Leila Ahmadi

Contact

Ph.D. Candidate in Iranian Studies
Persian Language Lecturer
Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies
Department for Islamic Studies
University of Bonn
l.ahmadi@uni-bonn.de


Ph.D. Project

Power in Qajar Iran- based on the travelogue Vaqāye’ al-ayyām
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann

  • 09/2011- 01/2014 M.A. in Iranian Studies- Culture and Rituals Shahid Beheshti University (Iranology Foundation), Tehran, Iran
    Title of Thesis: Naqš va ḥoẓur-e Kudak dar dāstānhā-ye irāni (The presence and role of children in Iranian Stories)
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katayoun Mazdapour

  • 09/2006-06/2010 B.A. in English Translation, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

     

  • Guardianship: A Feminine Archetype in Feminine Rituals, 9th Europaean Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS9), September 9-13, 2019, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Votive offering of Sofreh among Iranian Shi’ite- why gender based?, 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag “Asien, Afrika und Europa”, 18.–22. September 2017, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

  • 10/2018-present Persian Language Lecturer, University of Bonn, IOA

  • 04-09/2018 Honorary Persian Language Lecturer, University of Bonn, IOA
    Courses: Persian Basismodul II; Vertiefungsmodul III

  • 05/2016- 10/2018 Farsi lecturer at ‘Fremdsprachenforum’- Basic and Advanced, Cologne, Germany

  • 04-09/2016 Honorary Persian Language Lecturer, University of Cologne
    Course: Persian Conversation

  • 05-09/2011 English Instructor, Nobel Language Academy, Tehran, Iran

Articles

  • “Naqš-e a’dād dar āyinhā-ye goḏar-e irāni (tavallod, ezdevāj, marg)”,in: Majalle-ye moṭāle’āt-e irāni, issue 28, Autumn/Winter 2015/16, University of Shahid Ba-Honar

  • “Āsārā” in: Šahrha-ye irānšahr; Vol. 1; Tehran: entešārāt-e bonyād-e irānšenāsi, 2011

 

Book Review

  • “Gozāreši bar Ḵalij-e Fārs” by Helge Zubik, Book review in faṣlnāma-ye moṭāle’āt-e ḵalij-e fārs, issue 8, Spring 2017, Entešārāt-e bonyād-e irānšenāsi

  • “Les symboles vivants” by Monique de Beaucorps, translated to Farsi by Jalal Sattari, Book review in the online Magazin “mardomšenāsi va farhang”, 2011 (http://int.anthropology.ir/article/19625.html)

  • 08/2016-07/2017 BIGS-OAS Doctoral Scholarship; University of Bonn

  • 09/2015-02/2016 DAAD-Stipendium für engagierte Studierende (Scholarship for Committed Students)