BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies - ECPv6.7.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20200308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20201101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20210314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20211107T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20241018T204400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241018T204400Z
UID:81858-1729670400-1729708200@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:First ASPS Graduate Student Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first ever ASPS Graduate Student Virtual Conference. \nPlease use the Zoom link below to attend. \nhttps://princeton.zoom.us/j/93727659915 \nProgram can be downloaded here. \nASPS Graduate Student Conference 2024 Program
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/first-asps-graduate-student-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Graduate Student Conference
LOCATION:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20240626T141616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T141616Z
UID:81721-1718971200-1718978400@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Events Series XII: One Thousand and One Sherds: The Material History of the Bukhara Oasis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next ASPS Virtual Event: \nOne Thousand and One Sherds: The Material History of the Bukhara Oasis \nWith Gabriele Puschnigg & Jacopo Bruno (Institute of Iranian Studies\, ÖAW) \nThis event will present the results of a collaborative research project between the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the MAFOUB (Mission Archéologique Franco-Ouzbèke dans l’Oasis de Bukhara) and Uzbek authorities. For more than a decade the MAFOUB project conducted fieldwork\, including surveys and excavations\, covering the whole extencion of the Oasis and some of its main sites. The surveys and excavations produced a large amount of ceramic material. The goal of our study is to outline the breadth and multi-facetted potential of this huge assemblage\, including a fresh approach to the narratives of cultural and socio-economic developments as well as the reconstruction of a material history of Bukhara’s population based on the comprehensive and integrated study of the ceramic material. In this presentation\, we highlight the main themes of our current research\, combined methodologies and approaches as well as our main results so far. Introducing our most significant site assemblages\, we provide an overview over the main characteristics of the material and its archaeological contexts\, the challenges we face and the different types of analyses we apply. \nRespondent: Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \nFriday June 21\, 12:00 PM EST (18:00 CET) \nHosted by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies\, Princeton University \n\nZoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98660948996k\n\nPlease see the attached flyer for more information.
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-events-series-xii-one-thousand-and-one-sherds-the-material-history-of-the-bukhara-oasis/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/One-Thousand-and-One-Sherds-Poster.jpg
LOCATION:https://youtu.be/9j8RRpzMWCc?si=9n9ksQIlTfD9fSg7
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T123000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20240626T141028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T141649Z
UID:81719-1715338800-1715344200@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Events Series XI: Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World: A Book Launch Discussion with Aziza Shanazarova
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our next Virtual Event – A Book Launch & Discussion for Aziza Shanazarova’s new book\, Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World. \nThe event will take place on Fri. May 10 at 11am EST.
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-events-series-xi-female-religiosity-in-central-asia-sufi-leaders-in-the-persianate-world-a-book-launch-discussion-with-aziza-shanazarova/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Virtual Event Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Shanazarova-Book-Launch.jpg
LOCATION:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T053000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T103000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20221114T211338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221122T012727Z
UID:81541-1669613400-1669631400@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series IX: "Iranian Heritage and Today's World" Part III: Iranian Heritage in Global and Regional Contexts
DESCRIPTION:  \nVirtual Event Series IX: “Iranian Heritage and Today’s World” \nPart III: \nIranian Heritage in Global and Regional Contexts \nProgramme \nNovember 28\, 2022 \nWelcome \n11:30 a.m. — 11:45 a.m. CET \nDr. Kazuo Morimoto (University of Tokyo): Acting President of ASPS \nDr. Jo-Ann Gross (Prof. Emerita\, The College of New Jersey): Chair\, ASPS Virtual Event Series \nProf. Dr. hab. Władysław Witalisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Dean of the Faculty of Philology \nSession I: Crafting Heritage in the Globalized World \n11.45 a.m. — 12.45 p.m. CET \nChair: Dr. Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) \n11:45 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 \n12:05 a.m. — 12:25 a.m.: Dr. Piotr Bachtin (Heidelberg University)\, Was Simin Danesh­var a Feminist Writer? \n12:25 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 \nBreak 12:45 a.m. — 12:55 p.m. CET \nSession II: Iranian Heritage and Local Policies \n12:55 p.m. — 01:55 p.m. CET \nChair: Dr hab. Joanna Bocheńska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) \n12:55 p.m. — 01:15 p.m.: Dr. Farangis Ghaderi (University of Exeter)\, Kurdish Women’s Intellectual History: Exploring Gaps and Erasures \n01:15 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 \n01:35 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 \nBreak: 02:05 p.m. — 02:15 p.m. CET \nRound Table Discussion: \n02:15 p.m. — 04:15 p.m. CET \nModerator: Dr. Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) \n  \nOrganizers: \nThe Association for the Study of Persianate Societies \nDepartment of Iranian Studies\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków \nDepartment of Interdisciplinary Eurasiatic Research\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków​ \nJOIN US ON MICROSOFT TEAMS
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-ix-iranian-heritage-and-todays-world-part-iii-iranian-heritage-in-global-and-regional-contexts/
LOCATION:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20221026T014808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221113T153902Z
UID:81514-1668070800-1668078000@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series X: Post-War Persianate Historiography II: Archaeological Photography as Scholarly Method
DESCRIPTION:Professor Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan)\, “Archaeological Photography as Scholarly Method: Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi” \nPost-War Persianate Historiography II \nhttps://tinyurl.com/2phed4d9
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-x-post-war-persianate-historiography-ii-archaeological-photography-as-scholarly-method/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAszMEqQHfE
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T083000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20220905T134431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221030T133508Z
UID:81375-1664251200-1664267400@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series IX: "Iranian Heritage and Today's World"\, Part II: Contemporary Intellectual Flows
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMini-conference with a round table discussion \nSept. 27\, 2022 10:00am-14:35 pm (CEST) via MS Teams (link) \n  \nContributors:\nMr. Max Bledstein (PhD Candidate\, University of New South Wales\, Sydney)\nMs. Zuzanna Blatej (PhD Candidate\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\nDr. Azad Haji (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\nDr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University)\nDr. Laetittia Nanquette (University of New South Wales\, Sydney)\nDr. Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) \nCo-organizers:\nDepartment of Iranian Studies\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków\nDepartment of Interdisciplinary Eurasiatic Research\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków \nSchedule (all times CEST) \nWelcome: 10:00 a.m. —10:15 p.m.\nDr. Kazuo Morimoto (University of Tokyo): Acting President of ASPS\nDr. Jo-Ann Gross (Prof. Emerita\, The College of New Jersey): Chair of the ASPS Virtual Event\nSeries\nProf. Kinga Paraskiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Director of the Institute of\nOriental Studies and Head of the Department of Iranian Studies \nSession I: Literature and Cinema\n10:15 a.m. — 11:15 a.m.\nChair: Dr. Mateusz M.P. Klagisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\n10:15 a.m. — 10:35 a.m. Dr. Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales\, Sydney): The Role of the Publishing Industry in the Iranian Literary Field from 1950 to Today\n10:35 a.m. — 10:55 a.m. Dr. Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Global Phenomenon in the Making: Franz Kafka(s) of Sadeq Hedayat and Bruno Schulz\n10:55 a.m. — 11:15 a.m. Mr. Max Bledstein (PhD Candidate\, University of New South Wales\, Sydney): Killer Collage: Reform Cinema and Pastiche in Mani Haghighi’s “Pig” \nBreak: 11:15 a.m. — 11:25 a.m. \nSession II: Cultural Encounters \n11:25 a.m. — 12:25 p.m.\nChair: Dr. hab. Joanna Bocheńska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\n11:25 a.m. — 11:45 a.m. Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University): Translations and the History of Afghanistan: The American Imperium\, 2001-2021\n11:45 a.m. — 12:05 p.m. Ms. Zuzanna Blajet (PhD Candidate\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków): The Hybrid Aspects of Pamiri Folklore\n12:05 p.m. — 12:25 p.m. Dr. Azad Haji (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): The Relationship between Contemporary Iranian Intellectuals and Christian Theology \nBreak: 12:25 p.m. — 12:35 p.m. \nRound Table Discussion: Contemporary Intellectual Flows in the Iranian World\n12:35 p.m. — 14:35 p.m.\nModerator: Dr. Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) \n  \nVideos of the event can be found at: \npart 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rchFjIEgeqg \npart 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RaCxdejfdk \npart 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcdgYTuE2cw \n 
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-ix-iranian-heritage-and-todays-world-part-ii-contemporary-intellectual-flows/
LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rchFjIEgeqg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220526T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20220506T185041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220601T142529Z
UID:81308-1653555600-1653573600@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series IX: Iranian Heritage and Today's World\, Part I: Law\, State and Social Order
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for a mini-conference with a round table discussion. \nJoin via MS Teams (link) \nFacebook Event \nContributors:\nDr. Sergei Andreyev (Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest)\nDr. Andrew Bush (Cracow University of Economics)\nDr. James Caron (SOAS)\nDr. hab. Anna Cieślewska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\nDr. Stanisław Jaśkowski (University of Warsaw)\nDr. Magdalena Rodziewicz (University of Warsaw) \nCo-organizers:\nDepartment of Iranian Studies\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków\nDepartment of Interdisciplinary Eurasiatic Research\, Jagiellonian University in Kraków \nSchedule (all times EST) \nWelcome: 09:00 a.m. —09:15 p.m.\nDr. Kazuo Morimoto (University of Tokyo): Acting President of ASPS\nDr. Jo-Ann Gross (Prof. Emerita\, The College of New Jersey): Chair of the ASPS Virtual Event\nSeries\nProf. Kinga Paraskiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Director of the Institute of\nOriental Studies and Head of the Department of Iranian Studies \nSession I: 09:15 a.m. — 10:15 a.m.\nChair: Dr. Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\n09:15 a.m. — 09:35 a.m. Dr. Sergei Andreyev (Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest): The Afghan State and\nthe Traditional Social Order: An Uneasy Marriage of (In)convenience\n09:35 a.m. — 09:55 a.m. Dr. Stanisław Jaśkowski (University of Warsaw): Law and Speech:\nHow Oral and Writing Practices Change the Law in Iranian World\n09:55 a.m. — 10:15 a.m. Dr. James Caron (SOAS): Ma’na in a Post-Truth World: Persianate\nLiterary Theory and the War on Terror \nBreak: 10:15 a.m. — 10:25 a.m. \nSession II: 10:25 a.m. — 11:20 a.m.\nChair: Dr. Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)\n10:25 a.m. — 10:45 a.m. Dr. hab. Anna Cieślewska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Sacred\nSites and Rituals – a Social Role of Pilgrimages in Central Asia and the South Caucasus\n10:45 a.m. — 11:05 a.m. Dr. Andrew Bush (Cracow University of Economics): Mastura\nArdalan’s Fiqh for Women in Kurdistan\n11:05 a.m. — 11:25 a.m. Dr. Magdalena Rodziewicz (University of Warsaw): Negotiating\nMoral Concepts in Iranian Cinema \nBreak: 11:25 a.m. — 11:35 a.m. \nRound Table Discussion: 11:35 a.m. — 01:35 p.m.\nModerator: Dr. Andrew Bush (Cracow University of Economics) \n  \nVideo of the event can be found at: \nPart 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFtWfj_ZWA \nPart 2: https://youtu.be/0gD37neDgFw \nPart 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhUoEXSS1Us \n 
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-ix-iranian-heritage-and-todays-world-part-i-law-state-and-social-order/
LOCATION:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-ix-iranian-heritage-and-todays-world-part-i-law-state-and-social-order/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20220123T184122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T151252Z
UID:81266-1644422400-1644427800@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series VIII: Post-War Persianate Historiography I: An Institute Not to Be
DESCRIPTION:An Institute Not to Be: A Conversation with John E. Woods on the “Pahlavi Institute for Near Eastern Studies” at The University of Chicago 1966-1970 \nModerator: Evrim Binbaş \nWatch the talk here: https://youtu.be/LRNG4sTrHCM
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-viii-post-war-persianate-historiography-i-an-institute-not-to-be/
LOCATION:https://youtu.be/LRNG4sTrHCM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T123000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20220123T183036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220123T183216Z
UID:81263-1635418800-1635424200@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series VII: Perspectives on Studying Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:Public and political commentaries on the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban abound in popular media\, including numerous editorials about the failure of US policy and a rehashing of the trope of Afghanistan as the “graveyard of empires.” Setting these approaches aside\, four scholars will discuss their perspectives on the history and culture of Afghanistan through their research findings and experiences in Afghanistan\, particularly in light of the current situation and the rapidly evolving and unknown futures of the people of Afghanistan.  \nSpeakers\nShivan Mahendrarajah\, Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies\, School of History\, University of St. Andrews\nMejgan Massoumi\, Teaching Fellow\, Civil Liberal and Global Education\, Stanford University\nJawan Shir Rasikh\, Visiting Research Associate with the Shafique N. Virani Research Team\, University of Toronto\nAnnika Schmeding\, Junior Fellow\, Harvard School of Fellows\nModerated by Jo-Ann Gross\, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Central Asian History\, The College of New Jersey
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-vii-perspectives-on-studying-afghanistan/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20211012T024439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T171126Z
UID:81239-1632830400-1632837600@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event VI: Port Cities and the Persianate
DESCRIPTION:This panel explores fruitful connections between Persianate studies\, largely a land-based endeavor\, with scholarship on relevant port cities. The question of to what extent Persianate studies relates to the domain and lens of Indian Ocean studies (and vice versa) is a question opened decades ago\, yet which remains underdeveloped today. Pathbreaking work (by Ashin das Gupta and Sanjay Subrahmanyam\, for instance) brought merchants\, shipowners\, and various types of people circulating through South Asian port cities from Iranian lands and also Persian speakers from the broader Persianate West\, Central\, and South Asia lands into view. More recent scholarship on Indian Ocean circulation through port cities has emphasized the plural nature of these spaces\, against the longue durée understanding of transformations of the Indian Ocean from a Muslim Sea to a British Lake from medieval to early modern to modern times. \nThis panel’s focus is on early modern port cities\, connected to West and South Asian empires\, at both the height of Persianate culture’s spread and the Indian Ocean’s increasingly globalized connections. How do port cities such as Surat and Hormuz diverge or reflect the social and cultural constitutions of the Persianate empires of Timurid Hindustan or Safavid Iran? Is there such a thing as a littoral or maritime Persianate? What can we learn from viewing prevalent understandings of early modern Persianate cultures and societies from ports (rather than courts)? \nSpeakers and titles: \n\nEric Lewis Beverley (Stonybrook University)\, “Rangārang ‘Ālam: Mobility and Difference in Early Modern Surat”\nSubah Dayal\, (New York University)\, “Horsemen and Weavers at Sea: Contesting the Persianate on the southern Coromandel coast”\nKishwar Rizvi (Yale University)\, “Jarun/Ormuz and an Oceanic Imaginary in Safavid Iran”
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/event-vi-fall-2021-port-cities-and-the-persianate/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa9z_bIDffE
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210611
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20210722T192442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T145012Z
UID:81185-1619654400-1623369599@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series V: Nationalism in the Iranian World
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Iranian Studies (Jagiellonian University\, Kraków\, Poland) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Eurasian Studies (Jagiellonian University\, Kraków\, Poland) organised a series of four open meetings entitled Nationalism in the Iranian World. The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies assumed patronage of the series\, incorporating it into its international programme ASPS Virtual Event Series.\nThe series opened on 29.04.2021 with a lecture by Prof. Anna Krasnowolska (a retired lecturer of the DIS\, JU)\, who pointed out that nationalism in itself is an interesting phenomenon\, still analysed and described by Iranian (internal perspective) and Western (external perspective) researchers. In her presentation\, she summarised the state of research\, as well as the most important factors influencing the formation of contemporary Iranian nationalism. She drew on Braudelesque longue durée perspective\, which made it possible to highlight what the speaker calls the Iranian cultural matrix. This matrix\, which consists\, among other things\, of an awareness of the continuity of history\, literature or language\, as well as the continuity of political-administrative patterns\, is responsible for shaping the Iranian identity in contrast to other ethnonyms (and other identities) found in the Middle East. As a specialist in Persian literature\, Prof. A. Krasnowolska tried to show Iranian nationalism from a textological perspective\, i.e. through the critical reading of manifestos and political programmes written by such Iranian intellectuals as Mirza Fathali Akhund-zade (1812-1878) or Mirza Aqa-khan Kermani (1853-1896).\nThe second meeting on 13.05.2021 was hosted by Prof. Marcin Rzepka (Institute of Religious Studies\, JU)\, who continued the topic started two weeks earlier\, analysing it through the prism of one of the three recognised religious minorities\, i.e. the Eastern rite Christians\, mainly Assyrians and Chaldeans. The formula he proposed combined religious studies and a sociological perspective. The speaker touched upon the processes taking place at the end of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century\, and the final part of the lecture was devoted to assessing current nationalist tendencies\, which have acquired a multi-vector dimension in the Islamic Republic of Iran. On the one hand\, we should speak of an internal nationalism\, directed inwards\, as it binds the community of believers together. On the other hand\, there is external nationalism\, directed towards the state\, which makes Eastern rite Christians living on its territory practically legitimate citizens and members of the Iranian nation.\nThe third of the meetings on 27.05.2021 was conducted by Prof. Joanna Bocheńska (DIS\, UJ)\, who is an internationally recognised expert on Kurdish culture. The historical perspective she proposed allowed for a more complete outline of the problem which\, contrary to appearances\, is not analogous in the individual regions of Kurdistan. The different socio-political conditions in Iraq\, Iran\, Syria or Turkey mean that the sense of belonging to one Kurdish nation is sometimes interpreted and developed differently. The complexity of the processes shaping Kurdish identity is also reflected in the complexity of Kurdish nationalism. Although the historical perspective applied by the speaker might seem to be too limited\, complemented by the literary studies perspective it enabled a more precise approach to the problem which interested the audience.\nThe fourth and final meeting on 10.06.2021 was chaired by Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz Ph.D. (DIS\, UJ)\, who\, following the example of Prof. A. Krasnowolska and Prof. J. Bocheńska\, decided to present the problem of Afghan nationalism primarily from a historical perspective\, supplementing his lecture with tangible manifestations of the top-down modelled and moderated phenomenon\, noticeable in the Afghan socio-cultural space. What distinguished the lecture by M.M.P. Kłagisz from the three previous ones was the very problem of the presence and/or absence of nationalism encompassing the entire multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Afghan society. Hence\, the speaker started from the key question: ‘Can we speak of one nation and one nationalism in contemporary Afghanistan?’. As he tried to show\, what is most often perceived as Afghan (or: pan-Afghan) nationalism is in fact some kind of realization of Pashtun nationalism\, on the verge of ethnocentrism.\nThe primary objective of the meetings was to reach the widest possible audience. Hence\, each of the meetings was organised in an on-line version. All of them were extremely popular\, thus the goal formulated in this way should be considered achieved. A measurable effect of all the projects will be the currently prepared book publication\, comprising extended lectures together with recorded discussions. The organisers are convinced that such a monograph will be useful not only to students of oriental studies\, but also to sociologists. \n 
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-events-series-v-nationalism-in-the-iranian-world/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
LOCATION:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-events-series-v-nationalism-in-the-iranian-world/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20210712T180152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210829T135301Z
UID:81147-1617940800-1617966000@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series IV: Exploring Contemporary Shi’ism in European and Mediterranean Contexts
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Contemporary Shi’ism in European and Mediterranean Contexts:\nA Glance at the Recent Evolutions of Shi’ism in the Region \nOn 9 April 2021\, Sapienza University of Rome\, Research Centre for Cooperation with Eurasia\, the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa (CEMAS)\, Institute of Political Studies “S. Pio V” Observatory on the Mediterranean (OSMED) and the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies held an online study day on contemporary Shi’ism. In this event\, some scholars from different national backgrounds presented the results of their studies and analyzed Shi’ism from anthropological and sociological viewpoints. \nThe conference was the first attempt of this kind in Italy and aimed at preparing a suitable terrain for dialogue on contemporary Shi’ism and its evolution in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The three panels of the conference were divided based on the thematic lines and geographic zones. The first panel presented a state of the art of research on contemporary Shi’ism as studied in the West\, whereas the second and the third panels were devoted to the case studies and geographical specific areas. \nThe first panel was about the relation of modernity and Shi’a studies. Migration\, identity and the relation between European secular states with Shi’ism were among the thematic lines. Scholars discussed the ways in which Shi’as in Europe negotiate the tension between religious duty and forms of secularized civic belonging. In such a context the meaning of being Shi’a is created through negotiation with new contexts of settlement\, \nThe second and third panels investigated the cases of some Mediterranean countries besides Iran and Iraq. The southern European countries\, namely Italy\, Spain and Greece – presented in the final panels – have experienced the presence of Shi’a minorities later than Britain. Therefore\, their shorter experience generates Islamophobic tendencies and the unfamiliarity of the context with the Shi’a rituals. The panels provided an excellent terrain for comparing the Shi’a experience in southern Europe with their homelands\, namely Lebanon\, Iraq and Iran. \nThis study day opened the door to future initiatives on contemporary Shi’ism in Italy. It has created a network of scholars active in this field of study and generated a platform for dialogue among young and senior scholars on this subject. Moreover\, it offered new and easily accessible insights to academic and non-academic audience who assisted the conference.
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-events-series-iv/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
LOCATION:https://www.osmed.it/category/video/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T123000
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20201221T211104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210829T135343Z
UID:81075-1616151600-1616157000@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series III: Connected Histories in Central Asia: 18th to 20th Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Introducing three new books: \nScott Levi (Department of History\, Ohio State University)\nThe Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia\n(University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2020) \nJames Pickett (Department of History\, University of Pittsburgh)\nPolymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia\n(Cornell University Press\, 2020) \nWaleed Ziad (Department of Religious Studies\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\nHidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus\n(Harvard University Press\, forthcoming – 2021) \nModerated by Jo-Ann Gross (Department of History\, The College of New Jersey\, Visiting Research Collaborator\, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies)
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/connected-histories-in-central-asia-18th-to-20th-centuries/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Virtual Event Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image001.jpg
LOCATION:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/connected-histories-in-central-asia-18th-to-20th-centuries/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201222T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201222T102500
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20210427T155507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210428T163221Z
UID:81130-1608620400-1608632700@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series II: Two-Panel Event
DESCRIPTION:Panel 1: Arguing the Place of the Prophet’s Family in the Persianate World\nOrganized by Ayako Ninomiya (Aoyama Gakuin University) and chaired by Louise Marlow (Wellesley College) with:\nRyo Mizukami (The 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.”\nYayoi Kawahara (The University of Tokyo)\, “Nasab-namas of Sayyids in the Ferghana Valley during the Period of the Khanate of Khoqand.”\nAyako Ninomiya (Aoyama Gakuin University)\, “Discussing Sayyids in the Indian Regional Context.”\nJulien Levesque (Centre de Sciences Humaines)\, “Conceptions of Social Hierarchy and Community Solidarity in Two South Asian “Sayyid Associations.” \nPanel Abstract:\nFrom the role appropriate to the Twelve Imams in the universal Muslim community to the standing proper for a sayyid family in a local society\, the place of the family of the Prophet Muhammad\, or his ʿAlid descendants\, have been debated and negotiated at different levels\, milieus\, and contexts throughout the history of Islam. The study of such debates and negotiations contributes not only to the furthering of our understanding of the place of the Prophet’s family in Muslim societies. It also helps us elucidate the very milieus in which such negotiations were conducted\, whether they be a local society\, an arena of inter-confessional interactions\, a community of Sufis or occult scientists\, or a court propounding a sacral kingship for its monarch. The relevance of the subject to the study of Persianate societies requires no additional explanation: one needs only to remember so many influential sayyids to whom those societies have been home.\nThe panel “Arguing the Place of the Prophet’s Family in the Persianate World” gathers four presentations that invariably capture a specific moment in the history of the Persianate world in which a discourse concerning the place of the Prophet’s family was expounded. The panel brings together cases from Ilkhanid Iran‒Iraq\, Ferghana in the 19th‒20th centuries\, early-15th century Jawnpur\, and Sindh and Uttar Pradesh today\, and includes a paper on the interconfessional conversation over the place of the Twelve Imams in the Umma\, in addition to three papers concerning the place of sayyids in their immediate social environments. Through this rich lineup of case studies\, this panel displays the scope and potentiality of the nascent field of research on the place of the Prophet’s family in the Persianate world. \nPanel 2: Medieval Persianate Culture and China: Chinese Inspirations in Persian Manuscripts\, Paintings and Texts\nOrganized by Andrew Peacock (University of St. Andrews) and chaired by Zhang Zhan (New York University) with:\nAndrew Peacock (University of St. Andrews)\, “China in Qarakhanid Persianate Culture and Literature.”\nManuel Giardino (University of Cambridge)\, “Conceptual Confluences between Iran and China: Medicine\, Religion and Cosmology.”\nShutong Liu (University of Oxford)\, “Linking the Arts of Persia and China: Chinese Elements in Ilkhanid Paintings.”\nIlse Sturkenboom (University of St. Andrews)\, “Origin and Meaning of ‘Chinese’ Paper in Timurid\, Turkmen and Safavid Manuscripts.” \nPanel Abstract:\nThe medieval period witnessed intense cultural exchanges between the Persianate and Chinese worlds\, and Chinese elements feature prominently in Persian manuscripts\, both in terms of their intellectual content and their artistic output. While scholars such as Thomas Allsen\, Yuka Kadoi and Ralph Kauz have drawn attention to some of these inspirations in the Mongol and Timurid periods\, their range and depth remains insufficiently explored. This panel proposes to examine the exchange between Chinese and Persianate cultures over the eleventh to seventeenth centuries by bringing together art historical\, codicological and textual studies\, allowing the types of evidence to complement each other with particular attention to their interplay in manuscripts. The panel expands the chronological range beyond the Mongol period that has attracted the bulk of attention to date by contextualizing papers that deal with Chinese influences in Ilkhanid culture with studies that range across the Qarakhanid\, Timurid and Safavid periods. Papers will consider not just how and why Chinese works were transmitted to the Persianate world\, but also how they were adapted and altered there. They will examine Chinese influences in the Qarakhanid period\, especially the representation of China in Qarakhanid texts; the Mongol period\, studying Chinese influences in Ilkhanid intellectual and artistic life\, looking at both the transmission of Chinese medical knowledge into Persian and Chinese influences on Ilkhanid painting; and the use of Chinese paper in Timurid\, Turkmen and Safavid manuscripts\, studying its materiality\, production and import. Together\, the panel will present new perspectives on the transmission and adaptation of Chinese artistic and intellectual knowledge in pre-modern Persianate culture.
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-ii-two-panel-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
LOCATION:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/asps-virtual-event-series-ii-two-panel-event/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201117
DTSTAMP:20260404T152748
CREATED:20201116T173416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210829T135442Z
UID:81123-1605484800-1605571199@www.persianatesocieties.org
SUMMARY:ASPS Virtual Event Series I: Morphological Similarities between Sanskrit and Persian by Dr. Balram Shukla
DESCRIPTION:ASPS is pleased to announce the first event of its Virtual Event Series\, with a lecture by Dr. Balram Shukla\, one of the foremost young scholars of Sanskrit and Persian\, on “Morphological Similarities between Sanskrit and Persian” (bio and abstract below). The event also marks the official launch of the ASPS India Office in Hyderabad. \nAbstract:\nThe relationship of old Persian and Sanskrit literary traditions has been noted in the fields of cultural and linguistic studies. Despite the huge gap of almost 1\,000 years and drastic cultural and linguistic changes\, modern Persian still bears astonishing phonetic\, morphological and other linguistic affinities with Sanskrit\, and has preserved the inflecting nature of ancient languages to some extent\, which\, even Aryan languages like Hindi lack. In this talk I will elaborate on the extent of intrinsic similarities between modern Persian and Sanskrit\, with special reference to morphology. It is interesting to note that various verbal and nominal morphemes and the suffixes thereof remain in Persian. Our discussion will cover topics including\, but not limited to\, different aspects of verbal roots and verbal conjugation\, verbal derivatives\, different kinds of secondary nominal bases\, various sorts of compounds\, and prepositions. \nBio:\nDr. Balram Shukla is a scholar and poet of Sanskrit\, and Persian languages\, with University degrees in both fields. He has published 3 Sanskrit and 2 Persian collections of poems\, 3 scholarly books\, and more than 20 research papers. He has also translated Rumi’s 100 Ghazals – “Niḥśabda-Nūpur” and “Dawāzdeh Band” of Muhtasham Kāshānī into Hindi. Dr. Shukla has delivered lectures on Sanskrit grammar and different aspects of Indo-Iranian language and literature. He is currently working on a project sponsored by ICSSR- “Indo-Iranian Cognate Glossary\,” and is a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS)\, Shimla\, researching Prākṛta Languages.
URL:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/morphological-similarities-between-sanskrit-and-persian/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/maxresdefault.jpeg
LOCATION:https://www.persianatesocieties.org/event/morphological-similarities-between-sanskrit-and-persian/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR