The University of Mazandaran, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Arabic Language, Islamic Republic of Iran organized a scientific lecture on curriculum shifts in comparative theory with the participation of a number of faculty and postgraduate students from the aforementioned department.

The lecture presented by Dr. Ali Majeed Al-Badiri, the lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language, had dealt with the presentation and analysis of the starting points of schools of comparative literature, and their visions that represented responses to cognitive needs linked to their own contexts. The comparison is no longer confined to looking at the productions of literature, in prose and poetry only, as long as the latter has opened up to knowledge, the arts, and other fields of culture.

 Some methodological problems related to the introductions of comparative studies and the comparative researcher were also discussed in the lecture, and how to benefit from the multiplicity of research fields and their capacity in this important critical field to carry out studies on many topics that need serious critical treatment concerned with how acculturation between different nations, and the contexts that shape it.

 The lecturer called on postgraduate students to pay attention to emerging fields of comparative literature in their research projects in masters and doctorates, which represented the greater goal of this lecture. The lecturer had exchanged dialogue with the participants and answered their questions regarding the theoretical themes and practical examples from Arabic and Persian literature presented in the lecture.