Virtual Event Series IX: “Iranian Heritage and Today’s World”
Part III:
Iranian Heritage in Global and Regional Contexts
Programme
November 28, 2022
Welcome
11:30 a.m. — 11:45 a.m. CET
Dr. Kazuo Morimoto (University of Tokyo): Acting President of ASPS
Dr. Jo-Ann Gross (Prof. Emerita, The College of New Jersey): Chair, ASPS Virtual Event Series
Prof. Dr. hab. Władysław Witalisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Dean of the Faculty of Philology
Session I: Crafting Heritage in the Globalized World
11.45 a.m. — 12.45 p.m. CET
Chair: Dr. Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
11:45 a.m. — 12:05 a.m.: Dr. hab. Joanna Bocheńska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Kurdish Folklore Belongs to the World: Seeking Links with the Global Heritage in the Kurdish Culture
12:05 a.m. — 12:25 a.m.: Dr. Piotr Bachtin (Heidelberg University), Was Simin Daneshvar a Feminist Writer?
12:25 a.m. — 12:45 p.m.: Prof. dr hab. Anna Krasnowolska (Professor Emerita, Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Forgotten Polish Episode in Persian Literary Fiction – a Creative Bricolage
Break 12:45 a.m. — 12:55 p.m. CET
Session II: Iranian Heritage and Local Policies
12:55 p.m. — 01:55 p.m. CET
Chair: Dr hab. Joanna Bocheńska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
12:55 p.m. — 01:15 p.m.: Dr. Farangis Ghaderi (University of Exeter), Kurdish Women’s Intellectual History: Exploring Gaps and Erasures
01:15 p.m. — 01:35 p.m.: Mr. Mehrdad Rahimi Moghaddam (PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales Sydney), Dawn of Persianization: Language Policy and Persian Literary Canon in Iranian Azerbaijan
01:35 p.m. — 02:05 p.m.: Dr. Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), History – Memory – Myth: The Peoples’ Democratic Party of Afghanistan and Its Mytho-historical Origins
Break: 02:05 p.m. — 02:15 p.m. CET
Round Table Discussion:
02:15 p.m. — 04:15 p.m. CET
Moderator: Dr. Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Organizers:
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
Department of Iranian Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Department of Interdisciplinary Eurasiatic Research, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
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