[arthistorymajors] You are invited to the Shahnameh Conference - October 6, 2012

[Cecilia Flanagan]

>>>
>>>
>>> In co sponsorship with Farhang Foundation
>>>
>>> Presents
>>>
>>> /Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) Iran's National Epic/
>>>
>>> Saturday, October 6, 2012
>>> Humanities Gateway 1030
>>> 10:45-5:30pm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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.
>>> For driving and parking information: http://www.uci.edu/campusmaps.php
>>> Shahnameh conference web site: 
>>> http://www.humanities.uci.edu/persianstudies/shahnameh/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies
>>> University of California, Irvine
>>> 1st Floor Humanities Gateway
>>> Irvine, CA 92697-3370
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