"The World of the Tazkirah: Sources for Study of the Premodern Persianate Lands"


 Center for Persian Studies and Culture     Feb 5 2016 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1010

Please join us for an all day-long conference about the pre-modern genre of writing, Tazkira.

10 am - 12 pm: Connections
Kevin Schwartz - Mapping of Persian Tazkirahs, 1700-1900
Sunil Sharma - Tazkirahs as a Who’s Who of Poets or Making Room for Persianate Parvenus
Shahla Farghadani - Tazkirah Writers Talk Back: Intertextual Dialogue and Criticism in the Tazkirah Tradition

1:30 - 3:30 pm: Formations
Sholeh A. Quinn - History as Memorial: Tazkirah in Early Modern Persianate Chronicles
Mana Kia - Texts of Mobility, Mobile Texts: The Aporetic Lives of Early Modern Persian Tazkirahs
Kristina Rogahn - Generic Intertextuality: Tazkirah and the Terms of Literary History in South India

4 - 6 pm: Case Studies
Prashant Keshavmurthy - Khvushgu’s Dream of Hafiz: Building an Ark with Arzu and Bidil
Paul Losensky - The Social Life of Poetry in the Tazkirah-yi Nasrabadi
Alexander Jabbari - Majma‘ al-Fusaha’ and the End of Tazkirah Writing in Iran

This event is free and open to the public.