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**Last Call for Registrations**
Conference at Cambridge
SHAHNAMA MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE
FERDOWSI: THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS
Conference
13-15 December 2010
Clare College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB3 9AJ
An international conference on the Shahnama, elaborating various areas of existing research, and opening up new topics for future studies. |
Organised by
The Persian Department of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Cambridge Shahnama Project, with support from the Ali Reza and Mohammad Soudavar Fund for Persian Studies and in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Covened by
Prof. Charles Melville
Dr. Firuza Abdullaeva
Introduction
Firdausi’s poetic masterpiece, the Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, was completed 1,000 years ago, in March 2010. To mark this millennium, an international conference on the Shahnama has been organised to coincide with this landmark event. The conference is the seventh in a series of meetings organised in Cambridge, Edinburgh and Leiden since 2001 under the auspices of the ‘Shahnama Project’, with a view to stimulating research on the Shahnama in a broad framework of interests that approach the poem as literature, history and in the context of the arts of the book. There is a particular emphasis on the study of the manuscript tradition and the relationships between Firdausi’s text and the images created to illustrate it for over 600 years.
Reflecting this broad remit, and building on the work of earlier meetings, the conference brings together established scholars from different fields, as well as young researchers who are newly engaging with the Shahnama in their recent work. The overall scheme of the conference is to elaborate various areas of existing research, and to open up new topics for study in anticipation of the continuing appreciation of the poem in world literature as it enters its next thousand years. In particular, the reception of the Shahnama in Persian literary and visual culture, and its impact on neighbouring regions (Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India, Central Asia and the Caucasus), continue to provide fertile topics for investigation.
Programme
Please click here for the conference programme. Please note the programme is subject to last minute changes.
Abstracts and biographies
Please click here for abstract of papers that will be presented at the conference and click here for short biographies of the speakers. Abstract and biographies are not complete and will be updated regularly.
Registration
Please click here to download the form. Registration fee is not refundable.
£40 per day including lunch
Accommodation available at Clare College
Enquiries
Prof. Charles Melville
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
Tel: +44 (0)1223 335131
Fax: + 44 (0)1223 335110
Email: cpm1000@cam.ac.uk
Or
Dr F. Abdullaeva
Shahnama Centre
Pembroke College
Cambridge CB2 1RF
Tel: +44 (0)1223 339851
Email: fia21@cam.ac.uk
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