Roshangar Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal
WELCOME
We are pleased to present the seventh volume of Roshangar, the Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal, which continues to showcase original student research engaging critically with Persian, Middle Eastern, and diasporic cultural worlds. This issue brings together interdisciplinary work that examines space, memory, and modernity through film, architecture, and landscape, highlighting how physical environments shape identity, emotion, and cultural meaning.
A research poster by Karen Lopez examining how contemporary landscape projects, such as the Tabiat Bridge and Ferdows Garden, along with Iranian cinema, work to restore ecological memory, cultural identity, and urban heritage in Tehran amid rapid modernization.
A comparative analysis by Nathan D. of two landmark Middle Eastern films exploring how built environments, rural, urban, industrial, operate as psychological landscapes that reflect themes of alienation, modernization, and the fragmentation of the self.
A study by Sasha Duwan of how the films Capernaum and The Wind Carpet portray foreignness through spatial experience, highlighting the roles of grief, age, mobility, and modernity in shaping how characters navigate and perceive their cities.