Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World

Registration is now open for this colloquium.  See Persianisms: Cultural Encounters with the Anglophone World website for registration form and programme.

This colloquium aims to explore the range and depth of the exchanges and encounters that connect English- and Persian-speaking cultures across centuries of contact from antiquity to the present-day manifest in poetry, diplomacy, religious polemic, scholarship, travel narratives, material culture, art, and curatorship. In particular, it aims to challenge and interrogate modes and forms of scholarship that have historically emptied out the role of “Persia” and “Iran” in critical discussion with the Anglophone world.