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Shahnameh & Persianate Identity 9-11th April 2010
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Symposium Date: | 2010-04-09 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-03-11 |
| Announcement ID: |
174768 |
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Shahnameh & Persianate Identity 9-11th April 2010
Convened by the Institute of Iranian Studies & the Iran Heritage Foundation
(With the generous support of the British Institute for Persian Studies)
Provisional Program (subject to amendment)
Friday 9th April
1000-1300 Registration: Main Lecture theatre foyer, New Arts Building
1345-1400 Welcome: Professor Ali Ansari
1400-1500 Dick Davis
Including the external: the Shahnameh and the porous limits of Persianness
Chair: Ali Ansari
1500-1530 Tea
1530-1730 Session One:
Chair: Dr Tim Greenwood
Professor Touraj Daryaee
The Book of Kings and the History of Ancient Iran
Hugh Kennedy
Shahnameh and the Arab Conquest of Iran
Parvaneh Pourshariati
Parthian authorship of the Xwaday Namags
1900 Conference Dinner: Lower College Hall
Saturday 10th April
930-1100 Session Two
Chair: Ali Ansari
Robert Irwin
Julius Mohl and the Shahnama
Hussein Kamaly
Major Shahnameh Manuscripts in Their Historical Context
1100-1130 Coffee
1130-1300 Session Three
Chair: Dimitris Kastritsis
Gabrielle van den Berg
Rustam's grandson in Central Asia: the Sistan cycle epics and the Shahnama tradition
Julia Rubanovich
A Culinary Battle and the Book of Kings: a fifteenth-century javāb to the Shāh-nāma
1300-1500 Lunch
1500-1600 Robert Hillenbrand, Chair
The Bahram Gur cycle in the Great Mongol Shahnameh
1600-1630 Tea
1630-1800 Session Four
Chair: Bert Fragner
Saeed Talajooy
Thou, O Woeful Esfandiyar! Thou Shalt Be Better off with Thine Eyes Closed
Pedram Khosronejad
The Shahnameh in Bakhtiari Nomadic Society: Anthropological Aspects of Hero and Heroism
1900 Dinner (location tbc)
Sunday 11th April
1000-1115 Session Five
Chair: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Deborah Tor
The Islamization of Iranian Kingly Ideals: The Persianate Fürstenspiegel of the Seljuq Era
Paul Luft
The "Shahinshahnameh" of Fath 'Ali Khan Saba - a drive for literary hegemony in the early Qajar period
1115-1145 Coffee
1145-1300 Panel Discussion
The Shahnameh & Persianate Identity
1300-1315 Concluding remarks
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