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.
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