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Join this year's annual Daryabari lecture with Professor Nile Green from UCLA!
Nile Green is Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA, where he holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History. He is the author of The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London (Princeton, 2015).
About the book:
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D’Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe, but in Regency England, they also learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. Of course, there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. In this talk, Professor Green discusses the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad, opening a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age—a moment which has much to say about our own.
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time: 5:30pm (Reception); 6:00PM (Lecture)
Location: Student Community Center Multi Purpose Room
We hope to see you there!
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time: 5:30pm (Reception); 6:00PM (Lecture)
Location: Student Community Center Multi Purpose Room
We hope to see you there!
