# List of speeches given by Bahram Beyzai

This is a list of Bahram Beyzai's speeches.
Among other occupations, throughout his career Beyzai has been a relatively prolific speaker as an academic as well as a public intellectual. Most of his notable oral output consists of Persian lectures at a number of universities, most often in Iran and the United States, but also occasionally in countries as various as France, Scotland and Canada. The majority of these is lost forever, sometimes only surviving in names and dates of the events or classes. Some are available as voice recordings, either published in print as well, like "On the Situation of Theatre and Cinema" (1977), or not; and some, particularly in the later years of Beyzai's career, are published as videos.
Beyzai has had very few television and radio appearances. Nevertheless, his picture is preserved in some documentaries where he has been interviewed either about his work or else.

## Public

| Year | Date | Subject / Title | Venue | Notes |
| 1970 | unknown | Q&A at a theatre round table | unknown | YouTube: video |
| 1977 | October 12 | "On the Situation of Theatre and Cinema" | German Cultural Institute, Tehran | On the third night of Goethe Poetry Nights (voice) |
| 1991 | October 4 | Hitchcock's cinema | Tehran | Published as a book in 1995 |
| 2005 | November 16 | "Where Is Hezar Afsan?" | Farzan Publishers | |
| 2006 | December 26 | Bahram Beyzai Bukhara night | Iranian artists forum | |
| 2008 | October 29 | Aydin Aghdashloo | Iranian artists forum | |
| 2009 | January 31 | When We Are All Asleep | Cinema Palestine | |
| 2009 | March 10 | Q&A about When We Are All Asleep | University of Tehran | |
| 2009 | November 21 | Akbar Radi | Arasbaran Cultural Centre | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | winter | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | spring | "Cinema and Mythology" | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | May 21 | unknown | Stanford University | |
| 2011 | June 4 | Shahnameh | Ferdowsi Society of Northern California | YouTube: video |
| 2011 | November 10 | Bita prize address | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2011 | November 20 | "Derakht-e Sokhangoo" ("The Eloquent Tree") | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 2011 | November 21 | "A Night with Bahram Beyzai" | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 2012 | May 18 | "About Jana and Baladoor" | Stanford University | English translation by Abbas Milani (YouTube: part 1 - part 2) |
| 2012 | December 1 | Farhang foundation Heritage award address | unknown | |
| 2012 | December 2 | "Myths in Bahram Beyzaie's Works" | University of California, Los Angeles | (YouTube: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4) |
| 2013 | January 24 | Hamlet, Prince of Grief | Stanford University | |
| 2013 | February 21 | "Semiotics of Iranian Myths: The Meaning of Shahnameh as a Social Work" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | February 28 | "Semiotics of Iranian Myths: Ferdowsi - The Meaning of Shahnameh as a Social Work" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | March 7 | "Semiotics of Iranian Myths: Non-written Myths of Pre-Shahnameh Period - The Creation of Mankind and After" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | March 14 | "Semiotics of Iranian Myths: Analytic View of the Legend of Rostam and Sohrab" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | March 22 | "Semiotics of Iranian Myths: Iranian Myths (in Traditional Spectacles) - The Thousand-and-first Night" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | July 26 | Arash | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | August 7 | Downpour | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2013 | October 12 | SINA award address | Harvard University | |
| 2013 | November 10 | "The Legend of Gilgamesh according to Bahram Beyzaei" | University of California, Berkeley | YouTube: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 |
| 2014 | February 25 | to the memory of Amin Banani | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2014 | April 12 | Old Songs | Stanford University | |
| 2014 | May 2 | Q&A about The Chronicle of Bondar the Bidakhsh | Stanford University | |
| 2014 | May 9 | "Looking for Arash the Archer" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2014 | July 9 | Bashu, the Little Stranger | Stanford University | |
| 2014 | December 13 | a qasida to the memory of Simin Behbahani | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2015 | April 26 | Q&A in "An Evening with Iranian Scholars" | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2015 | August 22 | before the play-reading of The Thousand-and-first Night at Tirgan Festival | Toronto | YouTube: video |
| 2015 | August 23 | Q&A about When We Are All Asleep | Parya Trillium Foundation, Toronto | YouTube: video |
| 2015 | September 26 | The Thousand-and-first Night | Golden Gate Park, San Francisco | YouTube: video |
| 2015 | November 6 | Ehsan Yarshater | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2016 | January 14 | to the memory of Houshang Golshiri - Q&A | Stanford University | YouTube: part 1 - part 2 |
| 2016 | January 26 | Ferdowsi | Ferdowsi Society of Northern California | YouTube: video |
| 2016 | February 17 | Tarabnameh | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2016 | April 12 | Q&A about Tarabnameh | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2016 | October 12 | Tarabnameh | Stanford University | YouTube: video |
| 2017 | June 23 | Downpour | University of St Andrews | |
| 2017 | June 24 | "Zahhak and Jamshid" | University of St Andrews | |
| 2017 | July 29 | address on "A Tribute to Bahram Beyzaie" and reception of the Arash Award of Tirgan Festival | Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, Toronto | YouTube: video |
| 2018 | April 23 | Q&A about Crossroads | Stanford University | video on Stanford website |
| 2018 | May 19 | Q&A about Bashu, the Little Stranger | University of California, Los Angeles | YouTube: part 1 - part 2 |

## Regular lectures
### At the University of Tehran (1970s)

* "Oriental Theater"

### At Stanford University (2010s)

* "The Iranian Cinema: Image and Meaning"
* "Iranian Cinema in Diaspora"
* "Contemporary Iranian Theater"

## Spoken messages

* to Asghar Farhadi, congratulating the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Salesman

## Interviews and talks
### Making-ofs

* Travelers on the Way
* A Brief Dossier for Killing Mad Dogs

### Other documentaries
#### About himself

* Bahram Beyzai: A Cultural Legend

#### Else

* Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
* Iran, une révolution cinématographique (2006)

### Journalistic

List in Persian