"The Hospitable Globe: Persia and Early Modern English Drama" by Sheiba Kaufman (UC Irvine)

Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture

Date and Time: May 22, 2018 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Event Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010

Event Details


Please join us on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 6-8 pm in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010 for a talk titled “The Hospitable Globe: Persia and Early Modern English Drama” by Dr. Sheiba Kaufman (UC Irvine).

Introduced by Prof. Julia Lupton (UCI Shakespear Center).

Sheiba Kian Kaufman is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine (English Ph.D. '16). Her book project, The Hospitable Globe: Persia and the Early Modern English Stage, examines how English representations of Persia and its legendary kings present models of interreligious and intercultural hospitality for early modern and Shakespearean drama. Her work (“Her father loved me, oft invited me”: Staging Shakespeare’s Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers”) is published in Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange (Routledge, 2016). Prior to her studies at UCI, she completed a Master’s thesis at Oxford University on ancient Persia and eighteenth-century English literature (2005). Her current research draws upon her postdoctoral training as an Ahmanson-Getty Scholar at the UCLA Clark Library and focuses on the ethics of care in King Lear.

This event is presented by UCI Persian Friends of Humanities, UCI Shakespeare Center, UCI Department of English and UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.

This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.