You are cordially invited to the 14th annual Drs. Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady Endowed Lecture in Iranian Studies.
This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr. Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan) titled Disturbing the City of Isfahan: An Urban Education of the Senses. This is a free event and is open to the general public.
Abstract:
Writing in seventeenth century Isfahan experienced a transformation beyond epigraphy and the medium of stone or ceramics onto the surface of a sheet of paper with the assemblage of a new kind of book, the anthology, or majmu’a/muraqqa’ . Monumental public writing and the more intimate writing on paper reveal a larger cultural turn towards writing. Albums of calligraphy, paintings, letters, essays and poetry were produced at court and in elite households as part of a cultured practice of adab , or etiquette. I am interested in the multiplication of materials for writing in and about the city. Writing on paper, the attention to subjective knowledge production, and its assemblage into anthologies represents different ways of being in the city, a subject that will be explored in this talk. I will concentrate on the genre of shahrashub (city disturbance), written about Isfahan as allegory of a spiritual journey to paradise, copied and collected in anthologies produced in Isfahan for private consumption.
To RSVP, please click here.
Writing in seventeenth century Isfahan experienced a transformation beyond epigraphy and the medium of stone or ceramics onto the surface of a sheet of paper with the assemblage of a new kind of book, the anthology, or majmu’a/muraqqa’ . Monumental public writing and the more intimate writing on paper reveal a larger cultural turn towards writing. Albums of calligraphy, paintings, letters, essays and poetry were produced at court and in elite households as part of a cultured practice of adab , or etiquette. I am interested in the multiplication of materials for writing in and about the city. Writing on paper, the attention to subjective knowledge production, and its assemblage into anthologies represents different ways of being in the city, a subject that will be explored in this talk. I will concentrate on the genre of shahrashub (city disturbance), written about Isfahan as allegory of a spiritual journey to paradise, copied and collected in anthologies produced in Isfahan for private consumption.
To RSVP, please click here.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
7 pm
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings Street.
