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1394 بهمن 9 هعهج - 1380 هراهش / 23 لاس

DRS FEREIDOUN AND KATHARINE MIRHADY

EN D O W ED LECT U RE IN I R ANIAN ST U DIE S

Disturbing the City of Isfahan:
In touch with Iranian diversity

An Urban Education of the Senses

You are invited to attend the 14th annual Drs Kathryn Babayan is Associate Professor
of Iranian History and Culture at the
Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady Endowed Department of Near Eastern Studies and
Lecture in Iranian Studies. the Department of History, as well as

the Director of the Armenian Studies
Speaker: Kathryn Babayan Program, University of Michigan. She
specializes in the cultural and social
University of Michigan histories of early modern Iran with an
interest in Shi’ism, Sufism, as well as
Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Mystics, Monarchs and
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 7 PM Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (2003); co-author

of Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran, with Sussan Babaie,
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Room 1900 Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, and Massumeh Farhad (2004). Most
Vol. 23 / No. 1380 - Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 This lecture is free and open to the public. tions Across Temporal Geographies of Desire, (2008). She is currently
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Campus
recently, together with her colleague Afsaneh Najmabadi, they have
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
co-edited a volume entitled Islamicate Sexualities Studies: Transla-
working on a monograph entitled The City as Anthology: Visualizing
Cultures of Literacy in early Modern Isfahan.
As seating is limited, reservations are recommended.
"This is a book with a touch of grandeur about it. It penetrates
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every level of a great civilization as it passed through a spiritual and
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social crisis of the first order."
Peter Brown, Princeton University,
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