 July , 19:00
Presented by: Shahdad Heidari

CafeLitt 80:An introduction to Heiddeger

Subject: An introduction to Heiddeger I
Presented by: Shahdad Heidari
Date: Thursday 17 July , 20:00

CafeLitt 79:The Will to Power weakened; A comparative critical study of Iranian Cinema before and after the Islamic Revolution.

Subject: The Will to Power weakened; A comparative critical study of Iranian Cinema before and after the Islamic Revolution
Presented by : Ata Hoodashtian
Date: 10 Jul. 2008

In this cultural study, he tried to demonstrate how the dynamism of Iranian filmmaking, its content, objectives and meaning have radically changed following the Revolution, and how and why this change relates to the social changes of the post-revolutionary Iranian society, both culturally and morally.

This study did not cover technical nor historical issues of Iranian cinema but was rather reflect Dr. Ata Hoodashtian's informed analysis as a social analyst.

CafeLitt78:Friedrich Nietzche

Subject: Friedrich Nietzche
Date: Thursday 3 July , 20:00
Presented by : Yaschar Aghazadeh

CafeLitt77: Persian Gulf

Subject: A Gulf, several names and confilicts:A free Discussion on Persian Gulf conflicts
Date: Thursday 26 Jun, 18:30
Presented by : Mehdi Keshtkar

Report on Chacavac Radio

CafeLitt 76:Expressionism in 1920's German Cinema

Subject: Expressionism in 1920's German Cinema and the road they made mostly towards Horror movies as a genre, with its own aesthetics and cinematic rules
Presented by: Bardia Saadi-Nejad
Date: 19 Jun 2008, 20:00

CafeLitt 75:An introduction to Classical Music

Subject: An introduction to Classical Music
Date: 12 Jun 2008, 20:00
Presented by: Farrokh Vahabzadeh

CafeLitt 74: Cognitive evolution, The evolution of Language

Subject: Cognitive evolution, The evolution of Language
Date: 5 Jun 2008, 20:00
Presented by: Shahin Zanganehpour

Biological evolutionary process, as conceived of by Charles Darwin, is considered a global process, which affects all living things on this planet including humans. The end state of the evolutionary process for the human brain is a mysterious and complex collection of cognitive capacities. Language, which is thought to be uniquely human capacity, will be discussed in brief and some evidence regarding its evolutionary basis will be presented.

CafeLitt 73:United Nations

Subject: United Nations
Date: Thursday, 29th May 2008, 20:00
Presented by: Hanieh Ziaei

CafeLitt 72:"SHAAHED BAAZI in Persian Literature"

Subject: "SHAAHED BAAZI in Persian Literature"
Date: 22 May 2008, 20:00
Presented by: Forough Ensandoust

CafeLitt 71:Franz Kafka & The metamorphosis

Subject: Franz Kafka & The metamorphosis
Date: Thursday, 15th May, 2008, 20:00
Presented by: Mehdi Keshtkar & Farrokh Vahabzadeh

پدربزرگم همیشه می گفت : « زندگی جور گیج کننده ای کوتاه است . به گذشته که نگاه می کنم ، زندگی آنقدر به نظرم کوتاه می آید که به زحمت می توانم بفهمم ، چطور ممکن است ، مرد جوانی – برای مثال می گویم – تصمیم بگیرد به دهکده ی بعدی بتازد ، ولی نترسد که – گذشته از حوادث بین راه – مهلت همین زندگی معمولی خوش و خرم ، بارها کوتاه تر از آن زمانی باشد که برای چنین سفری لازم است .

CafeLitt 70:"Masnavikhaani I "

Date & Time: Thursday, 8th of May , 2008,

Subject: "Masnavikhaani I "
Presented by: Mohammad Larijani

We start "Masnavikhaani " sessions by reading Masnavi the masterpiece of Molana Balkhi-Rumi.
These sessions will continue by reading and interpreting the Masnavi.