Iran Colloquium

Fall 2015 (download poster)

18 September @ 12:00pm | A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Graduate Student Workshop • Painting, Poetry, Photography: A Conversation in Qajar Art
Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Graduate Student, Department of Art History, Yale University
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2 October @ 12:00pm | A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature, Boston University
The Allure of the Female: Aesthetic Transformations in Early Modern Persianate Poetry and Painting
Co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
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16 October @ 12:00pm | A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Paul Losensky, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Self-Representation, Audience Response, and the Art of Poetry in the Signature Verses of Sa’eb Tabrizi
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13 November @ 12:00pm | A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Simon Rettig, Iran Heritage Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
From Persian nasta‘liq to Ottoman ta‘lik: Aesthetic Dissemination and Cultural Appropriation of a Script (1500-1700)
Co-sponsored by the Medieval-Renaissance Forum of the History of Art Department
and The Çağatay Fund

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*4 December @ 12:00pm | Rkz 05, 115 Prospect St.
Ozgen Felek, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Persian Kings and Heroes in Ottoman Poetry at the Dawn of the Second Islamic Millennium
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Spring 2016 (download poster)

5 February @ 12:00pm | A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Norma Moruzzi, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies & Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Being a Public Woman: Spaces of Possibility, Spaces of Risk in Contemporary Iran”
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19 February @ 12:00pm | A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Arzoo Osanloo, Associate Professor, Law, Societies, and Justice Program, University of Washington
“Preserving Right, Forgiving Wrong: Legal Enactments of Mercy in Iranian Criminal Sanctions”
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1 April @ 12:00pm | A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Houchang Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University
“Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran”
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15 April @ 12:00pm | A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Tanya Lawrence, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
“An Age of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: The Iranian Community of the Late Ottoman Empire”
Introduction by Abbas Amanat
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22 April @ 12:00pm | A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street
Rose Wellman, Anthropologist and Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University
“Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran”
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