Mojtaba Ebrahimian (Harvard University), The European Other and the Persianate Self in the Earliest Persian Travelogues of Europe. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Read more about MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Chander Shekhar (University of Delhi), Calligraphy in the Paleographic Study of Persian in Premodern India. Co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Read more about MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Owen T.A. Cornwall (Tufts University), Alexander in the Graveyard: Finding Persianate Humanism in Jāmī’s Alexander Epic (1485). Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Omid Safi (Duke University), Rumi’s Ancestors on... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Owen Cornwall (Tufts University), Alexander in the Graveyard: Persianate Humanism in Literature, Painting, and Architecture. CANCELLED

Olga M. Davidson (Boston University), Globalism and ‘Ecumenism’ in the Reception of the Shāhnāma: Evidence from the Bāysonghori Preface to the Epic of Ferdowsi. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Sunil Sharma (Boston University), Lovers and Heroines: Rabia and Mahsati in the Canon of Classical Persian Poetry.