Persianate World: A Conceptual Inquiry

Persianate World: A Conceptual Inquiry

Friday, May 9, 2014 - 3:00pm to Sunday, May 11, 2014 - 3:00pm
Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
The Program in Iranian Studies at Yale is organizing a workshop in May 2014 to explore the dimensions of Persianate Studies as an academic field. The workshop asks whether the term “Persianate” works as a conceptual framework beyond language and literature to such areas as habitat, economy and trade routes, and political and material cultures. Are there tangible historical ties in the pre-modern and early modern eras among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau and the greater Khorasan region, the Caucasus, the southern rim of Central Asia, Western Xingjian, and the Indian subcontinent? Can these ties create a viable field of study beyond Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian and East Asian studies to underscore subtle inter-regional connections and longue durée commonalities? What circumstances, on the other hand, reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate oecumene in modern times?
 
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Sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at The MacMillan Center, the Council on East Asian Studies, the Council on Middle East Studies, the South Asian Studies Council, and the Yale Department of History
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