Daryabari Dissertation Workshop in Iranian and Persianate Studies and Comparative Literature

November 4, 2023 UC Davis

Organized by Amy Motlagh, Associate Professor Comparative Literature and ME/SA Studies

Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature

Hamid Kolahdouz, Powder and Smoke: The Safavi Military Revolution during the Reign of Shah Abbas I

History, UC Davis

Pooja Hazra, An Empire of Scribes: A Social History of Indo-Persian Literary Elites in South Asia (c.1600-1700), History, UC Davis

Ruinong Yin, “Language is the Mountain”: Translating Forugh Farrokhzad in China

Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Ahmad Rashid Salim, The Harmony of Hayrat: Words, Wonder, and Worlds in Persian Mystical Poetry and Poetics, Middle East Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

Patrick Cabell, Alejo Carpentier and lo nacional-popular in the Americas

Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Xuesong Shao, Rural Matters: Politics, Aesthetics, and Affects in Postrevolutionary China,

1950s—2010s, Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Laura Catterson, Modernism in the Non-Poetic Work of 20th century Iranian Poets

Comparative Literature UC Davis

Jala Alarja, Sentimentality and Nation-Building: Land Relations and the Nation in Palestinian Literature

Comparative Literature, UC Davis