سخنران: دکتر پگاه شهباز، پژوهشگر پسادکتری دپارتمان آسی اپژوهی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا
از قرن هفدهم، سعدی شیرازی در مرکز توجه ا روپاییان قرار گرفت: نام او در سفرنامهها و نشریات این دوره به چشم میخورد و برخی از حکایات سعدی به لاتین، آلمانی، فرانسوی و انگلیسی ترجمه و منتشر شد. در این سخنرانی نقش مؤسسات آموزشی بریتانیا در هند مستعمره در معرفی سعدی و گل ستان او به خوانندگان انگلیسیزبان از سویی و نقش منشیهای بومی هندو-فارسی که در تهیهٔ ترجمهها نقش داشتند از سوی دیگر بررسی میشود.
< p>From the seventeenth century\, Muslih al-Din Sa’di Shirāzi (d. 1291)\, a key figure in Persian classic literature\, became the center of Europeans’ attention: his name appeared in travelogues and periodicals and selections of his tales were published in miscellaneous Latin\, German\, French\, and English works. To follow Sa’di’s impact over English literature\, one shou ld search for the beginning of the “Sa’di trend” and the reasons that led t o the acceleration of the translation process of his works into English lan guage in the nineteenth century. This article aims to scrutinize the role o f the British educational institutions in Colonial India in the introductio n of Sa’di and his Gulistān to the English readership\, and in parallel\, it discovers the role of the Indo-Persian native scholars (munshis) who wer e involved in the preparation of translations. We will see how the the Brit ish perception of Sa’di’s literature developed in the first half of the 19t hcentury and how their approach towards the translation of the “text” and i ts “style” evolved in the complete English renderings of the Gulistān.
Speaker: Dr. Pegah Shahbaz\, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow\ , Department of Asian Studies\, UBC.
Pegah Shahbaz is a specialist of Persian language and literature and studies literary productions from Iran \, Central and South Asia. Her work focuses on translation studies\, in par ticular on systems of knowledge transmission through narrative texts (Histo ry and fiction) in the Persian\, Indian\, Arabic and Turkish milieu\, and i n diverse historical contexts under the impact of religious systems of thou ght\, such as Hinduism\, Buddhism\, Islam and Sufism. Her field of research relates to the history of Iran and Central Asia (from the Abbasids to Qaja r period) and India (Sultanates and Mughals)\, and the history of the Frenc h and English presence in the Persianate world from the 17th century. P. Sh ahbaz studies historically and comparatively\, the intermediary role of Per sian as a lingua franca in the translation and transmission of [Indo-] Pers ian literature into other literary cultures\, including the European ones s uch as English and the French literatures. Her academic research interests also include Shi’ism\, the question of gender in the Iranian culture\, Pers ian book art and painting (miniature)\, and manuscript culture.
Pegah Shahbaz received her PhD from the University of Strasbourg\, France in 201 4 with a dissertation on “Persian Prose Narratives in South Asia in the Pre -Modern Period”. She worked as a Postdoctoral fellow (2014-2018) at the Sor bonne-Nouvelle\, Paris\, France\, and collaborated with the Perso-Indica pr oject. She is currently a ACLS/ Robert H. N. Ho. Family Foundation Research Fellow of Buddhist Studies and works on her project about the adaptations of the life story of Buddha in Persian literary culture. She will be a SSHR C Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Asian Studies from January 2020\ , to work on a research project about Punjabi and Persian narrative traditi ons\, for a period of two years.
Pegah Shahbaz has taught Persian lan guage and diverse themed courses at French and Iranian Universities. She is the Section Editor of the “Fables and Tales” chapter of the Perso-Indica p roject (La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale s - Paris)\, and one of the Associate Researchers and contributors to the D ELI Encyclopedic Dictionary of Indian Literatures (MII Iranian and Indian W orlds and CERC Centre for Comparatist Research and Studies) on Persian lite rary productions of South Asia\, as well as an Associate member of the CERI AS (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Inde\, l’Asie du Sud et sa diaspo ra) at U-QAM University\, Montreal.