· by iranianstudies.bsky.social ·1d ago · view on bsky.app ↗

Last week we had a whole range of contributions at the Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference in Utrecht! Thanks to everyone who came along to our sessions and talks.

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Roundtable discussion in honour of Houchang Chehabi, including the IFI's Robert Steele (right)

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Institute for Iranian Studies · 1 · 1d ago

Among our contributions, @robsteele.bsky.social talked about Revisionism in the historiography of Pahlavi Iran and the revolution, arguing for the importance of pluralism of ideas in interpreting these past events: he also participated in a roundtable in honour of historian Houchang Chehabi.

Institute for Iranian Studies · 1 · 1d ago

Ariane Sadjed talked about Judeo-Persian texts written by women, looking at memoirs and letters from early 20th century Iran and the legacy of women's writing, and Eirik Kvindesland discussed the choice of using Hebrew in the memoirs of Rafael Haim Hacohen, an Iranian Jew in 1890s Ottoman Jerusalem.

Institute for Iranian Studies · 1 · 1d ago

And in medieval studies, Stefan Kamola discussed views of Chinggis Khan as seen through the lens of Ilkhanate astrological texts, and Sara Mirahmadi talked about how Vaṣṣāf’s 14th century work Bahārnāma uses a poetic voice to produce political and moral critiques through the genre of spring poetry.