00 Session one: Chair Gabrielle van den Berg

Programme for the Shahnama Workshop: 13-15 December 2007

Nihon Room, Pembroke College

Thursday 13 December

10.00 Registration, coffee

10.30 – 10.45 Opening remarks (CM, GvdB)
10.45 – 1.00 Session one: Chair Gabrielle van den Berg

10.45 – 11.30 Julia Rubanovich: Tracking the Shahnama tradition in medieval Persian folk prose

11.30 – 12.15 Marjolijn van Zutphen: The Banu Goshaspnama

12.15 – 1.00 Olga Yastrebova: Shahnama influence in the Arday virafnama by Zartusht Bahram

1.00 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.45 Session two: Chair Olga Davidson

2.15 – 3.00 Charles Melville: The Tarikh-i Dilgusha-yi Shamshirkhani and the reception of the Shahnama in India

3.00 – 3.45 Jan Schmidt: The Reception and Imitation of Firdausi’s Shahnama among the Ottomans
3.45 – 4.00 Tea break
4.00 – 5.30 Session three: Chair Karin Ruehrdanz

4.00 – 4.45 Zeren Tanındı: The illustration of the Shahnama and arts of the book in Ottoman Turkey

4.45 – 5.30 Lale Uluc: The Shahnama of Firdausi in the Land of Rum
5.45 – 6.30 pre-dinner informal introduction to the Shahnama Project website: Dan Sheppard & Fetherstonhaughs

30. 
    Dinner in Pembroke College Old Library
    

Friday 14 December

9.15 – 10.45 Session four: Chair Charles Melville

9.15 – 10.00 Olga Davidson: A multiform Reception of the Shahnama as reflected in the Baysonghori Preface

10.00 – 10.45 Saeid Khoddari Naini: A second Baysunghuri Shahnama in the Malik Library, Tehran
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 1.15 Session five: Chair Firuza Abdullaeva

11.00 – 11.45 Ivan Steblin-Kamenski: Sistani legends about Rustam and his descendants

11.45 – 12.30 Ravshan Rahmoni: The oral variant of the story of Barzu amongst the Tajiks of Boysun

12.30 – 1.15 Evangelos Venetis: The Shahnama and the storytelling tradition in contemporary Iran: The cases of Khurasan and Firuzkuh regions

1.15 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 Session six: Chair Charles Melville

2.30 – 3.15 Francesca Leoni: Crafting an Image for Divs: the Reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama in Book Painting

3.15 – 4.00 Firuza Abdullaeva: Who is going to heaven and who is falling down to earth? The ‘wandering’ iconography of ‘wandering’ literary subjects
4.00 – 4.15 Tea break
4.15 – 5.45 Session seven: Chair Barbara Brend

4.15 – 5.00 Karin Rührdanz: The Samarqand Shahnamas (c. 1600) in the context of dynastic change

5.00 – 5.45 Olga Vasiliyeva: On the gilt-stamped binding of Shahnama in the Topkapu Museum (H. 1513) and the binder Muhammad-Zaman ibn Mirza-beg Tabrizi
6.00 – 7. 00 pre-dinner informal discussion about web-based teaching

Saturday 15 December

9.30 – 11.00 Session eight: Chair Francois de Blois

9.30 – 10.15 Abdulrasool Kheirandish: Mohr (Seal) and Mehr (Love): An introduction to the process of legitimizing Borzu in order to join Rostam’s family

10.15 – 11.00 Gabrielle van den Berg: The story of the div Shabrang and the Shabrangnama in the Leiden University Library
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Session nine: Chair Robert Skelton

11.15 – 12.00 Adeela Qureshi: Bahram’s feat of hunting dexterity as illustrated in Firdausi’s Shahnama, Nizami’s Haft Paykar and Amir Khusrau’s Hasht Bihisht

12.00 – 12.45 Barbara Brend: Muhammad Juki’s Shahnama and Mughal painting
12.45 – 1.00 closing remarks (Charles Melville & Gabrielle van den Berg)
1.00 – 2.15 Lunch