Conference Schedule
Friday, May 9, 2014
3:00 – 4:00
Welcome and Introductions (Abbas Amanat)
4:00 – 6:15
Panel 1: Culture and Religion in the Persianate World
Chair: Frank Griffel (Yale University)
Hasan Karatas (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota), Rum-Shirvan Connection and the Transmission of the Khalwatiya to the Ottoman World in the Fifteenth Century
Shahrokh Raei (University of Göttingen), The Material Culture of Wandering Dervishes in Persianate Societies
James Pickett (Princeton University), Little Persianate Spheres?: Bukhara as a Center of Regional Exchange
Waleed Ziad (Yale University), From Yarkand to Sindh: The Naqshbandi-Mujaddidiyya of Afghanistan and the Development of their Transregional Networks in the early 19th century
6:15 – 9:00
Keynote Speaker
Said Amir Arjomand (SUNY-Stony Brook), Persianate Studies: State of the Art
Saturday, May 10, 2014
8:00 – 8:30
Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30
Panel 2 : Literature and Historiography
Chair: Abbas Amanat (Yale University)
Vikas Rathee (University of Arizona), Religion and Politics in the pre-Islamic Hindu Past of Indo-Persian tawarikh: The Case of the Khulasat al-Tawarikh
Arthur Dudney (University of Oxford), At Cosmopolis’s End: The Slipping Apart of Iran and South Asia as Reflected in Lexicographical Works
Ron Sela (Indiana University), Turkic History-Writing in Central Asia and the Reorientation of the Persianate Oecumene
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 1:15pm
Panel 3: The “Other” in the Persianate World
Chair: Said Amir Arjomand (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Hirotake Maeda (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Fresh Recruits from the Caucasus serving the “Persianate Empires”
Rebecca Gould (Yale-National University of Singapore), The Epigraphy of Sovereignty: Persianate Power in the Caucasus before Modernity
Joanna de Groot (York University, UK), Inclusion and Exclusion in the Persianate World: Views of Baluch People in the Nineteenth Century
Nathan Light (Uppsala University, Sweden), Forgetting and Unbraiding: From Turko-Persianate Culture to Ethno-National Identities
1:15 – 2:30
Lunch
2:30 – 4:30
Panel 4: Print, Media, and the Production of Knowledge
Chair: Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University)
Farzin Vejdani (University of Arizona), The “Low” Culture of the Persianate? Popular Theater, the Revolutionary Press, and Illicit Activities in early Twentieth-Century Istanbul Teahouses
Pedram Partovi (American University), Conceptualizing Persianate Cinema
Denis V. Volkov (University of Manchester, UK), Knowledgeable Conquest or Intelligent Expansion?: The Study of the Persianate World in Fin de Siècle Russia
4:30 – 5:00
Coffee break
5:00 – 7:00
Panel 5: Persianate Communities Abroad
Chair: Assef Ashraf (Yale University)
Mana Kia (Columbia University), Transregional Ties that Bind: Companionship, Education and Migration
Daniel Sheffield (Princeton University), The Loss of the Persianate and the Recovery of the Iranian: On Parsi Antiquarianism and Modernity
Tanya Lawrence (Yale University), Iranians in the Ottoman Empire: Culture of Dissent, Identity Politics and Transregional Networks in the Late Nineteenth Century
8:00 – 10:00
A Night of Shahnameh recitation and Persian Classical Music, Luce Hall Auditorium
Sunday, May 11, 2014
9:00 – 9:30
Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30
Keynote Speaker
Richard Eaton (University of Arizona), Comparing the Persian Cosmopolis (900-1900) and the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (400-1400)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 1:00
Panel 6: Eastern Connections with the Persianate World
Chair: Valerie Hansen (Yale University)
James Millward (Georgetown University), Echoes of Barbad’s Lute: Short-Necked Chordophones and the Neglected Persianate Core of the Silk Road
Heidi Walcher (Ludwig-Maximilian Universität-Munchen), Linking Eastern and Western Iran: Resonances of Asia in Tabriz of 1501
Arash Khazeni (Pomona College), Of Teak, Elephants, and Rubies: Indo-Persian Encounters with the Nature of Imperial Burma, circa 1800
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:00
Round table discussion and concluding remarks