Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute invites you to join Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland and the Library of Congress in celebrating the opening of the exhibit “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book” on March 27, 2014. This special event will feature the lecture “Illustrating the Persian Book: The Happy Marriage of Literary and Visual Narrative” by Dr. John Renard (Saint Louis University), guided visits of the exhibit led by Hirad Dinavari (Library of Congress), and a panel discussion with Dr. Renard, Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz (Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, UMD) and Dr. Amy Landau (Walters Art Museum). This event is free and open to the public.
“Illustrating the Persian Book” will be followed by a six-month long series of presentations. Distinguished scholars from Harvard University, Boston University, University of California, Berkeley, and Freer and Sackler Galleries, among several others, will speak about The Book of Kings, Persian mystical literature, Persian manuscripts, and much more. These presentations will be held at the University of Maryland or at the Library of Congress. Please click on the link below for a full schedule.
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is delighted to support the full six-month long academic series organized in conjunction with the major exhibit “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book.”