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Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) Iran's National Epic

INTRODUCTION
10:45-11:00

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”

12:30-2:00p.m. LUNCH BREAK

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

Event is free and open to the public.
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Sponsored by Farhang Foundation