Historiography & Iran in Comparative PerspectiveInstitute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews / Iran Heritage FoundationWith the support of BIPS
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Conference Programme(Please note that the programme may be subject to change) |
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10th September – Arrival and Registration |
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| 16.00-18.00 | Registration - New Arts Building |
| 19.00 | Welcome Drinks reception - Lower Parliament Hall |
11th September – Day 1 |
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| 08.00-08.45 | Late Registration (New Arts Building) |
| 08.45-09.00 | Welcome – Professor Ali M Ansari – Persia and Iran |
| 09.00-09.45 | Keynote: Professor Michael Bentley – Historiography and Iran; the view from the West [University of St Andrews] |
| 09.45-10.30 | Keynote: Professor Bert Fragner – Persian Historiography [Austrian Academy of Sciences] |
| 10.30-11.15 | Keynote: Professor Chris Lorenz – Comparative historiography [Free University of Amsterdam] |
| 11.15-11.30 | Coffee |
| Panel I - Nationalism and historiography (Chair – Professor Ali Ansari) |
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| Mohammad Imanpour – ‘The Growth of historical nationalism and new trends in historiography of Iranian in early 20 century: the Case of Pirniya’s Ancient History’ [The Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran] [Abstract] | |
| Rudi Mathee – Na Gharbi, na Sharqi, Irani: The Historical roots of Iran's Quest for Self-Sufficiency. [University of Delaware] | |
| Pejman Abdolmohammadi – ‘History, National Identity and Myths in the Iranian Contemporary Political Thought: Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh (1812-1878), Mirza Agha Khan Kermani (1853-1896) and Hassan Taqizadeh (1878-1970)’ [University of Genoa, Italy] [Abstract] | |
| Lindsay Allen – ‘“The New Crusade”: pictorial reportage and America’s archaeological mission to Iran in the 1930s’. [King’s College London] [Abstract] | |
| 13.30-14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30-16.30 | Panel II – The Early Modern Period (Chair – Professor Andrew Pettegree) |
| Andrew Newman – Safavid Historiography [University of Edinburgh] | |
| Lloyd Ridgeon – Sufi’s in Safavid Iran [University of Glasgow] | |
| Stephen Blake – ‘History and Chronology in Early Modern West and South Asia: The Safavid Mughal, and Ottoman Empires’ [University of Minnesota] [Abstract] | |
| Sanjay Garg – Safavid-Mughal Relations: the numismatic evidence [National Archives of India] | |
| 1630-1700 | Tea |
| 1700-1800 | Keynote: Professor Abbas Milani – The Shah: Methodological Problems of a Biography (Chair – Michael Bentley) |
| 19.30 | Conference dinner |
12th September – Day 2 |
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| 09.00-11.00 | Panel III – Antiquity (Chair: Dr Tim Greenwood) |
| Touraj Daryaee – Aspects of Sasanian Historiography [University of California, Irvine] | |
| Lynette Mitchell – Persia and the Greeks [University of Exeter] | |
| Mohsen Zakeri – ‘From “Two Centuries of Silence” to “The Dawn of Islam”. A new approach for writing the early Islamic history of Iran’ [der J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt] [Abstract] | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-12.30 | Keynote – Professor Abbas Amanat [Yale University] The construction of Grand narratives (Chair – Dr Paul Luft) |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-15.30 | Panel IV – The Mediaeval imagination (Chair – Professor Robert Hoyland) |
| Rob Bartlett – Persia in the mediaeval imagination [University of St Andrews] | |
| Carole Hillenbrand – Classical Arab historiography [University of Edinburgh] | |
| David Morgan – Rashid al Din [University of Wisconsin-Madison] | |
| Anja Pistor-Hatam – ‘History and Its Meaning in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Case of the Mongol Invasion and Rule’ [Christian-Albrechts- Universität, Kiel] [Abstract] | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Tea |
| 16.00-17.30 | Panel V – Writing 20th century History (Chair – Ali M Ansari) |
| Peter Sluglett Writing the History of 20th century Iraq [University of Utah] | |
| Farhang Jahanpour – Persia in the Western imagination: Translations of Persian Poetry from 18th-21st centuries. [Oxford University] | |
| Saeed Talajooy - ‘Myth and History in Contemporary Iranian Theatre’ [UCL] | |
| 17.30-19.00 | Panel VI – Aryanism and its discontents (Chair – Dr Bernhard Struck) |
| Robert Irwin – Gobineau and the construction of Aryanism [School of Oriental and African Studies] | |
| David Motadel – ‘Evolution and Transfer of the Term “Aryan” in Modern Intellectual and Political History’ [University of Cambridge] [Abstract] | |
| Menachem Merhavy – ‘From “The Great Civilization” to “False Cyrus” – Legacy of ancient Iran as reflected in Pahlavi discourse’, [Tel Aviv University] [Abstract] | |
13th September – Day 3 |
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| 17.30-19.00 | Panel VII –Persian in the Early Modern Imagniation (Chair - Dr Steve Murdoch) |
| Hafiz Abid Masood – ‘Renaissance Humanism, Classical Persia and 16th Century English Drama’ [University of Sussex] [Abstract] | |
| Elisa Sabadini – ‘Persia in the western imagination: From reign of freedom to land of oppression: 17th century Persia through Italian eyes’ [Universitá degli Studi di Milano] [Abstract] | |
| Giorgio Rota | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-13.30 | Panel VIII –Myth and Memory (Chair – Ali M Ansari) |
| Yadullah Shahibzadeh – ‘The Implications of Recent Historiographical Trends in Iran’ [University of Oslo, Norway] [Abstract] | |
| Pedram Khosronejad – The Ethnography of Sacred Defence Literature [University of St Andrews] | |
| Shahram Kholdi – ‘Politics of Memory and the Historiography of the 1979 Revolution’ [University of Manchester] [Abstract] | |
| 13.30-1400 | Conclusion |
