UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies announced that its Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship program will focus on “The Frontiers of Persian Learning: Testing the Limits of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, 1600–1900” in 2015-2016. The theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center’s yearlong core programs.
The 2015-2016 program will include conferences on “The Geographical Frontiers of Persian Learning” (October 16, 2015), “The Social Frontiers of Persian Learning” (February 5, 2016), and “The Epistemological Frontiers of Persian Learning” (April 8–9, 2016).
