SHAHNAMEH (THE BOOK OF KINGS):
IRAN’S NATIONAL EPIC
Jordan Center for Persian Studies
University of California, Irvine
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
10:45 - 5:30
Humanities Gateway 1030
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SHAHNAMEH (THE BOOK OF KINGS): IRAN’S NATIONAL EPIC Jordan Center for Persian Studies University of California, Irvine Saturday, October 6th, 2012 10:45 - 5:30 Humanities Gateway 1030
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P R O G R A M  10:45-11:00 INTRODUCTION Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine) Acting Director of the Center for Persian Studies Preliminary Remarks 11:00-12:30 p.m. THE ART OF THE SHAHNAMEH Panel Chair: Mazyar Lotfalian (UC Irvine) Presenter: Linda Komaroff (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Topic: “Engaging the Present and Recontextualizing the Past: Shahnameh Illustration Now and Then” Presenter: Alka Patel (UC Irvine) Topic: “The Shahnameh in India” Presenter:Sonya Rhie Quintanilla (The Cleveland Museum of Art) Topic: “Paintings from the Shahnameh in the Collection of The San Diego Museum of Art” 2:00-3:30p.m. SHAHNAMEH IN HISTORY Panel Chair: Jennifer Rose (Claremont Graduate University) Presenter: Rahim Shayegan (UC Los Angeles) Topic: “Old Iranian Inscriptions, Greek Narratives, and the Shahnameh” Presenter: Yuhan S-D Vevaina (Stanford University) Topic: “The Khodaynameh and the Shahnameh: Putative Text and Narrative Context” Presenter: Charles Melville (University of Cambridge) Topic: “The Shahnameh and its echo in medieval Persian historiography 3:30-4:00p.m. TEA BREAK 4:00-5:30p.m. SHAHNAMEH: IDENTITY & NATIONALISM Panel Chair: Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine) Presenter: Firuza Abdullaeva (University of Cambridge) Topic: “Shahnameh in the Soviet and post-Soviet space” Presenter: Mahmoud Omidsalar (CSU Los Angeles) Topic: “A Text of Art, A Text of Identity” Presenter:Ali Ansari (University of St Andrews) Topic: “The Shahnameh and Iranian Nationalism” Closing Remarks: Mazyar Lotfalian (UC Irvine) Assistant Director of the Center for Persian Studies TOP |
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