The Cambridge Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies

Schedule

Friday, November 7

1 PM: Welcome

1:15-3:15 PM: Laying the Historical Groundwork

David Schimmelpennick van der Oye (Brock University): “Tsar and Shah: Russia Encounters Persia”

Dariush Borbor (Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies, Tehran): “The Role of the Borbor Tribe in the Russo-Persian Wars of 1826-27”

Svetlana Ravandi-Fedai (Oriental Institute, Moscow): “The 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay in Russo-Iranian Perspective”

Discussant: Javad Abbasi (Ohio State University)

3:15 PM: Coffee and Conversation

4-5:30 PM: Art and Empire between Russia and Iran

Laila Diba (New York) ”Border Crossings: Iranian Artists in the Russian Empire and post Imperial Domains"

Irina Koshoridze (Tbilisi Museum) and Marina Dgebuadze (National Museum of Georgia) “Unknown miniatures from Georgian National Museum -in light of Russian-Persian relations in the early 19th century”

Marina Alexidze(Tbilisi National University): “The Caucasus in Russian Oriental Policy in the 1820s and Mir Fettakh the Mujtahid”

Discussant: Morgan Liu (Ohio State University)

7 PM: Dinner(Participants Only) Schedule

Saturday, November 8

9 AM: Coffee and Conversation 

9:45-11:45 AM: Russo-Iranian Encounters

Elena Andreeva (Virginia Military Institute) “Russian Arrogance or Iranian Fanaticism?: 
Russian Travelers’ Views on the Death of Griboedov”

George Bournoutian (Iona College), “From Tabriz to St. Petersburg”

Firuza Melville (Cambridge University): “The Glorious Start and the Tragic End: Griboedov 
and Khosrow Mirza”

Discussant: Scott Levi (Ohio State University)

12-1:30 PM: Lunch 

1:30-3:30 PM: Literary Paradigms and Historical Problems

Catherine O’Neil (USNA): “Romance and Ruin: Chavchavadze, “Gokcha,” and the Armenian 
Question” 

Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State University): “Puteshestvennik malgré lui: The Road in the 
Letters of A.S. Griboedov”

Sara Dickinson (U of Genoa): “The Paradigm of Oriental Princeling as Unreliable Friend” 

Anna Aydinyan (U of Penn), “Russia and Iran in 1929: Confronting the Former Self and 
Visiting the Future” 

3:45-4:15 PM: Coffee Break 

4:15-5:45 PM: Summing Up 

Jennifer Siegel (Ohio State University), Angela Brintlinger and Firuza Melville