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Cork - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Erin-Iran conference at UCC, 22 October 2011

category cork | history and heritage | event notice author Monday October 17, 2011 15:01author by Vice-President for Teaching and Learning - UCC Report this post to the editors

On 22 October 2011 there will be a conference at UCC that may be of interest to you. The approx timings will be 9am start with a 6pm finish. The venue is Boole 2. The conference is a public one, i.e. open to all, so please feel free to circulate to your contacts. All are welcome. Registration isn’t required – just show up on the day.

Panel I: Comparative Legends

Chair:

Iran and Erin: Gorgani’s Viseh and Béroult’s Iseut
Richard Davis, Ohio State University

Parallel Heroic Themes in the Old Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley and the Classical Persian Book of Kings
Olga Davidson, Boston University

Building Bulls and Crafting Cows: Indo-European Narratives of Bovine Fabrication
John McDonald, Cornell University

The Conqueror Worm in Irish and Persian Tradition
Joseph Nagy, UCLA

Discussant:

Lunch break

Panel II: Literary Encounters

Chair:

The Wilde Iran: Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, Ancient Iran, and Irish Nationalist Historiographies
Mansour Bonakdarian, Independent Scholar

Orientalism and Persian Poetry in Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
Oliver Scharbrodt, UCC

The Irish and Iranians in Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun: Sharing Poetic Sensitivity and Misery
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas

Discussant:

Panel III: Socio-Cultural Encounters

Chair: Houchang Chehabi

Collecting for the ‘Dublin Museum’: Robert Murdoch Smith and the Acquisition of Artefacts in Qajar Iran
Moya Carey,Victoria and Albert Museum, London

An Irishwoman in Tehran (1849-53)
Brendan McNamara, UCC

Gendered Images and Women’s Rights in Iran and Ireland
Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College, Dublin
Melanie Hoewer, University College, Dublin

Discussant: Ali Ansari, University of St. Andrews

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