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Persian and Persianate Studies
presents
Matthew C. Smith, Harvard University
"Betrayed by Earth and Sky: Poetry of Disaster and Restoration in 18th Century Iran"
Friday, March 31, 2017 at 5:00pm
Room 114 (Kresge Room), Barker Center
Sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center & Aga Khan Fund
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/persian-and-persianate-studies
This seminar provides a forum for faculty, students, and other participants to explore, challenge, and discuss new research in the field of Persian and Persianate studies. It brings into focus a vast linguistic and cultural complex once stretching from the Balkans in the West all the way to Baghdad, Bukhara, and Bengal in the East where Persian was a model for high culture and literary achievements. The seminar seeks to investigate the literary and cultural productions of the Persianate complex in the Islamic period, while fostering methodological diversity and comparative approaches across the humanities.