Persian and Persianate Studies

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Fatima Fayyaz, Harvard University The pivotal redirection of royal patronage from courtly panegyrics to devotional poetry under the Safavid ruler Shāh Ṭahmāsp—most notably exemplified by Muḥtasham Kāshānī’s Davāzdah...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Francesca Orsini, Professor Emeritus, SOAS, London The workshop will be led by Francesca Orsini, Professor Emeritus at SOAS University of London. It will explore the role of print media, particularly magazines, in...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Francesca Orsini, Professor Emeritus, SOAS, London Francesca Orsini is a literary historian specializing in Hindi and Urdu and Persian with a longstanding interest in how multilingualism has shaped and continues to...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Ali Mirsepassi, New York University Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. He is Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Bezhan Pazhohan, Harvard University As one of the dominant discourses and a repressive act, censorship is articulated and manifested in everyday practices; however, diverse strategies have been used to escape...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar, Middle East Institute at Columbia University Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies.

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Arjun Nair, University of Southern California Arjun Nair is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD in the History and Cultures of the Muslim World from the...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Rudolph Matthee, University of Delaware Organized by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program