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Cork - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970 Erin-Iran conference at UCC, 22 October 2011
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event notice
 Monday October 17, 2011 15:01 by Vice-President for Teaching and Learning - UCC
On 22 October 2011 there will be a conference at UCC that may be of interest to you. The approx timings will be 9am start with a 6pm finish. The venue is Boole 2. The conference is a public one, i.e. open to all, so please feel free to circulate to your contacts. All are welcome. Registration isn’t required – just show up on the day. Panel I: Comparative Legends
Chair:
Iran and Erin: Gorgani’s Viseh and Béroult’s Iseut
Richard Davis, Ohio State University
Parallel Heroic Themes in the Old Irish Cattle Raid of Cooley and the Classical Persian Book of Kings
Olga Davidson, Boston University
Building Bulls and Crafting Cows: Indo-European Narratives of Bovine
Fabrication
John McDonald, Cornell University
The Conqueror Worm in Irish and Persian Tradition
Joseph Nagy, UCLA
Discussant:
Lunch break
Panel II: Literary Encounters
Chair:
The Wilde Iran: Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, Ancient Iran, and Irish Nationalist Historiographies
Mansour Bonakdarian, Independent Scholar
Orientalism and Persian Poetry in Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
Oliver Scharbrodt, UCC
The Irish and Iranians in Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun: Sharing Poetic Sensitivity and Misery
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas
Discussant:
Panel III: Socio-Cultural Encounters
Chair: Houchang Chehabi
Collecting for the ‘Dublin Museum’: Robert Murdoch Smith and the Acquisition of Artefacts in Qajar Iran
Moya Carey,Victoria and Albert Museum, London
An Irishwoman in Tehran (1849-53)
Brendan McNamara, UCC
Gendered Images and Women’s Rights in Iran and Ireland
Roja Fazaeli, Trinity College, Dublin
Melanie Hoewer, University College, Dublin
Discussant: Ali Ansari, University of St. Andrews
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