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Tajikistan Children's literature- Abstract Tajikistan Children's literature- Conference Paper See Bibliography and Publications pages for further details of materials available Program of the Second Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Yerevan, Armenia, 2-5 April 2004
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Day I: Friday 2 April
Registration: 9:00-16:00
Welcoming Reception: 16:00- 17:00
Opening Address
(G. Asatrian): 16:00-16:15
Presidential Address (R. Matthee): 16:15-6:30
Welcoming Speech (R. Martirosian (Rector of Yerevan State University): 16:30-16:40
Welcoming speech (M. F. Koleini, Ambassador of the IRI): 16:40 - 16:50.
Welcoming speech (D. Vohra, Ambassador of India): 1650-17:00.
Boghos Levon Zekiyan, Univ. Ca’ Foscari, Venice:The Iranian Oikumene &Armenia 17:15-18:00
Day II: Saturday 3 April; Morning
1. Urban Realities and Urban Knowledge in Contemporary Iran
Chair: Said Amir Arjomand; Co-Chair: Mary Hegland
Kian Tajbakhsh, Cultural Research Bureau, Iran: Urban Journals&Publications in Iran after Khatami
Azam Khatam, Tehran: Anti-Urban Thinking in Social Discourse in Iran
Javad Alavi, Azad University, Tehran: The Figure of the “Urban” in Contemporary Literature
Gholamreza Kazemian: An Analysis of Dominant
Perspectives within Urban Management in Iran
Safavid and Mughal History
Chair: Rudi Matthee; Co-Chair: R. Mukminova
Said Amir Arjomand, SUNY Stony Brook: The Rise of Shah Isma`il as a Mahdist Revolution
Colin P. Mitchell, Dalhousie Univ. Halifax, Ca: Chancery Dynamics under Shah Khodabandeh (1578-1589)
A. Husain, Aligarh Muslim University. India: Iranian Immigrants during the Reign of Akbar
3. Language and Literature in Present-Day Afghanistan
Chair: K. K. Trivedi; Co-Chair: Barat Dehmardeh
Guissou Jahangiri, Paris: Women, Literature and War
Latif Pedram, Paris: Linguistic and Literary Resistance in Afghanistan
Abdollah Kheshtmand, Paris: Minorities and Language: The Case of the Hazara
4. Georgia and Iran
Chair: Boghos Levon Zekiyan; Co-Chair: Irène Nachkebia
Grigol Beradze, Inst. of Oriental Studies, Tbilisi: Seventeenth-Century Persian Chronograms related to Georgia
Tamaz Abashidze, Inst. of Oriental Sudies, Tbilisi: Georgian Bilingual Documents of the 16th-18th Centuries
Khatuna Todua, Inst. of Oriental Studies, Tbilisi: Common Origins of Iranian and Georgian Hero Epics
Day II: Afternoon
5. Armenia and Iran
Chair:Grigol Beradze; C-Chair Artur Hambartsumian
Hamlet Petrosyan, Acad. of Sciences of Armenia: Armenian and Persian Perceptions of the Transience of Earthly Gardens
Anna Krasnowolska, Jagiellonian Univ. Krakow: Familiar Strangers: Armenians in Modern Iranian Literature
Gholam `Abbas Tavassoli: Univ. of Tehran: The Emigration of Iranian Armenians after 1979
Ludwig Paul, Univ. Halle, Germany: F. C. Andreas and the History of Iranian Studies in Germany
6. Pre-Islamic Iranian Culture
Chair: Vladimir Livshits; Co-Chair: Mahmoodi Bakhtiari
Giusto Traina, University of Lecce, Italy: Rome, Iran and Armenia in 428 A.D.: A Global Perspective
Matteo Compareti, University of Naples, Italy: A Possible Sasanian Textile Fragment in the Benaki Museum
A. Zhamkochyan and N. Hagopyan,
Inst. for Archeology, Armenia: Sasanian Seals and Sealings from Armenia
Jahanshah Derakhshani, Univ. of Tehran: Earliest Traces of the Iranian People
7. Pre-Islamic Iranian Traditions
Chair: Philip Kreyenbroek; Co-Chair: Mohammad Reza Parhizgar
Albert De Jong, Univ. Leiden, Netherlands: Zoroastrians in Baghdad: Evidence from Pahlavi and Arabic Texts
S. Alam, Patna Univ., India: Zoroastrian Culture and Indian Brahmins
Arthur Hambartsumian, St. Petersburg: On Zarer’s Name and “the Fortress of Zarer”
A. Esmailpour, Shahid Beheshti Univ., Iran: Gods and Goddesses in Kitab al-Rad al-Zandiq al-La’in Ibn Muqaffa`
8. Kurdish and Yezidi Oral and Textual Traditions
Chair: Garnik Asatrian; Co-Chair: Habib Borjian
Sa`id Valadbeigi, Tehran: Iranian Music and Its Mythical Foundations
Philip Kreyenbroek, Univ. of Göttingen:
History in an Oral Environment: the Concept of History in Traditional Yezidi Texts
Christine Allison, INALCO, Paris: Kurdish Autobiography: from Erebe Shemo to Ahmad Bamami
Victoria Arakelova, Yerevan State Univ.:
Sultan Ezid in the Yezidi Religion: Genesis of the Character
Day III: Sunday 4 April; Morning
John Perry, Univ. of Chicago: Turandot and the Function of Riddles
Sayfiddin Mirzoev, Dushanbe, Tajikistan: “Āl” in the Imagination of the Yaghnob People
Mehran Afshari, Islamic Encyclopedia, Iran: Javanmard-e Qassab: His Life and Background
Mushegh Asatrian, Yerevan State Univ.: The Peacock in the Nahj ul-Balagha and in Near Eastern Traditions
10. Regional and Global Trade
Chair: Hatim Mahamad; Co-Chair: Colin Mitchell
G. A. Agzamova, Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Trade Relations between the Bukharan Emirate and Iran in the Early 19th C
Audrey Burton, Univ. of Leeds: RhubarbTrade
R. G. Mukminova, Tashkent, Uzbekistan: The Development of Trade Relations between Uzbekistan and the Near East, 15th-17th C.
Mehdi Parviz Amineh, Univ. of Leiden: The Global Trade System and the Safavids in the 16th Century
11. Medieval
History (2 hours and 30 minutes)
Chair: Giusto Traina; Co-Chair: Jahanshah
Derakhshani
Hatim Mahamad, Tel Aviv, Israel: Persians in Fatimid Egypt
Sara Nur Yildiz, Istanbul, Turkey: Political Structures and the Exercise of Power in 13th-Century Seljuk Anatolia
Barat Dahmardeh, Sistan Univ, Zahedan, Iran: Why and How did the Rulers of Sistan Forge their Lineage?
K. K. Trivedi, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ., Delhi: Iqta`: Mainstay of the Sultanate Administration and its Achilles’ Heel
Andrew Peacock, British Inst. of Arch., Ankara: Persian Sources for the Medieval History of Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus
Chair: Jo-Ann Gross; Co-Chair: Albert de Jong
Nafisa Abd el-Sadek, Univ. of Edinburgh: Persianate Children’s Literature
Sekandar Amanolahi, Shiraz University Ethnic Variation in Iran
Hossein Godazgar, Univ. of Tabriz, Iran: Comparative Study of Identity among Iranian, Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Female Children
Mary Hegland, Santa Clara Univ.: Tajik Elderly Holding Their Own
Day III: Afternoon
13. Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century History
Chair: Guissou Jahangiri; Co-Chair: Tamaz Abashidze
Irène Nachkebia, Oriental Inst. Tblisi: Diplomatic Relations between France and Persia: A report by Mir Davud Zadur (1816)
Habib Borjian, New York City: `Abd al-Ra’uf Fitrat Bukhari and His Persian Literary Heritage
Hossein Abadian, Univ. of Qazvin, Iran: The Role of Armenians in the Constitutional Revolution
Mirjam Künkler, Columbia Univ.: From Aql via Velayat to Shura? Four Islamic discourses in the Quest for the Role of Religion in Modern Iran
Chair: Harry Norris; Co-Chair: Victoria Arakelova
Jo-Ann Gross, the College of New Jersey: Shrines and Sufi Circles in 14th-15th Century Khuttalan, Chaghanian and Hisar
Hamza Kamal, Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Shrines and Pilgrimages in Tajikistan
M. B. Kamaleddin, the Nur University:
Language of the People of the Heart
I. A. Zilli, Alighar Univ., India: Central Organization and Succession among Early Chishtis in India
15. Workshop: Virtual Middle
East Library Project of Halle University (1 hour)
Kamran Arjomand, University of Halle
16. Meeting of the Representatives of Regional Councils (1 hour; closed
session)
17. Comparative Issues in Art and Architecture
Chair: Raisa Amirbekian; Co-Chair: Mariam Gvelesiani
Eliso Akhvlediani, Georgia: Some Parallels between Iranian and Iberian Architecture
Seda Devejian, Nat. Acad. Of Science, Armenia: Armenian-Iranian Cultural Links according to Excavated Materials of Lori Berd (IX-VI C. B.C.)
Frina Babayan, Nat. Acad. Of Science, Armenia: Armenian Iranian Analogies in Medieval Applied Art
18. Folklore II
Chair: Sekandar Amanolahi; Co-Chair: Vardan Voskanian
Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, U. of Minn., Duluth: A Comparison of Different Versions of the Hoseyn-e Kord
V. Boyajian, Univ. of Yerevan, Armenia: Folk Beliefs in Baluchistan
Askar Bahrami, Islamic Encyclopedia, Iran: Culture of Names among the Bakhtiyari
19. Representations in Art and Literature
Chair: Kourosh Kamali; Co-Chair: Hamza Kamol
Mohammad Reza Parhizgar, Shiraz Univ.: Iconicity in the Persian Language
Firuza I. Abdullaeva, St. Petersburg: Heavenly Ascent of Kings in the Shahnameh
Alice C. Hunsberger:
Not the Same Old Love Story: The Bliss of Jalal and Jamal
Raisa Amerbekiyan, Yerevan Univ.: Qajar Portraiture during the Reign of Nasir al-Din Qajar
20. Religion and Ritual
Chair: Alice Hunsberger; Co-Chair: Firuza Abdullaeva
Renata Rusek, Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow The Defense of Iblis in Eyn al- Qozat Hamadani (1096/98-1031)
Fereydun Vahman, Copenhagen, Denmark: Some Remarks on the Continuity of Cult in Iran
Mariam Gvelesiani, Art Museum Georgia: Georgian, Iranian and Armenian Religious Interrelations
21. Language and Identity
Chair: John Perry; Co-Chair: Nafisa Abdel-Sadek
Bert Fragner, Austrian Acad. Of Sciences: Nationalist Thinking and Persian as Lingua Franca
M. Borjian-Mohammadi, Hunter College: Bilingualism in Mazandaran
Vardan Voskanian, Yerevan State Univ.: A Newly Found Persian Dialect in Turkey
Antje Wendtland, Univ of Göttingen, Germany: Gender-specific
Differences in Pamir Languages
Day IV: Afternoon
22. Irano-Armenica
Chair: Bert Fragner; Co-Chair: Antje Wendtland
V. A. Livshits, Inst. of Oriental St., St. Petersburg: Parthian Elements in Armenian
Tork Dalalyan, Yerevan State Univ.: Armenian Loanwords in Ossetic
Moh. Malek Mohammadi, Yerevan State Univ.: Iranian Religious Terms in Eznik Koghbatsi’s “Yeghts Aghandots”
B. Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Greater Islamic Enc. “Wind” in the (West) Iranian Languages and Dialects
Reception:
Iran and the Caucasus
23. Comparative Iranian Linguistics
Chair: Fereydun Vahman; Co-Chair: Ludwig Paul
P. B. Lurje, Inst.of Oriental St., St. Petersburg: Persianization of Transoxania
Bahreddin Aliev, Rudaki Institue, Dushanbe: Sogdian Toponyms and their Meaning in the Zaravshan Valley of Tajikistan
H. Rezai Baghbidi, Iranian Acad. Of Lang. and Lit: Linguistic Peculiarities of the Oldest Persian Texts in Non-Arabic Scripts
Hasmik Kirakosyan: The Common Characteristics of the Textual Attestations of Azeri Language
Chair: I. A. Zilli; Co-Chair: S. Alam
S. H. Mahmud, Univ. of Baroda, India: Islamicization in Medieval Gujarat: A Study of the Isma`ili Communities
M. Aki, Almaty, Kazakhstan: Persian-speaking Jewish Communities in the Caucasus, Central Asia and China
M. Haidar, Aligarh Univ. India: Iran and Central Asia: Economic and Cultural Linkages and Interactions
Kourosh Kamali, Fars-shenasi Foundation: Developing Relations Cultural among Persianate Societies
Mattoo, Kashmir Univ., India: Kashmir the Iran-i Saghir of the Middle Ages
Tajikistan Children's literature- Abstract
Tajikistan Children's literature- Conference Paper
