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SUMMARY: Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “Go
 d’s Weaver”
DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and
  Persianate Studies: Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿ
 tiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver” on May 14\, 2022.
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 > Poster design by Farzan Kermani[/caption]</p><div style="background-color
 : aliceblue\; padding: 25px 25px 15px\; direction: rtl\;"><center><a href="
 https://asia.ubc.ca/lecture-series/alireza-ahmadian-lectures-fa/">سلسله سخن
 رانی‌های ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی علیرضا احمدیان</a></center></p><div styl
 e="background-color: #002145\; padding: 0px\;"><center></p><h4 style="color
 : white\;">در هم بافتنِ زنانگی و عرفان: بازخوانی شعر «جولای خدا» سرودهٔ پرو
 ین اعتصامی</h4><p></center></div><p><strong>سخنران:</strong> دکتر بهنام فوم
 شی، پژوهشگر دانشگاه مانَش</p><p><strong>طرف‌بحث:</strong> دکتر مِری هوبِر، 
 استادیار ادبیات فارسی و تطبیقی دانشگاه استنفورد</p><p>پروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵-۱
 ۳۲۰)، که اولین شاعر زن تأثیرگذار در ایران در قرن بیستم میلادی نیز هست، در 
 شعر کلاسیک فارسی به‌خوبی تبحر داشت. دانش زبان انگلیسی او، تجربهٔ تحصیلش در 
 مدرسهٔ دخترانهٔ آمریکایی و همچنین ترجمه‌های پدرش، یوسف اعتصامی، از ادبیات خ
 ارجی در علاقه‌مندی او به افکار نوین از جمله حقوق زنان مؤثر بود. او برخلاف 
 برخی از معاصران خود در اوایل قرن بیستم که سعی در ایجاد تحول در قالب شعر فار
 سی داشتند، توانایی زبان شعر را در قالب‌های سنتی آن گسترش داد. دانش عمیق اعت
 صامی نسبت به ادبیات عرفانی فارسی و آگاهی او از نابرابری‌های جنسیتی و نیز آش
 نایی او با ادبیات غرب، به‌ویژه آثار والت ویتمن، به معرفی شخصیتی جالب‌توجه د
 ر شعر «جولای خدا» کمک کرد؛ عنکبوتی که همزمان دارای ویژگی‌های زن و عارف است.
  اعتصامی از طریق این شخصیت، پیوندی میان زنانگی و عرفان ایجاد کرد و نظام مرد
 سالارانه، به‌ویژه گفتمان مردسالارانهٔ عرفان ایرانی را به چالش کشید.</p></di
 v><p> <br />The event recording is now available:</p><p>https://youtu.be/CY
 1-1B5tIlg<br /> <br />The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianat
 e Studies present: Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿti
 ṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver” on May 14\, 2022.</p><p>Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī (1907-1941)\,
  the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran\, was well versed
  in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge of English language and educati
 on at the American school for girls as well as her father’s translations fr
 om foreign literatures contributed to her appreciation of the modern ideas\
 , including women’s rights. Unlike some of her contemporaries in the early 
 twentieth century who tried to revolutionize the form of Persian poetry\, s
 he expanded the potentiality of poetic language in its traditional forms. I
 ʿtiṣāmī’s profound knowledge of mystical Persian literature and her awarene
 ss of gender inequalities as well as her familiarity with Western literatur
 e\, particularly Walt Whitman\, contributed to introducing a character in t
 he poem “God’s Weaver”\, a spider who possessed characteristics of a female
  and those of a mystic. Through this character\, Iʿtiṣāmī formed an associa
 tion between femininity and mysticism\; challenged the patriarchal system\,
  particularly\, the patriarchal discourse of Persian mysticism\; and the le
 thargy of the (mostly male) mystics.</p><h3>Guest Speaker</h3><p><strong>Be
 hnam M. Fomeshi</strong>\, specializing in comparative literature\, is inte
 rested in Iranian studies\, American studies and in particular the intersec
 tion of the two. Behnam is a Humboldt alumnus and a Research Fellow at Mona
 sh University conducting research on the Persian reception of American lite
 rature. In addition to a Humboldt fellowship\, he has received several gran
 ts including two for research at the University of St Andrews and Leiden Un
 iversity. His works have been widely published and his monograph\, <em>The 
 Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception</em> was released with Leiden 
 University Press.</p><h3>Discussant</h3><p><strong>Marie Huber </strong>is 
 Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Stanford Unive
 rsity.</p><p> </p><div><strong>About the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Irani
 an and Persianate Studies: </strong>Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an e
 nthusiastic researcher\, a consummate socio-political analyst\, and an opin
 ion leader on foreign policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogu
 e and liberal democracy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, supp
 orter of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadian
 -Iranian Community. The department renamed this lecture series in his honou
 r in 2019. Alireza’s friends in the community have provided funding to supp
 ort this series\, and this generous gift will see these important academic 
 and community engagement events supported through to the end of the 2025/20
 26 academic year. <a href="https://asia.ubc.ca/lecture-series/alireza-ahmad
 ian-lectures/">Read More ...</a><br /> <br />Should you have any questions\
 , please contact the Department of Asian Studies at <a href="mailto:Asian.S
 tudies@ubc.ca">Asian.Studies@ubc.ca</a>.</div>
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