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ASPS-2020-Draft-Program-Updated-1 The Ninth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies March 11–13, 2020, University of Chicago Center, New Delhi, India Draft Program (updated 20 January 2020) 10 March 2020 17:00 - 19:00 Board of Directors Meeting (closed session) at Park Hotel Day One: Wednesday 11 March 2020 Registration: 8:00 – 17:00 Session 1.1: 9:00 – 10:30 Room 1: Views from Within and Without: Aspects of Modern Iranian Politics Chair: Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton University) Miranda Basheleishvili (Ilia State University): South Caucasus in Iran’s Current Politics: An Analysis of Iranian Academic Works Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse University): Circulation of Elites in Post-Revolutionary Iran Houchang Chehabi (Boston University): An Indian Ocean Odyssey: Reza Shah's Exile in Mauritius Rowena Abdul Razak (University of Oxford): The Tudeh Party in Britain: Isolation and Activism Room 2: Arguing the Place of the Prophet’s Family in the Persianate World Chair: Louise Marlow (Wellesley College) Yayoi Kawahara (Chuo University): Nasab-namas of Sayyids in the Ferghana Valley during the Period of the Khanate of Khoqand Julien Levesque (Centre de Sciences Humaines): Conceptions of Social Hierarchy and Community Solidarity in Two South Asian “Sayyid Associations” Ryo Mizukami (University of Tokyo): The Ḥillī Shiʻis Reacting to Imamophilia among Sunnis: A Study of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Ḥammūyī’s (d. 1322) Farāʼid al-Simṭayn Ayako Ninomiya (Aoyama Gakuin University): Discussing Sayyids in the Indian Regional Context 1 Room 3: Persian as a Lingua Franca in the Ottoman Empire Chair: Selim Kuru (University of Washington) Munir Drkić (University of Sarajevo): Centers of Persian Learning in Eastern Ottoman Lands according to Quotations by Ahmed Sudi Bosnavi Hasmik Kirakosyan (Yerevan State University): Kemāl Pāshā-zāde’s Philological Works in the Context of the Persian-Turkish Language Contacts Ani Sargsyan (University of Hamburg): On the Practical Usage of the Persian -Turkish Dictionaries in the Educational System of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th -16th Centuries Tea Break: 10:30 – 10:45 Session 1.2: 10:45 – 12:15 Room 1: Historiography, Patronage and Religion in the Mongol Era Chair: Sunil Kumar (University of Delhi) Eduardo Acaron-Padilla (Indiana University, Bloomington): The Immortal Khan Enters the Land of Darkness: Intertextuality and Mongol Patronage in Rashid-al Din’s Tārikh-e-Oghuz Shiva Mihan (Harvard Art Museums): A Baysunghuri Tarikh-i Vassaf in the Keir Collection Kaveh Niazi (Stanford Online High School): Convolutions of Clienthood in the Procurement of Patronage: Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and an Early Patron Miklós Sárközy (Karoli Gaspar University): Reassessing Mongol-Nizārī Contacts in the Ilkhānid Period Room 2: Legal and Historical Aspects of Women and Gender in Iran Chair: TBA Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei (Virginia Commonwealth University): Feminine Jurisprudence: A Quest for Gender Justice Tinatin Kupatadze (Ilia State University): The Origins of Iranian Feminism and Its Pioneers Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen): “Honor” and “Honor-killing” in the 2013 Iranian Penal Code Zohre Cheraghi (Yazd University): Yazdi Women Endowments from 7th to 13th Century Hijri 2 Room 3: Zoroastrian Literature and Identity Chair: Houchang Chehabi (Boston University) Mohsen Kateb (Yazd University): Nationalism and Historical Rethinking of Zoroastrianism Samuel Thrope (Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, University of Haifa): “For fifty years we should have been doing this!”: Humor and Genre in the Zoroastrian Bundahišn Anton Zykov (Goethe Universität): Parsi Identity and Language Lunch Break: 12:15 – 14:00 Session 1.3: 14:00 – 15:30 Room 1: Indo-Persian Cultural Production in Regional Centers Chair: Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago) Sushmita Banerjee (Miranda House, University of Delhi): Narrativising the Past of the Muslim Community in the Sixteenth Century: Sufi Orders, Didactics and Identity Formation Nishat Manzar (Jamia Millia Islamia): Societal Crisis and Colonial Concerns in the Nineteenth Century: Tashrih-ul-Aqwam of Colonel James Skinner (1825 CE) Madhabi Rupa Roy (Independent Scholar): The Hukmnamas of Tipu Sultan Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney): Stone and Poetry: Replicating the Ka’ba in Bahmani Bidar Room 2: Dramatic Arts, Cinema and Society in Modern Iran Chair: Jane Lewisohn (SOAS) Parviz Ejlali (Iranian Sociological Association): Competing Lifestyles and Subcultures of Iranians as Depicted by Iranian Movies: 2016-1904 ﺟﺎﯾﮕﺎه اﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﯽ ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪان اﯾﺮاﻧﯽ در ﺧﺎﻧﻮاده (ﻣﻮرد ﻣﻄﺎﻟﻌﮫ: ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪان ﺳﺎﮐﻦ :(Tahereh Jafari (Refah University ﺧﺎﻧﻮاده ھﺎ و ﺳﺮاھﺎی ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪی Amir Najafi (Jagiellonian University): Islam, Politics and Dramatic Arts in Iran: The Evolution of Dramatic Arts in Iran in Three Stages: Shiite Official Formation in Iran (1500), the Constitutional Revolution (1907) and the Islamic Revolution (1979) 3 Room 3: Judaeo-Persian Language and Literature I Chair: Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ofir Haim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Judaeo-Persian Religious Literature (10th-14th centuries) Maximilian Kinzler (University of Hamburg): Dialectal Features of Early Judaeo-Persian Verbs Imke Mizera (University of Hamburg): Early Jewish and Muslim Hermeneutics in Persian: The Early Judaeo Persian and New Persian Tafsīrs of the Hebrew Bible and the Qurʾān Tea Break: 15:30 – 16:00 Session 1.4: 16:00 – 17:30 Room 1: Literary Modernity in Persianate Societies Chair: Firuza Melville (University of Cambridge) Aftandil Erkinov (The Center for Research of Uzbekistan's Cultural Wealth Located Overseas): Persian Poetry Rewritten by Order of the Ruler of the Khivian Khanate Mukhammad Rakhim- khan II (1864-1910) Emily Laskin (University of California, Berkeley): Locating Central Asia in Adbulrauf Fitrat’s Tales of an Indian Traveler Sara Mashayekh (Independent Scholar): Delusions of History: Hedayat's Blind Owl and Ancient Iran Connor Pierce (University of Arizona): The Discovery of Self and Nation: An Examination of the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal Room 2: Politics and Religion in 18th Century Iran Chair: Said Arjomand (SUNY Stony Brook) András Barati (Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies): Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s Policies towards Mashhad and the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī Tamar Lekveishvili (Ilia State University): Religion and Politics: Iranian-Eastern Georgian Interactions during Nader Shah’s Rule 4 Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware): In the Aftermath of the Collapse: Regional Disruption and Continuity in Post-Safavid Iran Ryuichi Sugiyama (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo): Organization and Administration of the Emam Reza Mausoleum during the Afsharid Period Room 3: Language, Literature and Culture in Badakhshan, Tajikistan Chair: Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey) ﺷﻌﺮ اﺟﺘﻤﺎی و اﻧﻌﮑﺎس واﻗﻌﯿﺖ در اﺷﻌﺎرﺑﮫ زﺑﺎن :(Sherzod Davrukov (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan ﺷﻐﻨﺎﻧﯽ Muhiba Makhmadzhanova (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): The Paradigm of the Internal and External in the Views of Nosiri Khusrav and Jaloluddin Balkhi Rumi Hokim Qalandariyon (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): Lidush Habib: A Forgotten Pamiri Poet Haydar Tawakkalov (Khorogh State University): The Role of Falak in the Traditional Music Culture of Badakhshan Opening Ceremonies and Reception: 17:45 – 19:30 Day Two: Thursday 12 March 2020 Session 2.1: 9:00 – 10:30 Room 1: Literature, Religion and Culture in Qajar Iran Chair: Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware) Kamran Arjomand (University of Halle): Justification of Divine Miracles: A Theological Challenge in 19th Century Iran James Clark (University of Nebraska at Omaha): Fact and Fiction: Two Works by Mirza Hasan Khan E'temad os-Saltaneh Omid Ghaemmaghami (SUNY, Binghamton): The Quran Commentaries of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (d. 1921) Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University): Rediscovering the Arsacids: Finding the Distant Past in the Late Qajar Period 5 Room 2: Indo-Persian Art History and Art Historiography Chair: TBA Yuka Kadoi (Institute of Art History, University of Vienna): Coomaraswamy and Kramrisch: The Absence of Persia in Indian Art History Sara Mondini (Ca' Foscari University): The Role of 15th Century Bidar Khanqahs and their Collections within the Coeval Deccani Society: The Case of Abu’l-Faid Khanqah Collection Iván Szántó (Eötvös Loránd University): Halfway on the Road: Indo-Iranian Cultural Politics and the Shrine of Mir Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani Room 3: Judaeo-Persian Language and Literature II Chair: D Gershon Lewental (Shalem College) Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg): The ‘Late Early Judaeo-Persian’ Tafsīrs of the 13th-14th Centuries Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Retelling the Hebrew Bible in Verse: The Interplay of Jewish and Islamic Traditions in the Book of Genesis by the Medieval Judaeo- Persian Poet Shāhīn David Yeroushalmi (Tel Aviv University): The Literary Milieu and Work of the Judaeo-Persian Poet ʿImrānī (1454 - 1536?) Tea Break: 10:30 – 10:45 Session 2.2: 10:45 – 12:15 Room 1: Historiography, Identity and Sectarian Politics in the Safavid Era Chair: Charles Melville (University of Cambridge) Ayşe Baltacıoğlu Brammer (New York University): Safavid Shiism, Ottoman Sunnism, and the Border Formation in between Ferenc Csirkes (Sabanci University): Ahari Tabrizi and the Politics of Turkic under Shah ‘Abbas Yui Kanda (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo): Because the End of that Thread Leads to Light: Two Brass Objects Endowed to the Twelver Shiʿite Mausoleums 6 Sholeh Quinn (University
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