Please join us on Friday February 5th, 10 am - 6 pm in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway HG 1010 for an all day-long conference about the pre-modern genre of writing,Tazkira.
10 am - 12 pm: Connections
Kevin Schwartz - Mapping of Persian Tazkirahs, 1700-1900
Sunil Sharma - Tazkirahs as a Who's Who of Poets, or, Making Room for Persianate Parvenus
Shahla Farghadani - Tazkirah Writers Talk Back: Intertextual Dialogue and Criticism in the Tazkirah Tradition
1:30 - 3:30 pm: Formations
Sholeh A. Quinn - History as Memorial: Tazkirah in Early Modern Persianate Chronicles
Mana Kia - Texts of Mobility, Mobile Texts: The Aporetic Lives of Early Modern Persian Tazkirahs
Kristina Rogahn - Generic Intertextuality: Tazkirah and the Terms of Literary History in South India
4 - 6 pm: Case Studies
Prashant Keshavmurthy - Khvushgu's Dream of Hafiz: Building an Ark with Arzu and Bidil
Paul Losensky - The Social Life of Poetry in the Tazkirah-yi Nasrabadi
Alexander Jabbari - Majma‘ al-Fusaha' and the End of Tazkirah Writing in Iran
This event is free and open to the public.
10 am - 12 pm: Connections
Kevin Schwartz - Mapping of Persian Tazkirahs, 1700-1900
Sunil Sharma - Tazkirahs as a Who's Who of Poets, or, Making Room for Persianate Parvenus
Shahla Farghadani - Tazkirah Writers Talk Back: Intertextual Dialogue and Criticism in the Tazkirah Tradition
1:30 - 3:30 pm: Formations
Sholeh A. Quinn - History as Memorial: Tazkirah in Early Modern Persianate Chronicles
Mana Kia - Texts of Mobility, Mobile Texts: The Aporetic Lives of Early Modern Persian Tazkirahs
Kristina Rogahn - Generic Intertextuality: Tazkirah and the Terms of Literary History in South India
4 - 6 pm: Case Studies
Prashant Keshavmurthy - Khvushgu's Dream of Hafiz: Building an Ark with Arzu and Bidil
Paul Losensky - The Social Life of Poetry in the Tazkirah-yi Nasrabadi
Alexander Jabbari - Majma‘ al-Fusaha' and the End of Tazkirah Writing in Iran
This event is free and open to the public.