Categories : Field-specific (academic)

‘Music in the Lives of Alevi Kurds’

Wednesday, 16 April: 12pm Central / 1pm Eastern

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95772733390?pwd=5HFnVJEvKXCaOGjc11rles8GC4Q5Iy.1

Ozan Aksoy (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center) is an Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Berklee College of Music. He is an avid vocalist and a multi-instrumentalist who has founded and led several Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music ensembles in New York City. With the critically acclaimed ensemble Kardeş Türküler (Ballads of Solidarity), Aksoy performed the songs of ethnic and religious minorities, including the Kurds, Armenians, Laz, and Alevi.

https://www.zahrainstitute.org/

‘The Professional’ screening and discussion

Book Launch: Karbala in the Ta’ziyeh Episode, Shi’i Devotional Drama in Iran
British Institute of Persian Studies
26 March, 2025
5pm UK time

More information and to register:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/book-launch-karbala-in-the-taziyeh-episode-shii-devotional-drama-in-iran/

The ‘Embodied Imamate’ Project are pleased to announce our upcoming online lecture series, “Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿīsm,” which will begin on March 28 and will run through the end of the year.

If you would like to attend, please register by sending an email to a.santi@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

We look forward to your participation and hope to see you there.

For more information about our project and upcoming initiatives, visit our website: https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/

Rethinking Ta‘ziyeh:
Performance, Memory, and Space in a Shi‘a Devotional Tradition

Location: de Certeau Room (Room 335) Arts and Humanities Building, third floor, UC San Diego

Symposium Schedule
(All times in PST)
Introduction
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Panel 1
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
(9:15 AM PST | 6:15 PM Switzerland | 11:00 AM EST)
Chair: Staci Gem Scheiwiller (California State University, Stanislaus)
Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth Dutton (Freiburg University) (Zoom)
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM
“Playing Satan, playing Job: A medieval Christian example, and one from the Ta’ziyeh”
Sara Khalili (Fribourg University) (Zoom)
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
“The Fall of Lucifer and Iblis on Stage”
Hawraa al-Hasan (Cambridge University) (Zoom)
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
“Curiosity, Culture, and Colonial Intrigue in European Responses to the Ta’ziyeh”
Keynote Speaker: Kamran Scot Aghaie (University of Texas at Austin)
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
“Qajar Elites and the Heavy Reliance on Ta’ziyeh Rituals”
Q&A Session
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break | 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Book Launch
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Lucy Deacon (Freiburg University)
“Karbala in the Ta‘ziyeh Episode: Shi‘i Devotional Drama in Iran”

Discussant: Kamran Scot Aghaie (University of Texas at Austin)
Lunch Break | 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Memorial for Peter J. Chelkowski
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Keynote Speakers:
William Beeman (University of Minnesota)
Ali Mirsepassi (New York University) (Zoom)
Coffee Break | 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Keynote Speech
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Chair: Muhammad Yousuf (UC San Diego)
Keynote Speaker:
Frank Korom (Boston University)

“Recent Developments in Trinidad’s Hosay: A South Asian Ritual Complex Transplanted in the Caribbean.”
Coffee Break | 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Roundtable: “Rethinking Takiyeh Dawlat”
4:30 PM – 6:15 PM
Screening: Documentary: “Takiyeh Dawlat” by Alireza Ghasemkhan
Panelists:
Milad Azram (Ohio University)
Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego)
Co-sponsors: The Middle East Studies Program, Program for the Study of Religion, Department of Literature, UC San Diego

To join us via Zoom, please contact brahimi@ucsd.edu for the link and password.
More info at: https://iah.ucsd.edu/_images/PSR-and-MES-Event.jpg