This book launch will also be streamed on Ismaili TV. Tune in at 20.15 GMT.

including:
24. April 2025
Dr. Azadeh Zamirirad, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin:
Theokratie im Umbruch: Diskursive Normverschiebungen in der Islamischen Republik Iran

12. Juni 2025
Dr. Jan-Peter Hartung, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg:
Überwachen und Strafen: Zur Praxis der Kontrolle öffentlicher Moral im Islamischen Emirat Afghanistan

See also The New York Times, which article is behind a wall.

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

https://iupress.org/9780253070869/paths-made-by-walking/

ZOOM: March 7th, 2025, 3-5 pm CET, 9-11 am EST
A conversation with Dr. Amina Tawasil (Teachers College, Columbia University) who is the author of the book Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran (Indiana University Press, 2024) and our discussant, Prof. Yafa Shanneik (Lund University).
The conversation will be followed by a generous Q&A session.
To register, please email Dr. Minoo Mirshahvalad mmi@hum.ku.dk

4 March, 2025 – Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) will present “Poetics and Politics of Fragrance: An Olfactory Approach to Safavid Paintings.”

12:00 NYC / 17:00 London / 20:00 Istanbul.

To attend, please make sure to register in advance here:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/abodcKZJQee8IBn42E_vSA
Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.

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