8.2.09
2.2.09
CafeLitt 107: "Mirrors in the Brain - How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions II
Subject: Mirrors in the Brain - How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions II
Date: Thursday 5th. Feb. 2009 19:00
Presented by: Shahin Zanganhpour
Place: Basement of Thomson House (Dining room),3650 McTavish St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2
Metro: Peel (sortie Metcalfe) or McGill sortie University
Bus 144 (Map) (Schedule)
Recent findings are rapidly expanding our understanding of a new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons. Some scientists speculate that a mirror system in people's brains forms the basis for social behavior, for our ability to imitate, acquire language, and show empathy and understanding. It also may have played a role in the evolution of speech. Shahin will present an overview of the functional properties of the mirror system as well as a very brief historical look at the discovery of this marvellous system. After discussing the role of mirror neurons in understanding action and imitation, he will end the presentation with an examination of the link between the mirror system and some arguably unique human domains, such as language and culture.
26.1.09
CafeLitt 106:Mirrors in the Brain - How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
Subject: Mirrors in the Brain - How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
Date: Thursday 29th. Jan 2009 19:00
Presented by: Shahin Zanganhpour
Place: Basement of Thomson House (Dining room),3650 McTavish St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2
Metro: Peel (sortie Metcalfe) or McGill sortie University
Bus 144 (Map) (Schedule)
Recent findings are rapidly expanding our understanding of a new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons. Some scientists speculate that a mirror system in people's brains forms the basis for social behavior, for our ability to imitate, acquire language, and show empathy and understanding. It also may have played a role in the evolution of speech. Shahin will present an overview of the functional properties of the mirror system as well as a very brief historical look at the discovery of this marvellous system. After discussing the role of mirror neurons in understanding action and imitation, he will end the presentation with an examination of the link between the mirror system and some arguably unique human domains, such as language and culture.
24.1.09
CafeCinema V:Gozaresh(1977) by Abbas Kiarostami
Movie: Gozaresh(1977) by Abbas Kiarostami
Presented by: Morad Sadeghi
Date: 18:00 Sunday 25th Jan 2009
Address: VA - Visual Arts Building 1395 René Lévesque W. Room 323 in the 3rd floor,
Metro: Guy Concordia
CafeCinema Sessions are in English
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)).
21.1.09
CafeLitt 105: "The Need for Persian Scientific Language"
Subject: "The Need for Persian Scientific Language"(نیاز به زبان علمی پارسی)
Date: 22th. Jan 2009 19:00
Presented by: Yusef Amiri
Place: Basement of Thomson House (Dining room),3650 McTavish St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2
Metro: Peel (sortie Metcalfe) or McGill sortie University
Bus 144 (Map) (Schedule)
The outline of the talks is includes:
- a quick review of the history of Persian language from the ancient time to present (10-15 minutes)
- formation of European scientific languages and terminology
- Persian Academies (Farhangestan-ha)
- the characteristics of scientific language and terminology
- our choices and why choosing Persian?
- capabilities of Persian in handling scientific needs
- the obstacles for improving Persian
- examples of successful works
9.1.09
CafeLitt 104:French Revolution II
Subject: French Revolution II
Date: 15 th. Jan 2009 19:00
Presented by: Shahdad Heydari
Place: Basement of Thomson House (Dining room),3650 McTavish St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2
Metro: Peel (sortie Metcalfe) or McGill sortie University
Bus 144 (Map) (Schedule)
The french revolution destroyed age-old cultural, institutional, and social structures in France and beyond.It tried to recreate everything in a human society. It has shaped the very foundation of Europe.The goal in this introductory presentation is to show why the Ancien régime became ancient as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition and how we are still living with its legacy and why the french revolution mattered.
5.1.09
CafeLitt 103: "French Revolution I"
Subject: French Revolution I
Date: 8th. Jan 2009 19:00
Presented by: Shahdad Heydari
Place: Basement of Thomson House,3650 McTavish St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2
Metro: Peel (sortie Metcalfe) or Bus 144 (Map) (Schedule)
We will start this year with a presentation on French revolution by Shahdad Heydari.
The french revolution destroyed age-old cultural, institutional, and social structures in France and beyond.It tried to recreate everything in a human society. It has shaped the very foundation of Europe.The goal in this introductory presentation is to show why the Ancien régime became ancient as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition and how we are still living with its legacy and why the french revolution mattered.
19.12.08
Two weeks Off for Christmass and New year
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New Year
16.12.08
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
5.12.08
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 ".
1.12.08
CafeLitt 100: "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
28.11.08
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)
22.11.08
CafeLitt 99: A review on Poor Folk, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Subject: A review on Poor Folk, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
14.11.08
CafeLitt 98: World Religions
Subject: World Religions
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
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
4.11.08
CafeLitt 96: What is the Origin of Ethics?
Subject: What is the Origin of Ethics?
Date: Thursday 6th Nov. 2008 , 17:00-19:00
Presented by: McGill University
Place: McGill University, Stephen Leacock Building, Room 132
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?
25.10.08
CafeLitt 95 : 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
18.10.08
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:
12.10.08
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
6.10.08
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
30.9.08
CafeLitt 91: Decline of Sassanid Empire
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria
24.9.08
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
22.9.08
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
12.9.08
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.