Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Symposium on Ancient Iranian History and Civilization "Persianate Cultures of Power and Global Elite Networks: Transmission, Translation, and Transculturation"
Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Date and Time: June 13, 2019 | 9:30 AM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1341
Event Details
Please join us on Thursday, June 13, 2019, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1341 for Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Symposium on Ancient Iranian History and Civilization "Persianate Cultures of Power and Global Elite Networks: Transmission, Translation, and Transculturation" convened by Dr. Matthew Canepa (UC Irvine).
Schedule:
9:30 am: Room opens, coffee and light breakfast.
10:20 am: Welcome, Touraj Daryaee, Professor and Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture, Director of the Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, UC Irvine.
10:25 am: Introduction: "Towards a New Transmillenial Understanding of Persianate Visual and Spatial Cultures: Theorizing Transmission, Translation, and Transculturation.” Matthew P. Canepa, Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, UC Irvine.
10:40 am: “The Achaemenid Empire and the Transformation of Afro-Eurasian Networks.” Robert Rollinger, University of Innsbruck/Getty Research Institute.
11:20 am: “Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran. Aims, Prospects, and Case Studies.” Antigoni Zournatzi, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens/Getty Research Institute.
12:00 pm: Coffee Break
12:10 pm: “Trilingual Inscriptions in Iran and Beyond: Translating Language and Culture from India to Egypt.” Rachel Mairs, University of Reading, UK.
12:50 pm: "Fictive Kinship and Elite Networking in Parthian and Sasanian Iran.” Jake Nabel, UCLA/Penn State University.
1:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm: “Giganticism and Bamiyan: Turk, Iranian and Chinese Traditions of Dynasticism.” Warwick Ball, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Afghanistan Studies.
3:10 pm: “Building the Indo-Persian World: Nomadic Elites and the Long Twelfth Century.” Alka Patel, UC Irvine.
3:50 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 pm: "Cultural Mobility and the Translation of Power: the Evidence of Persianate Manuscripts, 1400-1600." Lamia Balafrej, UCLA
4:40 pm: “Between Boston and Bombay: Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsi Merchant Princes, 1771-1865.” Jenny Rose, Claremont Graduate University.
5:20 pm: Final Discussions
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This symposium has been made possible by the generous donation of Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute and its Founder and Chair, Dr. Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali.
This event is organized by Dr. Matthew Canepa, Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Venue's address:
UC Irvine, Humanities Gateway Building (4100 Humanities Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697), Room HG 1341.
Parking: Closest parking structures are Mesa Parking Structure and Student Center Parking Structure. Parking permits are required at all time at UC Irvine's campus and daily or hourly permits could be purchased from manned or automated kiosks in the parking structures.
