Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to sponsor the all-day conference, titled The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Symposium on Persian Language and Literature: Persian Literature Unbound on Friday, November 10, 2017, 9:45 am – 6 pm, in UC Irvine’s Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010.
This event is organized by Dr. Nasrin Rahimieh, Howard Baskerville Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine’s School of Humanities. The participants in this conference are invited to reflect on possibilities of redrawing the temporal, geographic, generic, and methodological boundaries that have delimited what we consider to be the proper domain of Persian literature and how we produce knowledge about it. At the event, participants will address questions, such as: What types of writing can be considered literature? How might we rethink periodization? Can Persian literature be read across linguistic and national boundaries? How might we study and teach Middle Persian and Persian literature within the broader framework of world literature? The participants will also be invited to contribute to a volume of essays to be published after the symposium.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
