Tentative Program Overview:
Part A: CONFERENCE - speaker lineup may change
Lectures by experts in the fields of Persian epic, mythology and art history.
VENUE:
The Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture
1030 Humanities Gateway Irvine, CA 92697-3370
TICKETING: FREE and Open to All
SPEAKERS: (In English)
AGENDA: (as of 8/22/12)
10:45a.m. Welcome Remarks by Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
11:00-12:30 p.m. THE ART OF THE SHAHNAMEH
Panel Chair: Mazyar Lotfalian (UC Irvine)
Presenter: Linda Komaroff (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Topic: “Engaging the Present and Recontextualizing the Past: Shahnameh Illustration Now and Then”
Presenter: Alka Patel (UC Irvine)
Topic: “The Shahnameh in India”
Presenter: Sonya Rhie Quintanilla (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
Topic: “Paintings from the Shahnameh in the Collection of The San Diego Museum of Art”
12:30-2:00p.m. LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:30p.m. SHAHNAMEH IN HISTORY
Panel Chair: Jennifer Rose (Claremont Graduate University)
Presenter: Rahim Shayegan (UC Los Angeles)
Topic: “Old Iranian Inscriptions, Greek Narratives, and the Shahnameh”
Presenter: Yuhan S-D Vevaina (Stanford University)
Topic: “The Khodaynameh and the Shahnameh: Putative Text and Narrative Context”
Presenter: Charles Melville (University of Cambridge)
Topic: “The Shahnameh and its echo in medieval Persian historiography”
3:30-4:00p.m. TEA BREAK
4:00-5:30p.m. SHAHNAMEH: IDENTITY & NATIONALISM
Panel Chair: Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Presenter: Firuza Abdullaeva (University of Cambridge)
Topic: “Shahnameh in the Soviet and post-Soviet space”
Presenter: Mahmoud Omidsalar (CSU Los Angeles)
Topic: “A Text of Art, A Text of Identity”
Presenter: Ali Ansari (University of St Andrews)
Topic: “The Shahnameh and Iranian Nationalism”
Closing Remarks: Mazyar Lotfalian (UC Irvine)
Part B: PERFORMANCE
8 p.m.
"Love Stories of the Shahnameh (عاشقانه های شاهنامه)”
VENUE:
Irvine Barclay Theatre & Cheng Hall
4242 Campus Drive
Irvine, CA 92612
TICKETING: $45, $65 and $85
“Love Stories of the Shahnameh” is based on epic poems from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (“Book of Kings” – Iranian National Epic), one of the masterpieces of Persian literature, retelling the tales of “Shirin & Khosrow”, “Bahram & Arezoo” and “Sohrab & Gordafarid”
Storyline & Naqqali by: Gordafarid (In Persian)
Choreography & Production Design: Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
Dance Performance by: Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam & Miriam Peretz
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