At the invitation of Tehran Hopkins Club, Mr. Raha Amiri, PhD student in sociology at Allameh Tabatabaii University, delivered a lecture on Marxism on February the 6th (Bahman the 8th), which was attended by the regular members of the Club and was followed by the audience's questions.

 The influences of the Italian literature and culture on the English literature throughout the history are undeniable. Chaucer, the father of English Poetry, copied Boccaccio’s Decameron throughout the Canterbury Tales. The sonnet, the dominant poetic form of the Renaissance England was borrowed from Petrarch, apart from some tiny alterations of rhyme pattern in English. Italian subject matter was not left out either; Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet are evident instances. To follow the line of influence up to the 19^th century is not really difficult.

 On February the 20th a reunion was held in the permanent place of Tehran Hopkins Club in order to appraise and acclaim the recent Persian translation of the magnificent poem “The Waste Land” perfected by Mr. Allafchi, so that to appreciate his literary endeavours on performing such a great job.

 On August 1, 2006, Hopkins Club hosted Ahmad Pouri, one of the witnessed a lecture delivered by Ms. Maryam Akbari, an MA holder in English literature and one of the permanent members of the club, on “Capitalism and Modern Art”.

In Nov, 14, 2005, Dr Hàjj Muhammad Legenhausen delivered a lecture on “The impression of religion on American poetry”. At the beginning of his speech, he pointed toward the fact that “religious themes” used by American poets are “incredibly varied”. These themes are applied by the poets not only to exhibit their “personal piety” and religious fervor, but also “atheism”. He also maintains that “religious themes” are not merely “the vehicles” through which the American poets have expressed their “inner states”, but they are similarly used “to convey social comments, to describe nature, and to elevate the importance of the specific personal relationships.” Moreover, He asserted: “While the religious themes that American poets try are usually Christian, it’s not difficult to find religious themes from Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shamanism, and Islam.” After that, he quoted the following passage from a personally written article on “the religious turn in poetry”: