Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents

 

programme jan to june

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and the Invisible East Programme at the University of Oxford present a new series of monthly online seminars about archives and documents. 

Convened by Arezou Azad and Mohamad Tavakoli, the seminars are held monthly online, via Zoom.

 

Register for the full series at this link.

 

Programme

 

 
WINTER-SPRING 2024
Sex and the Subject of Law in the National Archives of Iran with Jairan Gahan, Canadian Society for Iranian and Persian Studies

Thursday, 11 January 2024, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

See YouTube recording of the talk here.

Bactrian documents and archives from Northern and Southern Afghanistan with Nicholas Sims-Williams, University of London

Monday, 08 February 2024, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

More information at this link.

Gulistan Harem Histories: Gender in the Qajar Archives with Leila Pourtavaf, University of York

Thursday, 14 March 2024, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-GvqjgoGdM0BEPAFqUSCvO6E-...

See YouTube recording of the talk here.

Archival Practices Materialised: The Persian and Persianate Documents from al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem (13th-14th centuries) with Zahir Bhalloo, University of Hamburg

Thursday, 11 April 2024, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-GvqjgoGdM0BEPAFqUSCvO6E-...

See YouTube recording of the talk here.

Of Petitions, Taxes and Democratization: Constitutionalism and the Public in Iran with Nader Sohrabi, University of Göttingen

Thursday, 16 May 2024, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-GvqjgoGdM0BEPAFqUSCvO6E-...

(Re-)discovering the Firuzkuh Documents from Afghanistan, 12th-13th century with Nabi Saqee, University of Oxford

Thursday, 13 June 2024, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-GvqjgoGdM0BEPAFqUSCvO6E-...

Past events in this series

Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran with Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University 

Thursday, 20 April 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

More information at this link.

 

Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office with Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto 

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

More information at this link.

 

The Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan with Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge 

Thursday, 15 June 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

More information at this link.

 

The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages (11th-13th century) with Arezou Azad, Oxford University

Thursday, 20 July 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

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The Archival Remnants of Art or an Intimate Lunch with Abu Turab Ghaffari with Shabnam Rahimi Golkhandan, University of Toronto

Thursday, 28 September 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

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Slavery in eastern Iranian regions: the case of late antique Bactria with Reza Huseini, University of Cambridge

Monday, 16 October 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

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In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep Mapping Tehran's Lalehzar District, 1880-1960 with Ida Meftahi, Boise State University

Thursday, 16 November 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

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Persian Qutbshahi Documents from India with Eva Orthmann, University of Gottingen

Thursday, 14 December 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time

More information at this link